Training
EMDR Level Two: Children and Adolescents
Presented by Sarah Schubert.
Overview:
This advanced 3-day training gives you knowledge, competence, and confidence to adapt EMDR therapy, as an evidence-based trauma treatment (WHO, 2013; ISTSS, 2020; Phoenix, 2020) into your clinical work with children and adolescents. This Level 2 EMDR training introduces how to creatively adapt each phase of EMDR therapy, the language and techniques, to the child’s developmental age (0-4, 5-12, 13-18 years) and needs.
The training teaches specific skills and techniques for how to prepare younger clients for trauma-focused work, how to compassionately understand blocks, fears, and resistance to memory reprocessing, and incorporates consideration for working with families, and processing of preverbal trauma. This training includes advanced AIP case conceptualisation for complex PTSD and comorbid presentations across the life span, fidelity drift, and advanced EMDR skills, such as interweaves, resourcing, and techniques for dissociation. Various preparation and memory reprocessing protocols are taught in a way that allows creative, flexible, and effective use with clients across the life span.
All Sarah Schubert Psychology workshops and consultation groups are conducted in accord with our Terms and Conditions of Service.
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Trainees will be able to:
Discuss theory underlying EMDR and evidence for its use with children.
Provide children, adolescents, and parents a rationale for trauma-focused work and describe memory and the procedures involved in EMDR therapy.
Adjust each phase of EMDR to the developmental age and needs of the child.
Conceptualise simple and more complex case presentations within an EMDR AIP framework.
Consciously conceptualise the preparation phase with clients across the life span.
Develop a treatment plan and integrate EMDR into a comprehensive child treatment approach.
Understand the role of parents in EMDR therapy.
Effectively use a Resource Development protocol and Cognitive Interweaves.
Work with and treat preverbal trauma using an EMDR storytelling method.
Competence in the use of restricted and contained memory reprocessing protocols.
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This training is accredited by the EMDR Association of Australia as a level 2 training that may form part of basic EMDR trainings. EMDR training as accredited by EMDRAA consits of completion of an accredited Level 1 and Level 2 EMDR training, and 10 hours of EMDR consultation. Refer to EMDRAA for details of EMDR training requirements.
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EMDR-consultation is not part of the training. However, EMDR-consultation by an EMDR Child Consultant is strongly recommended to build on skills, build confidence, integrate knowledge, and ensure safe and effective therapeutic work with complex client presentations.
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The cost of the training is $1,000 + GST per person. This includes all course materials and meals.
All Sarah Schubert Psychology workshops and consultation groups are conducted in accord with our Terms and Conditions of Service.
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EMDR Level Two: Children and Adolescents
Melbourne
Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2024
Prerequisite: EMDR Level 1 (introductory) training, with some experience (at least 4 clients) using EMDR memory reprocessing with clients.
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EMDR Level 2 Child Trainings 2025
See the EMDR 2025 Training Tab for all upcoming 2025 training dates for all levels of EMDR training across the life span being delivered in 2025.
Befriending Parts of Me 2025:
Preparation Technique for
Complex Trauma and Dissociation
This introductory training to the technique is delivered by Dr Sarah Schubert
May 22nd 2025 at 9am Australian EST. Online Webinar.
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Befriending Parts of Me
Drop In Sessions
For all those who attended the Befriending Parts of Me webinar in 2024, here is your opportunity to ask questions, seek clarification, share successes and challenges with the technique - a space just to discuss all things Befriending Parts! Sarah will lead the discussion in a way that she hopes will increase clarification, and your skill and confidence to integrate the technique with your clients across the age span.
Date: Wednesday 22nd Jan 2025
Time: 9 - 10am Perth time, being 12:00noon Melbourne time.
Cost: $40 + GST
Date: Thursday 13th Feb 2024
Time: 9:30 - 10:30am Perth time, being 12:30pm Melbourne time.
Cost: $40 + GST
Playful EMDR: Parents and Caregivers
as Co-Therapists
This is presented in partnership by Dr Sarah Schubert & Dr Jenny Dywer.
This training is delivered by Annie Monaco and Ann Beckley-Forest
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EMDR Therapy When Working With Family & Domestic Violence
Dolore's Mosquera, for the first time in Australia, will present on the topic of using EMDR therapy when working with the complexity experienced by victims of family & domestic violence.
Melbourne - February 2025
Compassion-Focussed EMDR Therapy:
Treatment of Moral Injury & Shame-Based Trauma
Compassion-focused EMDR is an emerging wholistic treatment approach for individuals experiencing moral injury.
Join Derek Farrell in exploring the theory of shame-based trauma and skills to conceptualise and treat trauma resulting from events that transgress an individual's moral or ethical beliefs.
Perth, 8th - 9th May 2025
Learning and development at your fingertips!
Past Training Events
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The Innate Healing wisdom of the body in EMDR Therapy
In this episode Sarah shares her wisdom with us about EMDR as an integrative transdiagnostic therapy.
We talk about the AIP model being a body based model, Symptoms as a reflection of memory being triggered and once adaptive and much more.
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Safe and Sound Protocol Podcast- A Polyvagal Theory Informed Therapy
Episode 14: EMDR and the Safe and Sound Protocol....... a perfect combination. Dr Sarah Schubert, Psychologist and EMDR instructor talks about blending Polyvagal Theory and the Safe and Sound Protocol within the EMDR framework.
December 12, 2020 presenter: Joanne Mcintyre
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Adherence to best practice EMDR: Fidelity in the real world
Presented by Dr. Sarah Schubert and A/P Chris Lee.
This webinar focus’ on developing understanding of the EMDR Fidelity Scale (Cooper et al., 2019) to enhance best practice in your clinical setting. Chris Lee will speak to the history, development, and validity of the EMDR Fidelity Scale. Sarah Schubert will discuss the practical application, scoring, and speak to how the scale can be utilised in a flexible way as an EMDR Therapist and consultant.
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EMDR Association of Australia Webinar
Considering the science and conscious conceptualisation for effective EMDR preparation
Dr Sarah Schubert explored the theory of preparation below AIP theory, from the perspective of polyvagal, attachment, and interpersonal neurobiology. From theory, Sarah brought the language and clinical decision making in the preparation phases of EMDR therapy to a conscious level to increase efficiency in creating integrative capacity for memory processing.
