2024 EMDR Virtual Seminar

Registration includes live access to presentations on the days selected and exclusive access to recordings from those days for at least 80 days following the conference. Conference recordings will be available within two weeks of the conclusion of the conference.

Early bird registration will run through May 31, 2024 at 5:00pm US Eastern Time.

Early Bird Pricing

Regular Pricing

Student registrations are reviewed and accepted upon approval. Student registrants must provide proof of current status in a related field and must submit verification by email or fax.

All registration fees listed are in US Dollars (USD).

All participants must have completed or be currently enrolled in an EMDRIA-approved Basic Training (or international equivalent) to participate in this seminar. All participants will be asked to provide the dates of their training, training instructor and location of training during the registration process.

Cancellation Policy
Cancellations must be received in writing via email or fax. A processing fee of $45 will be charged for cancellations received on or before Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM ET. No refunds will be issued for no-shows. Refund requests will not be accepted after June 25, 2024. Not all requests will be granted. Substitutions for attendees are accepted until June 25, 2024.

Disability Policy (ADA)
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs. Please contact ISSTD Headquarters via email at cfas@isst-d.org or via phone at 844.994.7783 for assistance.

Grievance Policy
ISSTD is fully committed to conducting all activities in strict conformation with the APA and ASWB grievance procedures.

During an event, presenters will address any concerns that arise. Every effort will be made to address the concerns during the event when possible. If the presenter(s) are unable to address the participant’s concerns, the complaints and grievances shall be presented in writing to ISSTD Headquarters at cfas@isst-d.org. These will be forwarded on for review by the ISSTD Executive Committee.

Social Workers: Should social workers have a specific grievance, these grievances will be addressed by D. Michael Coy, LICSW. In situations where the social worker would have a conflict of interest, then, Christine Forner, MSW will review the grievance.

ISSTD strives to resolve grievances in a manner that is in the best interest of the participant. All complaints and grievances are reviewed within five working days. Formal grievances are required to be written and emailed as directed above and will be responded to within 15 business days.

Registration Contact Information
Email: cfas@isst-d.org
Phone: 844.994.7783
Fax: 888.966.0310

Registration Categories

Student
Student registration is open to those enrolled in a program of study leading to a degree or certification in the mental health field and who have an interest in trauma and dissociation. Student registration is also open to trainees and interns in the mental health professions who are practicing under supervision. Proof of student status such as a transcript, copy of course registration, or letter from a supervisor for trainees/interns is required.

Emerging Professional
Emerging Professional registration is open to mental health professionals who have completed an advanced degree and are in the first three years of their career. The three year timeframe is based on date licensed for clinicians or the date of graduation for researchers.

Professional
Professional registration is open to professionals primarily involved in the provision of services, research, education, scholarship, writing or public policy in an area related to trauma and dissociation. Members who are mental health or health care providers must be either licensed professionals or qualified within the accepted legal or cultural standards for conducting clinical practice in his or her locale.

Discounts

ESTD and SPA Member Discounts
If you are a member of ESTD or SPA but not an ISSTD member, you are eligible for a $50 discount on your registration. Please select this option in the Career Stage and Affiliations question on the registration.

Group Discounts
Discounts are available to groups of five or more individuals from the same facility, school, or organization.

• Groups of 5+: 10% discount
• Groups of 10+: 15% discount

World Bank Lower Income Country Discounts
We now offer discounts for attendees coming from World Bank categorized lower income countries. To check whether your country is in one of these tiers, click here.

• Tier VI Countries: 75% discount
• Tier IV & V Countries: 50% discount
• Tier II & III Countries: 25% discount

Please contact the ISSTD Registration Department at cfas@isst-d.org for additional information on all discounts and to receive the appropriate discount code.

Preliminary Conference Speakers

D. Michael Coy, MA, LICSW, EMDRIA-Approved Consultant & Trainer 

D. Michael Coy, MA, LICSW, (he/they) is a 2006 graduate of The Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago and currently maintains a private practice in Bremerton, Washington, USA.

Michael is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and has served EMDRIA in a number of different volunteer capacities over the years. He has presented on EMDR therapy and dissociation for EMDRIA, ISSTD, and independently, and serves as lead trainer for ISSTD’s EMDR therapy basic training, which he helped develop. He co-authored the MID Interpretive Manual, 2nd through 4th Editions, and has updated and managed both the MID Analysis and MID website since 2016. Michael has taught and consulted for hundreds of clinicians, both in the US and internationally, on using the MID for diagnosis, case conceptualization, and treatment.

Michael was co-author of both an article on screening for dissociation in EMDR therapy that appeared in the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research in 2022 and a book chapter on diagnostic instruments for dissociation published in Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders: Past, Present, Future (2nd Edition) in 2022. He is sole author of a chapter on the Autohypnotic Model of Dissociation, which will be part of a forthcoming book on childhood dissociation Michael is currently co-authoring a book on EMDR and dissociation with his frequent collaborator Jennifer Madere. Michael also developed the Introject Decathexis (Id) Protocol, a powerful integrative approach to help unbind perpetrator-identifying states.

Michael was elected to ISSTD’s Board of Directors in 2017, served as Treasurer from 2018 to 2023, and was elected President-elect for 2024. He was named a Fellow of ISSTD in 2019 and has been honored with a number of awards from the Society, including the Cornelia B. Wilbur Award for Outstanding Clinical Contributions to the Treatment of Dissociative Disorders in 2022.

Jennifer Madere, LPC-S, EMDRIA-Approved Consultant & Trainer

Jennifer Madere is a LPC-Supervisor, EMDRIA Approved Consultant/Approved Trainer in private practice. She is a founding partner of Intuitus Group in Cedar Park, Texas. She has accompanied child and adult survivors of trauma on their journey of healing and recovery in psychotherapy since 2003.

Jennifer has a passion for supervising graduate and post-graduate clinicians and consults and offers training and consultation related to treatment of complex trauma, pathological dissociation, and EMDR therapy. Jennifer is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), co-chair of the ISSTD EMDR Therapy Training Committee, and co-teaches the EMDR therapy training offered by ISSTD. Jennifer also trains fellow clinicians in the ethical integration of faith and spirituality in clinical practice.

In addition to numerous professional presentations in local, national, and international conferences, Jennifer is the published author of several scholarly works on the topics of consultation and screening, assessment, and differential diagnosis for dissociative disorders. She is the primary author for an article focused on best practices in consultation for EMDR advanced designation published in the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research in 2020 and served on a working committee within the EMDR Council of Scholars focused on assessing the teaching and learning of EMDR therapy worldwide from 2021-2023.

Since 2015, Jennifer has collaborated with D. Michael Coy, LICSW, and Paul Dell, PhD to update the interpretive manual and associated documents for the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID) and make the MID documents and training accessible to clinicians and researchers world-wide. Michael and Jennifer regularly offer training and consultation to support practitioners in learning to interpret and apply the MID in clinical practice.

Marilyn Korzekwa, MD, FRCPC
Marilyn Korzekwa, MD, FRCPC, completed medicine at the University of Toronto in 1982 and psychiatry at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1986, where she is an adjunct professor (part-time). She worked in general hospital outpatient psychiatry for 28 years, which
included founding and running a Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program and Day Hospital. She
opened her private practice in 2014, specializing in trauma and dissociative disorders. Her 18 publications include 10 papers about Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), including 5 papers about dissociation in BPD with Paul Dell.

She has completed both levels of training in DBT, EMDR, Lifespan Integration, Deep Brain Reorienting, Ego State Therapy and Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy and Level 1 in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

She has been a member of EMDRIA since 1995 and became a certified consultant in 2022. She is a fellow of the ISSTD, a recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award, the President’s Award of Distinction, and has been a member since 1992. She has chaired a Dissociative Disorders Study group in Hamilton, Ontario since 1993. She was chairperson of the Webinar committee from 2015 to 2021, helping to turn it into the successful program that it is today. Currently she is devoting her time ISSTD’s EMDR course.

Preliminary Conference Schedule

Friday, July 12
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM US ET: Standards of Care and Ethical Challenges for Using EMDR Therapy in the Treatment of Complex Trauma and Dissociation
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM US ET: Break
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM US ET: Standards of Care and Ethical Challenges for Using EMDR Therapy in the Treatment of Complex Trauma and Dissociation (continued)
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM US ET: Meal Break
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM US ET: Standards of Care and Ethical Challenges for Using EMDR Therapy in the Treatment of Complex Trauma and Dissociation (continued)
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM US ET: Break
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM US ET: Standards of Care and Ethical Challenges for Using EMDR Therapy in the Treatment of Complex Trauma and Dissociation (continued)

Saturday, July 13
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM US ET: Strategic Developmental Model for EMDR
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM US ET: Break
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM US ET: Strategic Developmental Model for EMDR (continued)
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM US ET: Meal Break
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM US ET: Filling the Gaps: What Got Missed in EMDR Basic Training
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM US ET: Break
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM US ET: Ask the Experts

Continuing Education Information
Participants attending the full conference will receive 10.5 APA and ASWB continuing education credits and 12 ISSTD Certificate Program credits. Information about credits for each session are included in the information for each session. Participants will receive individual certificates for each session attended for the sessions which they meet the requirements for. To earn credits, participants must attend the full session and complete a session evaluation for each session.

This seminar is pending for EMDRIA credits and these credits will be added to each session when approval is received. We anticipate this seminar being available for 10.5 EMDRIA credits.

CE credits are available for purchase for an additional fee at the time of registration.

American Psychological Association (APA)

The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)

The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers.  State and provincial regulatory boards the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ISSTD maintains responsibility for this course.  ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2021 – 08/20/2024.

ISSTD Certificate Program
This course has been approved for up to 12 credits towards the ISSTD Certificate of Advanced Studies in Trauma & Dissociation. No certificate is awarded for this credit type.

Awarding of Certificate of Credit
Continuing education credits are available for an additional fee for this event. To obtain continuing education credits, participants who have purchased credits must be in attendance for each session in full and complete a session evaluation for each session attended and complete an overall evaluation. Participant attendance will be marked within two weeks of completion of the conference and participants will have until August 31, 2024 to claim their CE credits. Certificates of Credit are awarded immediately upon completion of the all requirements. An individual certificate will be generated for each individual session attended.

All participants must have completed or be currently enrolled in an EMDRIA-approved Basic Training (or international equivalent) to participate in this seminar. All participants will be asked to provide the dates of their training, training instructor and location of training during the registration process.

Financial Disclosures
All presenters, planners, editors, or staff report no relevant relationships to disclose: “I do not have at present, or within the last 12 months, nor anticipate having financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict