The Dance of Attachment: An Introduction to Relational EMDR Therapy℠ - 2025

The focus of this training is the dance itself—the relationship between the client and therapist that makes it possible for clients to take the journey into the painful unknown of the past. It builds on the core understanding that what goes on in the consulting room and in the therapeutic relationship is a microcosm of a client’s injuries, challenges and adaptations. This unique EMDR focus provides opportunities to do meaningful work in real time in the consulting room. Here are a few of the benefits you can expect to gain:

• Heightened capacity for being present and attuned so you can track your client’s—and your own—emotional and somatic experience moment by moment.
• Ability to establish a “good enough” relationship as the foundation for processing past experiences including those formed outside the domain of language and explicit memory networks.
• Proven strategies for transforming “moments of collision” into “moments of meeting” and opportunities for growth.
• Insights into your own attachment style, vulnerabilities, patterns of response, triggers and new strategies for recovery and repair.  
• Access new points of entry to meaningful healing based on a client’s response to therapy—in and out of processing—and to you as therapist.
• Learn the value of using therapeutic contracting as an ongoing process not a one-time event at the start of therapy.

Like all of our advanced EMDR trainings, The Dance of Attachment explores an expanded application of EMDR's powerful healing processes and protocols as a comprehensive psychotherapy. This training covers new protocols designed for specific situations, use of Clinical Interweave Strategies to repair emotional and developmental deficits and more.