EMDR Therapy & Parts Work
Christchurch, September 2025
Presented by Caroline Burrows, EMDRAA Accredited EMDR Trainer & Consultant
Are you an EMDR therapist looking to enhance your skills with greater flexibility and creativity? Join Caroline Burrows, an EMDRAA Accredited EMDR Trainer, for a two-day advanced workshop exploring the integration of EMDR Therapy and Parts Work.
| When | Thursday 18th September – Friday 19th September 2025 9am – 5pm both days |
| Where | Commodore Hotel, 449 Memorial Avenue, Christchurch |
| Cost | $835 NZD (incl GST) for 2 days, including catering. |
| To Register | Email: [email protected] Include your name, location, and any dietary requirements. |
To maintain a safe and intimate learning environment, spaces are limited. Early registration is encouraged.
Completion of basic training 1 & 2 is required to attend the EMDR Therapy and Parts Work workshop.
Why attend this workshop?
A common challenge in EMDR therapy arises when clients initially express a desire to reprocess trauma but later show signs of avoidance or ambivalence. Often, this stems from unresolved internal conflicts among parts. Integrating parts work into EMDR Therapy can be a transformative way to address these challenges.
While parts work is frequently linked to dissociative disorders, it is effective for a wide range of clients. Those experiencing internal conflict, shame, low self-worth, fear of change, ambivalence, avoidance, affect phobia, or compulsive behaviours can all benefit from parts-oriented interventions. Parts work helps stabilise clients, reduce shame and internal phobias, and bring resistant parts 'on board' with the therapy process. By fostering collaboration among parts, clients can develop a healthier internal relationship, increase self-acceptance and self-compassion, overcome maladaptive behaviours, and engage more fully and safely in EMDR trauma reprocessing.
What you’ll learn
You will learn how to effectively integrate parts work with EMDR Therapy to support trauma reprocessing and address common blocks when working with complex and dissociative clients. The focus is on working with parts in a non-pathologising, affirming manner. Key topics include:
• The theory of structural dissociation of the personality
• Using parts work for dissociative and non-dissociative clients alike
• Fraser’s Dissociative Table Technique
• Working therapeutically with dissociative parts, voices and phobias
• Parts interventions to address internal conflict, avoidance and ambivalence
• Creatively weaving parts work across all phases of EMDR Therapy
• 'Micro processing' interventions to enable safe trauma reprocessing with dissociative clients.
Who is Caroline Burrows?
Caroline Burrows is an Accredited EMDR Trainer and Consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. Her training is in clinical social work and psychotherapy. She has over 17 years of experience providing therapeutic services across community, hospital, medical and university settings. As the Owner and Director of Mindful Living, Caroline leads the largest team of EMDR therapists in Australia, delivering EMDR services through standard, intensive, and group-based formats. During her role as the EMDR Coordinator at The Melbourne Clinic, she pioneered Victoria's first inpatient hospital EMDR program. Her expertise led her to subsequently consult for several private psychiatric hospitals, aiding in the development of their own EMDR inpatient programs. Caroline has an infectious enthusiasm for EMDR Therapy and provides innovative EMDR training and consultation to therapists across Australia and abroad. Caroline loves encouraging, motivating, and mentoring therapists as they embrace the opportunities that EMDR Therapy brings.
