Clinical Conversation
Why EMDR Sometimes Doesn’t Land: The Hidden Role of Attachment and Neglect
Guest:Â Cassidy DuHadway, LCSW
Live:Â Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 at 1:00 pm CentralÂ
On-Demand: This course, previously live, is now available for asynchronous on-demand learning. Available one week after the live event.
What do you do when EMDR is “working” on paper, but your client still feels empty, unseen, or unworthy underneath? So many EMDR therapists are trained to track targets, SUDs, and cognition shifts. Fewer are shown how attachment wounds and emotional neglect quietly shape the entire process. Clients may present with anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, or chronic spiritual doubt, while the real injury sits in unspoken attachment needs and long-term neglect.
Join us for a free, clinically honest Clinical Conversation with trauma therapist, EMDR Approved Trainer, and religious trauma specialist Cassidy DuHadway, LCSW. Together, we’ll look at how attachment and emotional neglect show up in EMDR and trauma work, and how you can bring more depth, safety, and effectiveness to your EMDR training and trauma treatment with real clients in the room.
This is for EMDR therapists, trauma therapists, and clinicians who want to deepen their attachment training, work more confidently with complex trauma, and help clients move beyond symptom management into real shifts in identity, worth, and belonging.
In this conversation, we’ll explore:
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How attachment wounds and emotional neglect often hide behind “presenting problems” like anxiety, people-pleasing, religious scrupulosity, and chronic overwhelm
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Key clinical signs that attachment and neglect are shaping your EMDR or trauma sessions, even when targets seem clear
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Ways to adapt EMDR and other trauma training frameworks when the nervous system has never known consistent care, attunement, or safety
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How to work with core beliefs around love, worth, and belonging so your EMDR therapist training and trauma work reaches deeper than symptom relief
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Practical language and interventions you can use to name attachment and neglect in session without shaming clients or overwhelming their system
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How to stay grounded as a therapist when clients’ attachment needs pull for over-functioning, rescuing, or emotional shutdown in you
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About Guest, Cassidy DuHadway, LCSW
Cassidy DuHadway, LCSW, is a trauma therapist, EMDR Approved Trainer, and author of Becoming Me: Unraveling and Healing the Sacred Wounds of Religious Trauma. She specializes in complex trauma and emotional neglect, helping clients and therapists understand the deeper stories beneath symptoms like anxiety, overwhelm, and perfectionism. Cassidy is the CEO of Purple Sky Counseling in Utah where she leads a team dedicated to deep, long term healing. Her work focuses on reclaiming identity, rebuilding trust in the body, and making space for every part of the human experience.al lens.
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