The consultant’s role
Clarify the distinctions between therapy, supervision, and consultation, including who holds responsibility for clinical decisions. Review the roles of educator, motivator, and evaluator within EMDR consultation.
From Parts to Practice:
Working with Consultant Parts to Deepen EMDR Consultation and Clinical Practice
Explore how your own parts, your consultee’s parts, and the client’s system show up in EMDR consultation.
Friday, February 5, 2027
9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. MST
Application for 3 EMDRIA Credits is under review
Your parts are part of the consultation
A consultee feels an urgency to start EMDR. Their client feels frustrated with the lack of progress. You notice pressure to give the right answer.
These reactions offer something to explore within the consultation relationship. Alongside questions about EMDR competency and case conceptualization, an IFS lens invites you to notice what is happening across the client, consultee, and consultant systems.
In this training, Crystal introduces From Parts to Practice, her IFS-Informed EMDR Consultation Model. You’ll explore how to attend to parts with curiosity and consent, then bring what emerges back to the clinical work.
What we’ll explore
Parts and parallel process
Explore how activation can move across client, therapist, and consultant systems. Work through a consultation example and participate in a guided meditation to connect with your own consultant parts.
An IFS-informed consultation process
Follow Crystal’s model for noticing parts, naming what you observe, asking permission, normalizing activation, and supporting curiosity. Consider how to reconnect the internal experience to EMDR case conceptualization, clinical decisions, and competency development.
Demonstration and discussion
Watch a recorded consultation demonstration, explore the model’s limitations and boundaries, and bring your questions to the discussion.
Who this training is for
EMDR consultants and Consultants in Training (CITs) who want to explore parts and parallel process within their consultation work.
Official IFSI Level 1 training is not required as a prerequisite. We recommend that you have taken beginner-level IFS courses and are already incorporating parts work into your personal and professional work.
This short training is required and included in Crystal’s year-long IFS-Informed EMDR Consultant-in-Training program. If you are seeking a full consultant-development pathway, compare the CIT program’s prerequisites, consultation hours and application details.
Learning objectives
Participants will be able to:
Differentiate EMDR consultation from clinical supervision by identifying at least two distinctions in roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority.
Identify parallel processes occurring across client, therapist/consultee, and consultant systems within an EMDR consultation scenario.
Integrate information gained through parts exploration into EMDR case conceptualization, clinical decision-making, or competency development.
Your trainer
Crystal Hines, LPC
Crystal is the founder of Align Therapy and Consultation and an EMDR consultant specializing in complex trauma and IFS-informed care. She brings a brain-body-heart approach to her work, combining clinical teaching with experiential learning and reflection.
EMDRIA Approved Trainer and Consultant
IFSI Approved Clinical Consultant
Training details
Application for 3 EMDRIA Credits is under review
Participants must be fully trained in EMDR in order to attend. Eligibility for EMDRIA Credits is restricted to those who have completed an EMDRIA-Approved Basic EMDR Training.
Crystal Hines, LPC, EMDRIA EC Provider #26015, maintains responsibility for this program and its content in accordance with EMDRIA requirements. This live training will be recorded.
Please contact Crystal Hines at connect@aligntherapyandconsultation.com or 720-412-7339 if special accommodations are required.
Scope and clinical considerations
This integrated consultation model itself has not yet been systematically researched or validated as an evidence-based consultation approach.
The training addresses consultant competency, consent, the boundary between consultation and therapy, and caution when interpreting parallel process.
This model is intended to complement, not replace, established EMDR consultation standards, competency assessment, ethical decision-making, or the consultant’s clinical judgment.