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Digital Seminar

Introduction to Attachment-Focused EMDR


Speaker:
Laurel Parnell, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours 31 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Copyright:
Mar 22, 2025
Product Code:
NOS096508
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Sometimes EMDR alone isn’t enough to heal entrenched traumas, particularly when clients struggle with early attachment issues. Attachment-Focused Eye Movement and Desensitisation Reprocessing (AF-EMDR) combines multiple approaches to support attachment-wounded clients through their trauma healing process. In this introductory workshop, you’ll learn about resourcing and developmental repair, including how to modify the EMDR protocol can be so that it flows more easily. You’ll be introduced to new ways of combining powerful protocols—EMDR, Resource Tapping, and talk therapy—with principles of attachment theory to provide a more client-centred, reparative treatment that support client safety, maintain the therapeutic connection, and enhance attunement. You’ll explore: 

  • The benefits and basic principals of AF-EMDR and Resource Tapping for specific client issues 
  • How to manage emotions and reduce stress by tapping in the 4 foundational resources of peaceful places, nurturing figures, protector figures, and wise figures 
  • How to address developmental deficits by harnessing clients’ imagination along with bilateral stimulation 

 

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Credit

Program Information

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Earn up to 2.0 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

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This self-study course offers 2.0 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.



Handouts

Speaker

Laurel Parnell, PhD's Profile

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Laurel Parnell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, EMDR trainer, and executive director of the Parnell Institute. She’s also the co-director of the non-profit Trauma Assistance Program International (TAP-IN) and the originator of the EMDR-related therapies Attachment-Focused EMDR and Resource Tapping. Her books include Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma, A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR, Rewiring the Addicted Brain with EMDR-Based Treatment, and Tapping In.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Laurel Parnell maintains a private practice and is the director of the Parnell Institute, LLC. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Parnell receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Laurel Parnell has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

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Objectives

  1. Articulate the basic principles of Attachment-focused EMDR.
  2. Describe the role of Resource Tapping from an Attachment-Focused EMDR lens.
  3. Demonstrate the steps of Resource Tapping.
  4. Describe the four foundational resources used in Attachment-Focused EMDR.
  5. Discuss the concept of the ideal mother and how it can be used to faciliate developmental repair.

Outline

The basic principles of Attachment-focused EMDR.  

  • Difference between Attachment-Focused EMDR and Standard EMDR 
  • Benefits of a relational, client-centred, compassionate trauma therapy 

EMDR and Resource Tapping  

  • Integrating with Attachment-focused EMDR 
  • Clinical examples for working with traumatised clients 

Resource Tapping 

  • Clinical examples, video clips and step-by-step instructions  
  • Four foundational resources for helping clients develop resilience and ego strength 

Developmental repair and the “ideal mother” 

  • Step-by-step instructions for how to create and tap in an ideal mother for use in developmental repair 
  • Clinical examples 

Risks and limitations 

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Physicians 
  • Psychologists

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