Agate Institute: EMDR Basic Training: For Child & Adolescent – In Person
The basic EMDR training addresses the theory, model and methodology of EMDR therapy as well as the eight phases of treatment and procedural steps. Our EMDR Basic Training meets EMDRIA standards and offers 16 additional hours on the use of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents, for a total of 66 hours of training! Developmentally appropriate strategies and treatment organization is delivered for each of the EMDR phases. If you work with clients across the lifespan, you will still receive the information on EMDR therapy for adults required by EMDRIA.
You’ll also learn how to work with trauma-related symptomatology from a depathologizing and deshaming approach that embraces diversity and the uniqueness of each individual across the lifespan!
Our trainings bring together adherence to Shapiro’s Model with the latest findings in neurosciences, interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, trauma and complex traumatization, the polyvagal theory and more!
Your full EMDR basic training consists of:
- 20 hours of theory
- 20 hours of practice
- 12 hours of specialized training on the use of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents
- 4 hours of pre-recorded training videos on neurosciences, attachment theory and the adaptive information processing model (AIP), with additional information on the use EMDR therapy with children and adolescents!
- 10 hours of consultation with expert child and adolescent clinicians
- A total of 66 hours and 52 CEs
Presenter Bio:
Ana M Gómez, MC, LPC, is the founder and director of the AGATE Institute in Phoenix, AZ, with close to 30 years in clinical practice and 23 years delivering EMDR therapy to hundreds of clients across the lifespan, especially children and adolescents. She is an EMDRIA-approved trainer and a Trainer of trainers for EMDR Colombia. She is a psychotherapist, author, and international speaker on using EMDR therapy with children and adolescents with complex and developmental trauma, generational wounds, and dissociation. She has led workshops and keynote presentations worldwide to thousands of clinicians. Ana is a fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD).
Ana is the author of EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment and Dissociation, and several books, book chapters, and articles on using EMDR therapy with children and adolescents.
She is the author of eight children’s books and therapeutic tools that address trauma and EMDR therapy. She also co-authored with Dr. Francine Shapiro an article on using EMDR therapy with children, published in 2013 and contributed substantially to the children’s section in the 3rd edition of Dr. Shapiro’s book. Ana received the 2011 “Distinguished Service Award” from the Arizona Play Therapy Association and the 2012 Sierra Tucson “Hope Award.”
Ana has developed numerous intensive training programs with over 225 hours of content and protocols, including the “EMDR-Sandtray Protocol” “The Story-Making Protocol” and “The Systemic, EMDR- Attachment Informed Program to Heal Intergenerational Trauma & Repair the Parent-Child Attachment Bond.” She has also created “The Multimodal Integrative Approach to EMDR Therapy with Children Affected by Complex Trauma and Dissociation,” a unique and comprehensive model to use EMDR with children with complex clinical presentations while preserving the essence and heart of EMDR therapy and its eight phases.
Ana adapted the Group Traumatic Episode Protocol (G-TEP) to children and created the “Butterfly Journey” (C-GTEP), as well as the Parenting Wheel and the Group Parent Empowerment Protocol (G-PEP). She is also an approved GTEP trainer.
Timeline:
Part 1: September 11th-14th
Part 2: November 6th-9th
All times Eastern time zone
Thursday: 10am – 6:30pm,
Friday: 10am – 7pm
Saturday: 10am – 7pm
Sunday: 10am – 2:15pm
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the history of EMDR therapy
- Describe important research on its effectiveness
- Identify the eight phases of EMDR treatment
- Identify elements of the Adaptive Information Processing Model (AIP)
- Utilize the three pronged protocol
- Identify the goals of phase 1: Client history and treatment planning
- Utilize strategies to gather history and develop the EMDR treatment plan
- Identify the goals of phase 3: Assessment
- Utilize the procedural steps of phase 3: Assessment
- Identify the goals of phase 2: Preparation
- Utilize the procedural steps of phase 2: Preparation
- Identify and utilize decision making markers to move into processing phases
- Identify the goals of phase 4: Desensitization
- Utilize procedural steps of phase 4: Desensitization
- Identify and utilize decision making markers to select interweaves when information processing is blocked
- Utilize interweaves when information processing stalls
- Identify the goals of phase 5: Installation
- Utilize procedural steps of phase 5: Installation
- Identify the goals and procedural steps of phase 6: Body scan
- Utilize procedural steps of phase 6: Body scan
- Identify the goals and procedural steps of phase 7: Closure
- Utilize procedural steps of phase 7: Closure
- Identify the goals and procedural steps of phase 8: Re-evaluation
- Utilize procedural steps of phase 8: Re-evaluation
- Identify the goals and procedural steps of the future template
- Utilize procedural steps of the future template
- Utilize EMDR therapy with veterans, grief and somatic issues
- Utilize EMDR therapy with addictions and recent events
- Utilize EMDR therapy with phobias
- Utilize EMDR therapy with children and adolescents
- Identify how to organize phase two: Preparation with children and adolescents
- Identify how to organize phase three: Assessment with children and adolescents
- Identify how to organize phase four: Desensitization with children and adolescents
- Identify how to organize phase five: Installation with children and adolescents
- Identify how to organize phase six: Body Scan with children and adolescents
- Identify how to organize phase seven: Closure with children and adolescents
- Identify how to organize phase eight; Re-evaluation with children and adolescents
- Utilize EMDR therapy with children and adolescents systemically and dyadically with caregivers
- Identify how to utilize EMDR with children and adolescents presenting with complex clinical presentations
- Identify and utilize a multimodal approach to EMDR therapy with children and adolescents that incorporates play therapy, expressive arts and Sandtray therapy.
To register for this live training please visit: https://agateinstitute.org/child/
This course content is based on a publication that has been peer-reviewed, the scientific standard for evaluating academic work. All studies and scientifically derived evidence have limitations that should be considered. If you have any questions about the accuracy or limitations of the content, please contact us at
support@ce-classes.com and we will get back to you.
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