Whether you're looking for some EMDR tools and techniques you can use right away or want to add more nuanced EMDR skills to your toolbox, this training will get you there! This course providers a comprehensive starting point that will give you what you need to customize EMDR techniques to work with young clients.
Etched with the scars of trauma, the kids and teens you treat yearn for connection and love.
The emotional fortresses they've constructed to protect their hearts, can make you worry that you'll never truly reach them.
That's where EMDR comes in.
Proven as one of today's most effective trauma therapies, EMDR allows you to scale those walls brick by brick, so you can work with their traumatic memories and lead them to a place of safety, trust, and healing.
In this specialized training, you will learn exactly how to customize EMDR for young clients. Join renowned EMDR trainer Megan Salar to learn to tailor EMDR to accommodate the unique needs, developmental stages, and challenges associated with working with young clients. You'll learn how to…- Engage easily triggered kids who struggle to get through sessions
- Build rapport and connection work with young, non-verbal kids and those with shorter attention spans
- Easily incorporate creative elements like art and storytelling in developmentally appropriate ways
- Foster empowerment with gentle and non-invasive techniques that keep kids in control
- Adapt and customize the standard EMDR protocol for teens and kids
PLUS, you're getting FREE bonus CE trainings from the biggest names in therapy including developer of Polyvagal Theory Dr. Stephen Porges and Somatic Experiencing® developer, Peter Levine! AND, an e-Book with tons of printable EMDR for Kids worksheets and activities!
Register now to become the EMDR therapist that builds bridges to kids' hearts, creating safety and trust in their lives again!
EMDR Therapy for Kids and Teens:
Skills and Activities to Rebuild Trust and Safety After Trauma$1,009.94 Value, YOURS for $299.99!
Plus, earn up to 22.75 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
What You'll Learn
Begin by learning exactly how to use EMDR with your young clients. Then, dive into insightful training that will help you heal attachment wounds from trauma and guide your young clients toward safety, security and happiness.
EMDR for Kids and Teens
Dive into an in-depth training full of step-by-step guidance and real-life case studies, you'll get the tools and strategies you need to:
- Identify even hard-to-find symptoms of trauma in children and adolescents
- Adapt the 8-phase EMDR therapy protocol for improved outcomes
- Know what to do even with kids who've endured complex trauma
- Guide clients past the fear, shame, and guilt that can obstruct healing
- Engage easily triggered kids who struggle to get through sessions
- Build children's ability to express and regulate their emotions
- Customize your approach to meet your client's developmental needs
- Treat a variety of traumas, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect
- Enhance clients' self-esteem and understanding of themselves and their experiences
Rebuilding Trust After Attachment Ruptures
Delve deeper into the impact of attachment ruptures that lead to lack of trust, anger/rage, anxiety, self-injury, aggression toward others, and suicidal ideation in youth. You'll learn how to:
- Support increased sense of safety and attachment, regardless of the child's level of involvement in treatment
- Creative interventions for safety, resiliency, and identity development
- Build connections in groups, individual, and family therapy
- Implement modifications to address various developmental and functioning levels
- Activities that support processing grief and separation
EMDR Therapy for Kids and Teens:
Skills and Activities to Rebuild Trust and Safety After Trauma
Skills and Activities to Rebuild Trust and Safety After Trauma
$1,009.94 Value, YOURS for $299.99!
Plus, earn up to 22.75 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
BONUS! $299.96 Value, YOURS FREE!
EMDR Workbook for Kids: A Collection of EMDR Handouts & Worksheets to Help Kids Process Trauma, Stress, Anger, Sadness & More
Filled with colorful visuals, worksheets, and activities, the EMDR Workbook for Kids by Christine Mark Griffin, LCSW, will allow you to playfully integrate EMDR therapy into your practice with elementary-aged children. Grounded in the core components of EMDR, the tools in this workbook can address a variety of common childhood concerns, including:
- Anxiety, worry, sadness, and anger
- Parental divorce, separation, and conflict
- Bullying
- Medical problems
- Grief and loss
- Nightmares and sleeping problems
Polyvagal Strategies to Down Regulate Threat and Defensive Reactions for Kids with Trauma, ODD & Attachment Wounds
Join Dr. Porges and Dr. Delahooke as they teach you how Polyvagal Theory helps us "look inside" the nervous system of individuals and parents who are dysregulated. Through this cutting-edge lens, you'll learn the integration of neuroscience into clinical practice and the best strategies to regulate the child's nervous system to create a state of calmness and perceived safety leading the way to improved communication, relational satisfaction, and joy!
Healing Childhood Trauma
Through dynamic discussion and demonstrations of their respective approaches, Dr. Peter Levine, creator of Somatic Experiencing® and Dafna Lender, Theraplay® and Dyadic Development Psychotherapy Trainer offer practical "bottom-up" tools for restoring resilience and equilibrium in children who have experienced trauma, including:
- Simple containment strategies for engaging clients in trauma wound work
- Embodied attachment-based techniques derived from Theraplay®
- Somatic Experiencing® interventions that create positive experiences in the body
- Attunement tools for caregivers and families
EMDR and Trauma-Informed Yoga for Kids
Learn with Christine Mark Griffin, LCSW, and Zabie Yamasaki, MEd, RYT, how trauma-informed yoga and EMDR can be complimentary offerings for children to process and heal from trauma in their minds, bodies & hearts. You'll discover approaches to help children:
- Gain insight and strengthen their mind
- Increase emotional regulation and align with expressing what is in their hearts
- Utilize movement to enhance physical strength and attunement to their bodies
EMDR Therapy for Kids and Teens:
Skills and Activities to Rebuild Trust and Safety After Trauma
Skills and Activities to Rebuild Trust and Safety After Trauma
$1,009.94 Value, YOURS for $299.99!
Plus, earn up to 22.75 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Frequently Asked Questions
Immediately when you register you'll have unlimited access to all training videos and materials to review whenever you choose!
This is our most comprehensive online course focusing on EMDR therapy with kids and teens. Renowned EMDR trainer Megan Salar and a team of experts make concepts easy to understand and apply in your practice — complete with practical tools, techniques, and strategies you can use right away. And with in-depth training materials, resources and the EMDR Workbook for Kids, you'll feel ready to break down the emotional barriers constructed by young clients and create an environment of safety, trust, and healing.
Yes, EMDR can be integrated with other therapeutic approaches, including play therapy, when it aligns with the child's needs and treatment goals.
While there is no fixed age limit, EMDR is typically considered for children and teenagers who can actively participate and engage in the therapeutic process. This course will give you the information you need to make informed, evidence-based decisions regarding using EMDR therapy.
EMDR is very safe to use with kids and teens. EMDR has a proven track record in reducing trauma-related symptoms and promoting emotional healing in youth. It's a valuable tool to help kids and teens overcome traumatic experiences and improve their overall well-being.
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