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EMDR with Kids: Integrating Play Throughout the Phases with Fidelity (Virtual)
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This Advanced EMDR Training Is For You If:
✔️You’ve completed an EMDRIA-Approved Basic Training (or are in the process)
✔️You work with children, adolescents, or families
✔️You feel unsure how to apply EMDR with younger clients
What You’ll Learn
✔️How to integrate play therapy techniques across all 8 phases of EMDR
✔️Ways to prepare children and adolescents for trauma work through sensory, relational, and expressive methods
✔️How to gather history and identify targets through nonverbal, play-based expression
Instructor
Jackie Flynn, EdS, LMHC-S, RPT-S™
EMDRIA-Approved Trainer and Consultant
Integrating Sandtray in Play Therapy into the 8 Phases of EMDR (Virtual)
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You’ll learn how to:
Bring sandtray into EMDR in a way that feels clear and usable
Recognize when something needs to be worked through beyond words
Stay grounded in safety and pacing while the work deepens
How You Will Learn
This is an experiential virtual training.
You will observe demonstrations, engage in guided practice, and receive feedback so you can begin using this in your sessions right away.
This Training Is For You If
You’ve completed EMDR Basic Training
You want EMDR to feel more clear and usable in real sessions
You can sense what’s happening in your client’s system, but want a clearer way to support it
ai-EMDR with Mark Brayne
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Attachment-Informed EMDR:
Join internationally respected EMDR trainer and consultant Mark Brayne for an immersive training designed to help EMDR therapists deepen their work with developmental trauma and attachment wounds. Through live demonstrations, experiential practice, and advanced case conceptualization, participants will learn how to use attachment-informed EMDR to connect present-day symptoms and triggers with formative relational experiences while integrating attachment theory, nervous system awareness, parts work, and clinical decision-making into treatment.
A New Hope Academy's Annual Play Therapy: Disney Bound Conference
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Welcome to Villains at Play - Where Mischief Meets Meaning
Where there’s play, there’s power - and sometimes, a little mischief too.
This year, Play Therapy: Disney Bound invites you to step into the shadows and explore the villains who challenge, provoke, and ultimately transform us. Set against the enchanted backdrop of Disneyland® Resort, this conference is more than just a training - it’s a deep dive into the complex narratives that live within our clients… and ourselves.
UAPT Annual Conference "Nature of Play"
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This two-day training immerses clinicians in the theory and practice of nature-based play therapy as a pathway for nervous system regulation in children and families. The training follows a continuum: beginning with a community honoring and playful attachment-based activity in nature.
EMDR Refresher and Renewal: Deepening the Work through Play Therapy and Expressive Arts
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A three-day EMDR refresher for trained clinicians who want to strengthen fidelity to the eight phases while integrating play therapy, Sandtray, and expressive arts with confidence.
Description: Returning to Fidelity and Creativity in EMDR is a three-day, in-person refresher for therapists who have completed EMDR Basic Training and want to feel more confident in the eight phases while bringing play therapy and expressive arts into the work with fidelity.
You already know EMDR changes lives, but sometimes the details blur. The phases can feel overwhelming, and you may wonder if you are practicing with fidelity or unintentionally missing something important. At the same time, you may love play therapy, Sandtray, art, poetry, movement, and storytelling because you have seen how these methods reach places words cannot. This training brings those worlds together with clarity, support, and grounded practice.
EMDR Therapy Basic Training
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You will learn how to:
Use the Adaptive Information Processing model to guide your understanding of symptoms and treatment planning.
Recognize how present-day symptoms, beliefs, body responses, and patterns may be connected to earlier experiences.
Assess readiness and identify when a client may need more preparation before processing
Eligibility
This training is intended for participants who meet EMDRIA eligibility requirements for EMDR Basic Training.
Eligible participants may include independently licensed mental health clinicians and pre-licensed mental health professionals who are actively working toward independent licensure in a mental health service provider setting under appropriate supervision.
2027 EMDR Playground Immersion
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Bring EMDR to Life Through Play, Art, Movement, Somatic Work, and Fidelity
For EMDR-trained clinicians who know trauma healing often needs to go beyond words.
You already know EMDR is powerful.
And you also know that when you work with children, adolescents, families, and complex trauma, healing often shows up through more than language.
Children show you their inner world through PLAY.
This Is For You If...
✔️ You are EMDR-trained and want EMDR with children and teens to feel more clear, confident, creative, and clinically grounded.
✔️ You want to use play, art, sandtray, movement, music, storytelling, and symbolic work while staying connected to EMDR fidelity.
✔️ You sometimes wonder how to assess readiness when a client communicates through behavior, shutdown, dissociation, resistance, avoidance, humor, or play.
This Is the Experience
✔️ You will gather in a supportive training space for hands-on clinical learning, reflection, and practice.
✔️ You will integrate through guided experiential sunrise practices on the beach.
✔️ You will explore play, art, music, movement, sandtray, somatic awareness, symbolism, rhythm, and clinical tools in ways that connect back to EMDR therapy.
EMDR Expansions: Fidelity, Spirituality, and Adaptive Meaning
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An advanced EMDRIA approved training for EMDR-trained clinicians.
You already know the EMDR protocol.
You understand the eight phases.
You use the AIP model.
You care about doing it right.
You want to handle those moments well.
Without drifting.
Without imposing anything.
Without stepping outside the model.
This training shows you how.
Many EMDR clinicians feel a quiet tension when a client’s spirituality emerges organically and they are not sure how to respond while staying fully within the model.
It can feel like you must choose between structure and depth.
You do not.
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