EMDR Therapy with Children: A Multimodal, Developmentally Attuned Approach
- Speaker:
- Ana Gomez, MC, LPC
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 03 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Mar 06, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150746
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
When it comes to working with trauma in kids many behavioral and emotional symptoms are manifestations of traumatic and adverse experiences, held in the child’s biology. You need a treatment framework that not only addresses the inner structures formed in response to adversity and trauma, but one that can be organized to meet the developmental demands of children as well. That’s why Ana Gomez, MC, LPC, a world-renowned trauma treatment expert who specializes in utilizing EMDR therapy with children and adolescents, developed this powerful session – to give you a more comprehensive and robust toolkit for using EMDR therapy with kids.
You’ll come away with:
- A framework for working with trauma in the embodied mind of the child
- Strategies for using individual vs. systemic EMDR therapy
- Adapted techniques to meet developmental needs
- Tools for working with simple traumatic stress and chronic trauma
This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.
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Speaker
Ana Gomez, MC, LPC Related seminars and products
Ana M. Gómez, MC, LPC, is the founder and director of the AGATE Institute in Phoenix, AZ. She is a world-renowned expert on the treatment of complex trauma, intergenerational trauma and dissociation and the use of EMDR therapy and adjunct approaches with children and adolescents. She is a psychotherapist with over 25 years of clinical experience and an EMDR Trainer of Trainers. Ana has led workshops and keynote presentations in five continents and over 20 countries and is the author of EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment and Dissociation and several children's books, book chapters and articles on the use of EMDR therapy, dissociation, emotional awareness and literacy.
Ana has developed numerous training programs and protocols that include the EMDR-Sandtray Protocol and The Systemic, EMDR-Attachment Informed Program to Heal Intergenerational Trauma & Repair the Parent-Child Attachment Bond.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Ana Gómez maintains a private practice, is the founder, trainer, and director of AGATE Institute, and is an EMDRIA approved consultant and training provider. She receives royalties as a published author. Ana Gómez receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ana Gómez has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Objectives
- Explain how a multimodal, developmentally attuned EMDR approach integrates somatic, systemic, and relational interventions while remaining grounded in the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model.
- Identify clinical indicators for accessing and supporting trauma reprocessing through explicit and implicit channels, including symbolic, nonverbal, relational, and body-based modalities in work with children.
- Apply play-based, sandtray, expressive arts, and somatic interventions as intentional therapeutic pathways to support nervous system regulation, relational safety, and trauma reprocessing within child and family systems.
Outline
- EMDR therapy as a powerful approach for children with histories of trauma
- Organize the structure of EMDR therapy to meet the child’s developmental demands
- Using EMDR therapy with complex vs single incident trauma in children
- Individual EMDR treatment with children and their parents to heal generational wounds
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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