Who's Driving the Bus? Empowering Healing Through EMDR Therapy and Parts Work
Live Workshop
Friday, August 1st, 2025
presented by Michelle Gottlieb, PsyD, and Lori Cao, MA, LMFT, CSAT
Instructor: Michelle Gottlieb, Psy.D.
As Co-Founder, President, and CEO of EMDR Professional Training, Michelle Gottlieb, PsyD, MFT, LPCC, is an experienced clinician with over 30 years of clinical experience. Dr. Gottlieb is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and an EMDRIA Approved Trainer.
After years of working in therapy or families, individuals, and children, Dr. Gottlieb discovered EMDR in 2000. She soon completed her EMDR Certification and began using EMDR therapy within her practice. The rapid and positive results she saw with her clients created an urgency to go further with EMDR therapy.
Dr. Gottlieb’s private practice is in Fullerton, California, where she specializes in complex trauma and chronic pain/illness. She also holds an adjunct faculty position in the Graduate program for the Department of Counseling at California State University, Fullerton.
Michelle is the author of the book Balance and Change (2004) and writes an ongoing column for The Fullerton Observer, by the same title. She co-hosts the EMDR Chat podcast and has co-published the article, “Reducing the Cost of Caring: Indirect Trauma Exposure on Mental Health Providers” (2023).
If anyone is passionate about EMDR therapy, Michelle is, and she’s passionate about teaching it to other clinicians. Participants who have been trained by Dr. Gottlieb often comment that she makes complex material easy to understand and apply with a special talent for creating a light and enjoyable environment for learning.
Instructor: Lori Cao, MA, LMFT, CSAT
Lori Cao, MA, LMFT, CSAT has a Minnesota based private practice specializing in chemical and sexual/porn addictions, compulsive sexual behaviors, complex and developmental traumas, and grief/loss. Utilizing EMDR Therapy, she works with individuals and couples towards recovery. She has years of experience in the MICD treatment field as a clinician and educator, she continues to lecture on topics of EMDR Therapy, Addiction and Family Roles, Trauma, and Grief. She is an EMDRIA approved facilitator and HAP/Trauma Recovery senior facilitator for EMDR Basic Trainings across the United States and runs consultation groups nationwide; as well as, contracted by agencies to consult. She was awarded 2019 HAP Facilitator of the Year and is an EMDRIA approved basic training trainer. Having witnessed countless transformational experiences in clients’ lives, Lori is dedicated to sharing this powerful therapy for exponential healing. While excitement drives her mission, she receives consistent feedback from participants that she’s incredibly knowledgeable, down to earth, witty, and supports each person to feel successful all along the process.
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Course curriculum
Who's Driving the Bus? Empowering Healing Through EMDR Therapy and Parts Work
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Your CE Certificate
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Who's Driving the Bus? Empowering Healing Through EMDR Therapy and Parts Work
- $299.00
- 1-Day Virtual Training
- 6 Professional CEs and 6 EMDRIA Credits
Course Description, Learning Objectives, Schedule
Program Abstract/ Program Description
Several models of parts work exist, such as Ego State Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and the Theory of Structural Dissociation, but the overlaps may confuse or overwhelm EMDR clinicians trying to integrate these concepts into trauma therapy. This immersive 6-hour training clarifies the theoretical landscape and equips EMDR therapists with practical, parts-informed strategies to enhance case conceptualization and treatment planning. Within this training, clinicians will be able to recognize how ego states and dissociative parts manifest in sessions and identify how to engage parts across all phases of EMDR therapy. Through an integrative lens, this training guides the clinician when and how to incorporate parts work, manage clinical roadblocks like blocking beliefs and dissociation, and foster lasting healing through compassionate, parts-aware trauma reprocessing.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe ego state theory and distinguish from dissociative identity disorder (DID).
- Describe how ego states and parts show up in EMDR therapy.
- Identify at least one instance within an EMDR session to integrate parts work.
- Recognize structured strategies for engaging parts during all phases of EMDR.
- Describe at least three possible challenges when integrating parts work in an EMDR Therapy session, such as blocking beliefs, dissociation, and overwhelm.
- Explain integration and healing through parts-aware trauma processing.
Schedule
Friday, August 1, 2025
Please note: This course meets in Pacific Daylight Time. Please adjust times according to your timezone.
| Time: | Course Content: |
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| 8:45 - 9:00am Pacific Time |
Check in and attendance |
| 9:00 - 10:45am (105 min) |
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| 10:45 - 11:00am | BREAK |
| 11:00 -11:30pm (30 min) |
- Differentiating from DID - Continuum of Dissociation - Origins in development and trauma - Adaptive and protective roles |
| 11:30 - 12:30pm | LUNCH |
| 12:30 - 2:30pm (120 min) |
- Mapping parts- Treatment planning & target selection
- Resource development
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| 2:30 - 2:45pm | BREAK |
| 2:45 - 4:00pm (75 min) |
- Parts-informed protocols
- Maintaining adult self presence
- Targeting parts
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| 4:00 - 4:15pm | BREAK |
| 4:00 - 5:00pm (60 min) |
- Practice mapping parts - Resource development or parts dialogue - Q&A + reflections
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| Total: 6 Hours |
Eligibility and Approvals
Eligibility
This course is an advanced course open to EMDR therapy clinicians.
If you have not yet taken EMDR Basic Training, please go to our Basic Training schedule on our EMDR Basic Training home page at EMDR Professional Training.
CE INFORMATION
This course is a CE course. Participants are responsible for checking with their state boards to verify CE requirements.
EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) CEs
EMDR Professional Training is an approved EMDRIA CE Provider (#18023), and this program is awaiting approval by EMDRIA for 6 EMDRIA Credits, Approval #18023-.
TRAINING LEVEL: Beginning level
Eligibility for EMDRIA Credits is restricted to those who have completed an EMDRIA-Approved Basic EMDR Training.
Continuing Education Credit: NBCC
EMDR Professional Training is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education ProviderTM, ACEP No. 7569.
This course at EMDR Professional Training offers a total of 6 NBCC CE hours.
Continuing Education Credit - Professional CEs
Continuing Education Credit is awaiting approval for 6 CEs through EMDR Professional Training's CE partner, CE-Classes.com. See the information below for professional approvals.
CE-Classes.com is approved by:
- The American Psychological Association (APA). CE-Classes.com is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE-Classes.com maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- Florida Certification Board
- The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #852 BAP-Expires 3/31/2027.
- The California Board of Behavioral Sciences. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences, BBS, recognizes relevant coursework/training that has been approved by nationally recognized certifying bodies, such as APA, to satisfy renewal requirements.
- California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP) Provider Number OS-12-174-0225
- The Texas Board of Social Work Examiners – CE-Classes.com meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education. Effective 1/1/24, at least half of the 30 hours must be obtained from a provider listed in 801.261(f). This course meets that requirement.
- The Texas Board of Professional Counselors – CE-Classes.com meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education. Effective 1/1/24, at least half of the 30 hours must be obtained from a provider listed in 801.261(f). This course meets that requirement.
- The Texas Board of Marriage & Family Therapists – CE-Classes.com meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education. Effective 1/1/24, at least half of the 30 hours must be obtained from a provider listed in 801.261(f). This course meets that requirement.
- Massachusetts Authorization Number: (TBD)
- Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board - Approval from a state licensing board for counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists is accepted by the OH CSWMFTB.
- New York Social Work Board – CE-Classes.com is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0120.
- New York Mental Health Practitioners Board CE-Classes.com, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0260.
- New York Psychology Board CE-Classes.com, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0211
- Oklahoma Board of Behavioral Health Licensure (LPCs, LMFTs and LBCs)
- South Carolina - CE-Classes.com is approved by the S.C. Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapist, Addiction Counselors, and Psycho-Educational Specialists (#4696).
- Illinois - CE-Classes.com is a registered social work CE sponsor by the State of Illinois. License 159.001607
- The Florida Board of Nursing (CE Provider #: 50-4896) Expires 10/31/2026. Do not send certificates to the Florida Board of Nursing. You must keep this certificate for 4 years.
- The California Board of Registered Nursing. CEP 15647 Expires 11/30/2026.
- This training does not offer ASWB ACE credit to social workers.
Licensed Professionals should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval.
Certificates are awarded online after completion of the workshop. Participants print their own certificate after registering at CE-Classes.com, entering a keycode, and completing an evaluation form.
To contact CE-Classes.com, go to: CE-Classes.com
Address: 1398 SW 160th Ave, Sunrise, FL 33326, USA
Phone: 954-290-8446
Email: [email protected]
More information about obtaining your CE Certificate for this course is available at the end of the workshop.
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