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EMDR for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Neglect: Advanced Treatment Techniques for Insecure Attachment and Complex Trauma

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Plagued with trauma, low self-esteem, relationship problems, and difficulty regulating their emotions, adult clients who’ve experienced childhood emotional abuse and neglect can be some of your toughest cases.

Not only are you facing therapeutic challenges like fragmented self-identity, dissociation and difficulty forming healthy attachments – you’re often left trying to identify and reprocess what may be unrealized, absent, or lacking…

…all while trying to attune to experiences for which the client struggles to have words.

Fortunately EMDR is up to the challenge, giving you the tools you need to successfully treat these clients so they can move past their traumatic childhoods to achieve lasting healing.

Now in this advanced training, you’ll join Sarah Freeze, LCSW, a certified EMDR therapist and consultant who has been working with clients who have experienced childhood emotional abuse and neglect for over a decade.

Through a combination of lecture, discussion, and insight building case studies, Sarah will teach you how to build your clinical expertise with EMDR so you can:

  • Apply adult attachment principles for a fuller understanding of your client’s presentation and history
  • Develop skills to better address your client’s defenses for gentler and more effective trauma reprocessing
  • Identify and address adaptations to unavailable and dysfunctional caregivers
  • Use creative techniques to process unseen wounds that clients may have trouble verbalizing
  • Help clients feel in control by working with them to stay in their window of tolerance during trauma reprocessing
  • And much more!

With ample opportunity for questions and discussion, you’ll leave this training with the tools you need to identify targets specific to complex childhood experiences and guide clients toward the trauma resolution and relief they need.

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

Here's What You'll Learn


Childhood Abuse and Neglect Experiences: The Latest Research and Relationship with Complex Trauma

  • Newest Research on ACE Studies
  • Relationship with Complex PTSD
  • Impact on Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship
  • Lack of Care and the Loss of Words
  • Polyvagal Theory and the Window of Tolerance
  • EMDR Research, Risks and Limitations

Client History and Assessment: Assessing Attachment, the Body and More

  • Understanding Adult Attachment
  • Skill: Assessing Attachment Based on Client’s Conversational Style
  • Skill: Five Adjectives to Describe Your Caregiver
  • Assessing the Body and One’s Ability to Care for Oneself
  • Online Sandtray as a Creative Technique for Self-Understanding

Case Conceptualization: How Clients Adaptations to Dysfunctional Caregivers Informs Treatment

  • Target Mapping Related to Unavailable Caregivers and Dissociation [vs focus]
  • Skill: Identify Unspoken Agreements between Child and Parent
  • Understanding how the Child Maintained Connection
  • Adaptation and Defenses
  • Skill: Listening for the Split
  • Idealization of the Caregiver
  • Skill: Targeting Idealization Defenses

Preparation and Assessment: Relational Resourcing to Strengthen Adult Self

  • Understanding What Grounding Techniques Have Worked Historically
  • Resourcing to Strengthen Adult Self
  • Skill: Circle of Love
  • Skill: Using an Online Sandtray for Relational Resourcing
  • Resourcing the Body
  • Skill: Somatic Container
  • Caring For Oneself as an Act of Resistance
  • Clinical Vignette of Peter: Identifying Loss of Appetite Related to Lack of Food in Childhood

Advanced Applications for Verbal and Non-Verbal Trauma Reprocessing

  • Empowering Your Client to Foster a Sense of Control
  • Physical Sensations and Associative Processing
  • Skill: Pendulation
  • Ideas on How to Target Affective Moments
  • Addressing Shame and Avoidance
  • Skill: Using an Online Sandtray for Nonverbal Trauma Reprocessing
  • Clinical Vignette of Tina: Target Mother Being “Emotionally Vacant”

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 6 hours of video content
  • Up to 6.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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EMDR for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Neglect: Advanced Treatment Techniques for Insecure Attachment and Complex Trauma
Digital Seminar
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Meet Your Experts


Sarah Freeze, LCSW

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Sarah Freeze, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and recognized specialist in the treatment of complex trauma, attachment wounds, and the psychological impact of childhood abuse and neglect in adulthood. She holds a Master of Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, where she completed the National Child Trauma Workforce Institute’s child trauma specialization. Sarah currently maintains a private practice in Denver, Colorado, providing individual and group psychotherapy, EMDR intensives, and consultation for psychotherapists. Her integrative approach draws from EMDR, psychodynamic and relational psychotherapy, ego state theory, sand tray therapy, and self-compassion frameworks – modalities uniquely suited to the layered, identity-level wounds that childhood trauma produces. An Evergreen Certified EMDR Clinician and an Evergreen-status EMDR Consultant, Sarah provides both individual and group consultation to therapists with a specialized focus on attachment, dissociation, ego states, and complex trauma.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sarah Freeze maintains a private practice. She is a consultant with Evergreen. Sarah Freeze receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sarah Freeze American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and EMDR International Association.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059248
Duration:
6 hours, 9 minutes
Copyright:
Mar 28, 2025
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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