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ain during penetrative sex can create distress and relationship issues. Clients are not always comfortable discussing sex, yet all EMDR therapists are likely to have clients with these difficulties (the 2023 National Women’s Health Survey found that…

EMDR inherently activates Ego States by focusing on Assessment Phase target elements and has been described as a form of Ego State Therapy (EST) itself. Proponents of Structural Dissociation (TSDP) applying EMDR to complex PTSD, and others within the…

In this presentation, Annabel outlines the crossover and complementarity between Internal Family Systems (IFS) and EMDR: two of the most powerful memory reconsolidation therapies around, as well as the differences. She shares a composite case study…

This chapter explores art therapy principles, Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems therapy, and Shapiro’s Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing model, utilizing theory overview and case materials to provide foundational reasoning for the…

Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) is a diagnostic entity included in the International Classifications of Diseases, 11th revision (ICD-11). It denotes a severe form of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and is the result of prolonged…

Sometimes clients are blocked from utilizing the healing process of EMDR. This workshop will teach the basics of Internal Family Systems (Schwartz, 1995), an ego state model that offers practical ways to facilitate EMDR processing. An IFS exercise to…

EMDR and the Internal Family System (IFS) model share a common treatment approach and their integration significantly increases the effectiveness of both. The workshop will provide a brief overview of the central IFS components. It will then…