EMDR Advanced Training

Attachment Focused EMDR

Healing the Invisible Wounds from Childhood

Trainer: Cassidy DuHadway, LCSW

On-Demand: Available with lifetime access for asynchronous learning. This course was recorded on April 16, 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.

I'm Ready to Feel Confident With Attachment Trauma

Why TTI

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Shame-Free Space for Learning™

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.

Expert Clinical Training

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.

Where Learning Meets Community

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.

Practical Skills

Practical Interventions You'll Learn

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.
Assessment strategies for emotional neglect and attachment injury when clients minimize, intellectualize, or can’t recall specific trauma memories.
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.
Use of developmental and relational targets to access implicit memory networks and the “felt sense” of absence, silence, and emotional loneliness.
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.
Resourcing strategies that support attachment needs and co‑regulation without bypassing unresolved material or reinforcing emotional suppression.
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.
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.

What You Get

What's Waiting for You Inside This Training

Attachment-informed case conceptualization

Map symptoms to unmet developmental needs and relational trauma using the AIP model as your clinical structure.

Target selection without discrete memories

Create EMDR targets using themes, emotional states, and felt sense when clients cannot recall specific events.

Assessment for emotional neglect

Identify attachment injury when clients minimize, intellectualize, or insist they had a good childhood.

Protocol adaptations for low affect

Use concrete pacing, stimulation, and interweave shifts for clients with blocked processing or limited explicit memory.

Cognitive interweaves for core shame

Address earned worth, shame, fear of dependency, and emotional self-abandonment with interweaves that access meaning.

Attachment-attuned resourcing

Build co-regulation and attachment repair without bypassing unresolved material or reinforcing emotional suppression.

Lifetime on-demand access

Go at your own pace and return to the material whenever a client's attachment work calls for it.

Free community membership

Join TTI's shame-free community of practitioners for ongoing conversations, support, and resources. No cost, no catch.

Is This For You?

Who Is This Training For

This training is designed for:

EMDR clinicians who work primarily with adult clients in private practice or outpatient settings.
Therapists treating complex trauma, attachment injury, emotional neglect, and relational trauma, who want a clearer, more structured way to use EMDR with these presentations.
Intermediate to advanced EMDR clinicians who are already using EMDR and are ready to move beyond standard “single‑event” applications.
Clinicians who feel stuck with clients who present with low affect, vague or “nothing there” memories, blocked processing, dissociation, or chronic shame and self‑doubt.

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.

I'm Learning This For the Clients Carrying Wounds Nobdoy Ever Wanted

Meet Your Trainer

About Your Trainer

Cassidy DuHadway

LCSW

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.

Additional Information

Course Details

Agenda

Foundations of attachment and emotional neglect
AIP model + developmental belief networks
Experiential exercise + working through defenses
Case conceptualization (Emma case example + target planning)
Protocol adaptations for attachment-focused EMDR
Cognitive interweaves + integration strategies

Learning Objectives

Describe how childhood emotional neglect and attachment injury impact neurodevelopment, memory systems, and trauma symptom presentation in the absence of discrete Criterion A events.
Apply the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model to attachment-informed EMDR case conceptualization for clients with histories of emotional neglect and relational trauma.
Demonstrate EMDR target selection and sequencing strategies using developmental, relational, and attachment-based targets within the AIP framework.
Implement EMDR protocol adaptations for clients presenting with low affect, blocked processing, dissociation, or limited access to explicit memory.
Utilize EMDR cognitive interweaves to address core belief themes associated with emotional neglect, including earned worth, shame, emotional deprivation, and fear of dependency.
Evaluate EMDR’s role among evidence-based trauma treatments and explain how individualized case conceptualization influences treatment selection and sequencing for complex trauma presentations.

Prerequisites

EMDR Basic Training

Continuing Education

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.

ACE Approved Provider

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 clinical continuing education credits.

NBCC Approved Provider

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.

EMDRIA Approved Provider

Trauma Therapist Institute is an EMDRIA Approved Training Provider. TTI courses are individually approved. CE Certificate will contain course approval number.

Course Completion

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.

Cancellation Policy

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For the Clients Who Cannot Find a Target

Vague memories. Flat SUDs. Clients who insist they had a good childhood while describing a lifetime of loneliness and shame. This training gives you the attachment-informed case conceptualization, the target selection strategies, and the protocol adaptations to do deep EMDR work without needing discrete trauma memories to do it.

I'm Ready to Take My EMDR Practice Deeper