A Complete Child Approach to EMDR Coaching Practitioner

eMDR for children offers a non-invasive coaching and therapy modality that helps kids process trauma in a safe space, build resilience and inner child healing through playful techniques.

Explore the AIP system from a child-focused emdr perspective, using bilateral stimulation to transform schemas and negative cognitions, resolve maladaptive memories, and build resilience through emotional processing.

Define big t and little t traumas in children, explain how they shape beliefs and memories, and show how eMDR reprocesses them to foster resilience.

Identify how negative cognitions form from moments of feeling unsafe or vulnerable, shaping a client’s self-identity. Uncover core beliefs, reframe meanings, and reprocess memories to empower clients toward healthier decisions.

Recap EMDR for kids, including its history and Francine Shapiro's discovery, and preview upcoming bilateral stimulation techniques to help children process memories.

Adapt the eight-step EMDR process for children using visualization, disassociation, and alter-ego stories to process memories, explain bilateral stimulation, and build resilience.

Learn to build rapid rapport with children for EMDR coaching by speaking at their level with congruent, child-friendly language, and using storytelling, play, and art to guide preparation and assessment.

Explore how art therapy enhances EMDR with children across all eight steps, using drawings to establish safety, externalize trauma, desensitize, reprocess, install positive beliefs, and assess progress.

Describe desensitization and installation of a positive cognition in children using EMDR, with bilateral stimulation (butterfly hug, lights, sounds, pen), somatic check-ins, and a story-based, resilience-building process.

Explore how the emotional wheel expands from primary to tertiary emotions, increasing emotional vocabulary and uncovering beliefs in kids and adults, using eMDR and journaling for better emotion regulation.

Integrate art therapy with EMDR to help children safely process memories through drawing, safe spaces, and bilateral stimulation across all eight steps.

Explore how bilateral stimulation in eMDR reprocesses painful memories by shifting from negative to positive cognitions through visualization, safe space, and left-right brain activation.

The butterfly hug uses bilateral stimulation to help children feel calm and safe. Originated by a Mexican teacher after an earthquake, it involves wrapping the arms and tapping the collarbones.

Explore dual attention and the pendulum method in eMDR, creating a safe space that anchors a positive memory while desensitizing bad memories with bilateral stimulation.

Validate a child’s new cognition in EMDR using body scans, safe space reprocessing, and bilateral stimulation, and assess shifts in the nervous system and how they approach the future.

Master forward planning in EMDR coaching for children by building rapport, assessing memories, explaining the process, and reinforcing a new positive cognition and identity for ongoing resilient outcomes.

In EMDR coaching for children, determine which memory causes the most discomfort during assessment, reprocess that memory, and then address additional memories as the client requests.

Learn the child-centered eMDR approach, using bilateral stimulation—sound, tapping, or butterfly hug—to desensitize memories, while creating safe spaces, applying dual attention, and planning for new cognition.

EMDR helps children process fears, nightmares, anxiety, grief, and traumatic memories by reprocessing experiences and shifting negative cognitions toward safety.