Standard Basic Training gives you the protocol. This course addresses what the protocol alone doesn't resolve.
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Presented by
JaCarie Owens,
LMHC
Attachment-Focused EMDR Clinician · Complex Trauma and Personality Disorders
Clinicians with EMDR training know how to target trauma. But clients with personality disorder features regularly stall, destabilize, or rupture the working alliance in ways which are difficult to manage in the therapy room. The standard 8-phase protocol was not designed for clients where the attachment injury isn't a discrete event; it's the organizing principle of how they experience themselves.
LPCs, LMHCs, and licensed counselors working in trauma-focused settings or with clients presenting with attachment disruptions and relational trauma.
LISWs, LMSWs, and psychologists working with clients presenting with complex trauma, personality disorder features, or significant attachment wounds.
LMFTs and master-level mental health practitioners encountering personality disorder features, identity-based relational patterns, or attachment disruptions across the lifespan.
This training examines the developmental origins of personality disorders through an attachment lens, tracing how early relational environments shape the patterns clinicians encounter in the treatment room. It covers the connections between attachment disruption, relational trauma, and the presentation of personality disorder features across the lifespan, with attention to how these patterns appear in EMDR processing and what they require from the clinician at each phase.
JaCarie Owens's clinical focus sits at the intersection of attachment trauma and EMDR: culturally responsive, ego-state informed, grounded in years of work across community mental health and private practice. The training moves through two clinical case examples, applying attachment-based EMDR thinking to real presentation patterns and illustrating how the conceptual framework translates into actual clinical decisions.
Clinical frameworks for adapting EMDR to clients with personality disorder features, with an attachment-first orientation across all 8 phases.
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Describe how EMDR's 8-phase protocol can be adapted for clients with personality disorders.
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Differentiate between Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and other personality disorders through the lens of attachment wounds.
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Utilize parts work, somatic resourcing, and containment to promote safety and stabilization.
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Identify the relationship between early attachment disruptions and the development of personality disorders.
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Analyze at least two clinical case examples using attachment-based EMDR interventions.
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Apply culturally responsive and trauma-informed strategies when conceptualizing personality disorders.
When clinicians have a framework for understanding how attachment wounds shape personality disorder features, they can move beyond symptom-level treatment and engage the structural layer beneath the behavior.
Rather than interpreting personality disorder presentations as treatment resistance or protocol failure, clinicians gain a structured way of understanding what the relational wound requires at each phase — and how to adapt without abandoning the protocol. From attachment-informed case conceptualization to parts work, somatic resourcing, and containment, the strategies in this training are designed to apply in your next session.
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Attachment-Focused EMDR Clinician · Complex Trauma and Personality Disorders
JaCarie Owens is a licensed mental health counselor whose clinical practice is grounded in attachment-focused work, complex trauma, and personality disorders. Her approach integrates ego-state work, somatic techniques, mind-body interventions, parts work, and sand tray alongside EMDR, drawing on experience across community mental health, school-based settings, and private practice.
JaCarie's clinical focus sits at the intersection where attachment patterns and personality disorder features meet the EMDR protocol, directly addressing the protocol adaptation questions this population raises for trained clinicians. She is the owner of Courageous Minds Counseling in Clive, Iowa.
Read JaCarie's Full BioHelping me understand how to locate the wound under the behavior and respond interpersonally as a therapist in a way that helps to begin to heal that wound in the client. Really enjoyed the instructor's energy and knowledge.
Licensed Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatry
Looking at these patterns of behavior through an attachment lens facilitates a more informed, empathetic, and effective response to the client.
LMHC
I anticipate feeling more confident and comfortable using interweaves learned in this course. I particularly appreciated the instructor's attachment theory lens and her focus on cultural humility.
LMHC
4 EMDRIA-Approved Credits
EMDR & Beyond is an EMDRIA-approved continuing education provider (Provider #15007). This program (#15007-DL104) is approved for 4 EMDRIA Credits. Eligibility for EMDRIA Credits is restricted to those who have completed an EMDRIA-Approved Basic EMDR Training.
4 APA-Approved CE Credits
EMDR & Beyond is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. EMDR & Beyond remains responsible for this program and its contents.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
To receive CE or EMDRIA credits for this on-demand training, participants must complete the full curriculum and pass the post-quiz with a score of at least 75%. The certificate is released automatically once both conditions are met. Partial completion does not qualify for credit.
Licensed professionals are responsible for contacting their regulatory board to determine individual course approval.
Refunds are available within three (3) days of course purchase, less a $50 processing fee. Purchases made after this period are non-refundable.
Written grievances should be submitted to Kenya Rocha at kenya@emdrandbeyond.com. Grievances will be reviewed and, when appropriate, corrective action will be taken.
This course complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). There is no known commercial interest or conflict of interest related to this workshop. Accommodation requests: contact Kenya Rocha.
Self-paced access. No expiration. Certificate released automatically upon passing the post-quiz.
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