CA/EMDR Comparison Study Homepage

Welcome and thank you for participating in the study. Please watch each video in order for instruction and tips about how to correctly conduct your research.

Please click here to complete a form that gives us some basic info about yourself

Tips for working with your referring therapists and scheduling participants.

Participant Inclusion Criteria

  • Able to give informed consent

  • At least 18 years of age

  • Ability to speak, read, and write English

  • Currently seeing the referring therapist

  • Has been given a diagnosis by their referring clinician

  • Has a longstanding (i.e. 6 or more months) traumatic memory that is easily identified before participation in the study

  • Experiences related symptomatology (i.e. flashbacks, dissociation, anxiety, depression,  intrusive thoughts, sleep disturbances, intimacy problems, chronic pain, health conditions, etc.)

  • Has the ability to self-regulate enough to process safely

  • Has never received CA or EMDR

Please email scanned copies of the forms to info@constructedawareness.com.

Paper Assessments (in-person sessions only)

Leah Sampson Pre Test
Molly Schweers Pre Test
Tyler Orr Pre Test
Lynne Sparrow Pre Test
Ann Simmons Pre Test
Elisabeth Nolan Pre Test
Ronda Johnson Pre Test

Administer the pre test before the first session. Please scan it and send it to info@constructedawareness.com

Post Test - Everyone uses the same post test for post test A and B

You will administer the post test twice—immediately after the second session and immediately after the third session. Please scan it and send it to info@constructedawareness.com each time you administer it.

Digital Assessments (virtual sessions only)

Click here for the Digital Pre Test

Administer the pre test before the first session

Click here for the digital post test

You will administer the post test twice—immediately after the second session and immediately after the third session.

EMDR Scripts

Guide for EMDR sessions
Calm/Safe Place (session 2)
Light Stream (session 2)
Butterfly Hug (session 2)
Breathing Shift (session 2)
EMDR Processing Script (session 3)

Please scan the EMDR script and send it to info@constructedawareness.com each time you administer it. We need it to record the SUDS level.

EMDR Session Checklist (Scan and email this when you are finished with all three sessions)

Please scan the checklist and send it to info@constructedawareness.com after you complete all three sessions.

Constructed Awareness Scripts and Handouts

Guide for CA sessions
Park Bench Exercise (session 1)
The Six Orientation Types (session 1)
Talking with your hands (session 2)
Thoughts - Words, Sounds, and Pictures (session 2)
External Resources (session 2)
Tuning - Constructing Emotion (session 2)
Memory Reconstructing Script (session 3)

Please scan the memory reconstructing script and send it to info@constructedawareness.com each time you administer it. We need it to record the SUDS level.

CA Session Checklist (Scan and email this when you are finished with all three sessions)

Please scan the checklist and send it to info@constructedawareness.com after you complete all three sessions.

Thank you so much. Please reach out if you need anything. I’m here to help in any way I can. And once again, thank you so much for your support and help with this project. I hope it ends up being a wonderful experience for you!