“Easy Ego State Interventions” with Robin Shapiro.

Purchase a recording of the three day workshop with Robin Shapiro, held in Australia in November 2023. This includes 15 hours of training with Robin Shapiro.

Participants will learn to see clients through the lens of Ego State Therapy and EMDR and to distinguish healthy, flexible states from dissociative ones. They will learn to resolve trauma, work with couples, work with sexual issues with abuse survivors, address shame, pain, personality disorders, and dissociative identity disorder – through lecture, practice, and discussion of case examples. The training is appropriate for both EMDR and non-EMDR practitioners. By the end of the training you will know how to:

Distinguish between Dissociative and Other Ego States
Describe the 3 Polyvagal States.
Utilize the 2-Hand Interweave.
Utilize a simple ego state intervention for simple trauma.
Describe ways to use ego state work in Couples’ Therapy.
Describe and apply Jim Knipe’s Shame Protocol.
Describe and apply Ego State Work with Borderline and Narcissistic Clients.
Describe the 3 stages of work with DID clients, from the Theory of Structural Dissociation.
Describe and utilize the Dissociative Table and alternative ways to organize and contain dissociative parts.
Describe when it’s safe to do trauma work with DID clients and when to use and not use EMDR.
Utilize appropriate trauma strategies with Dissociative Disorder clients, including modified EMDR protocols, modified Life Span Integration, and others.
Utilize EMDR and ego state therapy to heal over-active immune systems, chronic pain, Long COVID, and Tinnitus.
Utilize ego state therapy with suicidal clients.
“It was full to the brim, well-structured and lots of demonstrations. I learned tons and would recommend her wholeheartedly. And I now know myself very differently!” (participant of Easy Ego State Intervention workshop).

Refund policy: No refunds are available once recording has been purchased.

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 practicing ego state therapy since 1982 and mixing it with EMDR since 1993. She lives in Seattle with her sweet husband, Doug Plummer.

Cost: $600 (including GST) for 12 months access.