Healing Early Childhood Sexual Abuse with EMDR
Presented by: Robin Shapiro, LICSW
When: Saturday, June 7th, 2025 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
CE Credit Hours: 6 CEs (Approved for 6 EMDRIA credits: (EC Program Approval: #00002-35 ) | $199.00
One out of four American girls and one out of six boys experience some form of sexual abuse, that can range from a one-time fondling to years of being sexually trafficked. The more the abuse, the more likely the client will have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other forms of dissociation. This workshop explains the prevalence and effects of sexual abuse on children and the adults that they become.
Participants will be able to assess clients’ abuse histories and the effects, including dissociation, that the abuse has had. They will be able to talk effectively with different kinds of clients about their abuse histories and assess client therapy needs that are consistent with EMDR therapy and Ego State therapy.
Participants will learn strategies to help clients establish a sense of safety in present time, to find freedom from flashbacks, distressing emotions, old sensations, and outdated senses of self in order to live—fully, completely–in the present. Participants will know how to help their clients understand healthy sexuality, teach them how to talk about sex, and navigate a current, happy consensual relationship with a good partner.
Author and dynamic presenter Robin Shapiro will guide clinicians to assess and treat the impact of client sexual abuse histories including dissociation; to establish a sense of present time safety; and to free clients from flashbacks, emotions, old sensations, and outdated senses of self, so they can live in the present, with new potential for healthy sexuality.
Objectives:
- List at least 3 keys in the assessment of survivors of sex abuse
- Describe a procedure to assist clients in how to establish a sense of present safety
- Describe an example of setting an appropriate therapeutic goal and providing the means to achieve it
- List at least 3 examples of using EMDR therapy, Ego State therapy, and Somatic therapy to clear the trauma of sexual abuse.
- Describe at least 3 methods to assist clients to work through the feelings of shame, fear, and anger connected to their abuse experiences.
- Describe a method to keep dissociated clients “in the room.”
- Describe characteristics of healthy, consensual, sexual relationships.
- Describe ways to use education and future envisioning (Future Template) to achieve healthy relationships.
Key Features:
- Describing the prevalence, types, and effects of sexual abuse
- Talking to clients about abuse
- Assessment of sexual abuse
- Establishing therapy goals
- Establishing the sense of a safe present
- Choosing trauma interventions
- Starting trauma therapy with appropriate preparation
- Working through all the visual, visceral, and emotional targets
- Helping clients achieve healthy, adult, consensual sexual lives