2-Day Workshop: EMDR Therapy for Child and Adolescent Trauma: Safely Process Traumatic Events, Restore Trust and Rebuild Healthy Attachment

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Megan Salar, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C Related seminars and products

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Megan Salar, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C, is an Evergreen certified EMDR clinician and trainer, as well as a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional II through Evergreen Certifications. Megan is also an Advanced Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor, who formerly owned and operated one of the largest treatment centers for substance abuse and trauma in Southeast Idaho, which was voted best in practice for 2019.

Her trainings have helped thousands of clinicians across the US get the most of EMDR, trauma and addiction-based skills and practices. She has been invited to train internationally at the International Society of Addiction Medicine in India, the International Conference on Addiction Research and Therapy in Amsterdam and at the Psicologia Institute of Italy. Megan has extensively been trained on the use of EMDR as a protocol and uses EMDR in her practice to achieve improved outcomes with a broad spectrum of clients in the areas of trauma, abuse, attachment and substance abuse. She is an expert witness at the State and Federal level for her expertise in areas surrounding trauma.

Megan is the author of EMDR Workbook for Trauma and PTSD: Skills to Manage Triggers, Move Beyond Traumatic Memories, and Take Back Your Life set to be released by New Harbinger Publications in 2023. She earned her master’s in Clinical Social Work from Northwest Nazarene University in 2011 and is an active member of the International Society of Addiction Medicine and the National Association of Social Workers. She currently owns and operates her own Counseling, Consulting and Training Business and is passionate about genuinely changing the landscape of trauma treatment through an authentic, hands-on perspective that she has uniquely made her own.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Megan Salar has an employment relationship with Recoverhe Counseling & Consulting. She receives royalties as a published author. Megan Salar receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Megan Salar is a member of the International Society of Addiction Medicine, the EMDR International Association of EMDR Trauma Specialists, and the National Association of Social Workers.

Additional Info

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.

Please note: Each day, there will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.

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Objectives

1. Assess the clinical implications of how attachment and trauma impact brain development.  
2. Differentiate between trauma, attachment and other underlying mental health concerns. 
3. Utilize trauma assessment tools specific to children and adolescents.  
4. Utilize grounding and coping strategies to help young clients manage their trauma responses. 
5. Assess for indicators of when a young client has achieved sufficient stability for trauma work. 
6. Employ EMDR resourcing skills to increase clients’ emotional regulation. 
7. Utilize attachment-based interventions to create stabilization within children and adolescent populations.  
8. Adapt the 8-phase model of EMDR therapy to work with the developmental level of the client. 
9. Analyze how EMDR is able to target trauma and attachment-based deficits.
10. Apply different forms of dual awareness for children and adolescent clients. 
11. Differentiate trauma screening tools that are effective in diagnosing early experiences of trauma.  
12. Utilize 3 somatic based techniques to regulate emotional disturbance. 
13. Determine 2 specific techniques for crisis management with children and adolescents. 

Outline

• How the brain responds when activated with trauma
• Developmental impact of early traumatic experiences on the brain
• Areas of the brain that are restricted when trauma occurs in children and adolescents
• Basic ways to re-engage the brain after a trauma response

• Distinguish between simple and complex trauma
• Recognize the manifestation and presentation of trauma symptoms in children and adolescent clients
• Common misdiagnosis of trauma
• Fundamental trauma screening techniques for children and adolescents

• Trauma assessment tools specific to children and adolescents
• Techniques that target the vagus nerve to mitigate somatic symptoms
• Grounding and coping strategies for managing trauma responses
• Identify indicators for when a client has achieved sufficient stability for trauma work

• How EMDR is able to target trauma and attachment with children
• Dual awareness techniques specific for children and adolescents
• EMDR resourcing skills to increase clients’ sense of regulation
• Titrate exposure from intense emotional responses to states of somatic grounding

• The association between the brain and body as it relates to trauma
• Discover the ways that trauma is re-experienced with children and adolescents
• Using EMDR to address sleep disturbances and other physical symptoms in children and adolescents
• Interventions to activate the nervous system and calm the senses

• The link between trauma and attachment
• The methodology of EMDR and memory reconsolidation
• Information processing theory and bilateral stimulation techniques
• Applying a 3-prong approach in EMDR trauma therapy
• Maladaptive cognitive patterns that occur when trauma is experienced or triggered
• Safely engaging in restricted processing
• Strategies to address attachment-based needs and deficits
• Interventions to soften protective mechanisms and disrupt unhealthy patterns of behavior

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychotherapists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychologists
• Nurses
• Psychiatrists 
• Addiction Counselors
• Art Therapists
• Other Mental Health Professionals