KSAPT 2023 Conference with Ana M Gómez, MC, LPC

13720 Roe Avenue,Leawood KS 66224

20 April, 2023

Description

Presenter: Ana Gomez, MC, LPCDay 1:Working with Parents that Hold Generational Wounds: EMDR Therapy, Parts Work & Sandtray Interventions with CaregiversChildren and caregivers with generational and attachment wounds present with layers of trauma, adversity, attachment injuries and unmet needs. They are mixed and combined with entrenched defenses that emerged from their need to elicit care from an unavailable or disorganizing caregiving system. These children and their parents are self-organized internally to meet the demands of traumatizing and relationally impoverished environments. The unresolved and unhealed traumatogenic experiences mediate and deeply influence parent-child relational patterns that perseverate the transmission of generational trauma. This presentation will provide a theoretical framework to understand and work with the intergenerational transmission of trauma. An overview of interventions for parents to work on increasing co-regulatory and relational capacities such as the “Parenting Wheel” and video microanalysis protocols to increase mentalization will be provided. Clinicians will learn how to utilize parts work and ego state strategies with parents that move them out of mobilization or collapse, into social engagement and connection. *No formal EMDR training is necessary to attend.*Objectives:Clinicians will be able to:1)Cite theories that play therapists can consider to understand how unresolved parental traumas influence perceptions of self and their children. 2) Identify and apply practical and creative strategies for working with parents utilizing the “Parenting Wheel” and video microanalysis.3) Identify and apply play therapy and other strategies to explore the caregiver’s internal representations that impact their capacity to connect and be the external regulator of the child’s system. 4) Cite case conceptualization and intentional moment-to moment decision making markers when working with caregivers.Day 2:A Multimodal-Phase Based Sandtray Therapy with Children Affected by Complex Trauma and DissociationThis presentation will address a new approach to the work in the sand tray: A Multimodal-Phase based Sandtray therapy. This approach masterfully brings information processing models, attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, Affective neuroscience, the polyvagal theory, regulation theory, the structural dissociation and mentalization theory as well as approaches such as EMDR therapy, Play therapy, parts work, ego states therapies and Somatic therapies. Multimodal Sandtray therapy uses a phase-oriented approach to work with trauma, which today is considered as one of the best treatment models that began with Pierre Janet in the 1880s.Clinicians attending this workshop will learn the specifics of working in the tray with children affected by complex trauma and dissociation which includes two access routes and portals into the child’s mind to initially stabilize the system and later on process trauma, inner conflicts and polarizations left by chronic activation of the fear system. Considering that the clinician is the companion of the child’s mind as it embarks on a journey into itself, we must have a space within us for these travels and voyages. Presence, synchronicity, coherence, mentalization and resonance as well as contingency are only some of the capacities that clinicians need to embody as they work in the sand with children. Case conceptualization and intentional moment-to moment decision making markers will be addressed throughout the training.Objectives:Clinicians will be able to:1. Cite the theories that help us understand complex trauma and dissociation as well as defenses and phobia formation in children.2.. Utilize practical and creative tools and strategies to explore, unblend and work with defensive and wounded self-states using parts work within a multimodal-phase-based Sandtray approach.3. Utilize stabilization strategies and protocols in the tray.4. Cite and utilize domains of exploration in the sand tray.5. Cite two portals into the mind of the child affected by complex trauma in Sandtray therapy: Implicit and explicit.6. Cite case conceptualization and intentional moment-to moment decision making markers when working with children affected by complex and chronic traumatization.7:30-8A Check in & Light Refreshments8-9:30A Housekeeping and Training9:30-9:45A Break9:45A-11:15A - Training continues11:15A-12:45P Lunch12:45-2:15P Training continues2:15-2:30 PM Break2:30-4P Training ContinuesAna M Gómez, MC, LPC is the founder and director of the AGATE Institute in Phoenix, AZ. She is a psychotherapist, author, and an international speaker on the use of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents with complex and developmental trauma as well as generational wounds and dissociation. She has led workshops and keynote presentations around the world to thousands of clinicians. Ana is a fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). Ana is the author of EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment and Dissociation and several book chapters and articles on the use of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents. In addition, she is the author of multiple children’s books and therapeutic tools. Ana has developed numerous intensive training programs and protocols that include the EMDR-Sandtray Protocol and The Systemic, EMDR- Attachment Informed Program to Heal Intergenerational Trauma & Repair the Parent-Child Attachment Bond. Ana was trained by Dr. Francine Shapiro as a trainer in EMDR therapy, they together co-authored an article on the use of EMDR therapy with children. In addition, Ana made substantial contributions to Shapiro’s 2018 book, children’s section. Ana was the recipient of the 2011 “Distinguished Service Award” from the Arizona Play Therapy Association and the 2012 Sierra Tucson “Hope Award." Vendors and DisplaysKSAPT will welcome most vendors and display setups from recognized affiliates. We encourage those interested to reach out to our Membership chair ([email protected]) to discuss the details. If you have any other inquiries, please email [email protected]. Cancellation/Refund Policy1. If a participant withdraws from the conference 30 Calendar days or more before the 1st Day of the event, the participant will receive a full refund, minus a $20 processing fee. You can request a refund by reaching out to the Conference Chair ([email protected]). 2. If a participant withdraws from the Conference Event inside a 30 day window of the 1st Day of the Conference Event, the registrant will receive a partial refund (half of the original fee paid), minus a $20 processing fee. 3. Unless otherwise stated, no other refunds or reimbursements are allowed. No exceptions granted. Once the Annual Conference Event begins, no other reimbursements or refunds will be warranted. ** If a paid participant needs to withdraw from the Annual Conference or speaker series; they can elect to "donate" their paid registration to students on the KSA4PT scholarship list or another professional individual. CEs:This training in in-person only. No recording will be available. This training is for 6 contact hours from APT each day (opportunity to earn 12 total). Approved Provider 02-188. Partial credit will not be rewarded and will not be rewarded for non-mental health professionals. Participants must be in attendance the entire presentation to receive credit. Disability or Nursing Mom Accommodations: KS APT will make every effort to make accommodations for those with disabilities and nursing mothers. Please email us at least 4 weeks in advance so we can work with you on any needs you may have.