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.

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