EMDR Enhanced: Music Integration & Neuro-Affirmative Practice

Morning Workshop

The EMDR+Music Integrated Model: Using Music as an Interweave in EMDR

Presenter: Cassandra Manning, MA, MSc, EMDR Consultant & Integrative Psychotherapist

Cassandra Manning will present her EMDR+Music Integrated Model, a novel approach that weaves pre-recorded music into all eight phases of the EMDR Standard Protocol. Drawing on her background in psychotherapy and professional music, including her experience as an opera singer, Cassandra will demonstrate how music can act as a co-therapist — enhancing the therapeutic alliance, strengthening resourcing, and supporting somatic process in desensitisation and reprocessing.

Aims & Objectives

Participants will:

• Explore the phase-by-phase integration of music into all phases of EMDR

• Learn how to use music as an interweave in Phases 4–6

• Gain neuroscientific insights into how music can support the AIP

• View interviews and excerpts from authentic client EMDR+Music sessions

• Receive an introduction to music selection skills, including therapist intuition, collaboration and cultural awareness

• Consider the risks and challenges of working with music in EMDR

About the Presenter

Cassandra is an EMDR Consultant and Integrative Arts Psychotherapist with a postgraduate masters degree in adolescent psychotherapy. She is trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), IFS-informed EMDR, Supportive Music & Imagery, and is working towards Guided Imagery & Music (GIM) certification. She is completing her Traumatic Stress Studies with the Trauma Research Foundation, and is nearing the end of her substantive psychedelic assisted psychotherapy study at the MIND Foundation, Berlin.

Cassandra offers specialist supervision in the EMDR+Music Integrated Model.

Afternoon Workshop

Supercharging the 8 Phases of EMDR: Neuro-Affirmative Enhancements

Presenter: Esther Kiehl, Consultant Clinical Psychologist

This interactive workshop explores how neurodiversity-affirming practice can enhance EMDR therapy and supervision. Drawing on both clinical expertise and lived experience, Esther will explore how ADHD and other forms of neurodiversity can shape the EMDR process, and how thoughtful accommodations can improve engagement, safety and effectiveness.

Aims & Objectives

Participants will:

• Explore practical tools and reasonable adjustments

• Learn how to make EMDR more accessible and sustainable

• Use the body as a resource when energy is low or we feel stuck

• Engage in small-group discussion and shared learning across the 8 phases

About the Presenter

Esther is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with lived experience of neurodivergence. She specialises in neuro-affirmative practice and the thoughtful adaptation of EMDR for clients and clinicians with ADHD and other forms of neurodiversity. Esther brings both clinical depth and personal insight to showing how the eight phases of the EMDR Standard Protocol can be enhanced through accessibility, reasonable adjustments and strengths-based, neuro-affirming approaches.

Please note in order to attend this workshop, you need to have completed the EMDR Standard Training.

CPD

6 CPD credits (EMDR Association UK)

Tickets

£70 – EMDR UK Association Members
£110 – Non-members
Vegetarian/Vegan lunch is included

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