Trauma Certification Training: Step-By-Step Integration of IFS Therapy & EMDR for Innovative and Effective Treatment

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Daphne Fatter, PhD Related seminars and products

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Daphne Fatter, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, clinical consultant, author, and international speaker specializing in integrative trauma-informed therapies. She is the author of Integrating Internal Family Systems Interventions into EMDR Therapy and is widely recognized for her expertise in blending parts work with evidence-based trauma modalities. Dr. Fatter is EMDR certified, an EMDRIA approved consultant, and has over twenty years of experience providing trauma treatment. As a certified ancestral healing practitioner, she also supports clients and clinicians in addressing intergenerational and historical trauma. Dr. Fatter earned her Master of Arts in transpersonal counseling psychology from Naropa University and her doctorate in counseling psychology from Pennsylvania State University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology at The Trauma Center under the direct supervision of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, MD. She previously served as the military sexual trauma coordinator at the Fort Worth VA Outpatient Clinic and has extensive experience providing training to mental health providers serving the military. Her published works span the areas of Internal Family Systems therapy, EMDR, countertransference, mindfulness, and ancestral healing.

Grounded in the understanding that traumatic stress is multilayered – relational, developmental, biological, cultural, systemic, collective, historical, and spiritual – Dr. Fatter brings a neuroscience-based, compassionate, humble, and skills-based approach to professional education. She offers engaging workshops, webinars, and trainings on a range of trauma-related topics, including PTSD, complex trauma, complicated grief, and divorce recovery. Dr. Fatter is based in Dallas Texas where she balances her clinical practice with parenting her three children. Learn more at www.daphnefatterphd.com.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Daphne Fatter maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Daphne Fatter is a member of the American Psychological Association, the EMDR International Association, and the Texas Psychological Association.

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Objectives

1. Identify best practices in working with complex trauma and in providing trauma-informed care
2. Utilize CAPS-5, PCL-5 and other appropriate clinical evidence-based assessments to identify traumatic events, a PTSD diagnosis, and complex trauma
3. Evaluate clients for racial trauma and/or stress from discrimination or oppression-based trauma
4. Examine current evidence-based modalities for trauma treatment
5. Identify the process of memory reconsolidation and its importance in effective trauma treatment
6. Examine research on EMDR, IFS and integrating these models in trauma treatment
7. Distinguish similarities and differences in EMDR and IFS theory and principles
8. Identify the evidence-based Three Phase Framework in Complex Trauma Treatment
9. Define the role of self-compassion in resilience building
10. Identify qualities of Self, the function of Self, and three types of parts in Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
11. Determine how to use resource development installation in collaboration with a client’s parts
12. Identify factors that impact effectiveness of EMDR treatment 

Outline

What is Trauma? 

Diagnostic Criteria and Symptomatology 

• The continuum of traumatic stress 
• Individual, intergenerational and collective trauma 
• Pre-verbal trauma, attachment trauma, and developmental trauma  
• Social determinants of health 
• How common is trauma? 
• Symptoms of PTSD and complex trauma 
• DSM-5-TR (TM) PTSD criteria for adults and children 
• Other stressor-related disorders 
• Co-morbidities and differential diagnosis 
• Defining trauma-informed care 

Screening and Assessment 

Tools to Understand Exposure and Symptoms 

• Recognize possible trauma symptoms in your client 
• When to use PTSD screening tools 
• How to talk with clients about trauma and its symptoms 
• Self-report and clinician-administered measures for adults 
• Interview-based assessments for children 
• Symptoms of past trauma in older adults 
• Evaluate racial trauma, discrimination, and oppression 
• Minority stress in marginalized populations 
• Assessment of suicidality, substance use, and risk-taking 
• Cultural adaptations for assessment 
• Management of symptoms that arise during assessment 

Evidence-Based Trauma Treatment 

Finding What Works for Your Client 

• Current research on trauma treatment modalities 
• Guidelines for PTSD treatment and working with complex trauma  
• Evidence-based, trauma-focused psychotherapies 
• Non-trauma-focused approaches that work  
• Innovative research on transtheoretical approaches 
• Three-phase treatment framework: stabilization, reprocessing, re-integration 
• Benefits, limitations, and risks of the three-phase framework 
• Scripts for educating clients about trauma treatment options 
• How to help clients decide whether and when to focus on trauma  
• Protective and resilience factors 
• Trauma treatment across the lifespan 
• The role of moral injury 
• Working with marginalized populations 
• Neurodiversity and trauma treatment 
• Trauma treatment for active duty military and veterans 
• Limitations of the research and potential risks  

EMDR & IFS Integration 

A Transdiagnostic, Three-Phase Approach to Healing 

• Overview of EMDR & IFS Therapy 
• How IFS and EMDR align in core healing principles 
• The impact of traumatic stress on the brain 
• Clinical indicators of unprocessed traumatic memories 
• What actually occurs during trauma reprocessing 
• Neural networks, stuck parts, and memory reconsolidation 
• How parts get stuck and stay stuck 
• Why integrating IFS into EMDR can heal trauma 
• Signs that a client would benefit from integrating IFS into EMDR 
• Switching to EMDR when using IFS steps 
• Research on EMDR, IFS, and integrating IFS into EMDR 
• Benefits, risks, and limitations 

The Complex Trauma Recovery Roadmap 

IFS-Informed EMDR Phase 1: History Taking & Treatment Planning 

• Consent, collaboration, pacing, and choice in treatment planning 
• Communicate realistic expectations 
• How to develop an effective working alliance 
• Strategies to increase clients’ sense of safety in therapy 
• Strengths-based and empowerment practices 
• Integrative emotion regulation strategies 
• Orienting, retrieving, containment, connection 
• Use of container and healing place resources with parts 
• Relational resourcing – lessons from polyvagal and attachment theories 
• Installation options with parts 
• Integrative case conceptualization 
• Lessons from polyvagal and attachment theories 
• Identify parts in a client’s system 
• Mapping strategies for titration, pendulation, and stabilization 
• Unblending and externalizing techniques to engage clients 
• Use language with a trauma-informed lens 
• Cultural humility in practice 
• How to assess the client’s social support system 
• Demonstration and case examples 

IFS-Informed EMDR Phase 2: Preparation & Resource Development  

• Tapping resources to strengthen inner sense of connection 
• Somatic interventions and sensory resources to connect with parts 
• Rhythm, movement, and orienting strategies for dissociative parts 
• Nuances in working with pre-verbal trauma and young parts 
• How to support self-compassion and sense of agency 
• Options for guiding clients to get to know their parts for stabilization 
• Legacy burdens and gifts from transgenerational trauma 
• What to do when the ancestors show up 
• Resourcing with culturally-based strengths 
• Case examples 

IFS-Informed EMDR Phase 3: Assessment  

• How to know when your client is ready for trauma reprocessing 
• Contraindications for trauma reprocessing 
• Consent-based processing and preventing backlash in the client’s system  
• Identify trauma targets and choose EMDR targets from an IFS lens 
• How to help clients who have trouble naming targets 
• Explain and utilize the subjective units of distress scale 
• Techniques for clients who have difficulty with imagery 
• Effective use of the validity of cognition scale 
• Adapt assessment questions to honor parts 
• Case examples 

IFS-Informed EMDR Phase 4: Desensitization and Support 

• Bilateral stimulation options and how to decide which to use 
• Identify when reprocessing traumatic material is getting stuck 
• How to know when to intervene or not 
• Learning your IFS options to help clients get unstuck 
• Close a complete or incomplete session to support stabilization and regulation 
• Demonstration and case examples  
• Practice case vignettes to identify which IFS intervention to use 

IFS-Informed EMDR Phases 5-8: Using Connection with Parts for Enhanced Healing 

• How IFS interventions can strengthen installation of positive qualities during phase 5 
• IFS-informed ways to work with remaining somatic charge during phase 6 
• How to help clients get unstuck during installation and body scan 
• Deepen therapeutic gains with IFS interventions during phase 7 
• Honoring the client’s system and pacing in phase 8 

Additional Considerations 

• How to tell that progress is being made 
• When is trauma reprocessing complete? 
• Assess clients for termination 
• An integrative approach to closure and termination 
• Therapist countertransference and vicarious traumatization 
• Future directions of integration in psychedelic-assisted therapy 

Target Audience

• Counselors 
• Addiction Counselors 
• Social Workers 
• Marriage and Family Therapists 
• Psychologists 
• Psychiatrists 
• Psychotherapists 
• Other Mental Health Professionals