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Integrating IFS (Internal Family Systems) Into EMDR Therapy: The Step-By-Step Guide to Complex Trauma Recovery
Paperback
General PsychologyMental Health
Publisher Price: $36.99
ISBN13: 9781683738855
Publisher: PESI Publishing
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 250
Language: English
Clients with complex trauma often struggle with avoidance, dissociation, and increased symptoms during EMDR, making it difficult to support their sense of control and safety across treatment. In these cases, slower is faster, but how do you slow things down when EMDR is designed as an accelerated approach?
By integrating IFS therapy into EMDR, which enhances your ability to target symptoms in a more attuned and scaffolded way.
That is what you'll learn to do in this step-by-step guide, which is intended not only for EMDR and IFS clinicians, but for any provider who serves clients with a trauma history. Featuring case examples, handouts, worksheets, therapist scripts, and more, you'll learn how to:
- Use parts mapping to support stabilization and treatment planning in phase 1
- Befriend protector parts in phase 2 and receive their consent to proceed with processing
- Move through blocked reprocessing by restoring the Self-to-part connection in phases 3 and 4
- Invite parts to try on positive qualities and cognitions in phase 5
- Use somatic approaches to befriend parts in the body during phase 6
- Facilitate inclusion and closure for protective parts during phase 7
- Respect the client's system before returning to or beginning a new target in phase 8
Trauma treatment is not one size fits all. Some client parts will be more accessible with IFS, while others will be more easily discovered through EMDR. By using both approaches, you can better tailor trauma treatment for your clients, meeting them exactly where they (and their internal system) are.
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