EMDR for Attachment Injuries

Heal attachment wounds and support lasting change. Learn advanced EMDR strategies for developmental trauma in this online course with ongoing guidance from Debra Wesselman in a dedicated forum.

About Your Online Training Course

4.7

Start date

Starts 22 December 2026

Length

6 weeks | 12 hrs total (12 months access)

Who this course is for

For EMDR Trained Therapists | Advanced Level

Accreditation

12 CE/CME Credits + 12 EMDRIA PointsSee all accreditation details

Many clients come to therapy carrying painful attachment histories - neglect, emotional inconsistency, rejection, or relational trauma. These early experiences can shape a lifetime of challenges: low self-worth, emotional reactivity, avoidance of intimacy, compulsive behaviors, and troubled relationships.

In this advanced course, EMDR expert Debra Wesselmann, from Francine Shapiro's EMDR Institute, shows you how to work effectively with attachment injuries using the full EMDR framework. You’ll learn how to identify and reprocess unhealed developmental memories, respond to present-day relational triggers, and help clients build new internal experiences of safety and connection.

You’ll also gain practical tools for working with children and families, including strategies to involve parents in the EMDR process and interrupt the intergenerational transmission of insecure attachment.

Whether you’re working with adults, adolescents, or children, this course will deepen your clinical skill and give you concrete strategies to support emotional healing and developmental repair.

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Learn From a Leading Expert in EMDR and Attachment

This course is taught by Debra Wesselmann, internationally respected EMDR trainer, therapist, and author known for her work integrating EMDR with attachment-focused treatment.

Co-founder of the Attachment and Trauma Center of Nebraska and a senior trainer with Francine Shapiro’s EMDR Institute, Debra brings over 30 years of experience treating developmental trauma and disrupted attachment.

The training features her clear instruction, therapy demonstrations, and practical strategies for applying EMDR in complex attachment cases. It also includes rare archival footage of EMDR founder Francine Shapiro, together with insights from other leading EMDR experts, offering a rich and multidimensional perspective on attachment-informed practice. See all course contributors here.

Debra Wesselman teaches EMDR for Attachment Injuries

Clinical Skills You’ll Gain

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

Recognize and differentiate key insecure attachment styles—dismissive, preoccupied, and disorganized - and understand how they present in clinical work (e.g., avoidance, aggression, emotional dysregulation, compulsivity)
Use attachment-informed history taking and treatment planning to identify key relational wounds
Apply EMDR techniques to help clients reprocess disturbing early memories and shift present-day responses
Strengthen clients’ reflective functioning using strategies grounded in Fonagy and Bateman’s work on mentalization - a key capacity often disrupted in attachment trauma
Build internal resources through creative visualizations that support developmental repair
Use future template adaptations to promote healthier relational expectations and behaviors
Involve parents in the 8 phases of EMDR with younger clients to foster healing within the family system
Navigate obstacles to therapy rooted in different attachment styles, and tailor your approach to strengthen engagement and therapeutic progress

Your EMDR for Attachment Injuries Learning Experience Includes

This six-week course combines expert instruction, clinical demonstrations, and real-world strategies to deepen your EMDR practice with attachment-related trauma.

Beautifully produced video lessons that guide you through attachment-focused EMDR strategies step-by-step
Therapy demonstrations and case examples showing how to apply EMDR techniques with clients across a range of ages and presentations
Expert interviews exploring key topics such as reflective capacity, developmental trauma, and working with family systems
Downloadable tools and handouts to support practical application in your sessions
An interactive forum where you can ask questions, share insights, and get direct feedback from course instructor Debra Wesselmann

Enrollments

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What People Say About This Course

97.2%

of 183 surveyed course participants would recommend this course to a colleague.

Debra Wesselmann is an absolutely amazing therapist and teacher. The content was so well structured and the case studies were all so helpful.
Tanya Hopwood
Psychologist - Wangi Wangi NSW Australia

Karin AustinPsychologist - Sydney Australia
This course made me a better therapist, and helped grow my confidence. It's excellent to see the therapy demos and learn from such an experienced and skilled clinician.

Kim LongPsychologist - Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada
I appreciated the content being broken down into bite-sized chunks. I greatly valued the initial review of concepts we needed to know and I love the variety of perspectives. The pacing was wonderful and the professionalism of the presenters and the technology is phenomenal. I can tell I'm learning because on one hand, some of it fits what I knew previously, but I'm being scaffolded into new knowledge, which requires me to think and process before I can just go and do.

Danielle KurzweilSocial Worker - Sacramento, California, USA
Beautifully crafted videos and materials. Clear, concise instructions addressing complex issues. Practical, effective strategies and well-organized structure for therapists to put the information immediately into practice. Just wonderful! Psychwire has done an incredible job - I finally feel immensely grounded, supported, and clear in my mind about utilizing EMDR effectively with my clients. Fantastic course that I feel is necessary for effective EMDR work and anyone wishing to be effective in their work with the vast majority of clients - most folks come to us with attachment disturbance, and this piece has been missing from almost all of my own personal therapeutic work.

Ashley CoxMFCC/MFT - San Diego, CA USA
This course has been so valuable to my growth and services as a therapist. I am getting to the heart of issues with clients like never before.

Accredited Continuing Education Credits

EMDR for Attachment Injuries is designed for EMDR trained therapists worldwide. On completion you'll receive an official certificate of completion, which can be submitted to registration bodies for CPD.

Participants can earn 12 EMDRIA Points for this training.

This course is also accredited for 12 CE/CME credit hours for US licensed professionals:

Psychologists - 12 CE hours, APA — co-sponsored with Amedco, an APA-approved sponsor
Social workers - 12 general CE credits, ASWB ACE
Physicians - 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, ACCME
Nurses - 12 contact hours, ANCC
Counselors, MFTs & addiction professionals - 12 hours, accepted by most US state boards via APA and ASWB ACE credit - see the state-by-state list
Approved CE activity with the New York State boards for Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, and Marriage & Family Therapy.

View the full learner notification for this course (PDF) - includes complete accreditation statements, state board acceptance lists, learning objectives and faculty disclosures.

How Your Course Works

Build Skills Week by Week

New content is released weekly, designed to support steady learning and integration. You can follow the recommended schedule or move at your own pace.

Access Anytime for 12 months

You’ll have a full 12 months to explore the entire course, return to key ideas, and learn at your own pace. There's no set time to be online.

Supported While You Learn

Join our course forum to ask questions, share experiences, and connect with expert trainers and fellow professionals in a supportive environment.

Explore Bonus Content

Your course includes optional bonus content, so you can dig deeper into topics that matter most to you.

Download Free Digital Library

Download a library of extra tools and resources to enrich your learning and support your practice. Yours to keep!

Receive a Certificate

Receive a certificate and the option to earn CE / CME credits upon completion of your course.