The Trauma Training You Didn’t Know You Needed (But Won’t Forget)

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Live in Sydney | 8–9 November 2025 | CPD-Approved In-Person Workshop

Imagine feeling calm, confident, and equipped the next time a client’s trauma story overwhelms the room.
Imagine knowing how to hold space, without burning out.
Imagine doing it live, in the room, with a therapist who has walked the walk for over 30 years.

This November, Maureen McEvoy, one of Canada’s most beloved Imago Relationships trauma educators, is coming to Sydney for a powerful two-day training:

🧠 Healing Trauma, Restoring Connection
📍 Crows Nest Community Centre, Sydney
🗓️ 8–9 November 2025

Hosted by the Australian Resource Therapy Institute, this rare in-person event is your opportunity to go beyond theory, and experience what it truly means to integrate trauma-informed care into your practice.


This Workshop Is For You If…

  • You want to feel more confident working with disorganised attachment
  • You’re curious about how to integrate parts work, ego state therapy, art therapy, and somatic tools
  • You don’t specialise in couples work, but you know relationships are always in the room
  • You’ve felt overwhelmed by trauma disclosures, and want real tools to respond
  • You’re tired of online training and ready for face-to-face learning that sticks

This isn’t just for couples therapists. It’s for anyone who works with humans. Therapists, psychologists, doctors, psychiatrists, counsellors, social workers, coaches – all are welcome.


What You’ll Learn (And Use Straight Away)

✅ Practical interventions for relational trauma and emotional regulation
✅ Creative techniques using art therapy, body awareness, and parts dialogue
✅ How to build co-regulation and relational safety
✅ A clear, experiential understanding of how your own attachment style shapes your work
✅ A flexible framework you can integrate with Imago, EFT, PACT, and other modalities

This is not a sit-and-watch weekend. This is an engaged, experiential deep dive with one of the best in the field.

“I wish I’d done this years ago.”
– Every therapist who’s trained with Maureen


Who Is Maureen McEvoy?

Maureen is a Certified Advanced Imago Therapist with over three decades of clinical experience. She is known for her grounded presence, gentle humour, and ability to translate complex trauma theory into skills that work in the real world, with real clients.

Her approach is integrative and accessible. You’ll learn how to blend modalities like:

  • Parts work (including Resource Therapy, Ego State Therapy, and IFS-aligned thinking)
  • Imago Relationship Therapy
  • EFT and PACT principles
  • Somatic and art-based interventions
  • Attachment-centred frameworks for emotional safety and healing

Whether you’re just starting out or decades into practice, Maureen meets you where you are – and helps you grow from there.


Why You’ll Want to Act Now

🕰️ This is Maureen’s ONLY Sydney workshop in 2025
🎟️ Super Early Bird, ends 30 June – and it’s timed perfectly for your end-of-financial-year CPD claims
📉 Save by registering early
📍 In-person, live, human-centred – no recordings, no replays, no second chances


Details at a Glance

📍 Venue: Crows Nest Community Centre, Sydney
🗓️ Dates: 8–9 November 2025
🕘 Time: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm both days

🎓 CPD certificate provided


💸 Investment:

  • $895 Super Early Bird (until 30 June – EOFY special!)
  • $995 Early Bird (1 July – 31 August)
  • $1100 Standard (from 1 September)
    🎓 Includes CPD certificate

Ready To Book?

Spots are limited and already filling.
📩 Email philipathornton@gmail.com to register
📝 Or Click here to download the registration form


Final Thought

As therapists, we often hold everything for everyone else.
This workshop is a chance to reconnect with your purpose, your people, and your presence.

You didn’t know you needed this.
But once you’ve been there, you won’t forget it.

We can’t wait to meet you!

Warmly, Philipa and Chris.


Modern Approaches to Parts Work: Exploring Resource Therapy

key questions about Resource Therapy (RT), a modern, trauma-informed parts therapy developed by Professor Gordon Emmerson. It explains how RT differs from Ego State Therapy, integrates with EMDR and other modalities, and addresses trauma, dissociation, and internal conflict using clearly defined treatment actions.

If you are a therapist working with trauma, dissociation, anxiety, or relationship distress, you have probably come across parts work. You may already use Ego State Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), or integrating EMDR with parts-informed protocols. But you may still feel something is missing, something more precise, clinically structured, and neurologically aligned.

That is where Resource Therapy (RT) steps in.

First let’s give a brief history of RT’s generation.

From Ego States to Resource States: A Key Shift

Ego State Therapy, popularised by John and Helen Watkins, offered therapists a revolutionary way to understand the psyche as a family of internal states. This model allowed clients to speak to the part of themselves holding trauma, fear, or anger. It was groundbreaking at the time, but lacked a cohesive system for working with these parts beyond dialogue and hypnosis.

RT is widely recognised as the next generation of Ego State Therapy. Often referred to as Advanced Ego State Therapy. It retains the best of the original model and expands it into a clinically robust, client-centred system. Whether used as a stand-alone therapy or integrated with EMDR, DBR, ACT, or IFS, Resource Therapy offers a clear roadmap for working with internal parts and achieving client-led goals with precision and purpose.

Instead of ego states, Emmerson reframed these as Resource States — adaptive, intelligent, and formed from repeated experiences. Each Resource State serves a unique purpose, and in Resource Therapy, we do not see them as fragments to be managed. We see them as assets to be healed, respected, and restored to their optimal function. They are the gold of us on the inside, a treasure trove within.

“Every part of the personality has a positive intention, even when it seems stuck, reactive, or painful. In Resource Therapy, we honour that intention and provide a clear path to healing.”
— Philipa Thornton, President, Resource Therapy International

How Resource Therapy Modernises Parts Work

Traditionally, Ego State Therapy relied heavily on hypnosis to access inner parts. While effective for some, this approach created barriers for clinicians and clients who preferred non-hypnotic methods or needed greater emotional safety and control in the session.

Resource Therapy modernises this approach.
It provides structured techniques that do not require hypnosis. We acknowledge clinical hypnosis as a valuable method. Therapists learn how to work with the client’s present-moment awareness, using permission-based methods to invite the exact part holding unwanted emotion or broken behaviours. This makes RT accessible, empowering, and trauma-informed, even with highly dissociative clients.

How Resource Therapy Views Introjects

One key difference between Resource Therapy and earlier parts models lies in how it theoretically sees introjects as merely internalised voices, often from the past.

In traditional therapies, these voices, like a critical parent or shaming teacher, might be observed or even directly engaged with for some time. Some models even attempt to change or heal the introject itself.

But Resource Therapy offers a powerful reframe.

In RT theory, introjects are not seen as distinct parts. They are understood to be internalised voices or memories, not true Resource States. These voices hold no power. What matters is not the introject, but the part of the client carrying the emotional wound in response to that voice.

Resource Therapy empowers the client’s wounded Resource State, helping it realise that the harm came from someone lacking the capacity to love, not because the part was unworthy.

RT uses specific techniques, like the empowerment protocol for the hurt or fearful part to process and gain freedom. In this process, RT taps into the emerging research and phenomena of memory reconsolidation (MR). MR draws on the concept of memory malleability for trauma resolution. This often leads to emotional clarity, resolution, a new perspective, and relief from the shame or pain that a part has carried for years.

RT uses client-led, therapist-facilitated techniques perfect for trauma-informed clinicians working with dissociative, anxious, or avoidant clients.

“In Resource Therapy, we know introjects have no power. We invite the part that carries the wound to have their voice, gain empowerment and have choices in what they want to have happen within the memory sequence, This is incredibly freeing.”
— Philipa Thornton, Psychologist.

This is a major evolution from older approaches, which either avoided introjects altogether or focused on changing them directly, often leaving the client’s wounded part further isolated, unheard, feeling rejected and abandoned.


Where Ego State Therapy accesses a state, Resource Therapy goes further by offering a structured clinical roadmap. With its 15 clearly defined treatment actions, RT gives therapists a flexible but focused framework to work with personality parts, always aligned to the client’s goals and readiness.


Structure, Precision, and Healing at the Root

What makes Resource Therapy stand out?

  • Direct access to parts -RT teaches therapists how to bring the exact Resource State into the conscious, aware position so it can express, release, and heal right there in the session
  • OPI’s – when parts are not parts, this is a specific form of introject in RT terminology and theory. Somewhat similar to the concept of the IFS ‘unattached burden’ as an external non-human influence that is affecting the client. RT has a beautiful script for this.
  • Targeted treatment actions – With 15 specific therapeutic actions, RT allows therapists to tailor interventions to the type of part presenting, whether it is a Vaded (traumatised), conflicted, confused, disappointed, dissonant, or Retro (protective overreaction behaviours) state
  • Memory reconsolidation principles – RT works with the brain’s natural ability to update emotional learning
  • Client-led and strength-based -Sessions are guided by what the client brings, making it adaptable, respectful, and trauma-informed
  • The ship metaphor -In Resource Therapy, your personality is a ship with many skilled crew members (Resource States). When trauma hits, some crew members go below deck. Our job is to bring the best part for the occasion, in line with your values – your Captain, to the wheel again for smooth sailing

The Perfect Interweave: RT and EMDR

For EMDR therapists, Resource Therapy is a natural and seamless interweave.

You already know that clients sometimes hit blocks — protector parts that resist processing, or beliefs like “I don’t deserve love” that derail momentum. These are not just thoughts. They are Resource States holding protective strategies, fear, or past learning.

Resource Therapy gives you a precise way to identify, access, and treat these parts before, during, or after EMDR reprocessing.

You can:

  • Resource clients internally by bringing their calm, confident part into the driver’s seat
  • Work with blocking beliefs by negotiating with the Resource State that holds them
  • Step aside from stuckness when protectors take over with respect for their good purpose
  • Integrate RT actions to build safety and increase readiness for EMDR Phases
  • Bring clarity to dissociative responses and access structural dissociation with greater confidence

“Resource Therapy is the missing link for many trauma therapists. It helps us navigate the client’s inner system with clinical clarity, gently shift blocking beliefs, and align parts with their good purpose with healing compassion.”
— Philipa Thornton, President, Resource Therapy International

RT is both a complete stand-alone therapy and a powerful complement to existing modalities. It integrates effortlessly with EMDR, DBR, IFS, schema and somatic therapies—while offering its own comprehensive framework for treating trauma, attachment wounding and internal conflict at the root.

Therapists trained in RT are often struck by how practical, targeted, and transformational it is. One trauma therapist shared they were blown away by the clarity and immediate shift it brought to clients stuck in self-sabotage and shame.
Read her experience here:
A Trauma Therapist’s First Experience With Resource Therapy →

The Training Path: From Foundation to Clinical Mastery

The Clinical Resource Therapy Program offers a complete qualification in this modality, led by psychologists and master trainers Philipa Thornton and Chris Paulin (MA, Psychology).

The training is:

  • Fully certified and internationally recognised qualification from Resource Therapy International
  • Delivered online and in-person
  • Ideal for EMDR, DBR, IFS, ACT, and schema therapists, counsellors, and professional counsellors
  • Strengths-based, neuro-informed, and client-led

With guest appearances from Professor Gordon Emmerson, PhD, you are learning directly from the founder of Resource Therapy.

Ready to Integrate the Missing Link?

Whether you are already parts-informed or just beginning to explore, Resource Therapy gives you a clinically sound, neurologically aligned, and deeply compassionate way to work with the internal system.

Join the next Clinical RT Program and experience the power of parts therapy that works with precision, purpose, and profound respect for the whole person.

Visit the next training dates – registrations now open to learn more and secure your place.

We can’t wait to meet you and all your parts.

Philipa and Chris.

Why Resource Therapy Changed My Practice: A Clinician’s Testimonial

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When seasoned trauma therapist Angela O., an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and EMDR practitioner, completed her Clinical Resource Therapy training, she never imagined the profound shift it would bring—not just to her clients but also to herself.

“As a trauma therapist, I have ventured through a myriad of therapeutic approaches—including EMDR, Trauma-Focused CBT, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Schema Therapy. Yet none have been as transformative as Resource Therapy.”

Angela’s words speak to something many of us in the helping professions know too well: even the best-known trauma therapies can fall short when a client’s inner world remains fragmented, their parts unseen or unheard. That is where Resource Therapy steps in.

“Resource Therapy profoundly honours the lived experiences of clients, fostering a sacred space where all facets of their being are not only acknowledged but celebrated.”

In one powerful example, Angela shares how just three sessions of Resource Therapy helped a client find her voice after years of being silenced.

“For the first time in her life, she was able to articulate her needs to the person who had long disempowered her. We uncovered her core needs and dismantled the trauma script that kept her stuck in a cycle of pain.”

Angela now integrates Resource Therapy seamlessly into her trauma work—and often uses it as a stand-alone intervention with elegant, client-led results.

“It beautifully complements other therapeutic modalities, but as a stand-alone approach, it shines. I am a devoted advocate for its benefits.”

She also speaks from the heart about the clinical training experience:

“I cannot express enough gratitude to Philipa and Chris for their generous support, and to Professor Gordon Emmerson, the visionary founder. Their authenticity and vast expertise create an inspiring and powerful learning environment.”

With warmth, professionalism, and deep conviction, Angela offers this endorsement to her peers:

“I wholeheartedly recommend Resource Therapy to any therapist or client eager to connect with those often elusive parts of themselves—those fundamental aspects that shape our identities and the meanings we assign to our lives.”


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