This advanced training is for EMDR clinicians who are seeking to broaden their skills working with complex developmental trauma and attachment difficulties.  We will focus on what our clients learned to do in response to what happened to them as children that have now developed into attachment styles that include adaptations that are overdeveloped and problematic. We will also look at how a case can evolve over time and when we modify the standard protocol to best meet the client’s needs.  Finally, we’ll look at ways of facilitating the processing using interweave to address what’s missing as well as what’s needed. By helping our clients unlearn the lessons from childhood, thy are able to develop new, alternative ways of thinking, feeling and responding to self and others, transforming their ability to be fully present to all that life has to offer.

Through lecture, discussion, and video review of a case over time, participants will:

• Understand the four adult attachment styles and identify two or more patterns of response that correlate with the client’s predominant attachment style

• Identify one or more clinical challenges with each insecure attachment style

• Develop an AIP-informed treatment plan by identifying formative attachment experiences where the client learned to respond using these adaptations

• Identify one or more attachment states both in and out of reprocessing bringing attention to the client’s experience

• Identify one or more defensive patterns of response in and out of reprocessing to facilitate the client’s ability to observe the defense and consider alternative emotional responses

• Know how and when to modify the standard protocol of past, present and future to address attachment-related patterns

• Identify the different categories of clinical interweaves to facilitate reprocessing

• Apply one or more interweave strategies to facilitate developmental repair

• Develop the client’s capacity to successfully integrate more adaptive relationship skills into their current lives

Module #1: 6th November 2026 -       8:30 am – 10:30 am

• EMDR as a comprehensive psychotherapy for complex trauma

• Integrating AIP with attachment theory

• Clinical challenges in EMDR therapy with each attachment style

Module #2: 20th November 2026  - 8:30 am – 10:30 am

• Advanced case conceptualization using adaptations to unresolved trauma as a point of entry.

• Understanding these adaptations using the clinical themes of Responsibility, Safety & Power/Control.

Module #3: 4th December 2026 - 8:30 am – 10:30 am

• Client Video Presentation: First session – Video case presentation of initial session to establish a mutual understanding and agreement of the problem and a course of treatment, identifying the adaptations to the client’s unresolved trauma.

Module #4: 8th January 2027 - 8:30 am – 10:30 am

• How and when to modify the Standard Protocol

• Using the Life Stress Protocol to target a recent experience.

• Video case presentation of client reprocessing session.

Module #5: 29th January 2027 - 8:30 am – 10:30 am

• Clinical Interweave Categories

• Video case presentation of reprocessing session illustrating application of clinical interweaves as informed by the case conceptualization.

Module #6: 12th February 2027 - 8:30 am – 10:30 am

• Video case presentations to illustrate clinical choice points and how the course of treatment evolved over time, taking into consideration client and clinical factors.

$795 + GST

Deany Laliotis is an internationally recognized thought leader who developed and teaches Relational EMDR Therapy, an attachment-informed approach for treating complex trauma.  As the founder of The Center for Excellence in EMDR Therapy, Deany offers a continuum of trainings from the basic through master courses, to include a Master Certificate in Relational EMDR Therapy.  Deany worked closely with Dr. Francine Shapiro since 1993 until her death in 2019.  Deany was awarded the Francine Shapiro Award for Outstanding Service and Clinical Excellence by the EMDRIA in 2015. She has authored and co-authored several book chapters and articles on EMDR. Deany is currently writing a book on Relational EMDR to be published sometime in 2028.