Esly Regina Carvalho, MS, LPC, maintained a private practice in the Dallas area for many years before her return to Brazil in 2006. A Brazilian-American clinical psychologist, she now maintains a practice in Brasilia, the capital of her country, and spends extended time training EMDR professionals. Over the past six years over one thousand EMDR therapists have been trained in Brazil, two EMDR trainers now assist her as well as four EMDR Faciltiators, and an EMDR Brasil Association has been formed, partnering with EMDR Ibero-America (EMDR IBA). Esly is serving her second term as EMDR IBA president (2007-2010/2010-2013). She is a doctoral candidate for a Ph.D in Psychology.
An international trainer and speaker in great demand, Esly has also published books and articles about the use of EMDR and Psychodrama (her first training approach). She was responsible for founding the Psychodrama movement in Ecuador in 1990, which now boasts several training groups and hosted the 7th Ibero-American Psychodrama conference in 2009, in Quito, Equador.
For those interested in her work, Esly has DVDs and books available in English or with English subtitles. She can be reached by e-mail for those interested in her pesentations in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
DVDs:
Pillars of Life. An EMDR resource installation protocol. This DVD includes the group protocol, a short session and an interview with Esly about its use. Esly explains the importance of celebrating what works in life. Based on the original Psychodrama protocol develop by Carlos Raimundo, MD (Australia), she has adapted it for EMDR professionals. It was presented at the EMDR International (EMDRIA) conference in Dallas, 2009.
EMDR: Drawings, Pictures and Metaphors. This is an EMDR protocol for adult use of drawings. A thirty-minute presentation of the protocol that was taped in Paris, France, in 2007, it details its use as well as illustrates it with case studies from her practice.
EMDR with Difficult Clients. Presented at the II EMDR Ibero-American Conference in Quito, Equador (2010), this prsentation is in Spanish with English and Portuguese subtitles. Esly integrates the use of role therapy and EMDR in front of 150 participants, treating colleagues' difficult clients by supervising them in role-reversal. A very moving and effective form of treatment, each of the two presentations is about 80 minutes.
Books:
Healing the Folks Who Live Inside. After launching this book in Portuguese where it went through its first edition in less than six months, Esly is now finishing the translation into Spanish and English. In this very reader-friendly book, Esly talks about trauma and its consequences, how EMDR and other therapies can be used in role therapy to heal the inner roles or "folks" wholive inside all of us. Appropriate for clients as well as professionals. Available after September, 2012.
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