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EMDR Therapy for Autism: Adapted Strategies to Help Autistic Clients Regain Stability and Decrease Negative Cognitions

EMDR Therapy for Autism: Adapted Strategies to Help Autistic Clients Regain Stability and Decrease Negative Cognitions

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It’s no secret that individuals with autism experience the world and process trauma differently. But how do you take a seemingly rigid, step-by-step protocol, and use it to help vulnerable communities who may not respond well to typical interventions? That’s where trauma expert Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW, can help! Using her unique perspective as an autistic person herself, Jennifer will show you how trauma processing in autistic individuals looks different and give you strategies and techniques for adapting tools from EMDR therapy to better meet their needs.

 You’ll come away with:

  • Interventions for specific negative cognitions (i.e. “I’m worth less than others.”)
  • Strategies for adapting resourcing to better prepare clients for EMDR
  • Techniques to help clients regain stability post-session
  • Ways to better tailor treatment plans based on common traumatic experiences 

 

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Here's What You'll Learn


  • Traumatic experiences that are more commonly encountered by autistic individuals (Example; intimate partner violence, bullying in school)
  • Exploration of how these traumatic experiences can lead to specific negative cognitions (Example; “Only an abusive person would love me,” or “I am worth less than other people”)
  • What is known about how autistic people process trauma
  • Strategies for adapting resourcing to prepare autistic clients for EMDR
  • After-session stability: Strategies for assisting autistic clients in regaining stability after sessions

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 1 hour of video content
  • Up to 1.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Digital Seminar
$37.09
$69.99

Meet Your Experts


Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW

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Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in southern Illinois specializing in the crossroads of mental health, trauma and neurodiversity utilizing interventions informed by compassion-focused therapy, acceptance commitment therapy, EMDR and other traditions. Jennifer is the author of The Psychosis and Mental Health Recovery Workbook: Tools for Young Adults from ACT, DBT and Recovery-Oriented CBT and writes a blog for Psychology Today entitled ‘Beyond Mental Health: Defying Stereotypes and False Limitations.’

Jennifer has provided training to hundreds of clinicians nationwide on topics related to neurodiversity, mental health and healing trauma. She offers a unique perspective infused with her lived experience as an individual who has walked her own journey toward mental health and self-acceptance as an autistic person herself.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jennifer Gerlach has an employment relationship with True Story Counseling, PLLC. and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jennifer Gerlach has no relevant non-financial relationships.

 

 

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150748
Duration:
1 hour, 3 minutes
Copyright:
Mar 06, 2026
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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