Honoring Clients Where They Are: The Innovative Integration of IFS and EMDR
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Honoring Clients Where They Are: The Innovative Integration of IFS and EMDR

Fri, Mar 8th, 2024
11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) are both well-established evidenced-based approaches that address multiple clinical issues including treating trauma and complex trauma. Integrating these two models provides enhanced benefit to clients that may struggle in traditional EMDR. In this webinar, Dr. Fatter will discuss the theoretical underpinnings, common principles as well as the differing approaches to trauma treatment of each model. Dr. Fatter will describe the proposed mechanisms of change of each model including explaining both model’s use of the neurophysiological process of memory reconsolidation. With almost 20 years of experience in EMDR and as a seasoned IFS consultant, Dr. Fatter will provide nuanced IFS-informed interventions to use at each phase of the eight phases of EMDR treatment to maintain fidelity to the EMDR traditional protocol. Practical IFS-oriented interventions to use during preparation and resource development will be explored. Common examples of when clients experience blocked trauma processing in EMDR and ways IFS interventions can help clients return to trauma processing will be discussed. Ethical considerations, risks and limitations will also be reviewed in integrating these two models. Case examples and an experiential of a practical IFS intervention will be explored.

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This live online event will be held as a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will have the option to interact through features such as the Chat and Q&A, but cameras and microphones will not be enabled.

Live Event Instructor

Daphne Fatter

Daphne Fatter

Daphne Fatter, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, clinical consultant, author, and international speaker specializing in integrative trauma-informed therapies. She is the author of Integrating Internal Family Systems Interventions into EMDR Therapy and is widely recognized for her expertise in blending parts work with evidence-based trauma modalities. Dr. Fatter is EMDR certified, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and has over twenty years of experience providing trauma treatment. As a certified ancestral healing practitioner, she also supports clients and clinicians in addressing intergenerational and historical trauma. Dr. Fatter earned her Master of Arts in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University and her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Pennsylvania State University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Psychology at The Trauma Center under the direct supervision of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. She previously served as the Military Sexual Trauma Coordinator at the Fort Worth VA Outpatient Clinic. Her published works span the areas of Internal Family Systems therapy, EMDR, countertransference, mindfulness, and ancestral healing.

Grounded in the understanding that traumatic stress is multilayered—relational, developmental, biological, cultural, systemic, collective, historical, and spiritual—Dr. Fatter brings a neuroscience-based, compassionate, humble, and skills-based approach to professional education. She offers engaging workshops, webinars, and trainings on a range of trauma-related topics, including PTSD, complex trauma, complicated grief, and divorce recovery.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Identify overlapping theoretical underpinings of both EMDR and IFS models.
  2. 2 Apply 2 IFS interventions to use during EMDR's 8 Phase model.
  3. 3 Describe when to integrate EMDR-based interventions when using the IFS Steps.

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Bongaerts, H. Voorendonk, E. M., van Minnen, A., & de Jongh, A. (2021). Safety and effectiveness of intensive treatment for complex PTSD delivered via home-based telehealth. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1), 1860346. Open access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2020.1860346

Bongaerts, H., Voorendonk, E. M., van Minnen, A., Rozendaal, L., Telkamp, B. S. D., & de Jongh, A. (2022). Fully remote intensive trauma-focused treatment for PTSD and complex PTSD. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13(2): 2103287. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2022.2103287

Ecker, B., Ticic, R., & Hulley, L. (2012). Unlocking the emotional brain: Eliminating symptoms at their roots using memory reconsolidation. New York, NY: Routledge.

Fatter, D. (in press). "IFS and EMDR: Transforming Traumatic Memories and Providing Relational Repair with Self" In Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities, and Trends.

Hodgdon, H.G., Anderson, F. G., Southwell, E., Hrubec, W. & Schwartz R.C. (2021) Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among Survivors of Multiple Childhood Trauma: A Pilot Effectiveness Study. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 1-22. DOI: 10.1080/10926771.2021.2013375

Jarero, I. N. & Artigas, L. (Dec. 2022 in Press). The EMDR Therapy Butterfly Hug Method for Self-Administer Bilateral Stimulation. In EMDR Protocols for Prolonged Adverse Experiences.

Krauze, P. and Gomez, A. (2013). EMDR Therapy and the use of Internal Family Systems Strategies with Children. In C. Forgash and M. Copeley (Eds.), Healing the heart of trauma and dissociation with EMDR and ego state therapy (pp. 295-311). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

O'Shea Brown, G. (2020). Internal Family Systems Informed Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing An Integrative Technique for Treatment of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. International Body Psychotherapy Journal, 19 (2), 112-122.

Schwartz, R. C. & Sweezy, M. (2020). Internal Family Systems (2nd Ed.). The Guilford Press. New York: NY.

Schwartz, R. C. (2021). No bad parts: Healing trauma and restoring wholeness with the internal family systems model. Sounds true.

Shapiro, F. (2018). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Basic principles,. protocols, and procedures (3rd ed.) The Guilford Press.

Twombly, J. & Schwartz, R. (2008). The integration of the internal family systems model and EMDR. In C. Forgash and M. Copeley (Eds.), Healing the heart of trauma and dissociation with EMDR and ego state therapy (pp. 295-311). New York: Springer Publishing Company.

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Event Agenda

Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 8:00am US Pacific Time.

11:00am - 12:30pm ET

  • Review differing theoretical models of EMDR and IFS
  • Review Shared principles and Memory Reconsolidation of both models
  • Review EMDR 1-4 Phases with IFS-informed interventions

12:30pm - 12:45pm ET

  • Break

12:45pm - 2:15pm ET

  • Review EMDR 5-8 phases with IFS-informed interventions
  • Review IFS Steps and how and when to integrate EMDR interventions.
  • Case examples.
  • Limitations and Risks of Integration
  • Q&A

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