Join internationally respected trauma therapist Robin Shapiro for a rich, practical and transformative 3-day training that integrates Ego State Therapy and EMDR in powerful and clinically accessible ways. This workshop is a deep dive into a new way of formulating and responding to your clients — one that will inevitably strengthen and expand your clinical practice.

Robin shares an abundance of immediately usable interventions and strategies drawn from decades of experience. Participants will learn to view clients through the dual lens of Ego State Therapy and EMDR, distinguishing healthy, flexible ego states from dissociative ones. Through lecture, live clinical demonstrations, structured practice and case discussion, clinicians will develop confidence in working with complex trauma presentations across a wide range of populations.

This training is appropriate for both EMDR and non-EMDR practitioners.

Sydney Workshop: Thursday 3rd September - Saturday 5th September at Cliftons Sydney (10 Spring Street, Sydney)

In person or online options available.

Please note: all participants in these workshops will be able to access the workshop recording from the Sydney training event for six months after the event.

DAY 1 & 2: EMDR Easy Ego State Interventions

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Distinguish between dissociative and non-dissociative ego states

• Describe the three Polyvagal states and apply this understanding clinically

• Utilize the Two-Hand Interweave

• Apply simple ego state interventions for single-incident trauma

• Use ego state work effectively in couples therapy

• Address sexual issues and trauma in abuse survivors

• Describe and apply Jim Knipe’s Shame Protocol

• Work with shame, personality disorders, and complex trauma presentations

• Apply ego state work with Borderline and Narcissistic clients

• Describe the three stages of treatment for DID from the Theory of Structural Dissociation

• Use the Dissociative Table and other containment strategies for dissociative parts

• Identify when trauma processing is safe with DID clients and when to use or not use EMDR

• Utilize modified EMDR protocols, modified Lifespan Integration, and other trauma strategies with dissociative disorders

• Apply EMDR and ego state therapy to chronic pain, over-active immune responses, Long COVID and tinnitus

• Work safely and effectively with suicidal clients

DAY 3: EMDR Mixed Bag: Advanced Applications and Innovations

EMDR is constantly evolving, bringing forward new targets and techniques. This integrated component introduces cutting-edge developments and protocols in EMDR, including:

• EMDR 2.0 and the Four Blinks technique

• Resourcing with Present Safe Place, Time and Therapist

• Maureen Kitchur’s Strategic Developmental Model

• Jim Knipe’s Shame Protocol

• Working with Anxiety Disorders, including OCD

• Attachment-based interventions, including Imaginal Nurturing

• Treating Attachment-Based Depression

In person: $1300

Online: $1200

Robin Shapiro, LICSW, relishes doing psychotherapy and spreading the word about healing trauma, dissociation, and disrupted attachment through clinical consultation, workshops, conferences, and her five books. She edited the two EMDR Solutions books and is the author of Trauma Treatment Handbook, Easy Ego State Interventions, and her newest, Doing Psychotherapy, a comprehensive trauma and attachment-informed book for beginning therapists.

Robin is known for her user-friendly interventions, humour, and warmth. She is in high demand as a consultant, workshop presenter and conference speaker on the issues of healing trauma, dissociation, attachment issues, anxiety, depression, sexual and relationship issues. She has been practising ego state therapy since 1982 and mixing it with EMDR since 1993. She lives in Seattle with her sweet husband, Doug Plummer.

Get in touch with our administration team on 02 6362 3989 or via email at admin@himorange.com.au