EMDR Advanced Training
Ego States Integration for the EMDR Therapist
Trainer:Â Rebecca Kase
Available on-demand
If you’re ready to elevate your EMDR practice, this course with EMDR expert Rebecca Kase is designed for you. Ego state therapy and EMDR go together like peanut butter and jelly! Dive into the transformative theory of Ego States, learn how to integrate this model into your EMDR work, and gain a powerful set of interventions to support your clients through every phase of their healing journey.
Learn practical ego state interventions and concrete techniques for integrating throughout the 8 phases of EMDR. Walk away with a toolkit of interventions that will enhance every step of the EMDR protocol. This course equips you with skills to conceptualize, stabilize, and reprocess with precision and empathy, setting you up to create lasting, meaningful change for your clients.
You’ll walk away feeling inspired and filled up.
This course was recorded on January 23rd, 2025.
Available for asynchronous on demand learning.
Free resource from Rebecca Kase
A practical checklist to help clients identify, activate, and integrate their inner strengths for trauma healing.
COURSE DETAILS
Learn to work with “parts” or “ego states” across the eight phases of EMDR therapy. Everyone has ego states, but unresolved trauma can make these parts bring up distressing and troubling symptoms.
We’ll start with the history of ego states and explore their role in dissociation, complex PTSD, attachment, and trauma. You’ll learn to distinguish adaptive ego states from maladaptive ones and identify common types, including protective, critical, and even belligerent parts. We’ll also cover the distinctions between ego states and alters, as well as how dissociation factors into this work. You’ll review assessment tools for dissociation to help you identify key symptoms, characteristics, and presentations.
Then, dive into practical interventions, many of which you won’t find elsewhere as they are Rebecca Kase originals. Learn Rebecca’s inner sanctuary technique which focuses on building inner safety, support, and communication between parts. We'll explore Fraser's Dissociative Table technique, and how to use Rebecca' Resource Room to apply its wisdom. You'll learn a plethora of techniques inspired by depth psychotherapy to resource and integrate.
Next, we’ll focus on applying ego state therapy to the reprocessing phases. You’ll learn to identify targets based on patterns exhibited by maladaptive ego states and use ego state-informed interweaves to support effective reprocessing.
Finally, we’ll review integration and re-evaluation in Phase 8 of EMDR. You’ll explore different perspectives from the trauma field and discover how to help clients reach their goals through a client-centered, humanistic approach.
This course will equip you with a toolkit of interventions to conceptualize, stabilize, and reprocess using the EMDR protocol, supporting you in creating transformative change for your clients.
AGENDA
9-10:00Â Overview of Ego States: history, considerations, core concepts
10-10:45Â Defensive accommodation, dissociation, and working with CPTSD
10:45-11:00Â Break
11:00 -11:45Â Phase 1 of EMDR: Screening tools, the role of attachment, key symptoms indicative of maladaptive ego states
11:45-12:15Â Phase 2 of EMDR & key interventions: observing the observer, resourcing allies, communicating with parts
12:15 -1:15Â Lunch
1:15-3:00.  Fraser's Dissociative Table, the Resource Room, time orienting parts, The Inner Council
3:00 -3:15Â Break
3:15-4:00Â Reprocessing Phases: how ego states inform treatment planning; ego state inspired interweaves; Tucking In for closure
4:00 - 4:30Â Phase 8 Re-evaluation: Tracking integration and meeting client goals
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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- Define Ego States and explain their development and role within the self, particularly in the context of trauma and adaptive functioning.
- Assess at least two tools for screening for clinically significant dissociation.Â
- Examine the application of Ego State as a therapeutic approach.
- Analyze Fraser’s Dissociative Table and its usefulness in trauma therapy.
- Apply at least two techniques for increasing client stability through the use of Ego State interventions.
- Examine at least two methods for applying Ego State therapy to EMDR reprocessing.
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ABOUT YOUR TRAINER, REBECCA KASE
Trauma Therapist Institute founder Rebecca Kase is recognized as one of the foremost EMDR trainers in the U.S. An LCSW, professional EMDR consultant and trainer, and a registered yoga teacher, Rebecca has been practicing in the field of trauma counseling since 2006. She is the author of Polyvagal Informed EMDR: A Neuro-Informed Approach to Healing, and the Applied Polyvagal Theory Flipchart. She’s an expert in working with complex trauma and dissociation and has practiced in both nonprofit and private settings. In her therapy practice, Rebecca incorporates yoga therapy, ego states, somatic approaches, Polyvagal Theory, and EMDR into her work with clients, which includes veterans and adults with Complex PTSD. Rebecca is known as a skillful, clear, and enthusiastic teacher. She’ll keep you engaged and make you giggle, even in an online trauma training course!
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
