I went to EMDRIA with a booth full of rainbows, art supplies, BLS Arcade, parts-work tools, tiny expressive arts kits, and approximately seventeen thousand ideas. I came home with more ideas. Rude. 😂

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Hi!

One comment I heard several times was some version of, “This looks so cool, but I don’t work with kids.” I mostly work with adults! I think we still have this weird idea that play and creativity belong to children, or that adults need to be “artistic” for expressive approaches to make sense.

But expressive work can be incredibly small. A client can choose a color because words are annoying that day. They can map something with objects, use a fictional character or song to describe a part, tear paper instead of drawing, make a gesture, or use a ridiculous metaphor that makes perfect sense to them. The point isn’t making art. It’s having more than one way to communicate and make meaning.

That was also what I loved about the community art wall. I set up materials and an invitation, but people decided what they made, whether they followed the prompt, what materials they used, and whether they kept, traded, or shared what they made. I could create the structure. I couldn’t decide what the wall became.

We also had an AMAZING time playing with BLS Arcade at EMDRIA. Everyone had a great time testing out the MIDI instrument capabilities and the upgraded visuals in all of the stimulus and game modes!

A lot of what I build works the same way. I want the tool to give the therapist and client more options without deciding what somebody is supposed to experience. That shows up in Systemic Consent, my ND-affirming tools, BLS Arcade, the parts-work resources, and especially the Complete EMDR + Parts Work Toolkit.​

The Toolkit came out of the messy clinical moments where “go with that” stops being enough. A protector has opinions. The client goes blank. Processing loops. Different parts disagree about continuing. The usual 0–10 scale makes no sense to this client. You’re trying to figure out whether you’re seeing overwhelm, dissociation, protection, a pacing issue, a target issue, or something else.

I wanted something I could actually pull up in those moments instead of one more clinical resource I was supposed to memorize. The Toolkit includes the deeper clinical reasoning, practical tools plus expressive arts tools, visual decision support, parts/protector work, consent and pacing tools, alternative scales, sensory and communication options, ND adaptations, closure/aftercare tools, and therapist check-ins.

It’s $157, and you can see what’s actually inside here:

​EXPLORE THE COMPLETE EMDR + PARTS WORK TOOLKIT​

I also wrote a much bigger post about EMDRIA if you want the conference photos and the rest of my post-conference brain dump.

​Blog Post: We all need to play and create: Lessons from my time at the EMDRIA 2026 Conference in Anaheim​