Complex trauma cases can make even highly experienced clinicians frustrated as they spend session after session calming clients instead of making significant treatment progress.

But your clients no longer have to be overwhelmed by the uncontrollable intensity of their past trauma…

…as now you’re invited to master Attachment-Focused EMDR through our Skills & Supervision Programme with world-renowned EMDR specialist Dr Laurel Parnell!

Dr Parnell has trained thousands of clinicians in EMDR both nationally and internationally on treating clients who have experienced horrific circumstances including childhood physical or sexual abuse, neglect, early loss, traumatic attachment, birth and medical trauma, and so much more.

By using an attachment-repair orientation with EMDR, this ground-breaking modality cuts straight to the root of the problem for faster and deeper healing with even your most complex clients.

And now you can access on-demand skills modules and personalised group supervision directly with Dr Parnell, to boost your confidence with even the most complex cases.

You’ll join an engaged cohort of your colleagues from around the world for LIVE monthly Attachment-Focused EMDR group supervision sessions, where you’ll learn how to:

• Accurately assess your client’s readiness for treatment
• Master Dr Parnell’s Four Foundational Resources for client preparation
• Identify the optimal targets for processing using the Bridging Technique
• Incorporate techniques that will supercharge your processing
• Avoid the common pitfalls therapists fall into so you don’t get “stuck” with clients
• And much more! (See skills sessions below for full details)

This is your chance to learn directly from the creator of Attachment-Focused EMDR exactly how you can use it in your own practice to speed healing and deepen therapeutic outcomes with your own clients!

Plus, you’ll get unlimited and on-demand access to the recordings of the skills sessions, so you can review the material as often as you’d like.

Normally an opportunity like this would take years of waiting to be selected… but you get the rare chance to be part of this very limited cohort of 56 engaged clinicians!

Program Schedule

Upon signing up, you’ll have instant access to all six AF-EMDR skills sessions to review at the time and pace that suits you.

Then each month during the programme, Dr Parnell will guide you and your colleagues through LIVE supervision group sessions* where you’ll have all your clinical queries answered! You can submit cases for Dr Parnell to review for personalised feedback and guidance. (See below for full schedule.)

*We highly recommend you are already using Attachment-Focused EMDR, or have purchased and are reviewing the skills sessions modules, before attending the group supervision sessions.

*Please note for confidentiality reasons, the group supervision sessions will not be recorded. Ensure you can attend these live if you do not want to miss any content, as you will not be able to watch a replay of these sessions.

Skills Session 1 – Attachment-Focused EMDR Overview

Master the theoretical foundations of Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) through discovering how it developed, the five basic principles that guide all AF-EMDR practises and how and when you should use AF-EMDR over traditional EMDR protocols in your practice.

Skills Session 2 – Attachment-Focused EMDR Preparation

Discover the step-by-step process you need to effectively install the Four Foundational Resources used in AF-EMDR, such as the ideal mother. Dr Parnell will show you how to assess your client’s readiness for EMDR, so you know exactly when they are ready to begin processing sessions.

Skills Session 3 – Attachment-Focused EMDR Desensitisation

Dr Parnell will give you her AF-EMDR practice-proven techniques to use during the desensitisation phase of EMDR processing. You will discover the do’s and don’ts of processing including distancing techniques for high SUDS sessions, when to return to the target and when to keep processing, and suggestions for session closure.

Skills Session 4 – Case Conceptualisation and Target Development

You’ll receive the comprehensive guidance you need to take a client’s history, conceptualise their case and develop targets from their early traumatic memories for process. Dr Parnell will share with you her unique protocols and techniques to uncover the best targets for processing when your clients cannot identify them for themselves.

Skills Session 5 – Helping Clients with Processing Difficulties and Using Interweaves

Benefit from Dr Parnell’s decades of clinical experience processing as she shares with you her techniques to work through common difficulties and sticking points including working with abreactions, dissociation, memory chaining and using interweaves to unblock processing.

Skills Session 6 – Attachment-Focused EMDR: Repairing Developmental Deficits

Building on the knowledge of resource installation and the Four Foundational Resources you gained during the previous sessions, Dr Parnell will cover alternative resources that clients may use. These include creating new parents, new creative family constellations and other reparative resources.

Building on the knowledge of resource installation and the Four Foundational Resources you gained during the previous sessions, Dr Parnell will cover alternative resources that clients may use. These include creating new parents, new creative family constellations and other reparative resources.

The supervision sessions will take place at the following times*:

Day 1 – 14 January 2025

Supervision Session 1 | 17:30 – 18:30 GMT
Break | 18:30-18:45 GMT
Supervision Session 2 | 18:45-19:45 GMT

Day 2 – 11 February 2025

Supervision Session 3 | 17:30 – 18:30 GMT
Break | 18:30-18:45 GMT
Supervision Session 4 | 18:45-19:45 GMT

Day 3 – 11 March 2025

Supervision Session 5 | 17:30 – 18:30 GMT
Break | 18:30-18:45 GMT
Supervision Session 6 | 18:45-19:45 GMT

Who Should Attend?

This programme is suitable for all mental health professionals including Psychotherapists, Counsellors, IAPT Practitioners, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Nurses, and more. We recommend you have prior training in Attachment-Focused EMDR or purchase and review the skills sessions before joining the group supervision sessions.