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Introduction to Attachment-Focused EMDR
- Average Rating:
- 460
- Speaker:
- Laurel Parnell, PhD
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 31 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
22 Mar, 2025
- Product Code:
- NOS096508
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
- Access:
- Never expires.
Description
Sometimes EMDR alone isn’t enough to heal entrenched traumas, particularly when clients struggle with early attachment issues. Attachment-Focused Eye Movement and Desensitisation Reprocessing (AF-EMDR) combines multiple approaches to support attachment-wounded clients through their trauma healing process. In this introductory workshop, you’ll learn about resourcing and developmental repair, including how to modify the EMDR protocol can be so that it flows more easily. You’ll be introduced to new ways of combining powerful protocols—EMDR, Resource Tapping, and talk therapy—with principles of attachment theory to provide a more client-centred, reparative treatment that support client safety, maintain the therapeutic connection, and enhance attunement. You’ll explore:
- The benefits and basic principals of AF-EMDR and Resource Tapping for specific client issues
- How to manage emotions and reduce stress by tapping in the 4 foundational resources of peaceful places, nurturing figures, protector figures, and wise figures
- How to address developmental deficits by harnessing clients’ imagination along with bilateral stimulation
This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.
CPD
Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships
All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
This online program is worth 2.75 hours CPD.
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Introduction to Attachment-Focused EMDR (4.4 MB) | 51 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Introduction to Attachment-Focused EMDR - French (4.4 MB) | 51 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Introduction to Attachment-Focused EMDR - Italian (4.4 MB) | 51 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Introduction to Attachment-Focused EMDR - German (4.4 MB) | 51 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Introduction to Attachment-Focused EMDR - Spanish (4.4 MB) | 51 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Laurel Parnell, PhD Related seminars and products
Laurel Parnell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, EMDR trainer, and executive director of the Parnell Institute. She’s also the co-director of the non-profit Trauma Assistance Program International (TAP-IN) and the originator of the EMDR-related therapies Attachment-Focused EMDR and Resource Tapping. Her books include Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma, A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR, Rewiring the Addicted Brain with EMDR-Based Treatment, and Tapping In.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Laurel Parnell maintains a private practice and is the director of the Parnell Institute, LLC. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Parnell receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Laurel Parnell has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Additional Info
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Objectives
- Articulate the basic principles of Attachment-focused EMDR.
- Describe the role of Resource Tapping from an Attachment-Focused EMDR lens.
- Demonstrate the steps of Resource Tapping.
- Describe the four foundational resources used in Attachment-Focused EMDR.
- Discuss the concept of the ideal mother and how it can be used to faciliate developmental repair.
Outline
The basic principles of Attachment-focused EMDR.
- Difference between Attachment-Focused EMDR and Standard EMDR
- Benefits of a relational, client-centred, compassionate trauma therapy
EMDR and Resource Tapping
- Integrating with Attachment-focused EMDR
- Clinical examples for working with traumatised clients
Resource Tapping
- Clinical examples, video clips and step-by-step instructions
- Four foundational resources for helping clients develop resilience and ego strength
Developmental repair and the “ideal mother”
- Step-by-step instructions for how to create and tap in an ideal mother for use in developmental repair
- Clinical examples
Risks and limitations
Target Audience
- Counsellors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Social Workers
- Physicians
- Psychologists
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