Getting Started: EMDR-Focused Assessment and Treatment Planning
Case conceptualization through the lens of EMDR
Utilizing the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model
Child Friendly 3 prong approach
How to bring playfulness into clinical assessment
Strategies for learning the family’s trauma narrative
Identifying target memories for kids and their caregivers
Interventions: Playful assessments, sentence completions, Turtle of Tolerance
Resourcing: Play-Based Interventions to Build Support and Enhance Resilience
The importance of resourcing in EMDR – and why play enhances its efficacy
Bilateral-inspired games and activities
Using creative arts to reimagine trauma stories
Repairing attachment and ruptures through play
Puppets, sandtray, dollhouses, toys, building blocks, and more
Interventions: Rescue Play, Building & Rebuilding, Attachment Resource Development & RDI
Reprocessing Complex Trauma: Playful EMDR Strategies for Children and Their Grown-ups
Assessing child and grown up readiness for conjoint sessions
Playing the “EMDR” game with kids & grown ups
Modifying standard EMDR protocol to be developmentally appropriate
Co-regulation techniques for the caregiver
Interventions: Story Telling Technique, Reprocessing Together, Future Templates




