Advanced Training: EMDR & Parts Work
Move beyond ‘talking about parts’ to working confidently with parts in EMDR therapy
Are you an EMDR therapist looking to build more confidence in integrating parts work into your sessions? This two-day advanced workshop is designed for therapists who would like to build greater confidence, fluidity, and creativity in working with a client’s internal ‘parts’ within the EMDR framework. You’ll learn how to move beyond structured scripts towards a more intuitive use of parts interventions across all phases of EMDR therapy.
Why attend this workshop?
Even with a strong grasp of the EMDR protocol, many therapists find it difficult to apply parts work with confidence—especially when clients seem disengaged, parts interventions fall flat, or structured scripts feel too rigid. This workshop addresses these common challenges by offering a practical and affirming framework for working experientially with parts across all EMDR phases.
Whether you’re navigating ambivalence, internal conflict, or clients with dissociative presentations, you’ll learn how to work fluidly with the parts of the personality—enhancing your ability to support clients with shame, fear of change, or self-sabotaging behaviours. This training helps bridge the gap between understanding parts theory and using it effectively in EMDR therapy, particularly with clients who process information differently or find traditional interventions hard to connect with.
What you’ll learn: Advanced skills for complex cases
Integrating parts work throughout all EMDR phases so it complements, rather than competes with, the EMDR process
How to work experientially with parts – even when clients struggle with abstract concepts, visualisation, or emotional awareness
Strategies to adapt parts interventions for neurodivergent clients or those with more concrete, literal thinking styles
How to move from structured scripts to a more intuitive, responsive use of parts-informed interventions
Approaches to reduce shame, avoidance, and internal conflict so clients feel safer to engage in trauma reprocessing
Workshop topics
An affirming and non-pathologising approach to dissociation and parts work — reflections on this evolving space
Understanding structural dissociation of the personality
Using parts work for dissociative and non-dissociative clients alike
Fraser’s Dissociative Table Technique and other creative parts-focused interventions
Working therapeutically with dissociative parts, voices, phobias, and perpetrator introjects
Parts interventions to address internal conflict, avoidance and ambivalence
Adapting parts work for clients who struggle with abstract concepts, metaphor, visualisation, or emotion identification
‘Microprocessing’ interventions to enable safe trauma reprocessing with dissociative clients
An interactive learning experience
This in-person workshop offers a dynamic, hands-on learning environment with skill demonstration, group discussions, experiential practice, and case consultation.
You’ll leave with enhanced confidence and new strategies that you can immediately apply in your EMDR clinical practice.
Workshop Details
Duration: 2 days of training, 9am to 5pm both days
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