DNMS Consultation for Therapists

Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS)

Certification Consulting and Training with Karen Gardner

Karen Gardner is a certified DNMS trainer and one of the top presenters for the DNMS institute. Karen has been using and teaching DNMS for more than ten years and has seen remarkable outcomes.

Karen provides individual DNMS consultation and can help you achieve certification status.

She also teaches a 9-week online class called the “9-Week Hybrid Training”. This course combines the flexibility and economy of the 16-hour, self-study DNMS webinar with the nurturing intimacy of a small interactive class. Classes are two hours long and meet for nine consecutive weeks to practice lessons learned in the self-study DNMS webinar. Taking this course is a step toward completing the basic DNMS training.

DNMS Overview

Clients need to trust they’ll have a safe experience in order to get the best possible outcomes with their EMDR therapy. However, this can be a challenge when treating clients with dissociative disorders and profound emotional wounding that happened in childhood.

If clients have fears about their healing that block therapy, or they have belligerent child parts that sabotage therapy, or they are so easily triggered they can’t tolerate trauma processing – the benefits of EMDR will be out of reach.

DNMS is a systematic, comprehensive preparation plan to resolve these problems. DNMS involves direct communication with individual wounded child parts that are connected to a past, present, or future EMDR target.

Once a targeted wounded child part has met specific benchmarks of stabilization and emotion regulation, DNMS work on that target can begin. DNMS will illuminate the differences between trauma wounds and attachment wounds. DNMS is extremely helpful for patients who have had challenges and limitations due to their attachment wound(s) and were unable to be helped with EMDR.

Click here to connect with Karen about consultation: emdr.utah@gmail.com

DNMS helps you learn to positively communicate with individual wounded child parts that are connected to your past.

DNMS Consultation Testimonials

Informative and Detailed . . .

"This is a creative and compassionate contribution to therapeutic work with those parts of the self – ego states – that embody unprocessed elements of past trauma. Through numerous protocols, DNMS offers clinicians informative and detailed instructions about how to guide clients through ego-state work toward resolution and resilience."

Nancy J. Napier, MA, LMFT

Innovative Ego State Therapy . . .

"An innovative ego state therapy protocol for healing the wounds of childhood abuse and neglect. The DNMS is an integrative technique, built on contemporary research findings about the effects of insecure attachment and trauma on childhood development. The DNMS provides a detailed method for meeting unmet developmental needs using the client’s own healing resources and resilience, and has much to offer the therapist seeking ways to understand and assist their adult survivor clients."

Christine Courtois, PhD

I'm Highly Impressed . . .

"During the 78 years of my life, I’ve devoted 52 years to the practice of psychotherapy. Down through these years, I’ve had the wonderful personal experience of knowing and being trained by Carl Rogers, Eric Berne, Fritz Pearls, John and Helen Watkins, Mary and Bob Goulding, and Milton Erickson, to name a few. I’m highly impressed with the way DNMS incorporates the evolution of ego state theory and trance work into the practice of psychotherapy in such a simplistic way that the average layperson can understand and benefit from this treatment approach."

Gerald W. Huff, PhD

Nothing Comes Close to the DNMS . . .

"In 30 years of doing psychotherapy, I have found nothing that comes close to the DNMS for giving patients relief from troubling childhood experiences. DNMS Training shows therapists how to systematically, thoroughly, and gently target presenting complaints, current problems, underlying issues, and childhood traumas"

Ginger Enrico, PhD