Imagine Recovery Counseling is an approved CEU Provider to host CEU trainings and events. This event is approved for CEUs with the Ohio CSWMFT Board.

CE Broker Tracking #: 50-58434

EMDRIA CE Provider #26034

EMDRIA CE Course ID: #26034-02

What to Expect

This event will provide 6 hours of CEU’s for the OCSWMFT Board and 6 hours of EMDRIA CE Credit (now approved!). This is HYBRID training and will not be recorded. If you are interested in a future offering that includes a recording, please provide us that feedback!

Training Description and Learning Objectives

This course was developed a passion project to both educate providers and work to debunk stigma and myths around Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders. I learned quickly as a new EMDR Therapist 10 years ago that Foundational Training, while affirming and provided helpful basic information, could not effectively and thoroughly teach me how to work with this population due the limits of time and the necessity of providing solid basic EMDR knowledge first. There is much to know about the culture of this population and I couldn’t be more thrilled to share with you what I have learned and continue to learn daily that has been effective in modifying EMDR to working with Dissociation. I work with the entire spectrum of Dissociation daily in my work and still regularly consult with experts in the field. My training will include lecture and experiential learning. I will show you how I implement Fraser’s Table and using EMDR with DID through a live demo with a trusted colleague.

My hope is that you walk away with the following:

• Having a basic understanding of the Spectrum of Dissociation to include: Depersonalization/Derealization, Dissociative Disorders: OSDD and DID, and Organized Extreme Abuse.

• Can diagnosis Dissociative Disorders, recognize subtle symptoms, provide treatment planning, and can modify interventions for Dissociative Disorders.

• Have an eclectic knowledge of various theories and modalities including: Ego State Theory, Pre-verbal Trauma, Structural Dissociation, Somatic Theories, and Integrated Family Systems. Working with Dissociation must include multiple theoretical orientations to effectively treat the entire spectrum.

• Knowing how to use Fraser’s Table and EMD with a client with DID.

• Feel like you had space to ask questions about the didactic learning and ask questions related to current cases.

• Network with those who also work with Dissociative Disorders— my hope is that with enough attendance, we can break up into small groups for experiential learning.

I hold the following values around the Plural community:

• People are the experts on their experience. My interventions and therapeutic presence are a combination what I have learned directly from Survivors and what I have learned from research and evidence based practices.

• I believe Survivors first. I view maladaptive behaviors from a Parts work perspective and as an Attachment wound to be healed.

• I provide Affirming care to the best of my ability and remain in the role of someone who is always learning and adapting.

• I do NOT promote Integration of Systems as first line care. Many of my clients do not identify Plurality as a problem to fix and I honor their autonomy and choice in how they want to identify and live.

• I do NOT lean heavily into Psychological screening tools to assess and use in treatment of Dissociative Disorders. These measures are important and can be useful, and also, can be over pathologizing and not always give an accurate view of a client’s presentation.

• I welcome those with Lived Experience of Dissociation to attend my trainings, to collaborate, and call me in if I present information that may not be accurate or based on current experiences.

Objectives: 

1. Develop Competency and Confidence using the DSM V and DES to recognize the symptoms and presentation of Dissociative Disorders with an affirming, Trauma sensitive approach

2. Develop Competency and Confidence in a working knowledge of Dissociative Personality States and learn evidenced based techniques that are affirming and Trauma sensitive

3. Learn, practice and be able to implement the Meeting Place technique (Fraser’s Table)

4. Learn, practice, and be able to implement modifications to EMDR standard protocol to work with a Dissociative System (Ego State/IFS, Fraser’s Table, EMD)

EMDRIA CE Specific Information

Disability Statement:  Our site is ADA compliant. There is handicap parking and wheel chair access.

No EMDR Training Required: These programs are open to all clinicians including those with no prior EMDR training. This is NOT an EMDR Basic Training. Attendees should be advised that if they have no prior EMDR training that it is recommended they complete the full EMDR basic training and have experience in using EMDR with this client population before using this material. Eligibility for EMDRIA Credits is restricted to those who have completed an EMDRIA-Approved Basic EMDR Training. Attendees with no prior EMDR training are not eligible to receive EMDRIA Credits.

Kristen Gidel Kelly, Approved EMDRIA CE Provider #26034, maintains responsibility for this program and its content in accordance with EMDRIA requirements. Course specific ID is: #26034-02.

This training is not being recorded. 

Click here for the definition of EMDR therapy, defined by EMDRIA: https://www.emdria.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/EMDRIADefinitionofEMDR.pdf

Group Details

Cost: $200 (early bird) — extended until July 6 for virtual options opening up!

Instructors: Kristen Gidel Kelly, LPCC-S, LICDC, CTTS, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, Facilitator, and EMDRIA CE Provider

Time: 10am-5pm (Lunch from 1pm-2pm EST on your own— several lunch options nearby or quick Door Dash from Easton)

Dates: July 15th, 2026

Location: 261 W. Johnstown Rd. Gahanna, OH 43230 (free parking— we are right off 270 and 670)

Virtual Option by popular demand! You will be provided with a link upon sign up!