Self Careapist Therapist Podcast
How do you actually use EMDR, CBT, or IFS in session, not the textbook version, but with a real client sitting across from you? Self Careapist Therapist is a therapist-to-therapist podcast where licensed clinicians break down the
clinical skills, modalities, and hard conversations that training programs skim over.
Hosted by Lorain Moorehead, LCSW, PMH-C, EMDR Certified Approved Consultant, Clinical Supervisor, and graduate school faculty associate. Each week features expert guests, including researchers, authors, and practicing clinicians, sharing
evidence-based interventions you can take straight into your next session.
Topics include:
• EMDR therapy, trauma processing, and advanced EMDR applications
• Internal Family Systems (IFS), parts work, and integrative trauma approaches
• CBT, DBT, RO-DBT, ACT, and third-wave cognitive behavioral therapies
• Clinical supervision, therapist training, and professional development
• Trauma, complex trauma, PTSD, CPTSD, and nervous system regulation
• ADHD, autism, neurodiversity-affirming assessment and treatment
• Therapist burnout, perfectionism, compassion fatigue, and sustainable self-care
• Couples therapy, attachment theory, and relational wounds
• Anxiety, OCD, and exposure-based interventions
• Grief, prolonged grief disorder, and meaning-making
• Suicide risk assessment, CAMS, and crisis intervention
• Parent-child therapy, adolescent anxiety, and family systems
• Perinatal mental health
• Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and emerging modalities
• Clinical ethics, risk management, and culturally responsive practice
• Private practice development, insurance, and building a sustainable career
Questions we answer:
• How do I use EMDR, CBT, DBT, or ACT in real-life sessions, not just textbook examples?
• How do I choose which therapy modality to learn next?
• How do other therapists handle burnout and compassion fatigue?
• How do I integrate different modalities instead of feeling like I'm doing them wrong?
• When should I use IFS parts work versus EMDR reprocessing?
• How do I grow as a therapist after grad school or licensure?
• How do I make my practice more trauma-informed and culturally responsive?
• How do I find my niche or specialty as a clinician?
• What does evidence-based therapy actually look like in practice?
• How do therapists cope with imposter syndrome and self-doubt?
• How do I explain complex therapy concepts to clients in simple language?
• What is the best podcast by therapists, for therapists?
Whether you are a seasoned clinician or a graduate student, every episode is designed to sharpen your clinical thinking and reconnect you with the curiosity that makes therapy meaningful. Conference-level education and psych journal-quality conversations delivered while you drive, walk, or decompress between sessions.
Many episodes offer a free CEU for licensure in Arizona through the Board of Behavioral Health Examiners. Content is relevant for continuing education across LCSW, LMHC, LPC, LMFT, NCC, NBCC, and psychology licensure.
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Self Careapist Therapist Podcast
Complex Trauma Approaches That Don't Retraumatize: The Four Blinks Version of Flash Technique
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Can Flash technique fully and permanently resolve a trauma memory in a single session, with almost no distress, even in clients with complex PTSD? Thomas Zimmerman has been answering that question for four and a half years, and his answer is yes. In this episode, he walks through the science, the structure, and the live protocol of the Predictive Processing Flash technique (formerly Four Blinks Version of Flash), with me as the client.
Thomas is a mental health therapist, EMDR consultant, author, podcaster, and trainer based in Cleveland, Ohio. He developed his version of the Flash technique, originally called Four Blinks, around a predictive mind model of the brain. He explains why that model changes how we understand trauma, memory, and healing, and why it means every client is capable of change.
We cover the four resourcing tools that make this approach safe for complex presentations, how Flash differs from EMDR in every structural and theoretical way, and what is actually happening in the nervous system during a session. Then we do a live demo. I work through a real memory in real time.
Thomas also offers free Flash trainings every two weeks, free bi-monthly consultation, and a free weekly self-care Flash group for trained clinicians. This is a conversation worth sharing with every trauma-focused colleague in your network.
Resources: https://emdrwithcomplextrauma.com/, https://thomaszimmerman.us/, https://emdrcleveland.com/
1:00 - Thomas's background: 10 careers, trauma work, and finding Flash
3:10 - From CBT to EMDR to Flash, and why each mattered
5:32 - Watching 70 consecutive clients resolve trauma without significant distress
6:29 - Flash is not a resource. How Zimmerman changed his understanding
8:29 - The working mechanism: how Flash actually resolves memory
9:20 - Why Zimmerman moved away from the triune brain model
11:28 - The predictive mind model: predictions, error, and precision weighting
14:07 - Why effective trauma approaches feel culturally non-intuitive
19:00 - Demo setup: orienting to what Flash asks you to do
20:25 - Resource 1: Container
22:09 - Resource 2: Shop Vac
26:17 - Resource 3: Pleasant (Calm) Scene
28:44 - Resource 4: Sensory Grounding
34:06 - Selecting the memory and setting up the live demo
37:34 - The Flash demo begins
44:22 - The memory resolves: checking for distress on all channels
47:06 - The positive cognition that installed on its own
51:41 - Neurobiological debrief: what just happened in the predictive mind
58:18 - Free Flash trainings, consultation, and the weekly therapist self-care group
59:49 - Why Thomas offers all of this at no charge
1:02:43 - Thomas's book and the metaphorical index
1:05:19 - Self-care: what Flash has done for Thomas personally
Episode Highlights
- Flash technique fully and permanently resolves trauma memories, not just reduces distress before EMDR. Zimmerman watched 70 consecutive clients complete full adaptive resolution before he changed how he understood the modality.
The Self Careapist Therapist Podcast is a biweekly conversation with Lorain Moorehead, LCSW a therapist in private practice. With guests ranging from expert psychologists, therapists, researchers and authors, each episode offers a deep dive and keeps listeners from intern to advanced supervisor in mind while dropping gems and aha moments for everyone who loves to learn! If you love learning and want to keep track of some future learning opportunities, grab your personal curriculum here!
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