Plagued with trauma, low self-esteem, relationship problems, and difficulty regulating their emotions, adult clients who’ve experienced childhood emotional abuse and neglect can be some of your toughest cases.
Not only are you facing therapeutic challenges like fragmented self-identity, dissociation and difficulty forming healthy attachments – you’re often left trying to identify and reprocess what may be unrealised, absent, or lacking…
…all while trying to attune to experiences for which the client struggles to have words.
Fortunately EMDR is up to the challenge, giving you the tools you need to successfully treat these clients so they can move past their traumatic childhoods to achieve lasting healing.
Now in this advanced training, you’ll join Sarah Freeze, LCSW, a certified EMDR therapist and consultant who has been working with clients who have experienced childhood emotional abuse and neglect for over a decade.
Through a combination of lecture, discussion, and insight building case studies, Sarah will teach you how to build your clinical expertise with EMDR so you can:
With ample opportunity for questions and discussion, you’ll leave this training with the tools you need to identify targets specific to complex childhood experiences and guide clients toward the trauma resolution and relief they need.
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This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.
Sarah Freeze, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and recognized specialist in the treatment of complex trauma, attachment wounds, and the psychological impact of childhood abuse and neglect in adulthood. She holds a Master of Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, where she completed the National Child Trauma Workforce Institute’s child trauma specialization. Sarah currently maintains a private practice in Denver, Colorado, providing individual and group psychotherapy, EMDR intensives, and consultation for psychotherapists. Her integrative approach draws from EMDR, psychodynamic and relational psychotherapy, ego state theory, sand tray therapy, and self-compassion frameworks – modalities uniquely suited to the layered, identity-level wounds that childhood trauma produces. An Evergreen Certified EMDR Clinician and an Evergreen-status EMDR Consultant, Sarah provides both individual and group consultation to therapists with a specialized focus on attachment, dissociation, ego states, and complex trauma.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sarah Freeze maintains a private practice. She is a consultant with Evergreen. Sarah Freeze receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sarah Freeze American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and EMDR International Association.
Access never expires for this product.
For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.
Childhood Abuse and Neglect Experiences: The Latest Research and Relationship with Complex Trauma
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Case Conceptualisation: How Clients Adaptations to Dysfunctional Caregivers Informs Treatment
Preparation and Assessment: Relational Resourcing to Strengthen Adult Self
Advanced Applications for Verbal and Non-Verbal Trauma Reprocessing
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