EMDR With Neurodivergent Clients

Description

We have created a brand new workshop on how to adapt EMDR to work with clients who are Neurodivergent! The workshop will take place via zoom on Monday the 12th of May 2025.

The goal of this workshop is to improve all of our understanding and skills when working with people who have diagnoses of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dyspraxia Tourette Syndrome and Acquired Neurodivergence.

Both presenters of the workshop are themselves neurodivergent we hope this will add to the richness of the material and discussions on the day.

We are currently working on a paper for EMDR Quarterly on EMDR with Neurodivergence which will overlap with the workshop and include several suggested adaptations of the EMDR standard protocol with this client group.

The workshop has been granted 6 CPD credits from the EMDR UK Association!

Aims of the workshop:

1. To cover neuro-divergence, what this means and diagnoses that may underpin this label

2. To recap the EMDR Standard Protocol

3. To focus on adaptations of the standard protocol to this client group

4. Skills practice and case discussion

Learning Outcomes:

1. To improve practitioners knowledge and awareness of neurodivergence and how it may present clinically.

2. To give practitioners knowledge of adaptations to the standard protocol and how these may be used to support clients with neurodivergence.

3. To offer practical solutions to practitioners difficulties when working with neurodivergent clients. through practitioners emailing us before the workshop with difficulties and then for us to case discuss/formulate and propose solutions to.

4. To consider if an adapted protocol could be considered for this client group.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion Aims:

1. To promote inclusion to EMDR therapy by adapting to neurodivergent client needs.

2. To support neurodivergent clients through giving practitioners confidence in using EMDR with this client group to support them in managing in a neurotypical culture.

3. To consider difficulties in diagnoses for ASD and ADHD with women and within non white western culture and to consider cultural bias in diagnosis and the construct of these diagnoses.

4. To consider how it may be more likely for people from White British background to get a formal diagnosis of ASD/ADHD opposed people from a BAME and also from socially deprived communities.