Free EMDR Training
Bridging Models: IFS in EMDR Clinical Practice
Trainer: Crystal Hines
Live Virtual Training: October 8th, 2025 at 12 PM Central | Available for synchronous, live learning
On-Demand: Available one week after the live event
Integrate the Power of Parts Work with Neuroscience-Backed Trauma Healing
Unlock new pathways for client transformation by integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) principles within your EMDR practice. This dynamic, experiential course is designed for practicing trauma therapists ready to deepen their skillset, expand clinical flexibility, and facilitate lasting change. Learn how to invite compassionate Self Energy into EMDR, blend a “parts” approach with adaptive information processing, and walk away with practical tools you can use in your next session.
Are Your EMDR Sessions Getting Stuck?
What if you could unlock your clients' natural healing capacity by inviting their Self energy into the EMDR process?
Trauma specialist Crystal Hines is conducting this FREE continuing education training that bridges two powerhouse modalities: Internal Family Systems and EMDR. This transformative, experiential course is designed for practicing trauma therapists ready to deepen their skillset, expand clinical flexibility, and facilitate lasting change. Learn how to invite compassionate Self Energy into EMDR, blend a “parts” approach with adaptive information processing, and walk away with practical tools you can use in your next session.
Join a community of dedicated clinicians and discover what’s possible when you bridge evidence-based models for healing that go beyond talk.
Who Is This Course For?
This course is ideal for:
- Trauma therapists, counselors, clinical social workers, and psychologists already trained in EMDR and seeking integrative approaches
- Clinicians curious about IFS who want practical integration (no prior IFS experience required)
- Practitioners eager to create safer, more compassionate spaces for client healing, especially with complex trauma, dissociation, or treatment-resistant cases
- Mental health professionals seeking to strengthen confidence, creativity, and connection through a parts-informed EMDR practice
Whether you're brand new to IFS or already incorporating parts work, this training meets you where you are and takes your skills to the next level.
What You'll Learn
- Theory Meets Practice: Deepen your grasp of IFS and EMDR, with neuroscience insights that inform integrated care.
- Model Integration: Translate IFS “parts” and Self Energy into the EMDR process, supported by clinical examples and real-world applications.
- Experiential Tools: Practice embodying and teaching self-leadership, using scripts and tools ready for immediate use in your practice.
- Expanding Resilience: Equip clients to expand their window of tolerance with Self-led presence, enhancing EMDR’s capacity for safe, adaptive processing.
- Clinical Confidence: Navigate dissociation, protect vulnerable parts, and resolve “stuck” moments by relying on the strengths of both models.
- Resource Library: Take-home scripts, tips, and integrative frameworks so you can confidently support even your most complex clients.
Free CE and Widely Applicable Model
Earn a free CE while learning a technique you can use with or without EMDR!
About Your Trainer, Crystal Hines
Crystal is the founder of Align Therapy and Consultation, a virtual group practice based out of Colorado, focused on supporting mental health therapists to thrive in our field. Crystal has a brain-body-heart approach to healing. She is both direct and compassionate in her work with clients and knows the importance of doing her own healing. Crystal is a complex trauma survivor and is passionate about helping others along their healing journeys. She has experience working in community mental health and private practice, and loves supporting other therapists and healers. At the start of her career she worked with kids, teens, and families, and now works primarily with older teens and adults. Crystal specializes in working with complex trauma, attachment trauma, dissociation, gifted individuals and high achievers, and anxiety. She is an EMDRIA Approved Trainer and Consultant. She has a gift of connecting with the inner child who lives in all of us.
