The skills of ai-EMDR, taught and practised

Please note that this in-person tour planned for January and February 2027 is now regrettably not taking place.

If you’d like however to join Mark, Jutta and Katharine Brayne online for either their introductory Unleash Your EMDR Part 1 or the advanced Part 2 on attachment-informed EMDR, there’s an ANZ-friendly Part 1 running online October 12-14 this year (2026), followed by a Part 2 March 5-7 next year (2027) for colleagues already familiar with this way of working.

Attachment-informed EMDR goes beyond trauma, working with the formative experiences of early life – the attachment organisation laid down before our clients had words for it that shapes how they are now.

After all, this is why clients come to therapy in the first place: not just because of what happened to them, but because of who they had to become to survive it. ai-EMDR is the work of getting back to that material, and changing how it is held.

Mark, Jutta and Katharine at the Parnell Centre in Auckland, 2026

Unleash Part 1 focuses on the core skills of that work: case conceptualisation, target identification, the interweave repertoire, and session structure. We teach each one, demonstrate it in live work, then give colleagues protected time to practise specific elements in pairs with facilitator support. Not full sessions — focused parts of the work, where skill actually gets built.

Unleash Part 2 takes the same teach-demonstrate-practise rhythm into the deeper territory that makes ai-EMDR seriously distinctive: the intergenerational extended interweave, the transfer of perspective with parts of self, and dreams as gateways into the stories clients need to change.

“This was by far the greatest training I have been to. After basic training I felt overwhelmed with integrating EMDR to the point that I almost threw EMDR into the bin. Adding ai-EMDR to my toolkit has absolutely sealed the deal for me. Thank you for this gift.”

Register here for Part 1 online in October 2026

Register here for Part 2 online in March 2027

Who these workshops are for

EMDR therapists at Europe Level 3/4 or Australia/NZ/US Level 2 and above.

Unleash Your EMDR Part 1 — the core skills of ai-EMDR, in practice

Online over three five-and-a-half-hour days, Part 1 covers the four core skills of attachment-informed EMDR: case conceptualisation, target identification, the interweave repertoire, and session structure.

We teach each one, demonstrate it in live work, and then give colleagues protected time to practise specific elements in triads with facilitator support.

The practice is on parts of the work, not full sessions. A focused piece of bridging, a specific interweave move, the rewire-and-close of a session. This is how skill actually gets built, and it’s what the 2026 attendees told us they wanted more of.

Unleash Your EMDR Part 2 — the deeper interweaves

Part 2 moves into the territory that makes ai-EMDR seriously distinctive. The intergenerational extended interweave. The transfer of perspective with parts of self. Dreams as gateways into the stories clients need to change.

Same rhythm as Part 1: teach, demonstrate, then put colleagues into supervised practice on specific elements. By the end of this workshop, you have not just seen this work. You have done it.

The team

Mark Brayne is an EMDR Europe-accredited and EMDRIA-approved consultant, a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, and a former BBC foreign correspondent. He has taught attachment-informed EMDR across the UK, Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand, and is the author of Unleash Your EMDR — Release the Magic.

Jutta Brayne is a transpersonally-trained psychotherapist and for many years an EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant. Co-director of EMDR Focus.

Katharine Brayne is a psychotherapist working towards BACP accreditation, in 2026 she completed an MSc in Psychotherapy with distinction, her research exploring therapist experience of the Adaptive Information Processing model in delivering ai-EMDR. EMDRIA-trained, working towards Certified Therapist status.