EMDR Advanced Training: Attachment Trauma

Advance from EMDR foundations to fluency in working with complex clients

Are you a therapist who has completed EMDR Part 1 and 2 training and are ready to go further? Join me for a two-day advanced workshop designed to deepen your EMDR practice with greater flexibility and creativity. Whether you’re newly trained or have years of EMDR experience, this workshop offers a valuable opportunity to work more effectively with clients experiencing developmental trauma and attachment wounding.

Why attend this workshop?

EMDR therapists often ask, "What comes next?" after completing EMDR Part 2 training. This advanced workshop fills the gap between foundational EMDR knowledge and advanced clinical practice, helping you move from basic proficiency to a higher level of EMDR skill.

Many EMDR therapists face complex cases where the standard protocol isn’t enough to resolve attachment wounding, and pre-verbal, or developmental or implicit  trauma. Questions about targeting omission trauma, working with clients who lack adaptive information, and managing defences are common in EMDR consultation.

This workshop builds on the solid foundation provided in EMDR Basic Training, bridging the space between the ‘rules’ of the EMDR standard protocol and the realities of clinical practice. It will give you the confidence to artfully adapt EMDR techniques to meet clients’ unique needs when working with attachment and developmental trauma.

What you’ll learn: Advanced skills for complex cases

EMDR Therapy, originally designed for overt trauma, requires a more nuanced approach when addressing attachment wounding and developmental trauma. For these clients, it’s not just about what they need ‘less of’ (i.e., painful memories to be reprocessed) but also what they need ‘more of’ (i.e., internalised safety, self-worth, and self-compassion), due to a lack of attunement, validation, and nurturance in their formative childhood years.

In this advanced workshop, you’ll refine your skills in target selection for attachment and omission trauma and learn how to help clients build adaptive information through attachment-focused resourcing and repair work. This work not only prepares clients to safely and effectively reprocess trauma, but also provides inherent reparative benefits.

Workshop topics

  • Attachment styles and the therapeutic relationship

  • Links between attachment theory and the AIP model

  • Common challenges in EMDR with attachment and developmental trauma

  • Attachment-focused EMDR history taking and case formulation

  • Target selection for developmentally and attachment-based trauma

  • Working with parts and attachment-based defences

  • Resourcing for repairing attachment wounds and developmental deficits

  • Adapting the standard EMDR protocol for reprocessing attachment wounds and developmental trauma

  • Attachment-based interweaves for blocked reprocessing

An interactive learning experience

This in-person workshop offers a dynamic, hands-on learning environment with skill demonstrations, case consultations, group discussions, and exercises.

You’ll leave with enhanced confidence and new strategies that you can immediately apply in your practice.

Workshop details

Duration: 2 days of traning, 9am to 5pm both days

Locations: Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney

Standard fee: $690 including GST

Early bird fee: $650 including GST (up to 4 weeks prior to workshop)

Inclusions: Morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, and comprehensive training materials