Agate Institute: Online – EMDR Child Specialist Intensive Program
Recorded Webinar
Upon registration, you will gain access to a comprehensive 9-hour course. These recorded videos provide the theory and foundational skills for using a Multimodal- Transtheoretical Approach to EMDR therapy with children. This model incorporates play therapy, somatic therapies and expressive arts therapies, all within the framework of EMDR and its eight phases of treatment. The depth of information in these 9 hours will provide a strong theoretical base, supporting your practical strategies, case conceptualization, and moment-to-moment intentional decision-making.
Once you have watched and studied the videos, you will be ready to attend the 36-hour intensive training, which is rich, comprehensive, and full of creative and powerful EMDR interventions founded on solid theoretical principles. The in-person training is delivered in 5 days, and the Online training is in two three-day segments. We will cover phase one with additional information to enrich how you collect data and psychosocial history about the child and their relational milieu.
The preparation phase will be thoroughly covered with abundant play and expressive arts therapies strategies and creative ideas for stabilization, state change, and affect tolerance, as well as the child-friendly and playful delivery of EMDR protocols for stabilization and affect modulation. Co-regulation is emphasized and demonstrated throughout the eight phases and self-regulation.
Processing phases will offer child-friendly pathways to explore, identify and process trauma memories utilizing play therapy, along with powerful and child-friendly interweaves.
Even though this program is advanced, it is the intensive program that provides the most foundational experience, especially for clinicians starting to use EMDR with children.
This intensive program will present a multimodal and integrative approach to EMDR therapy developed by Ana Gomez based on her 24 years of experience utilizing EMDR therapy with children. In this model, EMDR therapy, the eight phases and procedural steps guided by the AIP model are expanded by the incorporation of attachment theory, regulation theory, the polyvagal theory, and other adjunct approaches such as Play therapy, expressive arts, somatic therapies, movement and activities and strategies coming from the field of occupational therapy focused on sensory modulation. Clinicians will learn how to deliver EMDR therapy using developmentally appropriate routes that honor the uniqueness of each child. Participants will develop strong therapeutic skills and capacities for case conceptualization, moment-to-moment decision-making, and the effective implementation of EMDR therapy with children. Theory, videos, demonstrations, and supervised practice by expert child clinicians will be combined throughout the training to provide a tangible experience.
Presenter Bio:
Ana M. Gómez, MC, LPC, is a psychotherapist in private practice and a national and international speaker on the use of EMDR therapy and other adjunct approaches with children and adolescents with complex trauma, attachment injuries, and dissociation. Ana was the recipient of the 2011 “Distinguished Service Award” from the Arizona Play Therapy Association and the 2012 Sierra Tucson “Hope Award.” She is a trainer of trainers for the EMDR Institute and EMDR-IBA, and she is the founder and director of the Agate Institute in Phoenix. Ana is the author of Dark, Bad Day Go Away: A Book for Children about Trauma and EMDR Therapy, the Thoughts Kit for Kids, Stories and Storytellers, the Thinking Mind, the Heart, and the Body: A Book for Children about Healing and EMDR Therapy and the co-author of All the Colors of Me: My First Book about Dissociation. She has also authored several chapters in books on the use of EMDR therapy with children. Her latest book is EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation. Ana has also developed several programs and protocols, such as the EMDR-Sandtray protocol and an attachment-informed EMDR program for parents and children to heal intergenerational trauma.
Online training:
Module 1: (3 hours)
Module 2: (3 hours)
Module 3: (3 hours)
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Identify key factors when establishing the client’s readiness for EMDR treatment.
- Explain how to work with cultural values with in EMDR treatment, the AIP model and play therapy.
- Explain what happens in the brain and body when trauma occurs using metaphors, playful and child friendly vocabulary
- Describe procedural steps of the eight phases of EMDR therapy focusing on phase one and two
- Describe procedural steps of the eight phases of EMDR therapy focusing on phase three and four
- Describe procedural steps of the eight phases of EMDR therapy focusing on phase five to eight
To register for this workshop please visit: https://agateinstitute.org/
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