IFS and EMDR: A Primer, Part 2
January 31, 2026
Live Webinar
This Part 2 advanced training expands integration of IFS and EMDR, focusing on Discovery— the exploration of protective parts’ roles, fears, and motivations. Covers Unblending, an EMD protocol addressing protectors’ fears, and cognitive interweaves to reduce blocking beliefs, improving stabilization and desensitization with complex trauma clients using demonstration, and practicum.
This training further expands ways to integrate IFS and EMDR. Specifically focused on expanding the role, motivation and fears of protective parts. In IFS, this is called Discovery. Through the Discovery interactions, clients develop a stronger benevolent relationship with their protective parts, allowing for the client to have more self-agency and feel more empowered in the therapeutic process. Participants in this training will be able to describe how Discovery assists in stabilization with complex trauma clients. The training will further identify strategies for “Unblending” in order to better work with a particular protector. The training will provide an EMD protocol for working with protective parts’ fears. These strategies will allow the desensitizing phase of EMDR to move more effectively and decrease negative responses to unprocessed or incomplete processing of Targets. Participants will also be able to recognize the relationship between blocking beliefs and protective parts, enhancing the use of cognitive interweaves. Through didactic, demonstration, and practice sessions, participants will experience their own internal system and gain skills in working with their clients’ systems.
Presenter Bio:
Josie Juhasz, MA, LPC, has been a psychotherapist for 35 years, practicing in Vermont, Washington D.C., and currently Bend, Oregon. She is EMDR certified, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, Basic Training Facilitator, and the Coordinator for Central OR Trauma Recovery Network. She’s provides additional specialty trainings specific to trauma and complex trauma and IFS informed EMDR. In her practice, she specializes in IFS informed EMDR Consultations.
After traveling with an international training team to Uganda where she taught EMDR to mental health practitioners, Josie co-authored a chapter entitled “Learning EMDR in Uganda: An experiment in cross-cultural collaboration” in Mark Nickerson’s book, Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally Based Trauma with EMDR Therapy (revised 2022).
Timeline:
8:15 – 10:15am: Review basic concepts; Discovery with Protective Parts; Unblending; Demo
10:15 – 10:30am BREAK
10:30 -12:30pm: Practicum and Q&A
12:30 – 1:00pm LUNCH
1:00 – 2:30pm: Working with Protector Fears; Demo
2:30 – 2:45pm BREAK
2:45 – 4:30pm: Practicum; Q&A and wrap up
Learning Objectives:
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the process of and identify the six steps of “Discovery” and accompanying interventions in the Internal Family Systems model.
2. Identify the client’s protective parts and two strategies for unblending within the Internal Family Systems model.
3. Describe at least one additional skill to support self energy in the IFS model.
4. Recognize at least one EMD protocol in working with protective parts fears.
5. Identify at least three cognitive interweaves when addressing Protective Parts within the Desensitizing Phase of EMDR
To register for this live workshop please visit: https://emdr-professional-training.thinkific.com/courses/ifs-and-emdr-a-primer-part-2-January-2026
This course content is based on a publication that has been peer-reviewed, the scientific standard for evaluating academic work. All studies and scientifically derived evidence have limitations that should be considered. If you have any questions about the accuracy or limitations of the content, please contact us at
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Credit Hours issued by ACEP No. 5679.
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