Please wait ...

Earn up to 12.0 CE Hours

CE hours available for LPCs, LCSWs, Psychologists, Case Managers, and MORE!

Quick learning with easy-to-follow modules

World-leading trainers!

$619.94 Value

Just $99.99!

REGISTER HERE

They'll give you step-by-step instructions on how to integrate youth-specific strategies into every phase of EMDR treatment. Walk away knowing exactly how to…

  • Provide kid and parent-friendly explanations and introductions to EMDR
  • Adapt the 8 phases of the EMDR protocol specifically for young clients
  • Use analogies and metaphors to make therapy simple and even fun
  • Help kids talk about and process 'inner parts' that have experienced trauma
  • Address unmet attachment needs through your own presence
  • Customize your approach to meet unique developmental needs

PLUS, a bonus on trauma-informed yoga and on mindfulness for kids!

…and one more bonus, how to incorporate superheroes and epic adventures into therapy!

Take your practice further and create brighter futures, one child at a time.

EMDR for Kids and Teens
Clinical Strategies & Playful Pathways for Trauma Healing, Emotional Regulation and More
Valued at $619.94 — Now Just  $99.99!
REGISTER HERE
Earn up to 12.0 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Praise for this course…
Five Stars
"This is one of the best trainings I have ever had. I received so much valuable information and tools to do the work. I am an EMDR therapist, however have not done it with children and I feel like you have given me the tools to treat children and their parents. Thank you!"
— Kathy D, Counselor
Five Stars
"I learned so much from those presentations. It was awesome."
— Barbara M, Community Mental Health Counselor
Five Stars
"Great ideas for how to utilize movies and media in the context of play therapy."
— Adrianna R, Social Worker
Five Stars
"[I learned] how to make therapy fun and why that’s so important!"
— Amanda B, Community Mental Health Social Worker
Five Stars
"Always impressed with the PESI courses!"
— Jacqueline J, Community Mental Health Counselor
Five Stars
"I work with kids, this is ideal for them to connect with therapy on a different level."
— Kellie K, Child & Adolescent Social Worker
Five Stars
"I loved this course and how it marries holistic healing practices with more "traditional" mental health practices. They are so complimentary and helpful."
— Jennifer E, Social Worker
Five Stars
"I was amazed at the level of knowledge of the speakers, and was pleased to learn about the wonderful techniques offered for to use both EMDR and Trauma-Informed Yoga for Kids."
— Margaret G, K-12 School Psychologist
Course Curriculum
Start with the foundations of using EMDR with kids. In module two, explore how to integrate play therapy into the 8 phases of EMDR. Then, dive into using trauma-informed yoga with kids. Lastly, gain specific skills to overcome treatment barriers when using EMDR and Play Therapy together.
Step-by-Step EMDR for Kids
with Christine Mark Griffin, LCSW
Start by learning how to make each phase of EMDR treatment kid-friendly. You'll learn how to make EMDR more accessible, effective and even fun with kids and teens in this engaging module.
The Kid-Friendly Introduction to EMDR
  • Explaining trauma in safe and “unscary” ways
  • How and why EMDR is helpful, psychoeducation for parents
  • The Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model
  • 8 phases of EMDR; what to expect from treatment
  • Interventions: The Tornado of Trauma, Windows of Tolerance

EMDR-Based Case Conceptualization: Integrating Child and Parent Perspectives
  • How work with lack of parental involvement
  • Spotting adaptive versus maladaptive information processing
  • What to do when you're stuck as a clinician

Phase-by-Phase EMDR Interventions for Kids
  • Phase One: Learning the Story
    • Holding different versions of the same story in the family
    • Considering intergenerational trauma, attachment trauma, and vicarious trauma
    • Identifying target memories, negative cognitions with kids and parents
    • A spectrum of parent involvement in therapy treatment
    • Interventions: Graphing Strengths & Targets, Preparation for Story Telling Technique
  • Phase Two & Three: Setting the Goals and Activating Targets
    • How to develop individual and shared goals for children and caregivers
    • Future-focused interventions
    • Identifying unhelpful thoughts, emotions, and more

  • Phase Four: Discharging the Stress
    • Introducing bilateral stimulation
    • Help kids create more space and less body stress

  • Phase Five: Strengthening the Positive
    • Creating resilience for the future
    • Replacing maladaptive thoughts with confidence
    • Creating internal security

  • Phase Six: Increasing Body Awareness
    • Help kids release memories stuck in the body
    • Get kids more comfortable feeling uncomfortable emotions

  • Phase Seven: Finishing & Ending
    • Ideas for calming and fun ways to close sessions
    • Help parents know what to do in-between sessions
    • Setting expectations for the next session

  • Phase Eight: Reviewing and Revising
    • How to assess progress
    • Keeping your young clients sharing
    • Know when to stop and when to continue working
Integrating EMDR and Play Therapy
with Ana Gomez, LPC
Combine the skills you gained in part with as you learn how to integrate the 8 phases of EMDR into play therapy. You'll gain specific training in how to do Sand Tray therapy, incorporate Parts Work, and even Polyvagal-Inspired exercises.
The Choreography of EMDR therapy with Kids
  • A circular view of EMDR Therapy
  • "EMDR on the ground"
  • Inviting movement into EMDR
  • Integrating Play, Movement, Expressive Arts, Polyvagal, and Parts Work Approaches
  • Breaking own each of the EMDR phases

Using EMDR & Sandtray Therapy Together
  • 3 Levels of Distance Using EMDR Therapy and Sandtray
  • Strategies for Initial and Processing Phases of EMDR Treatment
  • Extensive Lens to View Client's Clinical Landscape
  • Parent-child interventions for collaboration
Mirroring in Trauma Treatment
  • Implicit and explicit mirroring
  • Interpersonal and intrapersonal impact of mirroring
  • Being the companion, co-regulator and co-creator of meaning
  • How to meet developmental needs
  • Balance being a witness with being an active participant

Skillfully Work with Kids' Inner Defenses
  • Helping parts be storytellers and storyholders
  • Creating harmony with conflicting feelings
  • Working with shame

Integrating Somatic Interweaves
  • Understanding somatic interweaves
  • Questions to ask and areas to explore
  • Meeting unmet attachment needs and bringing resources
  • Memory integration
Removing Barriers to Treatment with EMDR & Play Therapy
with Ana Gomez, MA, LPC
Some challenges in therapy are just simply hard. Here's a roadmap to overcoming some of the most common (and uncommon!) challenges faced by clinicians as they use EMDR to enhance therapy with kids and teens.
Working with Kids' Self-Protective Systems
  • The impact of complex trauma on self-organization
  • The role of shame and "defenders"
  • Understanding the defense cascade continuum
  • Strategies to work with each attachment style
  • Using multi-motivational theory to treat various areas of trauma

Breaking Through Dissociation in Kids
  • Curiosity as the remedy
  • Exploring and visiting "inner parts" to cultivate awareness
  • How to Physicalize inner pain
  • Using the power of stories and analogies
Integrating "The Different Parts of Me"
  • Understanding parts as mechanism of adaptation
  • Overcoming trauma-based phobias
  • Breaking through dysfunctional positive affect
  • Cultivate compassion and gratitude
  • Help kids reclaim their story
EMDR for Kids and Teens
Clinical Strategies & Playful Pathways for Trauma Healing, Emotional Regulation and More
Valued at $619.94 — Now Just  $99.99!
REGISTER HERE
Earn up to 12.0 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
BONUS! 3 FREE CE Trainings — $309.97 VALUE!
Our gift to you and your clients!
Making Mindfulness Stick with Kids & Teens
Making Mindfulness Stick with Kids & Teens
Christopher Willard

Join world-renowned speaker, author, and Harvard faculty member Christoper Willard for an unforgettable training on how to make mindfulness REALLY work with your young clients. Dive into three learning hours on…
  • What is Mindfulness really?
  • Mindfulness without meditation
  • Adapting mindful skills for children and teens
  • Engaging children and teens in mindful awareness for creating change beyond the therapy room
Walk away with highly applicable skills to use tomorrow!
EMDR & Trauma-Informed Yoga for Kids
EMDR & Trauma-Informed Yoga for Kids
Christine Mark Griffin, LCSW & Zabie Yamasaki, MEd, RYT

Movement is one of the most impactful ways to work with young clients. In this module, you'll explore how to use trauma-informed yoga and EMDR to strengthen kid's ability to hear their inner voice and express themselves in healthy ways.
Brief Overview of the Frameworks
  • Kid-Friendly Explanation of the 8 Frameworks of Trauma-Informed Yoga & The 8 Phases of EMDR
  • Getting parents on-board

Integrative Child-Friendly Practices for Healing the Mind, Body, and Heart
  • Getting prepared
  • Breathwork and mindfulness
  • Supporting kids who are triggered
  • Cultural considerations and accessibility

Help Children Gain Insight and Strengthen Their Minds
  • Safe Calm Place
  • Identifying Unhelpful & Helpful Thoughts
  • Psychoeducation about Window of Tolerance
  • Surrender Bowl
Increase Emotional Regulation and Align with Expressing What Is In Their Hearts
  • Resource Development Intervention — Happy Place
  • Chakra for Kids & Inner Light Meditation
  • Take what you need board & intention stones

Utilize Movement to Enhance Physical Strength and Attunement to Their Bodies
  • Child-friendly body scans
  • Games and activities for bilateral stimulation and discharging stress
  • Increasing body awareness + helping with ouches
  • Vinyasa — flow yoga
  • EMDR Back & Forth movement to move the trauma out & move the healing in
Superheroes, Video Games & Creating Epic Adventures for Kids in Therapy
Superheroes, Video Games & Creating Epic Adventures for Kids in Therapy
Sophia Anasari, PLCC, RPT™
Josué Cardona, MS

Therapy can be fun. Sophia and Josué are the perfect clinicians, advocates, and unique voices in psychotherapy to help you make therapy not only more effective but highly engaging for your young clients. Their unique approach, termed Geek Therapy will be sure to deliver results, greater alignment with clients, and enhanced engagement.
  • Incorporate your Client's Interests
  • Video games, comic books, anime, and MORE into therapy
  • Therapeutic Power of Storytelling
  • Help clients discover they are the heroes of their own stories
  • Explore the Dynamic and Engaging World of Video Games
  • Minecraft and other Video Games are the New Virtual Sandtray
Connect more deeply with your clients now!
Meet Your Celebrated Course Faculty

Ana Gomez
Ana Gomez, MC, LPC, has spent more than 25 years perfecting her approach to integrating Sandtray and play therapy into the 8 phases of EMDR. She is the acclaimed author of EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment and Dissociation and several children's books, book chapters, and articles.

"Powerful and mind-expanding! A wonderful presenter and presentation quality!" — Drury T, Child & Adolescent Counselor

"Great resources and examples." — Theresa V, Child & Adolescent Counselor

Click here for information about Ana Gomez

Christine Mark Griffin, LCSW, is both a certified EMDR clinician and EMDRIA-approved consultant who specializes in using EMDR therapy with kids in her clinical work. Christine's teaching style is highly acclaimed for being warm, engaging and solution-focused.

"Christine was fabulous in her presentation- a wonderful child therapist." — Cynthia M, Community Mental Health Psychologist

"Thank you so much for this very helpful and professional and warm presentation." — Rose W, Counselor

Click here for information about Christine Mark-Griffin
Christine Mark Griffin

Christopher Willard
Christopher Willard, PsyD, faculty at Harvard Medical School, is a renowned speaker on mindfulness in children and families. His work has been featured in The New York Times, UNICEF, CNN, The Washington Post, and other international outlets.

Click here for information about Christopher Willard

Sophia Ansari, LPCC, RPT™, is celebrated internationally for her ability to incorporate pop culture, video games, and more into play therapy. She started and owns the Let's Play Therapy Institute and is praised for her work as an activist within the world of psychotherapy helping displaced refugees, and immigrants, and building inclusive school environments.

Click here for information about Sophia Ansari
Sophia Ansari

Josue Cardona
Josue Cardona, MS, founder of the therapeutic approach Geek Therapy (an approach that focuses on understanding clients through the things they care about most), and his teaching style is praised for celebrity difference, inclusion, and evidence-based approaches.

Click here for information about Josué Cardona
"Amazing! Such rich information that can be used immediately with clients. I loved their [Sophia & Josue's] presentation style, and their passion for the work." — Amanda P, K-12 School Social Worker

Zabie Yamasaki, MEd, RYT, (she/her) is the founder of Transcending Sexual Trauma Through Yoga, which is an organization that offers trauma-informed yoga to survivors, consultation for universities and trauma agencies, and training for healing professionals.

Click here for information about Sophia Ansari
Zabie Yamasaki
Frequently Asked Questions

Regardless of where you are in your EMDR training journey, you will learn techniques, tools, and interventions from EMDR (as well as play therapy and parts work) to integrate into your current practice. However, you will not learn how to use the full EMDR protocol from this training course. Having a background in EMDR will accelerate your learning in this course, but it isn't essential to learn incredible skills to do meaningful trauma treatment with your kiddos!

This course can serve as an update for clinicians who are already using EMDR with their young clients, it's a great introductory training for clinicians with work kids and trauma, and excellent for professionals who just want some quick strategies to make therapy a little easier and more effective.

Start now!

If you're asking this question, you're in a great place to try out this course! Many therapists find that integrating EMDR strategies into their practice accelerates healing, especially when combined with play therapy approaches for younger clients. While it's always upon the clinician to work within their scope of practice, this course is a great option for clinicians wanting to enhance their therapy, advance their skillset, and hone their services to really meet the needs of their clients.

Immediately when you register you'll have UNLIMITED access to all course materials — including on-demand videos, slides, and any printable handouts and PDFs. Start now!
EMDR for Kids and Teens
Clinical Strategies & Playful Pathways for Trauma Healing, Emotional Regulation and More
Valued at $619.94 — Now Just  $99.99!
REGISTER HERE
Earn up to 12.0 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
100% Satisfaction Guarantee
Register for this intensive training course without risk. If you're not completely satisfied, give us a call at 800-844-8260.

We’re that confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected.
NOTE: No additional discounts or coupons may be applied to this course.
CRS002085 • © PESI Inc. • All rights reserved • Email: courses@pesi.com • Phone: 800-844-8260
Back to Top