EMDR + IFS Integration: 60-Hour Intensive Training Across 4 Weekend Modules
- "New Horizons in EMDR 2025" — a 60-hour intensive training integrating EMDR with Internal Family Systems (IFS) across 4 weekend modules (May–October 2025, available on-demand)
- 36 CPD hours. Designed for EMDR-trained clinicians who want to incorporate IFS parts work into their trauma processing protocol
- Post-training supervision groups available — addressing the gap between learning a technique and integrating it into practice
- Focus: complex trauma, dissociation, structural dissociation model, parts-based processing within the EMDR framework
EMDR and IFS are two of the most rapidly growing modalities in trauma therapy — yet they are typically taught in separate silos. Clinicians who train in EMDR learn the 8-phase protocol. Those who train in IFS learn parts work. This intensive does what most training programmes do not: teaches the integration of both within a coherent clinical framework.
Why EMDR + IFS integration matters
The clinical challenge is specific. EMDR works through bilateral stimulation during trauma memory processing. IFS works through internal dialogue with protective and exiled parts. When a patient with structural dissociation encounters a protective part during EMDR reprocessing — the part that blocks access to the target memory — the standard EMDR protocol has limited tools for this. IFS provides exactly those tools.
The integration is not "do EMDR sometimes and IFS other times." It is embedding IFS parts-language and parts-work within EMDR phases — particularly in preparation (Phase 2), assessment (Phase 3), and the processing phases (4-7). The result: a protocol that can navigate dissociative barriers without abandoning the EMDR framework.
Training format
Four weekend modules spanning 5 months — intensive enough to develop skill, spaced enough to practice between modules. The 60-hour format exceeds most weekend workshops in depth. Post-training supervision groups address the integration gap: knowing the techniques is not the same as applying them under clinical pressure.
For EMDR-trained clinicians working with complex trauma who find that standard protocol stalls at dissociative barriers, this training provides the missing toolkit.
Register at emdrinsight.com/new-horizons-in-emdr-2025.
A 60-hour intensive teaches EMDR + IFS integration for complex trauma — embedding parts work within the 8-phase protocol to navigate dissociative barriers that stall standard EMDR.
Requires prior EMDR training (not entry-level). Integration model is not yet validated by RCTs — theoretical and clinical case basis. 2025 cohort may be past; check for on-demand or 2026 dates.