Cascadia Training for Professional Development

Easy Ego State Interventions with EMDR Expert Robin Shapiro
2025-10-10 09:00 - 2025-10-11 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Easy Ego State Interventions with EMDR Expert Robin Shapiro
Presented by: Robin Shapiro, LICSW
When:
• Friday, October 10th, 2025 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
• Saturday, October 11th, 2025 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 12 CE Credit Hours (Counts as EMDRIA CEs – EC Program Approval: #00002-48) | $499.00 * see below for payment options
An Introduction to Ego States: Functional Roles and Developmental States, Trauma/Broken-Attachment Based States, Dissociative States, and the States that Live in Clients and in You. Using Ego State Therapy with Attachment Issues, Relationships, Sexual Issues, Performance Enhancement, Trauma Recovery, and Working with Dissociative States. Including interventions for calming immune systems, transforming shame, increasing resourcing, and healing personality disorders. Includes practice, case examples, and case consultation. Many participants have personal transformation during the practice. Most are using the material as soon as they get back to work.

In her accessible and practical style, Robin Shapiro will teach you how to use ego state therapy to work with a variety of clients and their issues. During the workshop you will learn to distinguish healthy, flexible states from dissociative ones, and to map your own states, from physically-based vagal states to age and role-related states. You’ll learn methods to use embodied ego-state interventions to clear trauma, work with couples, attachment issues, sexual issues with sex-abuse survivors, over-active immune systems and chronic pain, shame, personality disorders, suicidal clients, and dissociative identity disorder. You will learn to track your own states, and you’ll practice many of the interventions. If you do EMDR, you’ll learn when it’s more useful to use EMDR, when to use ego state work, and when and how to use them both. The 3-day format includes ample time for practice, for questions, and for clinical demonstrations. And despite the seriousness of the subject, expect to enjoy the process.

Feedback from one person: “It was full to the brim, well-structured and lots of practices and demonstrations. Everyone loved it. I learned tons and would recommend her wholeheartedly. And I now know myself very differently!”

12 EMDRIA Credits are available for those who have completed an EMDRIA-approved Basic EMDR training. EC Program Approval Number: #00002-34

(If you don’t know EMDR, you can still do Ego State Therapy with your clients. If you do EMDR, I’ll be telling when to throw in the whole protocol, how to use the safe parts, and when, and with whom, to skip EMDR processing, completely.)
The workshop includes training and experiences:

Distinguish Healthy/Flexible and Dissociative Ego States (and map your own)
Overview of Ego State Interventions
Identify Vagal States
Use Embodied Ego State Interventions (includes practice)
Clear Trauma (includes practice)
Review the Theory of Structural Dissociation
If you do EMDR, you’ll learn when it’s more useful to use EMDR, when to use ego state work, and when and how to use them both.
Tools to work with sexual abuse, and then bring back healthy current sexuality
Work with Attachment Issues, including April Steele’s Building a Secure Self (practice)
Couples Therapy
Calming Over-Active Immune Systems, Multiple-Chemical Sensitivity (possible demo, if someone has one)
Pain Protocol
Shame (practice)
Resourcing (including installing your own “team”)
Healing Personality Disorders
Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

PAYMENT OPTIONS
Cascadia Training values quality continuing education that is accessible, inclusive, and without barriers to all. We never want the cost of our workshops to be a barrier to attending one of our workshops, particularly our multi-session workshops.

We offer several options to make our workshops cost-inclusive: payment plans, a limited number of scholarships, and discounts for students and early professionals.

For payment plans, you can select paying 50% today and 50% due by October 31st, 2025

Please email us at hello@cascadiatraining.org to inquire about possible discounts.

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