EMDR Advanced Training
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Informed EMDR
Trainer:Â Crystal Hines
Live March 20th, 2025 from 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM MTN | On-demand after
Do you encounter blocks and defenses that are impacting the client’s therapy work, and you feel lost in where to go next? Maybe you keep hearing about “parts work” being discussed in your consultation group, and it seems important to learn, but you’re left feeling confused – what are parts, and how do I start? Or perhaps you know a bit about “parts work”–you might have even used the dissociative table–but now find yourself unsure of how to integrate this with your EMDR practice and what the next steps are? Our IFS Informed EMDR Course is for you!Â
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy offers us a helpful framework to navigate these complex blocks and defenses by honoring and welcoming these parts of self. IFS is a beautiful companion for EMDR. If you’re eager to dive deeper into how to practically use “parts work” and IFS along with your foundational EMDR skills – this course is for you.
This course will be recorded on March 20th, 2025.
Available for synchronous-online or asynchronous-on demand learning.
Free resource from Crystal Hines
Download this free resource by Crystal Hines. Use this easy to follow 5 Step Process to be with Parts who block EMDR work.
COURSE DETAILS
The Integration of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy course offers mental health professionals an in-depth exploration of two highly effective therapeutic modalities and their integration for a comprehensive approach to healing trauma and promoting well-being. This course provides a unique opportunity to learn how to integrate the transformative power of IFS therapy’s internal system work with the phases of EMDR therapy.
This IFS-Informed EMDR advanced training offers an opportunity to gain skills in working with client’s protective systems. Supporting these systems can help clients feel safe enough to do the deeper work of EMDR Therapy. Some examples of parts include the over-analyzer, the perfectionist, and the critic, to name a few. A client may feel like they must do EMDR perfectly and they don’t know what you are wanting them to say during check-ins, or they are stuck in their thoughts and can’t touch into their feelings, or they start to allow themselves to feel vulnerable but then they are pulled out of their emotions by an intellectual part.
This course consists of a combination of didactic presentations, large group experiential exercises, case discussions, and demonstrations to facilitate a comprehensive understanding and practical application of the integrated approach. We will review the theory and healing steps of IFS and learn how to recognize and be with the protective parts of our clients. We will cultivate more compassion and understanding for our own parts and clients’ parts. We will conceptualize how IFS concepts and techniques overlap with each of the 8 phases of EMDR. We will learn practical strategies to help the protective parts of our clients to feel witnessed and understood to enhance the effectiveness of trauma processing and integration with EMDR Therapy.
SCHEDULE
- 9:00 - 9:15: Introductions and Course Orientation
- 9:15 - 9:35: Overview of the Theory of IFS
- 9:35 - 9:55: Understanding Parts of Self
- 9:55 - 10:00: Break
- 10:00 - 10:15: Be with Parts Meditation
- 10:15 - 10:45: Essential IFS Skills
- 10:45 - 10:55: Primary Approaches to IFS
- 10:55 - 11:05: Break
- 11:05 - 11:20: Healing Steps of IFS
- 11:20 - 11:40: Review of the 8 Phases of EMDR and Limits to IFS and EMDR
- 11:40 - 12:00: Big Picture Discussion of how IFS and EMDR Overlap
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch
- 1:00 - 1:20: Big Picture Discussion of how IFS and EMDR Overlap
- 1:20 - 1:40: Phases 1 and 2 Overlap with IFS
- 1:40 - 2:00: IFS-Informed Preparation Techniques
- 2:00 - 2:05: Break
- 2:05 - 2:25: Phases 3 and 4 Overlap with IFS
- 2:25 - 2:35: IFS-Informed Interweaves
- 2:35 - 2:45: Phases 5 and 6 Overlap with IFS
- 2:45 - 2:55: Phases 7 and 8 Overlap with IFS
- 2:55 - 3:00: Break
- 3:00 - 3:55: Demo of IFS-Informed EMDR Session
- 3:55 - 4:00: Break
- 4:00 - 4:15: Debrief of Session
- 4:15 - 4:30: Wrap up lecture/Q&A
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Apply the Internal Family Systems theory and techniques to the 8 phases of EMDR.
- List the 8 Cs of self-energy and establish techniques to differentiate between self-energy and parts of self.
- Identify two ways that protective parts of clients can block the EMDR process.
- Analyze how the healing steps of IFS overlap with the 8 phases of EMDR.
- Identify at least six IFS informed preparation techniques to reduce symptoms and promote client stabilization.
- Describe two IFS-informed interweaves to utilize in EMDR reprocessing.
ABOUT YOUR TRAINER, CRYSTAL HINES
Crystal Hines is a licensed professional counselor based out of Firestone, CO and Founder of Align Therapy and Consultation. Crystal is helping therapists go from Surviving to Thriving through providing tailored services to meet the needs of the burnt-out healer. Crystal provides the following services: EMDR Consultation, IFS Consultation, Private Practice Business Coaching, Intuitive Tarot Card Readings, LPCC Supervision, Therapy for Therapists, Process Groups for Therapists, and Trainings/Workshops. Crystal has a brain-body-heart approach to healing. She is both direct and compassionate in her work with clients and knows the importance of doing her own healing. Crystal is a complex trauma survivor and is passionate about helping others along their healing journeys. She has a gift of connecting with the inner child who lives in all of us.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
