attachment-informed EMDR: Core Concepts, Session Structure, and Clinical Decision Making
You're trained in EMDR. You know the protocol. And with many clients, it works well.
But with attachment wounds, developmental trauma, and chronically dysregulated nervous systems, the work can feel less clear. Targets are harder to identify, because the wound is often what didn't happen rather than a single event. Activation turns cognitive, or overwhelming. Sessions drift or feel unfinished, even when you're careful and aligned with the model.
If you've ever thought, something important is here but I'm not sure how to work with it, you're not alone. This training is designed for exactly that clinical territory.
Attachment-informed EMDR, developed and taught by Mark Brayne, offers a structured way to understand what is organising your client's presentation and how to work with it, keeping attachment and nervous system regulation in view throughout the session.
Mark's way in: the EMDR protocol is the DeLorean. It's the vehicle that lets us drop back in time without getting stuck there. We begin in the present, because that's where the client lives. We listen for the signal in the noise. We resource first, so the nervous system has enough support. Then we bridge back to formative developmental moments and return to the present cleanly, every time.
Over three days, you'll learn the six core elements of the approach. You'll conceptualise cases so that developmental adaptations like poor affect regulation, absent self-soothing, and fragile relational safety become the map rather than the obstacle. You'll build resourcing plans with nurturing, protective, and wise figures for clients who never internalised them. You'll bridge from present-day triggers, pervasive emotions, and future fears to the formative targets underneath. You'll practice an embodied approach to activation that tracks nervous system capacity, use repair-focused imaginal and relational interweaves when processing stalls, and structure sessions with a clear beginning, coherent middle, and intentional ending. Day three is a demonstration-focused masterclass where you'll watch it all come together in extended clinical sequences, with Mark explaining every decision as he makes it. Not just what he does. When, and why.
You'll leave with clearer case conceptualisation, more confidence choosing meaningful targets, sharper judgment about when to stay out of the way and when to intervene, and sessions that feel contained, coherent, and complete.
Three days. In person in Greenwood Village, Colorado, or live online. 18 CE clock hours. One approach that changes how you work with the clients who need it most.