Pre-recoded workshops
Browse online workshop recordings, delivered by leading experts in psychology and mental health. These workshops are designed as professional development for mental health professionals.
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Anabel Gonzalez
EMDR and Insecure Attachment
$385
✓ 12 hours of training
✓ Access for 12 monthsWorkshop Overview
This workshop explores how attachment theory can be integrated into Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. Participants will learn how different attachment patterns influence case conceptualisation, preparation, and processing phases, as well as how to navigate challenges in working with clients who have insecure attachment styles.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
Understand key concepts of attachment theory and its relevance to EMDR.
Identify challenges in Phase 1 history-taking with clients who have insecure attachment styles.
Develop strategies to enhance coherence and reflective function in clients with metacognitive deficits.
Apply tailored preparation techniques in Phase 2 for different attachment styles.
Address specific difficulties that arise during the reprocessing phase for clients with insecure attachment.
Reflect on the therapist’s own attachment style and its impact on the therapeutic process.
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Robin Shapiro
Treating Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
$275
✓ 6 hours of training
✓ Access for 12 monthsThis course is for all therapists, psychologists, counsellors, General Practitioners, Social Workers and Mental Health Workers who work with survivors of childhood sexual assault. Robin Shapiro masterfully teaches practical strategies for clinicians to identify, treat and heal the experience of childhood sexual assault.
Learning objectives for the workshop:
Be able to recognise and assess survivors of sex abuse.
Be able to assist clients to establish a sense of present safety.
Be able to choose appropriate therapeutic goals and the means to meet them.
Use EMDR, Ego State Therapy and other therapies to clear the trauma of sexual abuse.
Be able to assist clients to work through feelings of shame, fear, and anger tied to the client's abuse experiences.
Be able to use some new tools to keep dissociated clients “in the room”.
Be able to assist clients to have healthy, consensual, sexual relationships, using education and Future Templates.
Despite the seriousness of the subject, expect to enjoy the process and come away with many practical strategies you will be able to immediately implement in therapy.
About Anabel Gonzalez
Anabel González, MD, PhD is a highly respected psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and researcher specialising in trauma, dissociation, and emotional regulation. With extensive training in Group Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Systemic Therapy, and trauma-focused approaches, she brings a comprehensive and compassionate perspective to mental health care.
Dr. González serves as the President of the EMDR Spanish Association and is an accredited EMDR trainer. She leads the Trauma and Dissociation Program at the University Hospital of A Coruña (CHUAC), where she supports patients with severe trauma. As a dedicated educator, she provides specialised training on dissociative disorders, attachment, and emotional processing. She also lectures in the Master of EMDR Therapy at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). A PhD in Medicine and specialist in Criminology, Dr. González is deeply involved in research, mentoring doctoral candidates at the University of A Coruña and leading multiple projects on trauma and EMDR therapy.
Dr. González is recognised internationally for her expertise, research, and commitment to advancing trauma treatment.
About Robin Shapiro
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.