Advanced Trainer
Candise Leininger, MS, LPC, has been providing EMDR Therapy for about 15 years to her clients in Wyoming and Colorado. She helped establish and volunteers to facilitate a monthly networking group (self-named PAW for Power Aspie Women) since 2018. She has volunteered as an EMDR training facilitator since 2017 for the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program. Candise is an EMDRIA approved Consultant and Trainer with EMDR Professional Training. Candise has specialized in counseling neurodiverse adults, those who have suffered narcissistic abuse, and the military connected population. Candise also dedicates time to heal the healers by providing intensive sessions to fellow EMDR therapists wanting to do some short term, time intensive reprocessing of their own maladaptive memory networks.
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The EMDR Standard Protocol often requires many adaptations when working with neurodiverse clients. These adaptations are also helpful to various “neuro-spicy” individuals. Learn how to accommodate sensory processing concerns, utilize a hyper-focus as a resource, and all the complexities of using the EMDR Sensitive Approach.
Course Abstract:
EMDR Therapy can be very successful with autistic clients and all clients included under the neurodivergent umbrella. However, you may run into barriers that will slow or undermine your client’s healing process if not prepared to evaluate the need for special considerations when providing EMDR Therapy. This advanced training is designed to broaden your EMDR skills so that you can take the Sensitive Approach with your clients. You will learn how to:
•Evaluate the need for special considerations in therapy.
•Acknowledge the under-diagnosed neurodivergent clients.
•Maximize the window of tolerance for neurodivergent clients.
•Identify the unique risk factors and common trauma targets found in this population.
The EMDR Sensitive Approach covers adaptations for all 8 phases and 3 prongs of the EMDR Standard Protocol. It will help you identify clients that would benefit from the Sensitive Approach. There will be an emphasis on working with clients who meet the level 1 Autism Spectrum Disorder criteria. We will discuss a non-pathological conceptualization of the neurodivergent client that goes beyond our current DSM criteria perspective. Current research and social trends will be explored, including moving away from the concepts and terms such as “Disorder” and towards conceptualizing Autism as a “Condition, Diversity, Difference, Sensitivity, and/or Disability” when appropriate. With disorders we look for a cure, and with differences and disabilities we look to accept and support (and even celebrate).
Most importantly, we will work to accelerate your clinical creativity and sensitivity so that you will be able to meet your clients’ individual needs. The utmost care will be taken to stay grounded in the evidence based EMDR Standard Protocol while providing extensive adaptations in EMDR Therapy to accommodate any sensitivity your clients may possess.
By completing this course, participants will be able to:
1. Describe how adaptations to the EMDR Standard Protocol are appropriate based on individual clients’ needs related to their sensitivities and neurodiversity.
2. Describe the EMDR Sensitive Approach in every phase and prong of the EMDR Protocol.
3. Identify at least one of the unique risks and traumas neurodivergent clients often face.
4. Describe a common adaptation that needs to be established early in the therapeutic relationship.
5. Identify at least three adaptations in the EMDR Sensitive Approach that can be used when stuck in reprocessing.
6. Distinguish between dissociation, abreaction, and sensory overload.
7. Recognize presenting patterns in undiagnosed clients, diagnostic overshadowing, and masking.
**Course runs in Mountain Time Zone
| Date: | Time: | Course Content: |
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| Friday, August 11, 2023 | 8:30am - 9:00am | Attendance Check in |
| 9:00 - 10:30am | Review of EMDR therapy protocols, theories, constructs, and the changing Neurodiversity Model conceptualization. |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 - 12:15pm | Assessing and diagnosing ASD and trauma. Increasing awareness of diagnostic overshadowing and other neurodiversity by acquiring a Sensory Profile. |
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| 12:15 - 1:45pm | Lunch | |
| 1:45 - 2:15pm | EMDR Sensitive Approach for assessing for unique risk factors and common Targets. |
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| 2:15 - 3:15pm | EMDR Sensitive Approach with adaptations for every Phase and Prong. |
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| 3:15 - 3:30 | Break | |
| 3:30 - 4:30 | EMDR Sensitive Approach in differentiating dissociation, abreaction, and sensory overload. |
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| 4:30 - 5:00 | Review appropriate clinician responses while utilizing the EMDR Sensitive Approach. Q and A and wrap up. |
This course is considered an advanced course for EMDR therapy clinicians. Before enrolling in this course, participants should successfully complete an EMDRIA approved EMDR Basic Training program.
If you have not yet taken EMDR Basic Training, please go to our Basic Training schedule on our EMDR Basic Training home page at EMDR Professional Training.
This course is a 6 CE course. Participants are responsible for checking with their state boards to verify CE requirements.
EMDR Professional Training is an approved EMDRIA CE Provider (#18023), and this program is approved by EMDRIA for 6 EMDRIA Credits, Approval #18023-43.
TRAINING LEVEL: Beginning level
Eligibility for EMDRIA Credits is restricted to those who have completed an EMDRIA-Approved Basic EMDR Training.
Continuing Education Credit is approved for 6 CEs through EMDR Professional Training's CE partner, CE-Classes.com. See the information below for professional approvals.
The American Psychological Association (APA). CE-Classes.com is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE-Classes.com maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Florida Certification Board
The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #852 BAP. Expires 3/31/2025.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences, BBS, recognizes relevant course work/training that has been approved by nationally recognized certifying bodies, such as APA, to satisfy renewal requirements.
California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP) Provider Number OS-12-174-0225. Expires 02-2025
The Texas Board of Social Work Examiners – CE-Classes.com meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education.
The Texas Board of Professional Counselors – CE-Classes.com meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education.
Massachusetts Authorization Number: (TBD)
Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board – Provider # RCST031201
New York Social Work Board – CE-Classes.com is recognized by the New York State EducationDepartment’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0120.
This course is NOT available for NBCC credit.
This training does not offer ASWB ACE credit to social workers.
Licensed Professionals should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval.
Certificates are awarded online after completion of the workshop. Participants print their own certificate after registering at CE-Classes.com, entering a keycode, and completing an evaluation form.
To contact CE-Classes.com, go to: CE-Classes.com
Address: 1398 SW 160th Ave, Sunrise, FL 33326, USA
Phone: 954-290-8446
Email: [email protected]
More information about obtaining your CE Certificate for this course is available at the end of the workshop.
ADA Assistance
Facilities used by EMDR Professional Training for on-location training events are ADA compliant. Please contact Michelle Gottlieb at [email protected] should you need any special accommodations (ADA) at an on-location training event.
For our cancellation policy, please go to our Terms and Conditions.
There is no known commercial support for this program.
