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Robin Shapiro

Easy Ego State Interventions & EMDR Mixed Bag

3 day course

  • 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

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Deany Laliotis

Healing the Wounds of Attachment & Rebuilding Self:

An advanced course for EMDR Therapists

Six weeks ONLINE, in two hour blocks, starting Friday 6th November, 8:30am - 10:30am

  • 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, they 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.

  • Training will take place online over six sessions. Each session will go for two hours, starting at 8:30am (Sydney time).

    Dates include:

    • Friday 6th November

    • Friday 20th November

    • Friday 4th December

    • Friday 8th January

    • Friday 29th January

    • Friday 12th February

    Please note: all participants in these workshops will be able to access the recordings of the training for six months after the final training session.

  • Learning Objectives:

    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

    Training by Modules:

    Module #1: 6th November 2026

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

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

    • Course evaluation.

  • Costs will be released soon

  • 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 basic through to 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.

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

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