Overview

Many clinicians often struggle with how to identify which clients would most benefit from integrating an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy approach into EMDR therapy for comprehensive trauma treatment. In this training, Dr. Fatter will help clinicians identify clinical signs that warrant use of a multi-modal treatment, including for complex trauma treatment. IFS Therapy and EMDR principles will be discussed including the role of memory reconsolidation in both models. Dr. Fatter will present specific IFS-based interventions for each phase of the eight phases of EMDR therapy. Participants will learn how to utilize IFS Therapy interventions in the context of an integrative treatment plan to support stabilization, enhance resource development, strengthen working alliance, client motivation, support desensitization, and fortify therapeutic gains. Treatment planning with clients experiencing ongoing trauma exposure will be addressed.

Participants will learn how to apply an IFS case conceptualization and how to make different parts maps to provide clients a sequenced and scaffolded approach in Phase 1. The self-tapping technique, STARR®, and IFS befriending techniques will be taught to support internal communication between clients parts and their Self during Phase 2. Dr. Fatter will offer practical strategies to work with polarized parts and address blocking beliefs to support consent-based EMDR reprocessing. IFS techniques will be taught to identify targets, including how to discern international trauma, historic trauma, and collective trauma targets. IFS-based interweaves during Phase 4-Phase 6 will also be presented as a tool to help tax working memory and foster internal repair. Using parts work interventions to end a complete or incomplete session during Phase 7 and ways to reevaluate during Phase 8 will be discussed.

Multiple options to integrate EMDR resources into the IFS Therapy steps will be taught and discussed. This integrative approach supports co-regulation, communication between the client’s Self and a target part, strengthens a client’s access to self compassion, and fosters stabilization. This workshop will be didactic, interactive, and experiential. Experiential practice time will give participants an opportunity to practice interventions and learn hands-on skills.

Schedule:

• Friday 16 October: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (including a total of 2 hours of breaks)
• Saturday 17 October: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (including a total of 2 hours of breaks)

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this event, participants should be able to:

• Identify three signs that warrant consideration of using a multi-modal treatment plan for complex trauma treatment.
• Define working memory theory and its importance in effective EMDR treatment.
• Describe the process of memory reconsolidation.
• Apply an IFS lens to an integrative EMDR case example.
• Describe the three types of parts in a traumatized client.
• Develop an integrative EMDR treatment plan that includes addressing blocking beliefs.
• Demonstrate at least two methods to help externalize parts of a client’s system to support perspective-taking.
• Utilize a collaborative approach of parts in the clients’ system to conduct effective resource development installation.
• Distinguish between trauma rooted in intergenerational or historical trauma and present day trauma.
• Demonstrate how to ask protector parts for consent to do EMDR reprocessing on an identified trauma target.
• Describe at least two IFS Therapy interventions to help move through blocked processing during EMDR reprocessing.
• Identify at least two places in the IFS Steps to transition to EMDR reprocessing.

Presenter(s)

About the presenter(s)

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. 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.

Notes

Target Audience

This activity is aimed at mental health professionals with general knowledge of IFS and EMDR.

Please note:

• This is a Member Groups event. All communication will be sent to the registrants’ registered email address. This includes event reminders with details (such as the Zoom link) and any pre-event or post-event resources, if provided by the facilitators.
• A post-event email will be sent within two weeks of the event’s completion to each registrant’s registered email address. This email will include the CPD certificate, event-recording, and any additional resources shared during the session.

Duration of Access

This event will be recorded. The recording will be emailed to all registered within 2 weeks post event and available for viewing up to 90 days.

CPD

It is up to attendees to assess and determine how learning from this event aligns with the requirements of their learning plan. The providers accordingly do not make any representation that the event counts towards attendees’ CPD learning requirements. If an attendee determines themselves that the learning they complete aligns to their learning plan, then they can decide to count those hours towards their CPD requirements for the registration cycle.

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