Children affected by chronic trauma present with pervasive challenges in affect regulation, interoception and exteroception awareness.
And without adequate experiences of co-regulation, children with complex trauma become phobic of their own emotions perceiving them as dangerous leading to adaptations of trauma related phobias and rigid forms of self-protection—avoidance, control, pleasing, idealization and more – that block the healing of the very wounds they’re trying to protect.
Join Ana Gomez, world-renowned expert on the treatment of complex trauma as she shows you how to remove barriers to treatment by incorporating EMDR therapy, play therapy, parts work, and Sandtray therapy. You’ll discover the multiple pathways in which defenses are formed and the therapeutic portals into the protective system so the child can access their inner world and experiences to begin the healing.
If this system is not embraced, if defenses are not embraced and addressed, you risk the potential for therapy to become stagnant and impact the child’s therapeutic outcomes.
Don’t miss this opportunity to get the strategies you need to work around the entrenched forms of self-protection and move treatment forward!
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| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
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| Manual - Self-Protective System of Children (9.9 MB) | 37 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - The Self-Protective System of Children (96.3 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Illinois Educators Self-Study Instructions (15.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Illinois Educators Evaluation Form (1.2 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Instructions for ASHA credit - Self-Study Only (64.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Manual - Self-Protective System of Children - French (9.9 MB) | 37 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - The Self-Protective System of Children - French (96.3 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Self-Protective System of Children - Italian (9.9 MB) | 37 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - The Self-Protective System of Children - Italian (96.3 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Ana M. Gómez, MC, LPC, is the founder and director of the AGATE Institute in Phoenix, AZ. She is a world-renowned expert on the treatment of complex trauma, intergenerational trauma and dissociation and the use of EMDR therapy and adjunct approaches with children and adolescents. She is a psychotherapist with over 25 years of clinical experience and an EMDR Trainer of Trainers. Ana has led workshops and keynote presentations in five continents and over 20 countries and is the author of EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment and Dissociation and several children's books, book chapters and articles on the use of EMDR therapy, dissociation, emotional awareness and literacy.
Ana has developed numerous training programs and protocols that include the EMDR-Sandtray Protocol and The Systemic, EMDR-Attachment Informed Program to Heal Intergenerational Trauma & Repair the Parent-Child Attachment Bond.
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