Precision EMDR - Susie Morgan, LMFT

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Susie Morgan LMFT - Founder & Director of Training at Precision EMDR Academy, Specializing in EMDR Therapy for Complex PTSD & Attachment Trauma
*Page educational & not treatment Susie Morgan, LMFT in Encinitas - Specializing in EMDR Therapy and CBT for the treatment of Trauma and Complex PTSD

* This page not intended as any form of treatment.

06/01/2026

I’m honored to be returning to present at the 2026 EMDRIA Conference.

This year I’ll be spending Friday afternoon exploring a topic that has shaped much of my work over the last two decades:

EMDR Conceptualization in Complex Trauma and Attachment
Seeing the AIP Forest and the Trees We Can Miss

The question I hear most often is: What do we do when a client presents with layers of trauma memories, a kaleidoscope of symptoms, and attachment patterns that clearly matter?

In this workshop, I’ll be sharing the frameworks I use to map trauma memory networks, the adaptive information network, attachment experiences, and the development of symptoms through the lens of adaptation to early trauma and unmet needs.

We'll also spend time with two ideas that continue to fascinate me: how maladaptively-linked positive affect can drive symptomatic strategies, and how attachment repair can be approached even when the trauma predates explicit memory.

We'll explore how all of these pieces connect - and why understanding these connections matters.

Because the way we conceptualize a case shapes everything that follows:
readiness,
target sequence planning,
the anticipation of blocks,
the selection of interweaves,
and ultimately the effectiveness of treatment itself.

If you’re attending the EMDRIA Conference, I’d love to see you there.

📍 Friday, 12:30–4:00 PM
📍 EMDRIA Conference 2026

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05/27/2026

This is an unpopular opinion among some of the leading experts in EMDR for treating Complex Trauma, but I think we should start from the root.

I think we should start with childhood trauma.

I think we should apply the AIP model to Complex Trauma just as much as we apply it to single-incident PTSD.

Rather than piecemealing it from the top, taking low-hanging fruit and recent events, and hoping to build capacity to get to the early stuff eventually - we start with the early stuff. We build capacity from there.

Here’s the caveat: the way we’re able to do that safely and effectively is by starting with a solid map - of what needs were met and not met in early attachment experiences, and of the client’s adult capacities for providing secure attachment experiences to their little self.

With that map in place, we are able to begin at the beginning in a way that optimizes the power of the AIP model - simultaneously processing the trauma and repairing the attachment system.

📌 Save this if starting from the root is something you want to do more deliberately.

💌 Share with an EMDR buddy who has learned to delay processing early trauma - and would welcome a different perspective on what is possible.

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05/25/2026

Recently, I have heard a number of EMDR Trainers saying that Target choice doesn’t matter. That it all gets you into the memory network. “All roads lead to Rome.”

But, I think it matters very much where we start.

I believe we are sacrificing efficiency and effectiveness when we start just anywhere - with just any memory - instead of mapping first to identify which memory provides the most strategic way in.

When we can map the connections between present triggers, the symptoms a client is experiencing, and the trauma memory networks driving them - we can then sequence our targets in a way that optimizes our impact.

The map isn’t optional. It’s what makes the sequence strategic.

📌 Save this if target sequence planning is something you want to approach more deliberately.

💌 Share this with an EMDR buddy who has been trained to “just start anywhere” - and may not be understanding the cost.

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05/21/2026

Identifying external or imaginal attachment figures has value. But there are three things I map from the beginning - as an EMDR therapist treating complex trauma for 20+ years - that take the work considerably further.

The first is the client’s foundation of attachment experiences. The specificity of what was there and what wasn’t - because those unmet needs are precisely what we return to repair.

The second is the rules. What can this client acknowledge about their attachment history - and what is not okay to name? This is how we see what interweaves we’ll need - long before we run into blocks mid-processing.

The third is the client themselves. What capacities do they demonstrate - the attunement, nurture, protection they know how to provide to those they care for. Because the most powerful attachment resource in the room, I have found, is usually the client sitting across from me.

📌 Save this to remind you what is most important to map when treating attachment.

💌 Share this with an EMDR colleague who wants to go further than resource figures alone.
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