Working with complex presentations often requires more than a single model. This workshop is designed to help therapists confidently integrate Schema Therapy and EMDR into a coherent, flexible, and clinically powerful approach. Rather than treating these as separate modalities, we will explore how the models naturally converge, both theoretically and in practice, allowing you to deepen your formulation, strengthen your interventions, and work more effectively with complex clients. 

 

What You Will Learn

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A Unified Model for Complex Trauma

We will explore the shared foundations of Schema Therapy and EMDR, helping you understand where they align, where they differ, and how to use both in an integrated way.

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Schema-Informed Case Conceptualisation for EMDR
Using both models, bring together a case conceptualisation that understands how current life patterns link with schemas and difficult early experiences. We will think through how your case conceptualisation can guide your choice of intervention depending on the stage of therapy and the type of traumatic events experienced by your client. 

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Schema-Informed Resourcing

Move beyond standard EMDR resourcing by developing interventions grounded in your client’s unmet needs.

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Understanding and working with blocks

When reprocessing becomes stuck or dysregulated, a schema lens can offer clarity. We will explore how different modes can interfere with EMDR processing and how to work with these blocks effectively and compassionately.

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Developing the Healthy Adult

Discover how EMDR can be used not only for trauma processing but also to strengthen the Healthy Adult mode. We will explore ways to integrate corrective experiences, adaptive beliefs, and embodied shifts into your EMDR work.

 

Who This Training Is For

This workshop is designed for therapists trained in EMDR and Schema Therapy who want to deepen their understanding of how the models can be integrated when working with complex trauma.

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By the end of the training, you will have a clearer roadmap for integrating Schema Therapy and EMDR, allowing you to work more confidently with complex trauma presentations and deepen therapeutic change.