Breaking the Taboo of Suicide With EMDR and IFS with Annabel McGoldrick

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Learn more about healing trauma suicide trauma using EMDR and IFS!

This is a critical question for many therapists and we need to talk about suicide. Some clients we work with are indeed at risk of taking their own lives. Watch and learn essential techniques for safely addressing suicidal thoughts in clients by joining this webinar led by Annabel McGoldrick, an international advanced EMDR trainer and expert in integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) with EMDR. Discover how to break the taboo of suicide in therapy and understand the positive intentions behind suicidal parts. In this webinar, Annabel will share practical approaches to befriend suicidal parts, gain permission for trauma processing, and support clients in finding non-lethal ways to achieve their goals. She emphasizes the importance of understanding suicidal parts from an IFS perspective and explains that parts with suicidal ideation are often “firefighters” trying to put out the intense emotional pain experienced by more vulnerable “exile” parts that hold disturbing attachment wounds.

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Annabel is an international advanced EMDR trainer, psychotherapist and EMDR consultant. She is also the founder of EMDR Insight.

 

Her Advanced EMDR workshops, integrating IFS into the 8-phases, are accredited in both the UK and the USA. She is a regular contributor to EMDR Therapy Quarterly. Annabel has a background in journalism and academia, having been awarded a peace prize in 2017 for her work in developing the theory and practice of Peace Journalism. She will be speaking at the UK EMDR Association conference in March, 2025 in Liverpool on IFS informed EMDR.


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