PART 2 of 2-Part Training: Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy for Adults
Transitioning & Integrating into EMDR Phases 3-8
Attachment trauma negatively impact adults in the development of a strong sense of self, a balanced personality structure and functioning, the ability to form healthy attachments in present-day relationships including the therapy relationship, and the capability to benefit from EMDR therapy.
Part 2 is 2-day training teaches participants strategies that assist clients in effectively transitioning from AFTT-A protocols that focus on and deepen positive affect to protocols that introduce and titrate experiences of negative affect through the creation of a new bonding contract and therapeutic story.
Participants will acquire skills and be offered opportunities to practice assisting clients to utilize reconstructed parts and attachments within their internal personality system and integrate newly acquired adaptive information in order to successfully move into and complete EMDR Phases 3-8. The training instructs participants to implement EMDR therapy Standard Protocol more safely with complex clients through “contained reprocessing” and inverted protocols as well as utilizing cognitive interweaves to access internal support of the restructured personality system.
Lecture, films, demonstrations, Q & A, handouts, experiential reflections and practicum sessions will allow participants to apply strategies immediately with their own clients.
With adaptations and consideration for the increased complexity of the internal personality system, AFTT-A protocols can be utilized within overall treatment for DID, although such application is not the focus of this workshop.
The Objectives
Participants will leave the training prepared to:
Demonstrate strategies to strengthen Competent Adult part of Self through positive updates to old Bonding Contract rules.
Develop a therapeutic story for adults in the format designed by Joan Lovett MD.
Choose strategies to provide an emotionally corrective experience in the therapeutic relationship to improve clients’ attachment patterns.
Explain components of attachment-focused trauma therapy to assist clients in successfully transitioning to and completing EMDR Phases 3-8.
Apply inverted protocols to enhance affect regulation while reprocessing traumatic material.
Define “contained reprocessing” and explain how the strategy prevents clients with developmental trauma from accessing too much material at the same time during standard protocol.
Identify at least 2 cognitive interweaves that integrate elements from the preparation phase into the desensitization and reprocessing phases of EMDR for safer or more efficient reprocessing.
Employ new information about participants’ own internal personality structure, internal attachments, and history to enhance their mindful awareness and attunement in the therapeutic relationship.
Integrate AFTT-A strategies and protocols into clinical practice.
Pricing
$450 by October 30th
$485 after October 30th
IF YOU ARE REPEATING PART 1
$225 by October 30th
$242 after October 30th
The Instructors
Debra Wesselmann, MS, LIMHP
Ann E. Potter, Ph.D.
Date & Details
November 13, 2026 -
November 14, 2026
This is a VIRTUAL TRAINING via Zoom.
Attendance at all parts of both days is required with video on.
Participation in all experiential practices is required.
You must have completed Part 1 before attending this session.
CEs & Credits
Credits are only available to those that have NOT taken Part 2 within their current renewal period.
Please check with your state licensing board on eligibility.
13 EMDRIA Credits per part
(26 total for both parts)
EMDRIA Approval #:
01007-86 (Part 1) / 01007-87 (Part 2)
The Schedule
**Attendance at all parts of both days is required with video on.
Participation in all experiential practices is required.
Day 1: November 13th
8:30-9:00AM: CHECK IN
9:00-11AM: Continued personality reconstruction with AFTT-A: Parts’ Work– Negotiating Roles for Old & New Versions of Adult & Parent Parts of Self, Video, Experiential Practice.
11-11:15AM BREAK
11:15-12:15PM: Continued personality reconstruction with AFTT-A: Parts’ Work: Tucking in Child Parts, Video
12:15-1:15PM LUNCH
1:15-2:15PM: Experiential practice
2:15-2:30 BREAK
2:30-4:15PM: Developing New Early Bonding Contract Rules, Video, Experiential
4:15-5:00PM: Q & A
Day 2: November 14th
8:30-9AM: CHECK IN
9-10:30AM: Therapeutic Story, Sample Story, Experiential & Practice.
10:30-10:45AM: BREAK
10:45AM-12PM: Getting Permission & Time Orientation. Videos.
12:00-1PM: LUNCH
1-2PM: Setting Goals for Transition to Phases 3-8, Videos
2-2:15PM: BREAK
2:15-4:45PM: Getting Permission for Trauma Work, Transition, Experiential Practice. Clinical Choices Regarding Targeting Sequence & the EMD-EMDR Continuum.
4:45-5PM: Q & A
Additional Details
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Together, Deb and Ann co-authored EMDR and Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy for Adults (Springer, 2023).
Debra Wesselmann, MS, LIMHP
Debrais a member of the faculty of the EMDR Institute and an institute basic EMDR trainer. She has provided EMDR specialty trainings related to attachment trauma in children and adults worldwide. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, and has authored and co-authored multiple books, articles, and chapters — including two co-authored with EMDR founder Francine Shapiro, Ph.D.
Ann E. Potter, Ph.D.
Annhas worked for over 40 years in the mental health field as a psychiatric nurse, educator, therapist, psychologist, evaluator, researcher, writer, presenter, and consultant. She is a certified therapist and approved consultant in EMDR and a certified therapist in Radically Open DBT (RO DBT), with extensive experience in DBT as well. Dr. Potter has conducted outcome research on phase-based trauma treatment and authored books and articles on trauma treatment and EMDR therapy.
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Attendance at all parts of both days is required with video on.
Participation in all experiential practices is required.
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100% refund by November 2nd.
50% refund by November 5th.
Any cancellations after November 5th will be a credit towards a future training.
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AFTT-A is designed for licensed mental health professionals who have completed EMDR Basic Training, including psychologists, counselors, social workers, nurses, and other mental health and addiction professionals. It is an intermediate-level training.
With appropriate adaptations, AFTT-A protocols can be utilized within broader treatment for dissociative identity disorder (DID), though DID treatment is not the primary focus of this workshop.
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You may sign up at the lower rate “Repeat part 1” price if you have previously taken the full course or want to repeat Part 1.
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