Ego States Integration for the EMDR Therapist
Live: January 23rd, 2025 - 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM MTN | On-demand after
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.
You’ll walk away feeling inspired and filled up.
This course will be recorded on January 23rd, 2025.
Available for synchronous-online or asynchronous-on demand learning.
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Course Details
Learn to work with “parts” or “ego states” across the eight phases of EMDR therapy. Everyone has ego states, but unresolved trauma can make these parts bring up distressing and troubling symptoms.
We’ll start with the history of ego states and explore their role in dissociation, complex PTSD, attachment, and trauma. You’ll learn to distinguish adaptive ego states from maladaptive ones and identify common types, including protective, critical, and even belligerent parts. We’ll also cover the distinctions between ego states and alters, as well as how dissociation factors into this work. You’ll review assessment tools for dissociation to help you identify key symptoms, characteristics, and presentations.
Then, dive into practical interventions, many of which you won’t find elsewhere as they are Rebecca Kase originals. Learn Rebecca’s inner sanctuary technique which focuses on building inner safety, support, and communication between parts. Learn to create a resource room, an inner council, and resource parts with wise and protective advocates.
Next, we’ll focus on applying ego state therapy to the reprocessing phases. You’ll learn to identify targets based on patterns exhibited by maladaptive ego states and use ego state-informed interweaves to support effective reprocessing.
Finally, we’ll review integration and re-evaluation in Phase 8 of EMDR. You’ll explore different perspectives from the trauma field and discover how to help clients reach their goals through a client-centered, humanistic approach.
This course will equip you with a toolkit of interventions to conceptualize, stabilize, and reprocess using the EMDR protocol, supporting you in creating transformative change for your clients.
Schedule
- 9:00 – 10:00: Overview of Ego States: history, considerations, core concepts
- 10:00 – 10:30: Core considerations for working with parts, client goals, and the difference between ego states & alters
- 10:30 – 10:45: Break
- 10:45 – 11:30: Phase 1 of EMDR: Screening tools, the role of attachment, key symptoms indicative of maladaptive ego states
- 11:30 – 12:00: Phase 2 of EMDR & Ego State interventions: The Inner Sanctuary
- 12:00 – 1:00: Lunch
- 1:00 – 2:30: Phase 2 of EMDR: The Resource Room, the Inner Council, Wise & Protective Advocates
- 2:30 – 3:30: Reprocessing Phases: how ego states inform treatment planning; ego state inspired interweaves; re-appraisal of roles and responsibilities
- 3:30 – 3:45: Phase 8 Re-evaluation: Tracking integration and meeting client goals
Format
This course is available for viewing through the Kase & CO learning platform.
If you register before the live recording date, you may attend the live, interactive webinar. Instructions for attending the live, interactive webinar are found in your learner account. You will have access to the on-demand, asynchronous course for 1 year from the live date.
Registrations after the live date, may view this course on-demand, asynchronously for 1 year from your registration date.
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.
About Your Trainer, Rebecca Kase
Kase & CO 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
Prerequisites
To register for this course, you must have completed Parts 1 and 2 of EMDR Basic Training.
Continuing Education
6 CEs are available upon completion of all course material.
Kase & CO is an approved continuing education provider. ACE, NBCC and EMDRIA CEs are available for this course. This course is not approved for APA CEs.
Participants must complete the full training to receive credit.
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
Refunds are not available for on-demand courses.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
ACE Approved Provider
Kase & CO, #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: 1/16/2024 – 1/16/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 6 total credits clinical continuing education credits.
NBCC Approved Provider
Kase & CO 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
Kase & CO is an EMDRIA Approved Training Provider. Kase & CO courses are individually approved. CE Certificate will contain course approval number.
