EMDR Advanced Training

Ego States Integration for the EMDR Therapist

Trainer: Rebecca Kase

On-Demand: Available with lifetime access for asynchronous learning. | This course was recorded on January 23rd, 2025.

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.

Rebecca Kase for Trauma Therapist Institute

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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 Interventions You Will Learn

This course gives you hands-on instruction in ego state interventions designed to integrate seamlessly across all eight phases of EMDR. Each technique is taught with clear clinical rationale and immediate application to complex trauma presentations.

  • Ego state assessment and screening tools to identify clinically significant dissociation and recognize key symptoms, characteristics, and presentations of maladaptive ego states early in treatment.
  • Distinguishing adaptive from maladaptive ego states, including how to identify and work with common parts such as protective, critical, and belligerent ego states without pathologizing them.
  • The Inner Sanctuary technique, a Rebecca Kase original, focused on building inner safety, support, and communication between parts during Phase 2 stabilization.
  • Fraser's Dissociative Table, a foundational ego state intervention for accessing, organizing, and working with multiple parts in a structured, client-paced way.
  • The Resource Room and Inner Council techniques for resourcing allies, time-orienting parts, and applying depth psychotherapy wisdom to EMDR preparation work.
  • Ego state-informed treatment planning, including how to identify reprocessing targets based on patterns exhibited by maladaptive ego states across the client's history.
  • Ego state-inspired interweaves for the reprocessing phases to support movement when parts get stuck, defended, or dysregulated during Phases 3-7.
  • Tucking In for closure, a parts-aware closure technique that supports incomplete sessions and helps clients leave session feeling contained and resourced.
  • Phase 8 integration and re-evaluation strategies, including how to track integration progress and align ongoing treatment with client goals through a humanistic, client-centered lens.
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What You'll Learn

By the end of this training, you will be able to:

  • Define ego states and explain their development and role within the self, particularly in the context of trauma, dissociation, and adaptive functioning.
  • Distinguish adaptive from maladaptive ego states and differentiate between ego states and dissociative alters within a clear clinical framework.
  • Assess clients for clinically significant dissociation using at least two screening tools that inform ego state-informed treatment planning.
  • Apply stabilization techniques including the Inner Sanctuary, Resource Room, and Fraser's Dissociative Table to support inner safety and communication between parts.
  • Implement ego state-informed treatment planning and interweaves across the reprocessing phases of EMDR to support effective and contained reprocessing.
  • Use Phase 8 integration strategies to track client progress, support meaningful integration, and align ongoing treatment with each client's healing goals.

What's Waiting for You Inside This Ego States Training

 On-demand integrative EMDR training, expert clinical strategy, and a supportive clinician community. 

Attachement Focused EMDR

Ego states across all 8 phases

Integrate parts work into every phase of the EMDR protocol with concrete techniques.

Signature stabilization techniques

Learn Rebecca's Inner Sanctuary, Resource Room, Inner Council, and Fraser's Dissociative Table.

Adaptive vs. maladaptive parts

Distinguish protective, critical, and belligerent parts from healthy ego states with clinical clarity.

Q&A and chat

Submit questions and connect with peers through the on-demand course community.

Ego state-informed interweaves

Identify reprocessing targets through parts patterns and use parts-aware interweaves to unstick processing.

Learn on your schedule

On-demand access means you go at your own pace. Lifetime access is included, so you can return whenever you need it.

Expert clinical insight

Case-grounded teaching from one of the foremost EMDR trainers in the U.S., including Rebecca's original techniques.

Free community membership

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

Who Is This Training For?

This training is for EMDR-trained therapists who are ready to bring depth and precision to their work with parts. If you have completed EMDR Basic Training and are working with complex trauma, attachment wounds, or dissociation, this course was designed for you.

You will get the most out of Ego States Integration for the EMDR Therapist if you are:

  • Working with clients who present with complex PTSD, dissociation, attachment trauma, or strong internal conflict between "parts" of self
  • Noticing protective, critical, or belligerent parts emerging during preparation or reprocessing and wanting a clearer framework for how to work with them
  • Already familiar with parts-based concepts and ready to integrate them systematically across all eight phases of EMDR
  • Looking for stabilization techniques beyond the standard calm place and container, especially for clients who struggle with traditional resourcing
  • Wanting practical, original interventions you can apply in your next session rather than purely theoretical content
  • Seeking EMDRIA, NBCC, or ASWB continuing education credits in an on-demand format
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Rebecca Kase for Trauma Therapist Institute

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

Agenda

  • Overview of Ego States: history, considerations, core concepts
  • Defensive accommodation, dissociation, and working with CPTSD
  • Phase 1 of EMDR: Screening tools, the role of attachment, key symptoms indicative of maladaptive ego states
  • Phase 2 of EMDR & key interventions: observing the observer, resourcing allies, communicating with parts
  • Fraser's Dissociative Table, the Resource Room, time orienting parts, The Inner Council
  • Reprocessing Phases: how ego states inform treatment planning; ego state inspired interweaves; Tucking In for closure
  • Phase 8 Re-evaluation: Tracking integration and meeting client goals

Learning Objectives

  • 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.
  • 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.

Prerequisites

  • EMDR Basic Training

Continuing Education

6 CEs are 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.

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 6 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

Please reference our cancellation policy here (bottom section of this page).

Price: $210

  • Lifetime access to the course - Refresh your skills anytime at your own pace. Get on-demand access after the live date.
  • Immediate clinical application - Walk away with tools you can use in your next session.
  • CEs - Earn EMDRIA, ASWB and NBCC CEs.
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