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You are cordially invited to submit your paper for presentation at the annual EMDR Canada conference, scheduled for March 19-22, 2025 in picturesque Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This year’s theme, “Frontiers of Healing: Spotlighting Emerging Voices,” will explore the latest innovations and perspectives in the field.

All presentations at the 2025 conference will be delivered live and recorded for future playback by members. Additionally, there’s potential for Q&A sessions following each presentation.

We’re seeking submissions that are directly relevant to the field of EMDR and represent original contributions. Our aim is to showcase a diverse array of innovative topics within EMDR therapy. EMDR Canada welcomes EMDR members across the globe.

Speaker Commitment:

Accepted presenters must attend the conference on their allocated day and time slot to deliver their presentation in concise 60-90-minute presentations, which include a Q&A immediately following the presentation. Presenters will receive full access to the 3 day conference.

The 60 or 90-minute presentations will be scheduled on one of the following days between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. PST:

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Friday, March 21, 2025

Saturday, March 22, 2025

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Keynote Speakers

Robin Shapiro

Robin Shapiro, L.I.C.S.W. is a EMDR practitioner (30 years) and approved consultant in Seattle. She has presented workshops at eight international EMDR conferences.

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She is skilled at synthesizing diverse therapy modalities and explaining them, simply, to other therapists. Robin edited EMDR Solutions: Pathways to Healing (Norton, 2005) and EMDR Solutions II: Depression, Eating Disorders, Performance and More (2009) and wrote Trauma Treatments Handbook: Protocols Across the Spectrum (2010), Easy Ego State Interventions (2016), and Doing Psychotherapy (2020). She served seven years on the board of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program. She loves doing therapy, consultation, and teaching psychotherapists.

Ana Gomez

Ana M Gómez 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.

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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 the recipient of the 2023 “Francine Shapiro Award” from EMDRIA, the 2011 “Distinguished Service Award” from the Arizona Play Therapy Association, and the 2012 Sierra Tucson “Hope Award.”

Ana M Gómez est la fondatrice et directrice de l’Institut AGATE à Phoenix, AZ. Elle est psychothérapeute, auteur et conférencière internationale sur l’utilisation de la thérapie EMDR avec les enfants et les adolescents souffrant de traumatismes complexes et développementaux, ainsi que de blessures générationnelles et de dissociation. Elle a animé des ateliers et des présentations dans le monde entier devant des milliers de cliniciens. Ana est membre de la Société internationale pour l’étude du traumatisme et de la dissociation (ISSTD).

Ana est l’auteur de EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children : Complex Trauma, Attachment and Dissociation et de plusieurs chapitres de livres et articles sur l’utilisation de la thérapie EMDR avec les enfants et les adolescents. Elle est également l’auteur de plusieurs livres pour enfants et d’outils thérapeutiques. Ana a développé de nombreux programmes et protocoles de formation intensive, dont le protocole EMDR-Sandtray et le programme systémique EMDR-attachement pour guérir les traumatismes intergénérationnels et réparer le lien d’attachement parent-enfant. Ana a reçu le “Francine Shapiro Award” de l’EMDRIA en 2023, le “Distinguished Service Award” de l’Arizona Play Therapy Association en 2011 et le “Hope Award” de la Sierra Tucson en 2012.