This workshop emphasizes attachment repair within an EMDR framework, highlighting how specific assessment and interweave strategies can reshape clients’ internal working models of self and other. Central to the approach is the Domains of Self‑Experience (D.O.S.E.) model, which organizes traumatic identities and their negative cognitions into three hierarchically arranged domains: “being vs. nothingness,” “merit,” and “safety.” By mapping clients’ attachment‑related injuries into these domains, clinicians can more precisely identify where the self has been compromised by relational trauma and differentiate attachment trauma from shock and self‑worth trauma. This conceptualization supports the formulation of repair‑oriented treatment goals and informs expectations for phase‑four EMDR processing, particularly around shifts in self‑experience as attachment‑linked beliefs are reprocessed.

Attachment repair further depends on how clinicians manage embodiment and relational contact during processing. The workshop teaches a set of somatic interweaves—deliberate, structured motor behaviors introduced during phase four—to help clients remain within their window of tolerance while engaged with painful relational memories. These interweaves are designed to maintain dual attention: enough immersion in attachment‑related memory networks to activate change, paired with sufficient present‑moment orientation to support felt safety. By regulating autonomic arousal and supporting presentification, somatic interweaves create a physiological and experiential backdrop in which clients can risk revisiting experiences of neglect, misattunement, or betrayal without becoming overwhelmed.

At the heart of the attachment‑repair emphasis is the I‑Gaze interweave, a specialized intervention that uses muetual eye‑gaze as a vehicle for corrective relational experience during phase‑four EMDR. I‑Gaze targets implicit expectations about being seen, valued, and protected, inviting the client to experience a different kind of gaze than the one encoded in their original attachment injuries. Within the EMDR protocol, the therapist’s calibrated use of gaze becomes a live relational cue that can contradict entrenched negative cognitions such as “I am invisible,” “I do not matter,” or “I am unsafe with others.” When combined with the D.O.S.E. model and somatic strategies, the I‑Gaze interweave offers a coherent way to work directly with the embodied, relational dimensions of attachment trauma. The workshop thus equips clinicians to use EMDR not only to desensitize distressing memories, but to actively facilitate attachment repair by transforming how clients anticipate and respond to being seen in the therapeutic relationship.