Child & Adolescent event
EMDR Sand Tray with 7-year-old child with PTSD and dissociative tendencies – 22.10.2026
Date and time
6:30 pm, 22 Oct 2026–22 Oct 2026
Location
Online
Aims:
1. To provide a CPD event for EMDR Therapists with at least Level 1 C&A training
2. To present a case study of EMDR sand tray with a traumatised 7-year-old with dissociative tendencies.
3. To provide an opportunity for learning and discussion about how and why sand tray EMDR was utilised to created stabilisation in Phase 2 and some reprocessing Phase 4.
Learning Outcomes and how it will develop EMDR practice with young people:
1. Attendees will gain an overview of the case conceptualisation and how the clinician engaged the family and the team around him.
2. Using the AIP model as a lens, attendees will have an opportunity to discuss the child’s presentation at the start of therapy in terms of dissociative tendencies to current presentation of an emerging self.
The event will demonstrate the development of a child’s therapy from complete shutdown to current presentation. The use of EMDR sand tray as a way for engaging the child may be of interest for those who are EMDR sand tray trained but wish to see how the treatment progressed. For therapists not trained in EMDR sand tray it is an opportunity to see this way of working.
Target Audience:
EMDR Therapists with at least Level 1 C&A Training
EMDR Therapists who are members of the EMDR UK Association
Bio
Dr Sharon Croskin is a Consultant Clinical Health Psychologist, EMDR Consultant for Adults and Children and Adolescents and an EMDR Europe Facilitator. She has 35 years of clinical experience working with a range of presentations and ages. She has worked in a unit for Dissociation and Personality Disorders, in acute in-patient units, eating disorder units, in a care home for looked after children, a brain injury unit and community-based care. Sharon now works in private practice near York with adults, children and adolescents and offers supervision and facilitates on EMDR UK events.