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Make EMDR more adaptable and effective with skills and strategies you won't find anywhere else

EMDR is a known game-changer for trauma… but it's not always easy.

The material is tough. Intense reactions can disrupt sessions. Clients can disengage or even dissociate.

Targeting these pain points to deliver on the profound healing EMDR promises often requires advanced skills and strategies…

…but you won't find these solutions in standard EMDR instruction.

That's where our all-new online EMDR training comes in.

Because with it you get a powerful toolkit of over 20 easy-to-use strategies from DBT, ACT, and IFS therapy, hand-selected by 3 acclaimed trainers to work in perfect harmony with EMDR…

…and make it feel more usable and adaptable than ever before — even in the face of avoidance, intense reactions, inner conflicts, dissociation, and other treatment obstacles.

These strategies require no prior experience and have helped thousands of therapists like you make their sessions more productive, reduce defensiveness in clients, foster greater relational healing, resolve blockages in complex trauma cases, and much more!

So don't wait.

This course is your invitation to turn EMDR trauma treatment challenges into opportunities for breakthroughs.

Sign up now and start making breakthroughs with your clients today!

EMDR Advanced Trauma Training
21 Integrative Tools, Skills and Strategies for Interpersonal Trauma,
Inner Conflicts and More


A $749.97 Value Only $199.99 Today!
Earn up to 18.25 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
This course gives you the tools to maximize EMDR therapy…
even in the face of avoidance, intense reactions and other obstacles
Tara Travia
PART 1 | ACT Skills for EMDR Success

Many times, complex clients can struggle to cope with the EMDR process itself. By using ACT skills in your EMDR sessions, you can help even your toughest clients better approach difficult material, remain engaged in the process, re-work coping skills, and reduce the self-judgment that can halt progress.

Join Certified EMDR therapist Tara Travia, PhD, as she shares how you can make trauma resolution gentler and more focused on behavior change outside of sessions with her hand-picked set of top ACT skills!

You'll walk away ready to:

  • Develop client histories that seamlessly guide them through all 8 phases
  • Harness the power of interweaves to deepen therapeutic impact
  • Pave the way for smoother healing by reducing self-judgment and dysregulation
  • More easily craft negative and positive cognitions with your clients
  • And much more!
EMDR Basics Review and Trouble Areas
  • Dissociation and client disconnection
  • The window of tolerance and inability to "resource"
  • Hopelessness and disintegrating coping strategies for daily life
  • "Unhelpful" narratives about the self and world
  • Research, risks, and limitations
  • Indications and contraindications

ACT as a Practice and Compatibility with EMDR
  • CBT versus ACT
  • Experiential avoidance and its pitfalls
  • The problem with trying to change/fix feelings and thoughts
  • "Distraction" or "fixing" versus mindfulness and acceptance
  • Building the client's capacity to be with emotions
  • Research, risks, and limitations
  • Indications and contraindications
  • Where ACT and EMDR may differ
  • Compatibility with EMDR theory and the standard protocol

A Quick Guide to Using the ACT Model in Treatment
  • The Act model in 6 parts
  • Practice ACT techniques in vivo
  • Simplify using ACT in sessions to improve resourcing
  • Strategies to help clients feel grounded in sessions
  • Somatic language and tools
  • Increase understanding, commitment, and window of tolerance
Integrative versus "Eclectic" Therapists
  • How your theoretical orientation helps you as a clinician
  • Why EMDR is not merely a Phase 4 model or a technique
  • The art of therapeutic "lenses" — gaining deeper insights into client concerns
  • Shaping our treatment plans with an eye toward integration
  • ACT techniques to help clients grow towards new value-laden behaviors

Integrate ACT Techniques into EMDR Therapy Phases
  • Teach ways to "anchor"
  • Value clarification and exploring answers to "Why bother?"
  • Access the "observing self"
  • Clarify "negative" and "positive" cognitions
  • Explore our own narratives about EMDR phases
  • Navigate clients who want to rush the process and avoid daily crises
  • Defusion, Acceptance, and Compassionate Self/Body Awareness
  • Prepare for new targets and the future
  • ACT for self-care as a trauma therapist
  • Worksheets and forms
Katelyn Baxter-Musser
PART 2 | Enhancing EMDR: Easy to Use DBT Skills to Improve Client Readiness for EMDR, Boost Distress Tolerance and More

Your road to successful treatment isn't easy. The material is tough. Sessions can get intense. And when sessions end, clients still need to navigate relationships with others (and themselves) that have been complicated by their traumatic pasts.

But with some of the best DBT skills at the ready, you can manage these challenges with confidence. Join Katelyn Baxter-Musser. Certified in both EMDR and DBT for a powerful toolkit of DBT skills that will elevate your EMDR trauma therapy and have you ready to:

  • Enhance client readiness for EMDR
  • Help clients better manage emotional intensity during EMDR sessions
  • Boost distress tolerance skills to support trauma processing
  • Improve interpersonal functioning in clients through DBT-informed interventions
  • And much more!
Interpersonal Trauma: Neurobiological, Physiological, and Psychological Perspectives
  • Exploring physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
  • Neurobiological, physiological, and psychological processes involved
  • Long-term consequences of interpersonal trauma
  • Recognizing risk factors
  • Prevalence rates and barriers to disclosure of interpersonal trauma
  • Impacts on relationships with others and oneself

Assess for Interpersonal Trauma in the Clinical Setting
  • Recognizing warning signs, symptoms, and comorbidities
  • Differentiating physical, emotional, and sexual abuse in the clinical context
  • Screening and assessment measures for identifying trauma in clients
    • Trauma Symptom Inventory
    • CAPS
    • Dissociative Experiences Scale
  • Developing a trauma-informed approach

DBT Skills for Trauma-Related Symptoms, Triggers, and More
  • Research on DBT and survivors of interpersonal violence
  • DBT components and how the biosocial theory relates to trauma
  • Goal and targets of treatment
  • DBT tools for managing crises and creating safety plans
  • DBT validation strategies and creating a safe therapeutic environment
  • How DBT helps clients set healthy boundaries
EMDR for Traumatic Memories Related to Interpersonal Violence
  • How the AIP model relates to trauma processing
  • Characteristics and phases of EMDR
  • Goal and targets of EMDR therapy
  • Challenges and complexities of working with survivors of IPV
  • Managing dissociation and other challenges
  • Resourcing and grounding techniques to enhance stabilization and containment

Integrating EMDR and DBT in Trauma Work: Enhancing Resilience and Coping During Stabilization and Trauma Processing
  • How EMDR and DBT complement each other
  • Assessing clients' needs and treatment priorities
  • Common goals for survivors of interpersonal violence
  • DBT treatment planning strategies to identify specific targets for EMDR
  • Enhancing EMDR readiness with DBT emotional regulation skills
  • DBT coping skills for calm and focus in EMDR sessions
  • 5 practical ways to fuse DBT skills directly into EMDR sessions
  • Case studies
  • Research, risks, and limitations
Daphne Fatter
PART 3 | Resolve Inner Conflicts that Hinder Trauma Processing: Top Tools from IFS Therapy You Can Use with EMDR Right Away

Clients get stuck in their internal conflicts…and it can get in the way of their ability to fully process the trauma. But with IFS therapy techniques you can work with these conflicting parts, give your clients a lens to a deeper understanding of themselves, and make your EMDR work even more transformative!

Join trauma expert Daphne Fatter, PhD, certified in both EMDR and IFS therapy, for the IFS therapy tools you need to take EMDR to a new level and create the sense of coherence and wholeness clients need to heal and grow.

You'll end Part 3 ready to:

  • Identify and resolve inner conflicts hindering your clients' healing processes
  • Provide a foundation for internal relational repair within the client
  • Use self-tapping to promote emotional regulation in EMDR sessions
  • And much more!
EMDR and IFS: Shared Principles and Why Memory Consolidation Is Key
  • EMDR & IFS: Shared Principles & the Differing Lenses of Trauma
  • Why the Memory Reconsolidation Process is Important to Both Models
  • Risks & Limitations of EMDR and IFS as Single-Model Approaches
  • Determining Factors to Integrate EMDR & IFS
  • Appropriate Client Candidates for Integrating EMDR & IFS

Setting Up Effective IFS-Informed EMDR
  • Benefits & Risk of Integrating IFS into EMDR's 8-Phase Protocol
  • Applying an IFS Paradigm Shift into EMDR
  • Phase 1: History Taking, Treatment Planning, & Consent for Treatment Plan
  • Phase 2: Preparation & Resource Development
  • Introducing Self-Tapping for Attachment Readiness and Repair

Inviting Self Presence into EMDR: Enhanced Assessment and More Comprehensive Trauma Processing
  • Finding Targets for Trauma Processing: EMDR vs IFS Methods
  • Internal Relational Repair for Healthier Relationships with Themselves and Others
  • Phase 3: Assessment — Using IFS to Help Identify Targets
  • Phase 4: Desensitization — IFS Techniques for More Comprehensive Traumatic Material Processing
Practical IFS-Informed Interventions to Support Integration
  • Phase 5: Installing Positive Qualities — Using IFS to Counterbalance Negative Beliefs or Emotions
  • Phase 6: Body Scan & Future Template — IFS for Enhancing Sense of Safety and Trust in their Bodies
  • Phase 7: Closure — How Understanding Parts Helps Clients Reflect on Progress
  • Phase 8: Reevaluation

Integrating EMDR into the IFS Steps
  • Benefits & Risk of Integrating EMDR into the IFS Steps
  • How to Integrate Bilateral Stimulation into Steps of the IFS Model
  • The 2 Choice Points Within the IFS Steps to Integrate EMDR

See What Your Colleagues Are Saying About This Course!

EMDR Advanced Trauma Training
21 Integrative Tools, Skills and Strategies for Interpersonal Trauma,
Inner Conflicts and More


A $749.97 Value Only $199.99 Today!
Earn up to 18.25 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
Meet Your Expert EMDR Trainers

Dr. Tara Travia has been working with clients who have experienced complex trauma for over 15 years using ACT and EMDR in a variety of settings. She is certified in EMDR, is an approved consultant and deeply enjoys the supervision of EMDR practitioners. Trained in several approaches, Dr. Travia has found that EMDR is by far the most well-tolerated and effective modality for the most complex clients. She has found that integrating ACT skills with EMDR is a natural combination which clients report has helped them heal more fully than other treatments they had tried. Dr. Travia earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Kent State University.

Click here for information about Tara Travia
Tara Travia


Daphne Fatter, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist, and approved IFS Clinical Consultant. She is certified in EMDR and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. She has completed advanced training in cognitive processing therapy. She was awarded her doctorate in counseling psychology from Pennsylvania State University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology at the Trauma Center, an affiliate of the Boston University School of Medicine, under the direct supervision of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. She is the former military sexual trauma coordinator at the Fort Worth Veteran Affairs Outpatient Clinic. She has authored works on trauma, IFS, countertransference, and mindfulness. She speaks to mental health clinicians internationally providing engaging continuing education on nuances of trauma treatment from her seasoned clinical experience treating PTSD and complex trauma. She is in private practice in Dallas, Texas.

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Daphne Fatter


Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT, is a licensed clinical social worker and is certified in dialectical behavior therapy (C-DBT) through Evergreen Certifications Institute and is certified in EMDR. She works in private practice where her areas of expertise include the treatment of trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, and relationship issues. Her DBT training is one of PESI's most in-demand programs attended by tens of thousands of clinicians worldwide. Ms. Baxter-Musser incorporates DBT into her practice in working with adolescents and adults presenting with a variety of concerns. Her years of experience using DBT principles in her practice have helped her clients develop healthier coping skills, better process their past traumas, and increase their ability to identify and cope with destructive emotions.

Ms. Baxter-Musser is also an EMDRIA-approved consultant who previously sat on the EMDRIA Standards and Training Committee and was the co-regional coordinator for the EMDRIA Southern Maine Regional Network. She is also a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and the National Center for Crisis Management.

Click here for information about Katelyn Baxter-Musser
Katelyn Baxter-Musser

Frequently Asked Questions

The course includes over 18 hours of recorded video instruction broken into 3 easy to consume parts you can complete at your own pace. You'll join 3 certified experts who've trained thousands of students just like you and get unlimited access to the videos.

If you're already using EMDR this course is sure to enhance your practice. But even if you don't currently use EMDR, many of the techniques and strategies covered are broadly applicable to trauma treatment and would benefit therapists working with a range of therapeutic modalities.

Even if you're unfamiliar with the modalities many of these techniques come from, the course provides clear, practical strategies that are easy to integrate into your practice. PLUS, your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed so you're registering risk-free. If you get started and the course isn't a fit for you let us know and we'll make it right.

Yes, CE hours are available for a number of professions including counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and many more. You can earn up to 18.25 CE hours. For full details and to make sure credits are available for your state and professional, click here.

While the course covers EMDR, it provides all new strategies you've likely never been taught. These integrations provide new tools for managing common obstacles in EMDR therapy, such as intense client reactions and avoidance.
EMDR Advanced Trauma Training
21 Integrative Tools, Skills and Strategies for Interpersonal Trauma,
Inner Conflicts and More


A $749.97 Value Only $199.99 Today!
Earn up to 18.25 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
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