May 4, 2026 @ 9:00 am – May 6, 2026 @ 5:00 pm
In-person advanced EMDR training for mental health professionals
Join international EMDR expert Dolores Mosquera for three immersive days of training in Sydney. Each day focuses on a distinct area of complex trauma and relational dynamics, integrating theory with real clinical cases, video demonstrations, and EMDR-specific strategies.
This event is for EMDR-trained clinicians. Numbers will be capped to preserve the quality of the learning experience.
📍 Training Details
Dates: Monday 4 – Wednesday 6 May 2026
Times: 8:00am – 4:00pm daily (registration opens at 8:00am)
Venue: Sydney – Final venue to be confirmed
Daily Schedule:
- 8:00–9:00am | Registration (Tea & Coffee)
- 9:00–10:30am | Training
- 10:30–11:00am | Morning Tea
- 11:00am–12:30pm | Training
- 12:30–1:30pm | Lunch
- 1:30–2:45pm | Training
- 2:45–3:00pm | Afternoon Break
- 3:00–4:00pm | Training
🧩 Day 1 – Monday 4 May
Parts Work in EMDR Therapy: A Practical Guide
Clients with complex trauma often present with inner conflict, dissociative parts, and difficulties with trust, emotion regulation, and session structure. This training offers practical tools and strategies to help therapists structure effective treatment plans and navigate the challenges of working with parts of the memory system.
You’ll learn how to explore the internal system, identify dissociative patterns, and develop the client’s Adult Self to increase therapeutic stability. Emphasis is placed on managing distrust, hostility, and conflicting internal voices, with real clinical examples and session tools.
🔑 Key Topics:
- Key concepts in working with dissociative disorders and parts
- How to structure a treatment plan and organise sessions
- Guided questions and variations to explore internal systems
- Strengthening the Adult Self – one piece at a time
- Case conceptualisation tools for working with dissociative parts
- Strategies for managing inner conflict and hostility in therapy
🎯 Learning Objectives:
- Describe three clinical aspects of working with dissociative disorders
- Develop structured treatment and session plans
- Apply at least five techniques for building the Adult Self
- Identify and explore inner conflict using targeted questions
- Improve collaboration and cooperation
💔 Day 2 – Tuesday 5 May
Working with Victims of Domestic Violence: EMDR Strategies for Complex Relational Trauma
Many survivors of domestic violence remain stuck in dangerous relationships or repeat harmful relational patterns. This training provides a comprehensive EMDR-informed approach to understanding learned helplessness, trauma bonding, idealisation of the perpetrator, and internalised responsibility.
You’ll explore how to assess ambivalence, support emotional regulation, and select targets for reprocessing from both early developmental experiences and current abusive dynamics.
🔑 Key Topics:
- Psychoeducation on abuse dynamics and perpetrator strategies
- Learned helplessness, guilt, and invalidation
- Trauma bonding and attachment to the perpetrator
- Defensive emotional regulation and blocking emotions
- Target selection: early experiences, past relationships, and current patterns
- Working with dysfunctional positive affect and idealised memories
🎯 Learning Objectives:
- Differentiate responsibility from vulnerability in victims
- Use psychoeducation to support insight, build adaptive information and safety planning
- Identify common defences and emotional regulation strategies
- Apply the “Best Moments” procedure to work with idealisation
- Develop tailored EMDR treatment plans that address ambivalence, guilt, and trauma bonds
🪞 Day 3 – Wednesday 6 May
Understanding and Treating Narcissism with EMDR
Narcissistic presentations are diverse and often misunderstood, ranging from grandiose and entitled behaviours to shame-sensitive, anxious, and withdrawn traits. This training explores the full spectrum of narcissism and provides targeted EMDR strategies for both overt and covert presentations.
You’ll learn how narcissistic traits can arise from chronic neglect, abuse, or excessive praise, and how to track these developmental pathways to support case formulation and therapeutic engagement. Techniques will be explored for every phase of EMDR, with practical strategies for managing relational challenges and emotional activation.
🔑 Key Topics:
• The full spectrum: overt and covert narcissism
• Developmental origins: neglect, trauma, and excessive praise
• Attachment disruptions and emotional regulation strategies
• Navigating the therapeutic relationship and countertransference
• Target selection: trauma history and dysfunctional positive affect
🎯 Learning Objectives:
• Recognise both overt and covert narcissistic presentations
• Understand defensive mechanisms and shame-based responses
• Apply tailored strategies for EMDR Phases 3-7
• Identify early relational trauma contributing to narcissistic traits
• Strengthen therapeutic engagement with narcissistic clients
💰 Pricing
Full registration includes all three days – no single-day tickets.
- Super Early Bird: $1000 + GST (just $333/day) – until 30 Nov 2025
- Early Bird: $1200 + GST (just $400/day) – until 31 Jan 2026
- Standard: $1500 + GST
✔ 18 hours of live training
✔ Morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea daily
✔ Certificate of attendance for CPD
✔ Practical tools, demonstrations, and clinical depth
