About This Course

It can be challenging to work with parents of traumatized children, particularly when those parents might be at fault for inflicting the trauma/abuse, or devastated by their child’s disclosure of trauma/abuse. Very often, these parents hold their own unprocessed trauma that interferes with healthy caregiving and can limit their children’s ability to heal.

With more than a decade of experience working with highly traumatized families within a Child Advocacy Center, EMDR Consultant and Training Facilitator Cherilyn Rowland Petrie has learned how to apply the AIP model within family systems to promote long-term healing and break harmful intergenerational cycles. In this workshop, Cherilyn shares her approach for using AIP-informed case conceptualization and selective reprocessing to unlock parental empathy and facilitate positive attachment and bonding.

This workshop will guide clinicians to apply their EMDR skills fully – improving clients’ parenting skills and reducing barriers to safe and effective parenting.

Clinicians will learn to hone their case conceptualization skills, develop creative resources to strengthen parenting skills, and identify targets to reduce past traumatic experiences that presently impact parenting and attachment.

Clinicians will also learn how to apply Early EMDR Interventions (EEI) to parents when they are traumatized by learning of their child’s disclosure. Facilitating appropriate healing in the parent can create the environment the child needs to heal and thrive.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify 5 client/situational qualities for successful application of EEI
• Identify 3 skills for creative resourcing with parents
• Identify how to create an EMDR Treatment Plan that is focused on reducing barriers to parenting
• Identify 3 skills for enhancing Future Template work with parents

Fees

$190

$10 - 6 Optional CEs

6 CEs Approved by Commonwealth Educational Seminars (please see full CE Information Below)
6 EMDRIA Credits Approve: Program #17019-34

Cancellation policy: full fee minus $15 before 5/1/21 (two weeks prior to training).
No refund after 5/1/21.

About The Presenter

Cherilyn Rowland-Petrie became a Florida Qualified Supervisor in 2006 and was credentialed as an Approved Consultant in EMDR Therapy in 2013 through the EMDR International Association. She is a Training Facilitator for both Trauma Recovery/HAP and the EMDR Institute. Currently, Cherilyn is the Clinical Supervisor for the Mental Health Team at Kids House, a Children’s Advocacy Center in Seminole County, Florida. There, she specializes in using EMDR Therapy to treat children and adolescents who have experienced early trauma, attachment injury, and neglect, and who have complex clinical presentations. Cherilyn is committed to training others to meet the needs of these traumatized children. She believes in supporting other professionals as they navigate the learning curve of EMDR Therapy and is excited about helping them find creative and effective ways to intervene in the lives of children. Cherilyn is a gifted teacher and frequent presenter at both state and national conferences.

Schedule – Eastern Time Zone

10 am - 10:30 am Registration, coffee and housekeeping

10:30 am - 1 pm Lecture & Videos with 15 minute break

1 pm - 2 pm Lunch

2 pm – 6 pm – Lecture, Practice, & Videos with 15 minute break

CEs
Continuing Education credit for this program is approved by Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) for the following professions:

Psychologists:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Commonwealth Educational Seminars maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists completing this program may receive 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.

Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for LPCs/LMHCs. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content. LPCs/LMHCs completing this program may receive 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.

Social Workers:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Social Workers. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for Social Workers. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Social Workers completing this program may receive 6.0 clinical hours of clinical continuing education credit.

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists:
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for LMFTs. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content. LMFTs completing this program may receive 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.

Grievances:
Connect CE/U provider Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) seeks to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please submit a written grievance to CES, 1020 Osterville West Barnstable Rd, Marstons Mills, MA 02648. Grievances will initially be directed to the training instructor. Grievances would receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems. If you have questions or concerns, contact Commonwealth Educational Seminars at (800) 376-3345 or CommonwealthSeminars@gmail.com .

Statement of Proactive Commitment to Inclusion & Diversity
Connect welcomes trainees and consultees from all cultural, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual and gender orientations. We are committed to providing a safe and inclusive learning environment for all trainees and consultees, including Black People, People of Color, Indigenous People, and LGBTQ People. We pledge to proactively address issues of cultural competence and culturally-based trauma during every phase of professional development.

There is no known conflict of interest nor commercial support for this program.

Accessibility:
Individuals needing special accommodations, please contact: Claire Mauer (407) 970-7915

Transforming Intergenerational Trauma: Helping Traumatized Parents Parent Traumatized Kids