Clarity in EMDR Case Conceptualisation & Preparation for Complex Trauma

In this two-day workshop, Sarah & Catherine present a framework for case conceptualisation, preparation, & treatment planning for complex trauma presentations that can be used across the life span.  The Case Conceptualisation Preparation Framework is a capacity based transdiagnostic, integrative framework for complex trauma presentations, that includes:

1. Assessment of clients’ integrative capacity, and autonomic flexibility from a transdiagnostic adaptive information processing perspective that draws on theory, knowledge, and skills from therapies to treat dissociation.
2. Skills to understand and regulate the body and nervous system throughout all phases of EMDR.
3. The development of attachment & relational capacities that are foundational elements of healing interpersonal trauma across the life span.

Learning Objectives are that participants will:

• Learn a framework for case conceptualisation that is capacity based, transdiagnostic, and incorporates: AIP; integrative capacity in both the mind (i.e. memory, self-concept and dissociation) and body (i.e. the nervous system and its regulation); and relational capacities required to regulate the self and coregulate with others.
• Develop a method to distinguish between clinical presentations where EMDR memory reprocessing (standard or contained), may be appropriate in the first few sessions, versus when extended preparation is more advisable.
• Confidently, consciously, and collaboratively plan treatment with clients with complex, comorbid presentations across the lifespan.

Prerequisite: EMDR Therapy level 1 training

Dates: October 13th - 14th 2026 9am-5pm each day

Venue:  Mantra on Russell, 222 Russell St, Melbourne, Vic.