Attachment-Informed EMDR Companion

Prepare for clinician-led EMDR by strengthening relational safety, developing a flexible Calm Place and recording Resource Development and Installation (RDI) supports for agreed use between sessions.

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Build relational safety

Name the conditions that help connection, choice and repair feel possible.

Attachment-informed starting point

The relationship is the first resource.

Preparation begins with enough relational safety: being met with attunement, choice, predictability and the possibility of repair. A technique should not outrun the connection supporting it.

01Co-regulation

Notice what helps your nervous system feel accompanied rather than managed alone.

02Choice

You can slow down, say no, change direction or ask what will happen next.

03Repair

A rupture or misattunement can be named, understood and responded to together.

Clinician’s nameOptionalNext sessionOptional

What helps connection feel safe enough?

Select the conditions you want to build or protect with your clinician.

What I need from the relationshipFor example: more explanation, gentler pacing, checking in, warmth or clearer boundaries.If connection is lost, repair could begin with…A practical way to name and respond to a rupture or misattunement.

My pause signalA word or visible gesture that your clinician will recognise.Questions for my clinicianAvoid recording detailed trauma material here.

How ready do you feel to discuss these resources?This is not a clinical readiness assessment. Your answer can guide a conversation about pacing.

OWL Studio · clinician conversation aid

Attachment-Informed EMDR Companion

Preparation and resourcing only · generated from this device

Clinician / next session: —
Readiness: Not selected
Relational safety: —
What I need / repair: —
Pause signal / questions: Raise my hand or say pause
Calm Place: —
Calm alternative: —
RDI resource: —
Between-session instructions: —
Check-ins recorded: —