Masterclasses & Workshops

Susan Darker-Smith

EMDR with Children & Adolescents

IN-PERSON, Live & ONLINE!

Friday 7th & Saturday 8th November 2025

2.30 pm – 9.30 pm UK / 9.30 am – 4.30 EST (USA)

14 CE’s have been approved (EMDRIA) for those joining from the USA, Canada or other countries where their national association is EMDRIA.

(please note : to be eligible for this training, you MUST have been trained to at least part 1 / level 1 of an EMDR Accredited / Certified program recognised by the country you practise therapy in).

This is a 14 hour training, delivered over 2 days online, with timings designed to make this training accessible to our USA and Canadian colleagues.

This live webinar (November 7-8, 2025) online (set to convenient times for attendees in the USA: 9.30 – 4.30 EST) provides training in all aspects of delivering EMDR to clinicians wanting to modify the standard EMDR protocol to work with children from age 2 upwards, covering the EMDR Europe Child Syllabus: neurobiology – understanding the impact of trauma on the child’s developing brain; the four main age divisions of EMDR modifications (with video examples of delivering each modification); the narrative (story-telling) approach to delivering EMDR (with a practicum); using CIPOS (Jim Knipe) – modified by Dagmar Eckers for children (with a practicum) and; an introduction to IGTP (Ignacio Jarero). This webinar follows the curriculum taught throughout Europe for EMDR Accredited Child & Adolescent Trainings.

This is a hands-on, practical training which infuses playfulness, creativity and practical applications of using EMDR with children, adolescents and adults with child-parts.

Susan Darker-Smith is a UK accredited EMDR Europe Child & Adolescent Trainer who teaches throughout the world on how to use EMDR flexibly and creatively with clients aged from 0 – 100. She is a founding member of the Global Child-EMDR Alliance (with Ana Gomez) and a founding Trustee of the Trauma Response Network UK (which provides free EMDR to anyone impacted by mass trauma).

Learning Objectives:

1. The neurobiology of trauma on Children and Adolescents

Understand the impact of trauma on the developing brain

2. Learn how to modify the 8-phase EMDR protocol for Children & Adolescents

Learn the 4 ages and stages in which there are differences in the delivery of EMDR, based on emotional stage of the client
Watch videos of actual child clients, bringing the application of these modifications to life

3. Learn how to deliver an EMDR Narrative to a Child or Adolescent (or Adult with child-parts)

Understand the mechanics of how to deliver a trauma narrative in EMDR
Practise in small groups, using your own clients as an opportunity to write a trauma narrative or story that can be delivered after the training to your own client

4. Understand how to stretch the window of tolerance and how to resource with children

Learn CIPOS to help stretch the window of tolerance
Appreciate the domain of the resource / safe place
Understand that safety may need to be a different resource for children who have never felt safe

5. Appreciate the role of FUTURE protocols IGTP (on an individual basis or in groups)

Learn the difference between processing and resourcing in the future

6. Appreciate how the IGTP (Jarrero) can be used on an individual basis or in group

Experience an introduction to the IGTP protocol which has been evidenced down to age 4 with children.