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2-Day EMDR Seminar: A Rapid, Safe, and Proven Treatment for Trauma

Clients dealing with trauma aren’t always receptive to the therapeutic process.

…and, using treatment techniques that repeatedly confront clients with the horrific details of the traumas that haunt them can cause them to be avoidant, reactionary, or completely withdrawn.

It’s painful for client and clinician alike, and it doesn’t feel like healing.

That’s where EMDR comes in. One of the best and most effective therapies available today, it’s exactly what you need to help your clients gently explore their pain and move toward healing.

In this EMDR seminar you will discover how this powerful, evidence-based treatment has helped thousands of clients safely and rapidly process their traumas without the need to focus on explicit details!

You’ll learn:

How EMDR can be used to overcome avoidance in clients
How EMDR techniques can help clients resolve traumatic memories
When and with which clients EMDR should be used
How to emphasise safety during sessions
How the 8-phase model is used in treatment

And so much more!

This training is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify towards EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

Describe the role of the autonomic nervous system in trauma symptomology.
Articulate the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
Characterise the potential neurobiological mechanisms of change in the EMDR approach.
Demonstrate EMDR techniques can build dual awareness in clients to treat the avoidance that makes trauma treatment challenging.
Demonstrate the 8 Phases of the EMDR protocol.
Assess clients to determine the appropriateness and potential risks of using EMDR.
Analyse resourcing strategies from EMDR to facilitate the processing of trauma.
Utilize EMDR techniques to reinforce and activate positive neural networks.
Modify EMDR to work with complex/developmental trauma to directly treat traumatic memories.
Evaluate strategies to foster the critical connection between client and therapist in EMDR therapy.
Articulate the research limitations and potential risks associated with EMDR.
Establish the order of operations for attachment-based EMDR treatment to resolve relational trauma.

Outline

Trauma and Neuroscience

Key brain areas involved in trauma
Polyvagal Theory, and types of freeze responses
Trauma and insecure attachment
The neuroscience of developmental trauma
Clinical implications of the freeze response

How the EMDR Approach Works

The neuroscience of exposure therapy and cognitive therapy
The neuroscience of relaxation exercises
EMDR and other “transformative therapies”
Why EMDR works so well from a brain perspective

Trauma Symptoms and Assessment Tools

Traumatic memories and intrusive thoughts
Phobias and anxiety: Insula hyperactivation
Emotional hijackings and implicit memory
Avoidance cluster of symptoms
Why treating avoidance in trauma is critical
DSM-5® symptoms in a nutshell
Connecting to a diagnosis
Simple vs. complex trauma
Intergenerational trauma
Symptom clusters and physical manifestations
CAPS-5 and PCL-5
Primary Care PTSD Screen
Dual diagnosis

Overcome Avoidance with EMDR

Dual awareness
What you are thinking about is the network you’re in
Activate networks for change
Neurons that fire together, wire together (Hebb’s Rule)
EMDR as neuroentrainment

When to Use EMDR in Treatment

Demonstrations and experiential exercises
Single event trauma
Anxiety disorders involving imaginal exposure

EMDR Trauma Treatment:

The Original 8-Phase Model
Client history and treatment planning
How to resource: Create a safe space
Assessment: Choose a target, SUDS, connect with the image/emotions/thought
Desensitisation: Tactile vs. auditory vs. eye movement
How to use touchpoints, Theratapper, CDs
Positive Cognition Installation: Likert scale 1-7
Body Scan: Locate tension and distress in the body
Closure: Close the neural network and the 6-hour window
Re-evaluation

Demonstration of Original 8-Phase Model

Presenter demonstration
Attendee dyad practice of the 8-phase model

EMDR Techniques to Resolve Traumatic Memories

Modifications for Complex/Developmental Trauma
Do not use standard protocol - Rationale for modifications
Resourcing strategies
Techniques to reinforce and activate positive neural networks
Relevance of Polyvagal Theory, early trauma, and EMDR
Sensory motor modifications and somatic approaches
How to build Dual Awareness
EMDR techniques to bring traumatic memories from the limbic system into the prefrontal cortex

Attachment-Based EMDR:

Strategies to Treat Relational Trauma
Strategies to foster the critical connection between client and therapist
Mirror neuron activation
How to emphasize safety during sessions
Guidance on order of operations

Research Limitations and Potential Risks

Copyright : 17/07/2024

Integrating EMDR Therapy and ACT Skills: Over 12 Strategies to Unlock the Full Potential of Your Complex Trauma Treatment

If you use EMDR therapy with clients, you probably can’t imagine treatment without it.

But many times, our complex clients need additional skills to cope with the process itself so they can fully benefit from their therapeutic journey.

Fortunately, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can provide those skills!

By using ACT skills in your EMDR sessions, you can help even your toughest clients better approach difficult material, remain engaged in the process, re-work coping skills, and reduce the self-judgement that can halt progress.

You’ll watch Certified EMDR therapist Tara Travia, PhD, as she gives you a step-by-step guide to using ACT skills in EMDR therapy – complete with a flexible set of skills, interweaves and resourcing techniques – so you can make trauma resolution gentler and more focused on behaviour-change outside of sessions.

When you watch Dr. Travia you’ll discover how you can:

Enhance your confidence with complex trauma cases
Develop client histories that seamlessly guide them through all 8 phases
Harness the power of interweaves to deepen therapeutic impact
Pave the way for smoother healing by reducing self-judgement and dysregulation
More easily craft negative and positive cognitions with the client
And much more!

Don’t miss this opportunity to unlock the full power of EMDR therapy for your clients and yourself.

Purchase now!

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

Determine how trauma symptoms are managed with EMDR based on the research.
Integrate EMDR and ACT interventions together to create an integrative treatment plan.
Evaluate how to apply ACT to trauma treatment to reduce experiential avoidance.
Analyze the core concepts and components of the psychological flexibility model within Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Choose ACT strategies to help clients feel grounded in sessions.
Identify how the concept of event centrality and its reduction connects both EMDR and ACT processes.

Outline

EMDR Basics Review and Trouble Areas

Dissociation and client disconnection
Window of tolerance and inability to “resource”
Hopelessness and disintegrating coping strategies for daily life
“Unhelpful” narratives about the self and world
Research, risks, and limitations
Indications and contraindications

ACT as a Practice and Compatibility with EMDR

CBT versus ACT
Experiential avoidance and its pitfalls
The problem with trying to change/fix feeling and thoughts
“Distraction” or “fixing” versus mindfulness and acceptance
Building the clients capacity to be with emotions
Research, risks, and limitations
Indications and contraindications
Where ACT and EMDR may differ
Compatibility with EMDR theory and the standard protocol

A Quick Guide to Using the ACT Model in Treatment

The Act model in 6 parts
Practice ACT techniques in vivo
Simplify using ACT in sessions to improve resourcing
Strategies to help clients feel grounded in sessions
Somatic language and tools
Increase understanding, commitment, and window of tolerance

Integrative versus “Eclectic” Therapists

How your theoretical orientation helps you as a clinician
Why EMDR is not merely a Phase 4 model or a technique
The art of therapeutic “lenses” – gaining deeper insights into client concerns
Shaping our treatment plans with an eye toward integration
ACT techniques to help clients grow towards new value-laden behaviours

Integrate ACT Techniques into EMDR Therapy Phases

Teach ways to “anchor”
Value clarification and exploring answers to “why bother?”
Access the “observing self”
Clarify “negative” and “positive” cognitions
Explore our own narratives about EMDR phases
Navigate clients who want to rush the process and avoid with daily crises
Defusion, Acceptance, and Compassionate Self/Body Awareness
Prepare for new targets and the future
ACT for self-care as a trauma therapist
Worksheets and forms

Copyright : 29/04/2024

Somatic Psychology and EMDR Therapy

Trauma is more than just an emotional wound; it manifests physically—causing muscle tension, altered heart rates, and breathing issues—impacting the entire system. This innovative session with Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C, will show you how to integrate interventions from EMDR and somatic psychology help clients reconnect with their bodies, regulate emotions, and fully integrate trauma to provide ethical, cutting-edge care that leads to deep, lasting change.

You’ll get:

Tools for safely work with client’s emotions, sensations, and psychophysiological arousal
Techniques for memory reprocessing with cognitive restructuring
Resourcing strategies to create a safe space
“Felt sense” exercises for managing unease

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

Determine modified EMDR therapy protocols that create a safe healing environment for complex trauma
Combine principles of somatic psychology with trauma recovery
Evaluate the tiered response to threat and hybrid nervous system states
Determine grounding techniques that increase clients’ resources

Outline

How trauma leaves it's imprint on the nervous system and body
Intro to EMDR Therapy and healing trauma
EMDR Therapy is already an integrative approach to trauma treatment
Combined approach of EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology

Copyright : 05/03/2026

The Relational Heart of EMDR: Integrating Connection and Polyvagal Theory into the 8 Phases

New EMDR clinicians often over-focus on “doing the steps right and in the correct order” but EMDR is not an 8-phase mechanical protocol — it is an 8-phase relational process. This presentation from EMDR certified therapist and consultant Laura Swinford, LCSW, EMDR-C, will teach you how the efficacy of each phase can be increased through attunement, pacing, co-regulation, and moment-by-moment collaboration with the client. You’ll explore the 8 phases through a polyvagal, attachment-informed lens and see how the “frame” of the protocol is only as effective as the relational field it is happening inside of.

You’ll leave with:

Specific micro-interventions and ways to navigate the phases
Attunement, pacing, and co-regulation strategies that improve collaboration
Somatic markers to reinforce connection
Resourcing language to use in session

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

Reframe the 8-phase protocol of EMDR as relational using polyvagal theory and an attachment-focused lens
Utilise somatic markers to reinforce connections with clients
Apply micro-interventions to improve the efficacy of each of EMDR’s 8 phases
Implement proper resourcing language as part of protocol framework

Outline

Using a polyvagal, attachment-focused lens to frame the 8 Phases
Somatic markers that reinforce connection
Micro-interventions for navigating the phases
Improving attunement, pacing, and collaboration with your clients
Resourcing language
Risks and limitations

Copyright : 05/03/2026

Integrating IFS and EMDR

EMDR and IFS are two of today’s most popular evidence-based treatment methods for trauma …

But if you’re running into roadblocks with your clients, just one method might not be enough.

That’s why EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist Daphne Fatter, Ph.D. put together this groundbreaking session that shows you how easy it can be to combine the similar principles of EMDR and IFS and how to combine techniques from both of them to more effectively treat trauma and help your clients heal.

Dr. Fatter will give you:

Strategies for identifying clinical signs to combine these powerful approaches
The latest, most up-to-date research on integration techniques
Practical case examples and case conceptualisations

And so much more! This is your opportunity to be on the cutting edge of trauma therapy and utilise existing tools to increase your treatment success with clients!

This event is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

Identify 3 clinical indicators that warrant consideration of using a multi-modal approach in complex trauma treatment.
Describe intersecting theoretical overlap between the foundational principles of both EMDR and IFS therapies.
Explain the role of memory reconsolidation in both EMDR and IFS therapies.
Apply case conceptualisation that integrates both EMDR and IFS therapies.

Outline

Clinical signs that an integrative approach is appropriate
Shared theoretical overlap between EMDR and IFS
The Role of Memory Reconsolidation
Current Scholarship and Research on Integrating EMDR and IFS
Benefits, Risks, and Limitations of Integration
How to Create Case Conceptualisation that Integrates EMDR and IFS
Case Examples

Copyright : 19/02/2026

Remote EMDR for Stubborn Behaviors

Clients can spend entire sessions talking about unwanted behaviors like overuse of drugs or alcohol, overeating, and excessive internet or porn use... but we know that’s not contributing to real progress - just putting out fires. Without the ability to stop these behaviors, they stay stuck in the same painful patterns and traditional therapy methods won’t get past the same cycle of venting, regret, and damage control. This session, featuring trauma and EMDR expert Gerard Ilaria, LCSW-R, EMDR-C, will give you the tools to help your clients change how they behave, relate, respond, and recover...all in ONE session!

You’ll get:

Skills you can immediately apply in individual therapy or counselling
Strategies for eliminating or reducing unwanted behaviours and replacing them with healthier ones
Tools to help clients to better handle stress and anxiety
Techniques for boosting self-esteem and regaining the autonomy sacrificed to compulsions

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

Buzzkill un-pairs a positive feeling state and belief from an undesired behaviour, then re-pairs the positive belief and feeling state with an adaptive replacement behaviour.
Buzzkill can be a central part of a structured treatment where elimination of the behaviour is key to recovery.
Buzzkill can also be used in the course of a therapy when clients are attempting a lifestyle change that involves eliminating a bad habit or behaviour.

Outline

Description of Buzzkill protocol, and mechanisms for action
Behaviours, addictions and compulsions where it’s proven effective
Step-by-step guide for therapists, including script for one-session use.
Video demo with real client to show how to effect change in 20 minutes or less
Risks and Limitations

Copyright : 05/03/2026

Integrating Flash Technique with EMDR

No matter what type of trauma memory you’re treating, the Flash Technique is a versatile tool to have in your kit. It can serve not only as a complete intervention on its own but can also be paired with any of the therapy modalities you already utilise in your practice. This session with Flash developer Dr. Phil Manfield will give you an exciting, easy-to-apply, evidence-based technique that removes the need to engage with painful memories while still allowing healing to take place.

In this engaging workshop, you’ll learn:
Essential steps to applying the Flash Technique with traumatised clients
Safe and effective strategies for processing traumatic memories
Explore EMDR’s compatibility with the technique
See flash in action, both via in-session video and live demonstration

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

Analyse common problems in trauma processing that Flash Technique was designed to address
Examine recent studies supporting the potential effectiveness of the flash technique
Identify the five essential features of the Flash Technique and how they can be integrated with EMDR for effective treatment of trauma

Outline

Flash Technique Step-by-Step
Select and Prepare Clients for Flash Technique
The essential steps to applying the Flash Technique
Painlessly process traumas without bringing them clearly to mind  
How to use via virtual therapy
Studies that support the safety and effectiveness of the flash technique 
Limitations of the research and potential risk 
Flash Technique in Action
In-session videos
Live demonstration

Copyright : 05/03/2026

Attachment Trauma: A Super Resourcing (SR) Approach Integrating EMDR, IFS & more

Every therapist dreams of a shortcut to healing for their traumatized clients …

One that provides the deep, transformational change that trauma processing can produce …

… but without the lengthy treatment period and the risks of re-traumatization.

And nowhere does the need for efficient therapy feel more urgent than in situations of attachment trauma, with clients who had to endure betrayal in their most important relationships.

Now you can get relief for your clients faster than ever with Super Resourcing (SR). Rooted in the same powerful principles as EMDR, IFS, and attachment theory, SR focuses on strengthening your client’s internal resources and helping wounded parts feel safe, supported and integrated – rather than on the trauma itself.

The result? Less dissociation and fragmentation. Attachment repair of wounded parts. Increased well-being and a new positive personal narrative. All without revisiting distressing trauma memories.

Learn SR directly from its developer, Alison Teal, MFT, a certified EMDRIA therapist and consultant who will give you step-by-step guidance so that you can integrate this powerful approach into the therapy modalities that you’re already using – whether that’s EMDR, IFS, CBT, MI, or any other framework.

No previous training in EMDR or IFS required – you’ll learn everything you need to know to add SR to your treatment plan so you can:

Create the safety, protection and guidance that are so critical to good therapy
Reduce trauma symptoms without processing trauma directly
Provide gentle, effective attachment repair for wounded parts
Guide clients in creating their own corrective emotional environment of installed resources with accompanying positive sensations, emotions and cognitions

Plus, you’ll get a chance to learn from immersive case studies, video of real SR sessions, and your own experience of SR via a group guided session.

Don’t wait – PURCHASE TODAY to learn this groundbreaking directly from its developer!

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

Evaluate the ability of the Adaptive Information Processing model to decrease traumatic arousal related to attachment trauma.
Develop a client-centered corrective emotional environment to improve treatment outcomes.
Utilize safe place imagery to decrease clients’ distress.
Recall knowledge of attachment and ego-states for clients with attachment trauma.
Choose bilateral stimulation to activate memory retrieval and resolution.
Utilize a focus on positive thoughts, emotions, and memories to decrease distress related to trauma memories.

Outline

Use of Resources in Psychotherapy

Rationale & Roots for Super Resourcing (SR)

Attachment and ego state theories
Neurobiology of developmental trauma
The adaptive information processing model
Bilateral stimulation and the brain
The history of resourcing in EMDR
Use of positive imagery in psychotherapy
Resource/attachment focus v. trauma focus
Stabilization and integration of structurally dissociated parts
Enhancement of present time experience
Development of new positive narrative
Limitations of the research and potential risks

Attachment Repair with SR

Create an Inner Healing Environment

Develop therapeutic alliance
The corrective emotional experience
History-taking for attachment trauma
How to introduce SR
Psychoeducation for clients with attachment trauma
Introduce a stop signal
Choose bilateral stimulation method
Identification of resources: safe place, nurturer, protector, wise figure
How to work with resource-challenged clients
Facilitate embodied experience v. report
Amplify resources to their maximum potential
Link each resource with all other resources
How to track clients’ progress
Manage emergence of trauma memories without trauma immersion
Options for working with parts
Closure for an SR session
Between-session assignments for clients
SR tracking form
Seven guidelines for successful SR sessions
Case studies
Group guided SR session
Demonstration session

Clinical Applications of Super Resourcing

Integrate SR with Other Approaches and into Overall Treatment

Preparation for trauma processing, if indicated
Enhance moments of perspective shifting
Integrate positive feelings, sensations, and thoughts
Resolve an activated disturbance
Increase confidence and improve performance
Protocols for specific populations/issues
Use with couples, groups, and organizations

Copyright : 19/12/2025

Trauma-Focused Tapping

Tapping is often integrated into many of the most effective trauma therapies today, including EMDR. Simple, evidence-based tools like tapping make trauma therapy more accessible and put the power of recovery directly into our clients’ hands. And because it empowers clients to play an active role in their own treatment, the therapeutic process becomes an even more collaborative process. In this workshop, you’ll learn:

Several tapping techniques, including from EMDR and Emotional Freedom Technique, that can be integrated into virtually any treatment approach
How, why, and when to use them with clients of any age in psychotherapy
Specific uses of tapping techniques in trauma therapy for resourcing

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

Examine the mechanisms of action underlying the effectiveness of acupressure techniques in psychotherapy.
Describe the integration of acupoint stimulation into exposure and cognitive therapies in the evidence-based form of EFT for the treatment of PTSD.
Understand the core components of Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) in the context of trauma treatment, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and tactile stimulation.
Demonstrate at least 3 techniques to help clients emotionally regulate, prepare for trauma work, and enhance positive state changes.
Describe how tapping intimately assists in polyvagal toning and in balancing the nervous system.

Outline

Types of Tapping and Bilateral Stimulation (BLS)
How Tapping Works: The Science & Mechanisms of Action
Understanding the Distinctions: EMDR, Resource Installation, Resource Tapping, and Meridian Tapping
Setting Clear Goals for Tapping and its Application in Healing
Therapeutic Benefits and Applications
Assessing Client Readiness for Tapping
Step-by-Step Instruction: Using Tapping Techniques from EFT and EMDR in Your Trauma Treatment
EMDR Resource Tapping Techniques
Risks and Limitations of Tapping, Contraindications and other Considerations

Copyright : 23/03/2024

Transforming Grief with EMDR: Strategies for Processing Loss and Finding Emotional Relief

Are you finding that your standard grief interventions—while helpful for typical mourning—stall when faced with Complicated Grief (CG)? Many clinicians run into the same roadblock: traditional approaches often fail to address the underlying unprocessed traumatic memories and attachment wounds that perpetuate prolonged suffering. If your clients are stuck in cycles of intense distress, avoidance, or rumination months or years after a loss, your current toolkit is missing a critical, evidence-based component.

Imagine if you could approach these intense, stuck cases with a powerful, research-backed framework that targets the memory network itself. This seminar will equip you with the essential knowledge of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model as it applies specifically to grief, showing you exactly why unprocessed memories prevent natural healing. You will learn to use EMDR's eight-phase protocol with specific, practical adaptations for loss. By integrating EMDR protocols for Complicated Grief into your practice, you will move beyond simply validating your client's pain to actively helping them process the emotional residue of the loss. This shift from surface-level support to deep memory resolution will not only improve your clinical outcomes but also instill a greater sense of confidence and mastery when treating your most complex and heartbreaking cases.

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

Distinguish between normal grief and complicated grief, and describe the mental health impact of complicated grief.
Summarise the core principles of EDMR therapy – including the eight phases and the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model – and explain how EMDR can be applied to address unprocessed grief-related memories
Identify at least two ways to use EMDR for blocked processing with grievers.

Outline

Foundational Understanding Complicated Grief

Distinguishing typical grief from complicated/prolonged grief
Prevalence and mental health impact of complicated Grief (CG)
The necessity of trauma-informed, specialised grief approaches
Clinical application: Identifying key differentials in client presentation

Theoretical Frameworks for EMDR in Loss

Reviewing the EMDR eight-phase protocol and bilateral stimulation
Understanding the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model in the context of grief
How unprocessed memories and attachment wounds perpetuate Complicated Grief
Integrating current research on attachment theory and grief responses

Protocols and Techniques for Clinical Application

Grief-specific adaptations to the core EMDR protocol
Target selection strategies for loss-related memories
Safety considerations and maintaining client stability during processing
Practical vignettes and examples for applying EMDR to complex loss cases

Integration, Resources, and Limitations

Best practices for combining EMDR with other grief interventions (e.g., narrative, meaning-making)
Evidence base for blocked or stuck processing in EMDR Therapy with grievers
Helpful resources and further study recommendations for advanced EMDR practice
Limitations of the research and potential risks associated with the EMDR approach in grief therapy

Rewiring Addiction: EMDR Therapy for Trauma-Driven Compulsions and Cravings

When you're working with clients who struggle with addiction, it can be easy to fall into the cycle of symptom management and forget what’s at the core of their problem: it’s a protective strategy used to avoid emotional pain. You need to be able to help your clients regulate their nervous systems and rewire addiction-related neural pathways. In this engaging session, EMDR expert and integrative trauma specialist Stacy Ruse, LPC, ERYT-500, will show you how to use EMDR Therapy as a gateway to safely and effectively work with addiction memory networks using the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model.

You’ll get:

Tools for working with protective parts that block processing
Protocols for urge-desensitisation
Polyvagal-informed resourcing techniques
Strategies for prioritising readiness, stabilisation, and pacing

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

Describe the interconnection between trauma and addiction through maladaptive memory networks using the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model.
Identify clinical signs of protective parts and dissociative defenses that block EMDR processing in addiction treatment.
Apply at least two EMDR interventions (e.g., urge desensitisation, resourcing, cognitive interweaves) to support clients in recovery safely.

Outline

Foundations: The Trauma-Addiction Connection

Trauma as the root of addiction
AIP model and memory network formation
Polyvagal and neurobiological underpinnings

Protective Parts and the Role of Dissociation

IFS-informed understanding of protectors and exiles
Identifying when parts block processing or trigger relapse
Compassionate attunement and pacing

Preparation and Readiness

Building stabilisation and a sense of safety
RDI- Resource Development & Installation towards recovery
Somatic and Polyvagal-informed resource tools

EMDR Tools for Addiction

Overview of urge desensitisation and craving protocols
Cognitive interweaves for working with shame and self-judgment
Working with relapse as a reactivation, not a failure

Integration and Recovery

Strengthening adaptive networks and resources
Supporting post-processing integration
The therapists’ Self-regulation, attunement, and countertransference

Q&A and Closing Reflections

EMDR for Survivors of Interpersonal Violence: Restoring Safety, Self-Worth & Autonomy

In order for your clients to heal from the deep sense of shame, powerlessness, and self-blame of experiencing interpersonal violence, they need to be able to process their traumatic memories while also repairing their internal self. This workshop, led by international presenter and trainer Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, will show you how to utilise the structured and empowering pathway of EMDR to better help your clients reclaim their internal safety, develop self-compassion, and cultivate agency in their healing journey.

You’ll get:

Tools for prioritizing stabilisation and nervous system regulation
Trauma-informed pacing strategies
Resourcing and grounding interventions for clients experiencing shame, dissociation, or internal conflict
Interwoven cognitive and EMDR strategies for fostering self-worth and autonomy

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

Apply phase-oriented EMDR strategies that prioritize stabilisation, empowerment, and trauma-informed pacing, with attention to nervous system regulation and survivor readiness.
Implement resourcing and grounding interventions to support clients experiencing shame, dissociation, ambivalence, or internal conflict related to the abusive relationship.
Utilise EMDR interweaves and cognitive strategies that foster self-worth, autonomy, internal safety, and post-traumatic growth during reprocessing sessions.
Apply ethical and safety considerations when working with survivors who may still have emotional, psychological, or logistical ties to the abuse partner or system.
Support the reconstruction of identity and agency by integrating attachment-supported language, empowerment-based approaches, and self-compassion practices into EMDR work.

Outline

How Interpersonal Violence Reshapes the Self

Explore how chronic threat and coercion disrupt the nervous system, undermine self-concept, and distort relational patterns
Examine the role of shame, powerlessness, and identity fragmentation in survivors of interpersonal violence
Highlight a survivor-centered treatment stance that fosters choice, attunement, autonomy, and internal safety

Trauma & EMDR Framework

Review core EMDR concepts in the context of complex trauma and interpersonal violence
Explore attachment disruption, dissociation risks, and trauma-bonding dynamics in assessment
Apply trauma-informed pacing, consent, and readiness markers before reprocessing
Identify readiness markers and clinical indicators for delaying reprocessing and continuing stabilisation

Phase-Based EMDR for Interpersonal Violence Survivors

Preparation & Stabilisation
- Establish nervous-system safety through grounding, breathwork, and mindful emotion-regulation tools
  - Establish stop signals and pacing agreements to promote client safety, agency, and empowerment
Targeting & Reprocessing
- Identify appropriate targets linked to shame, coercion, betrayal trauma, and self-blame
- Address trauma bonding dynamics, ambivalence, and emotional attachment responses
- Apply interweaves to reinforce self-worth, agency, and internal power
Closure & Integration
- Develop future templates emphasising autonomy, boundaries, and secure connection
- Incorporate identity repair, self-compassion, and empowerment-focused practices

Ethical & Cultural Considerations

Prioritize survivor agency and autonomy rather than directing decisions or outcomes
Honor pacing and ambivalence as adaptive and protective, not resistance
Attend to cultural, systemic, and contextual realities that influence safety, access, and decision-making (e.g., identity, immigration status, finances, community ties)

Cultivating Resiliency with EMDR: Strategies for Treating Transgenerational Trauma

Treating transgenerational trauma can be difficult - filled with complex family dynamics and differing cultural backgrounds, it can be hard to know where to even start. That’s why certified EMDR consultant and complex PTSD expert Karee Powers, LCSW, BCD, CCTP-2 EMDR-C, developed this experiential workshop! You’ll learn how to evaluate patterns of trauma in your client's family and walk away with strategies to increase your client's connection to transgenerational resiliency.

You’ll get:

Practical demonstrations of using tools like Legacy Attuned EMDR
EMDR methods for increasing resiliency
Strategies for differentiating types of trauma
Healing techniques for transgenerational trauma you can integrate today

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Program Information

Objectives

List three ways transgenerational trauma can impact clients.
Define transgenerational trauma
Apply EMDR methods to increase resiliency
Evaluate transgenerational trauma with a client’s family.

Outline

Introduction

Agenda
Arrival Practice

Definitions of Transgenerational/Intergenerational, Historical/Cultural Trauma

Differentiating types of trauma
Impacts of transgenerational trauma

Practice 1

Legacy Attuned EMDR Protocol and Demo
Transgenerational Trauma cognitions

Practice 2

Gifts of the lineage

Practice 3

Echoes of Trauma

Introduce Genograms

Healing Techniques to Integrate for Transgenerational Trauma

Q&A