The child’s stability and sense of safety is highly dependent upon the parent’s capacity to provide it. The work with the parents within the eight phases of EMDR treatment is pivotal. This two-hour workshop will provide an attachment-based systemic model to work with parents and children. It is full of practical and ready to use […]

Children with complex and developmental trauma present with layers of trauma, adversity, attachment injuries and unmet needs. They are mixed and combined with entrenched defenses, trauma-related phobias and mechanisms of adaptations. These children self-organize internally to meet the demands of traumatizing and relationally impoverished environments. This presentation will provide EMDR clinicians with a clear theoretical […]

Accessing and processing memories of trauma when phobias and defenses are present may be convoluted and challenging. As a result, many clinicians never or very slowly move toward trauma work. Children who have suffered early developmental trauma need the healing that trauma processing can offer. However, they may be the ones that have the greatest […]