Treating Early Trauma with Structure, Gentleness, and Strategy

A training course dedicated to the specificities of development. Children and adolescents experience trauma differently than adults. Their language, their relationship to time, their attachment system, their emotions... Everything is in flux. This is why this specific EMDR training course offers an approach adapted to the child's development , with concrete tools for integrating EMDR into complex, often systemic follow-ups.

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What you will learn:

  • Adapting the EMDR protocol for children and adolescents
  • Reading and integrating attachment dynamics into therapy
  • Working with families, parents, institutions
  • Use the genogram and sociogram to guide your interventions
  • Securing the therapeutic alliance in unstable contexts

Educational objectives

Understanding the foundations of secure vs. insecure attachment and its impact on the therapeutic relationship

Know how to integrate EMDR into a systemic framework (school, family, institutions)

Develop an EMDR treatment plan tailored to age and developmental level

Use relational tools such as the genogram, the sociogram , figurines or visual mediators

Develop a strategic, playful and supportive intervention posture

For whom?

This training is aimed at mental health and support professionals, trained in EMDR, who support (or wish to support) children or adolescents in distress.

Target audience:

  • Psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists
  • Psychopractitioners, CBT specialists, systemicists
  • Family therapists, special educators, school coaches

Prerequisites : Have completed the EMDR standard protocol training (Cycle 1)

Important warning

EMDR training involves learning a powerful therapeutic tool that can resonate with sensitive personal experiences. It is strongly recommended to have undertaken personal therapeutic work beforehand. This approach is essential to approach the training with the necessary emotional stability and to fully benefit from it.

The training organization cannot be held responsible for the emotional or psychological effects that this training could arouse in the absence of this prior work.

Training program

Step 1

The basics of attachment in children and adolescents

  • Understanding Attachment Types: Secure, Insecure, Disorganized
  • Identify clinical consequences: inhibition, overcontrol, dependence, acting-out
  • Adapting the therapeutic alliance: posture, rhythm, stability

Step 2

Systemic approach and intervention environment

  • Read family, school, institutional dynamics
  • Working with invisible alliances, loyalties, role conflicts
  • Communicating with families without losing the therapeutic connection

Step 3

Genogram, sociogram and relational mapping

  • Building a child-friendly clinical genogram
  • Using the sociogram to understand alliances, exclusions, areas of tension
  • Integrate these tools into the anamnesis and construction of the EMDR treatment plan

Step 4

Adapt the
EMDR protocol for children and adolescents

  • Explaining EMDR to the child and their parents
  • Adapt bilateral stimulation according to age
  • Choose relevant targets (events, sensations, representations)
  • Integrating play, drawing, and emotional maps into EMDR phases

Practical arrangements

  • ️ Duration : 3 full days
  • Assessment methods : online multiple choice assessment and “accessible to people with disabilities”
  • Format : in person (Rhône-Alpes) and by videoconference End of training certificate included Paper or digital support provided Post-training follow-up via WhatsApp
  • Qualiopi certified training – eligible for OPCO, FIFPL

We are a certified organization

100 %

Success rate

+0

Trained people

95 %

Satisfaction rate

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EMDR PE-PS® – Children and Adolescents:

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