Enhanced Healing Through Attachment & EMDR + IFS Integration
With Alyce Messer, MSW, LCSW-S
Course Date: Thursday, May 14, 2026
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central Standard Time
5.5 EMDRIA and NBCC CE
Enhanced Healing Through Attachment & EMDR + IFS Integration
Understanding How Early Relationships Shape Protective Systems
Course Instructor: Alyce Messer, MSW, LCSW-S
This training explores the integration of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and EMDR through an attachment-informed lens, offering clinicians a clear, relational framework for understanding why internal systems organize as they do and how this organization manifests in both therapy and relationships.
Drawing on IFS, attachment theory, relational neuroscience, and the 8 phases of EMDR, we will examine how early caregiving experiences shape protective strategies, influence how needs are expressed or suppressed, and impact internal and relational dynamics across the lifespan. Rather than pathologizing symptoms or attachment patterns, this approach reframes them as adaptive responses designed to preserve safety, proximity, and connection.
Participants will learn how to:
Conceptualize protectors as attachment-informed strategies
Understand authenticity, dependency, and need expression through a parts-based lens
Apply IFS and attachment concepts across the 8 phases of EMDR, from history-taking and preparation through reprocessing and integration
Support the development of internal secure attachment between Self and parts
Work more compassionately and effectively with shame, people-pleasing, emotional suppression, and relational reactivity
Slow down the work to deepen self-to-part relationships and support lasting change
This training emphasizes clinical pacing, consent, and curiosity, and is especially well-suited for therapists who integrate IFS, attachment-based, trauma-informed, and EMDR approaches. The focus is on practical conceptualization, language you can bring directly into session, and helping clinicians feel more oriented when navigating complex internal systems.
Whether you are newer to IFS or looking to deepen your integration of attachment, IFS, and EMDR, this training offers a coherent, humane, and deeply relational way to think about parts, attachment, and healing.
Upcoming Course Dates
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central Standard Time
Lunch Break: 1:00 - 1:30 PM Central Standard Time
CE Credits: 5.5 EMDRIA and NBCC CE
Delivery Method: Live Course Via Zoom
Note: All times are in Central Standard Time (CST).
Cost: $225
Continuing Education Information: Kendhal Hart, PLLC, has been approved by the NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 7527). Kendhal Hart, PLLC, is in a co-sponsorship relationship with Alyce Messer, PLLC, to offer NBCC CE credit.
A Message from Kendhal
I’m excited to share this upcoming training led by Alyce Messer, LCSW-S, a colleague I deeply respect and regularly collaborate with on teaching, consultation, and clinical work.
Alyce brings a grounded, thoughtful, and clinically precise approach to EMDR Intensives, and I’m genuinely looking forward to being part of this offering alongside her and continuing to learn from her work, right alongside those who attend.
Please note: while I’m sharing this information on my site and supporting this training as a program assistant, registration and administration for this course are handled directly by Alyce.
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I’m glad to share this offering with you and hope it’s helpful for those of you looking to deepen your work with EMDR and IFS!