Clinical Strategies for Parts Work in EMDR Therapy (FPS-CPD) - June 2026

This webinar teaches practitioners to work with clients’ “parts” using EMDR. It focuses on trauma, dissociation, and nervous system regulation, helping professionals assess, apply trauma-informed care, and reflect on skills, biases, and growth.

Live Online Webinar

Capability levels: Established, Expert

Everyone has parts, and parts are always listening! This session is aimed at educating social work professionals on how to best uncover a client’s parts and how to gently identify and work collaboratively with a client’s parts, without fear or pathologising, to support meaningful healing.

Social workers and other practitioners who take a holistic approach will particularly benefit from learning how to help clients understand aspects of themselves that may have become fragmented or suppressed due to trauma.

Drawing on the evidence-based approach of EMDR therapy, this webinar explores how a “bottom-up” framework can support nervous system regulation and trauma resolution. EMDR can facilitate profound and lasting change by helping clients process traumatic memories, release long-held negative cognitions, and strengthen adaptive core beliefs—supporting the brain’s innate capacity for healing.

Who should attend?

This webinar is designed for professionals interested in deepening their understanding of EMDR therapy and its application as a bottom-up approach for working with PTSD, complex PTSD, dissociation, and parts-based presentations.

While pitched at an intermediate level for practitioners with foundational EMDR experience, it is also highly relevant for social workers and other mental health professionals seeking to:

• Expand their knowledge of trauma-informed EMDR practice
• Develop confidence in working with “parts”
• Apply the structural dissociation model to better understand how PTSD and complex trauma manifest

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

· Identify how to best assess clients for dissociation and complex trauma.

· Understand some of the specific nuances and clinical considerations to be made in applying EMDR to clients with clients who have ‘parts’/dissociate.

· Evaluate their skill level and one identified professional goal to pursue as a result of the training (reflecting on any micro-aggressions, prejudices or biases might you hold about working with this client group that is inhibiting your current practice).

AASW Credentials: Mental Health (FPS), Clinical SW

FPS: Skills Training will be incorporated into a section of this workshop under g. of the Medicare schedule https://www9.health.gov.au/mbs/fullDisplay.cfm?type=note&q=MN.7.4&qt=noteID&criteria=MN%2E7%2E4)

Please consider the AASW CPD Policy regarding FPS when logging your FPS hours manually.

In the event of audit, it is the member's responsibility to clearly demonstrate how this FPS training is relevant to the delivery of FPS in their specific work context.

Can't attend live? Your registration includes a copy of the presentation slides and 2 weeks' free access to the event recording.