Ideas just one
click away.

The final seminar of the EMDR Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (EMDR KJ) supervisor training curriculum, based on EMDR Europe, took place in October 2024. It was a wonderful time together, filled with impressive expertise, a joy of learning, respectful interaction, plenty of practice, and even more fun. The next course starts in 2025.

You can now book individual EMDR child and adolescent supervision sessions with me online. Group sessions will be announced via the newsletter. The calendar is continuously updated.

Last week I was in Brussels with my national and international colleagues, and we presented the results of our EU research project on the care of children and young people affected by online sexual violence/exploitation (OCSA) in multidisciplinary teams, using Barnahus/Childhood House as a case study. It was a demanding but very enriching few days. We accomplished a great deal. As soon as the protocols developed by my research group at Charité regarding OCSA and psychosocial

With the follow-up report of 09.03.2026, EMDR KJ was recognized as a scientific method in relation to PTSD by the Scientific Advisory Board for Psychotherapy (WBP). This is great news and my thanks go to the EMDR Association ( EMDRIA.de ) without whom an application would not have been possible. Here is the link to the report .

This year, the EMDR Europe annual conference took place in Prague, and it was fantastic. The atmosphere was relaxed, the presentations were engaging, there was plenty of opportunity for exchange and networking, but also time to explore Prague. I really enjoyed it. I was allowed to give a presentation on the topic: " Online Child Sexual Abuse (OCSA) – an Important Adverse Childhood Experience that Needs to be Assessed and Treated – "Also with EMDR." - a topic I have dealt with

It was a pleasure to give a workshop on "EMDR for Children and Young People at Barnahus" at the Barnahus Forum in Tallinn, Estonia. Barnahus is known in Germany as ChildhoodHaus ( https://www.childhood-de.org/childhood-haus/ ) . It offers children and young people who have experienced violence the opportunity for interdisciplinary care under one roof – police, justice, medicine, pediatrics, psychotherapy, forensics, legal medicine, and more. I am enthusiastic about the Barnah

Two weeks ago, my colleague Dagmar Jenkner and I had the pleasure of teaching Level 1 of the EMDR children's curriculum in Armenia - it was a celebration on many levels. Besides the impressions of a diverse country with a rich history, but also a rich history of trauma and violence, with a tiny middle class, a large discrepancy between rich and poor, and yet one of the safest countries in Europe, I was impressed by the colors, the architecture, the history alongside modernity

In March 2023, I was in the USA with my son – visiting my best American friend and family, his godparents… Besides many personal highlights, there was one that was both personal and professional. I met up again with my mentor and companion Vamik Volkan and his wonderful wife Betty. I met Vamik in 1998 as a young student in Cologne. I was working as a student assistant for the PAKH eV (Psychoanalytic Working Group for Intergenerational Consequences of the Holocaust), was able

I am delighted that my esteemed colleague Ana Gomez will be offering an introductory lecture on EMDR and sandplay therapy online in English on June 25, 2026, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM . Ana is an internationally renowned EMDR therapist, supervisor, and trainer specializing in children and adolescents. She lives in America and is passionate about children's rights. Some of you may be familiar with her books on EMDR with children, group EMDR with children, children and dissociati