Trainer: Cassidy DuHadway, LCSW
On-Demand: Available with lifetime access for asynchronous learning. This course was recorded on 16April, 2026.
Many of your clients never say, “I have trauma.” They say, “I had a good childhood,” while describing emotional loneliness, perfectionism, anxiety, or a lifelong sense of being “too much” and “not enough” at the same time.
These are the invisible wounds of childhood emotional neglect and attachment injury. They don’t show up as neat Criterion A events. They show up as blocked processing, vague or neutral memories, flat SUDs, and clients who can’t “find a target” no matter how hard they try.
If you’ve ever wondered:
“I don’t know how to use EMDR to heal attachment trauma”
“I don’t know how to create targets for emotional neglect,” or
“Is EMDR even the right modality for this?”
This training is for you.
Attachment Focused EMDR: Healing the Invisible Wounds from Childhood gives you clear, attachment‑informed case conceptualization, target selection, and protocol adaptations grounded in the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model. You’ll learn how to treat emotional neglect and attachment injury with EMDR in a way that is structured, ethical, and clinically defensible, without needing discrete trauma memories to do deep, effective work.
Because the best learning happens when you feel safe. Ask freely, show up fully, and learn in a relational, non-judgmental environment built for practitioners like you.
Expect real case examples, clear guidance, and a teaching style that makes even complex topics feel approachable so you can confidently use what you learn in session right away.
Join a community of clinicians learning side by side, sharing real case insights and peer support so you can grow your skills with confidence alongside your peers in meaningful connection.
1. Attachment‑informed EMDR case conceptualization using the AIP model, so you can map symptoms to unmet developmental needs and relational trauma rather than searching for a single “big T” event.
2. Assessment strategies for emotional neglect and attachment injury when clients minimize, intellectualize, or can’t recall specific trauma memories.
3. Target selection and sequencing approaches for attachment‑based and neglect‑focused EMDR, including using themes, patterns, and emotional states as targets when memories are vague or neutral.
4. Use of developmental and relational targets to access implicit memory networks and the “felt sense” of absence, silence, and emotional loneliness.
5. Protocol adaptations for low affect and blocked processing, including pacing and stimulation shifts, working with felt sense, and using interweaves that access meaning rather than detailed memory.
6. Resourcing strategies that support attachment needs and co‑regulation without bypassing unresolved material or reinforcing emotional suppression.
7. Cognitive and relational interweaves that address core belief themes tied to emotional neglect (earned worth, shame and invisibility, fear of dependency, emotional self‑abandonment) and support attachment repair.
8. Strategies for managing blocked processing and limited affect in attachment‑focused EMDR so you can stay within the model instead of abandoning it when things get hard.
By the end of this training, you will be able to::
Live and on-demand training, real case examples, and a community of practitioners who get the work you're doing.
Map symptoms to unmet developmental needs and relational trauma not just single events. Finally have a clinical structure that makes sense.
Learn how to create targets using themes, emotional states, and felt sense even when clients can't recall specific memories.
Stop abandoning EMDR when things get hard. Get concrete tools for blocked processing, low affect, and limited explicit memory.
Cassidy walks you through common stuck points and breakthroughs, showing you exactly how to navigate what actually happens in session.
Address earned worth, shame, fear of dependency, and emotional self-abandonment with interweaves that access meaning, not just memory.
On-demand access means you go at your own pace. Lifetime access is included, so you can return whenever you need it.
Case-grounded teaching from a specialist in complex trauma, dissociation, and emotional neglect. Real world, not theoretical.
Join TTI's shame-free community of practitioners for ongoing conversations, support, and resources. No cost, no catch.
This training is designed for:
If you’ve ever felt under‑trained for attachment‑focused EMDR, questioned your case conceptualization, or wished for a more concrete clinical map for emotional neglect, this training will give you the structure and confidence you’ve been missing.
Cassidy DuHadway, LCSW, is a trauma therapist, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and EMDR Trainer specializing in complex trauma, dissociation, and emotional neglect. With nearly two decades of experience, Cassidy helps clients and clinicians recognize the profound impact of unseen wounds, especially emotional neglect and the ‘good childhood’ narrative. She trains EMDR therapists to navigate attachment wounds and dissociation, equipping them with practical tools for deeper processing. As the CEO of Purple Sky Counseling, Cassidy is dedicated to empowering clinicians and clients alike in their trauma healing journeys.
EMDR Basic Training
6 CEs is available upon completion of all course material.
Trauma Therapist Institute is an approved continuing education provider. ACE, NBCC and EMDRIA CEs are available for this course. APA CEs are not available for this course.
Participants must complete the full training to receive credit.
Trauma Therapist Institute, #1869, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 1/16/25 - 1/16/28. Social workers completing this course receive 6 clinical continuing education credits.
Trauma Therapist Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7033. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Kase & CO is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Trauma Therapist Institute is an EMDRIA Approved Training Provider. TTI courses are individually approved. CE Certificate will contain course approval number.
To receive a CE certificate, participants must complete the entire course, complete the post-test with a score of 80% or above, and complete the course evaluation. You may retake the post-test as needed. Once completed, a CE certificate will auto-populate to your online account.
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