Approved for 6 EMDRIA Credits

This training equips mental health therapists with a thorough understanding of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model and its integration within play therapy to support children’s emotional expression, healing, and psychological development. Participants will learn to identify core components of emotional modulation and understand how these promote emotional safety in play therapy settings. Emphasis is placed on assessing a child’s emotional modulation capacity through play therapy techniques and demonstrating practical strategies that foster emotional regulation, readiness, and engagement in trauma processing. Therapists will also be trained to evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies by systematically documenting changes in behavior, emotional responses, and a child’s readiness to reprocess trauma over time. Additionally, EMDR-trained clinicians will gain insight into how play therapy-based regulation activities correspond with Phase 2 (Preparation) of the EMDR protocol, supporting a child’s progression toward Phase 4 (Reprocessing) and enhancing integrative trauma treatment approaches.

Presenter: Christa Phipps, Ph.D.

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