Many clinicians are trained in the treatment of single traumatic events, but are not fully equipped to treat Complex PTSD. In this training, you will develop confidence in your ability to successfully organize and prioritize your client’s treatment goals. You will learn how to compassionately and effectively work with clients who have experienced multiple traumatic events and prolonged trauma exposure. A resilience-informed approach to care recognizes that every human being has an intrinsic drive toward wholeness once they have sufficient resources in place. Therapy is always a combination of head and heart, of science and art. This integrative approach includes EMDR Therapy, Somatic Psychology, and Parts Work Therapies within a foundation of relational psychotherapy that engages clients in a richly transformational interpersonal process. You will learn valuable strategies that will allow you to successfully address the dysregulated affect and dissociative symptoms that accompany Complex PTSD.

This panel will discuss the importance of issues of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) during EMDR therapy. Panelists will provide practical ideas for EMDR therapists to provide affirming EMDR services to gender diverse clients and clients from different minoritized communities with an emphasis on intersectionality. Panelists will include tips to working with different populations including Latinx, Black/African American, American Indians/Indigenous, transgender clients, and LGBTQ+. It will emphasize the importance of cultural humility and intentionality when providing EMDR therapy. This panel will also discuss allyship, and considerations with the standard protocol to promote anti-oppressive practices. Furthermore, it will emphasize the importance of IDEA with ALL clients, not only with those that come from minoritized communities.

Join us as we learn how EMDR Therapy works with children and teens via telehealth. In this session, we examine key considerations of working with kids virtually with special attention given to fidelity, safety, effectiveness, and practicality. Attention to diversity, equity and inclusion is placed throughout. Similarities and differences between telehealth and in-person sessions are explored. And experientially, we delve into a variety of ways to engage kids in remote delivery of EMDR through the integration of play therapy techniques, movement, applications of the Polyvagal Theory, art, music and more.

To treat addiction, treat trauma. Most clients in behavioral health care have experienced trauma. Research supports the conceptualization of addictive responses as a symptom of unresolved trauma and adverse life events. Shapiro (1994) pioneered this concept almost thirty years ago, in her article with Vogelmann-Sine and Sine demonstrating the use of EMDR therapy to treat addiction. The case she made combined with the next 30 years of research on EMDR therapy and addiction encourages us to see EMDR therapy as an effective front line trauma-focused solution for this chronic, relapsing disorder. This research base helped generate the Palette of EMDR Interventions in Addiction (PEIA) (Markus & Hornsveld, 2017), which describes fifteen EMDR therapy interventions that can be used to treat addiction, and the MET(T)A Protocol (Mindfulness and EMDR Treatment Template for Addictions) (Dansiger et al., 2020) which proposes EMDR therapy as the central therapeutic modality in an addiction treatment setting.

EMDR Therapist are tasked with responding to a wide variety of disasters. Are you prepared to go beyond day-to-day EMDR clinical practice and into disaster response work? Prepare before we are faced with the unexpected - much like being ready to change a flat tire, perform CPR or apply First Aid. Disaster Responders are positioned both as volunteers in Trauma Response Networks, and paid positions in a wide range of settings. In this program, we will explore an EMDR Framework of protocols. This includes individual, group, and a blend of both that are currently being applied in clinical and disaster response work. The intended purpose of this program is to enable this framework to be leveraged quickly and effectively into diverse and unexpected situations. By the end of this program, you will have 3-4 implementable ideas of clear steps you can take to improve your disaster response preparedness.

In this 90-minute presentation, Jennifer Marchand will guide participants in flexibly transitioning into a post-COVID phase of telehealth, and to reflect on successes and challenges while responding to the needs of clients during COVID-19. Drawing on years of experience providing EMDR online in different cultural contexts and settings, she will present a visual model of telehealth that allows clinicians to conceptualize their work with clients and the factors that support safe and collaborative trauma resolution work online. She will use polyvagal theory to bring a deeper understanding to how we build therapeutic rapport and attunement with our clients, as well as to provide co-regulation and stabilization during reprocessing.

She will present the latest research and developments in Online EMDR since COVID-19 and compare various forms of dual attention stimulus that have emerged in response to the abrupt shift to online practice, and how they may influence in-person practice moving forward.