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Daphne Fatter, PhD
Trauma Educator, Consultant & Author
I am a licensed psychologist with twenty years treating PTSD and complex trauma, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and the author of Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) into EMDR Therapy. I completed my postdoctoral fellowship at The Trauma Center under Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, and I have provided continuing education since 2016 across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Australia.
I bring trauma training your audience can use. Conferences, professional associations, universities, agencies, and military bases hire me to teach their people how to treat trauma well. Your audience gets interventions based on research and neuroscience they can apply, and skills they can use in their next session.
Speaking Topics
What I speak on.
Traumatic stress is multilayered. Relational, developmental, biological, cultural, systemic, collective, historical, and spiritual. Every session works from that, and I tailor the depth and the examples to who is in your room and what populations you serve.
Integrating IFS into EMDR for Complex Trauma
Bringing the IFS model together with EMDR, the integration I developed in my own sessions and then wrote the step-by-step guide to. What the research and the neuroscience say about a client's readiness before reprocessing, and what your options are when treatment is not moving.
For audiences who already have clinical trauma training. I am EMDR certified, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and trained in EMDR 2.0 and the Flash Technique. She is an expert clinician in IFS therapy, having completed over 460 hours of training, including her Level 3 training with Dr. Richard Schwartz, the founder of IFS therapy.
Delivered as: Integrating Traumatic Memories: Conceptualization and Clinical Considerations in Evidence-Based Approaches to Trauma Processing.
Trauma-Informed Care and Parts Work
Reading what a client's nervous system is telling you, trauma-informed stabilization tools, and working with protective parts. I also teach STARR®, Self-Tapping for Attachment Readiness and Repair, the intervention I created, presented at the 2023 IFS Institute International Conference and published in a 2023 book chapter (which was republished in 2025).
For mixed-experience clinical audiences, including teams newer to trauma-informed practice. I served as Military Sexual Trauma Coordinator at the Fort Worth VA and I provide training on military bases. I also have experience teaching to clinicians working in group private practices, community mental health, inpatient and intensive outpatient programs, and college counseling centers.
Values-Based Decision Making and Self-Compassion
A process for making hard decisions in relationships and in life, drawn from my second book. People come to this one having struggled alone for a long time, carrying shame about what they are considering, with no clear path either way.
For general audiences, and suited to programs on relationships, life decisions, and self-compassion. I am also the author of Part of Me Wants to Leave, Part of Me Wants to Stay: How to Know If It's Time to End Your Relationship.
Past Speaking & Conferences
Where I have spoken.
What makes me different is that I tailor the training to every audience's specific needs. I want to know what clients they work with and what setting they practice in before I decide what to teach.
Conferences
Military
Organizations
Federal and state agencies, community mental health centers, group practices, college counseling centers, universities, professional associations, non-profits, and international trainings.
Upcoming Speaking Events
praise
What audiences say.
These are from the organizations that hosted me and the licensed psychologists, counselors, social workers, and nurses who attended.
At the Newman Institute, we train thousands of trauma therapists across Latin America, so we are careful about who we host. Daphne Fatter's Integrating IFS into EMDR course was one of the strongest we have offered. Therapists left with a step-by-step way to bring Internal Family Systems into EMDR reprocessing with complex and dissociative clients.
Daphne led our team in a thorough, practical, and inspiring training on trauma assessment and treatment. Her training is easy to understand while going deep at the same time, allowing both new and seasoned providers to take away meaningful tools and insights. Daphne was so accessible to work with, and she tailored her training specifically to the unique needs of our team. Pretty impressive for someone as renowned and as busy as she is! Our team left better equipped, more confident, and energized to continue meaningful, life-changing work with our clients.
Daphne gave a workshop to our group, and she is clearly an expert in a variety of psychotherapy areas. Her engagement with us as co-learners, with humility and connectivity, helped everyone settle in, participate in role play and question asking, and be genuine and honest about where we all were with our understanding of the material. She seamlessly balances her dissemination of information, principles, and techniques with empirical evidence alongside clinical anecdotes and role play. We felt we all left the workshop better prepared to help our clients.
Dr. Daphne Fatter is one of the best people I know when it comes to integrating IFS into EMDR therapy in a way that is practical, thoughtful, and usable with clients. She doesn't just teach theory. Daphne gives clinicians concrete tools, like parts mapping and STARR® self-tapping, that they can use immediately while keeping consent, attunement, and client overwhelm front and center. As an author, educator, and consultant, Daphne has a rare ability to make complex clinical work feel clear and doable. I recommend her work without hesitation to EMDR therapists working with complex trauma.
I feel honored to be a participant with an instructor that is clearly a luminary in the field. She integrated the research and the clinical pieces of therapy with extreme skill and accuracy.
Dr. Fatter was one of the most engaging presenters I have experienced. Her knowledge and manner of presenting kept me engaged and provided excellent information.
I have been working in trauma assessment and recovery for decades. I've learned to respect diverse models of recovery. I appreciated that Dr. Fatter was nuanced and accurate discussing this topic.
Dr. Fatter was extremely competent in this area, used her and our time well and was an overall great presenter.
Fantastic, engaging presentation. I learned so many things that I can implement into my work immediately. It exceeded my expectations!
SO impressed. This was EXACTLY the training I was looking for.
Dr. Fatter provided one of the most practical trauma trainings I've attended. Clear frameworks, strong rationale, and excellent takeaways for clinical work.
I learned so many practical, meaningful tools from Dr. Fatter that I can begin implementing into my work right away!
An excellent integration of EMDR and IFS with clear, well-organized sequencing. Truly a game-changer for working effectively with complex clients.
As someone already trained in both EMDR and IFS, I loved how Dr. Fatter clearly shows how these two models work together to improve clinical outcomes.
I deeply appreciated Dr. Fatter's clear and thoughtful instruction on how to begin implementing IFS in a way that is both ethical and safe.
Dr. Fatter is the best IFS educator I have experienced.
Invite Daphne to Speak
How to book me.
Most of the coordination happens over email, and a complimentary discovery call is there if you want one. After we connect I put together a proposal with the content, the learning objectives, and the description, so you have choices and so your CE application has what it needs. Then we agree on the content, sign a contract, and schedule.
Formats
Keynote, conference breakout or concurrent session, or a half day or full day for a team or a base.
Where
In person in the US and internationally, virtually on Zoom, or hybrid.
Lead time
Earlier is better for calendars. If your program needs EMDRIA-approved EMDR continuing education credit, I need three months.
What I need to know
Your program theme, your audience, your date, and what you want them walking out with.
Podcasts & Interviews
Where I have been a guest.
If you want to hear how I teach and speak before you book me, start here. I am glad to come on a show about trauma treatment, integrating Parts Work and EMDR, or values-based decision making in relationships.
For Your Program
Bio and materials for your program.
Copy either bio straight into your program. Headshot, session descriptions, and learning objectives on request.
Short Bio
Daphne Fatter, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, international speaker, and author of Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) into EMDR Therapy. An EMDRIA Approved Consultant with twenty years treating PTSD and complex trauma, she trains clinicians and teams in private practice, agencies, community mental health, the VA, and military settings. Neuroscience-informed trauma training that builds clinical confidence.
Long Bio
Daphne Fatter, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, international speaker, and the author of Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) into EMDR Therapy: The Step-by-Step Guide to Complex Trauma Recovery and Part of Me Wants to Leave, Part of Me Wants to Stay. She has treated PTSD and complex trauma for twenty years, across the VA, community mental health, college counseling centers, and private practice, and served as Military Sexual Trauma Coordinator at the Fort Worth VA.
Her training includes an MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University, a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Pennsylvania State University, and a postdoctoral fellowship at The Trauma Center under Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. She is EMDR certified, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, an Evergreen IFS Trauma Consultant, and a certified ancestral lineage healing practitioner. She is considered an expert clinician in IFS therapy, having completed over 460 hours of IFS training, including Level 3 training in 2019 with Dr. Richard Schwartz, the founder of IFS therapy. She also has trained in and has extensive clinical experience using Cognitive Processing Therapy.
She created STARR®, Self-Tapping for Attachment Readiness and Repair, published in the 2023 book chapter IFS and EMDR: Transforming Traumatic Memories and Providing Relational Repair with Self. She has provided continuing education since 2016 across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Australia, including for the Department of the Army.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions I get asked the most.
If your question is not answered here, please send it along with your inquiry.
Are you available to speak at our conference?
Most likely, and the fastest way to know is to send me your date. I speak in the US and internationally, in person and virtually. I say yes when the topic and the audience are a good fit for my experience and education.
Do you travel?
Yes. Domestic and international travel are both part of my speaking work.
Do you speak virtually?
Yes. Virtual sessions are held on Zoom, and I use breakout rooms when the format allows skills practice.
Can your session carry continuing education credit?
Sometimes. Many host organizations and continuing education companies provide credit for their own attendees. I can offer EMDRIA-approved EMDR credit when we plan for it three months out, because that is how long the EMDRIA application takes.
Can you tailor a session to our program theme?
Yes, and I prefer to. I can adjust the depth, the examples, and the length, and I can build the session around a theme your program is already organized on.
Do you speak to audiences outside of clinical settings?
Yes. My session on values-based decision making and self-compassion is built for general audiences, and it comes out of my second book, Part of Me Wants to Leave, Part of Me Wants to Stay. It is for people deciding whether to stay in a relationship or leave it, often without having told anyone they are struggling. It suits programs on relationships, life decisions, grief, and self-compassion.
Do you use a contract?
Yes. I use a contract for every engagement so that expectations are clear on both sides.
How long are your sessions?
Most conference and summit sessions run one to three hours. Half day and full day trainings for teams and bases run longer, and I shape the length around your program.
What size audience do you speak to?
Anywhere from 30 people to 2,000.
What are your speaking fees?
Fees vary so much from one engagement to the next that I share them by request. Send me your date, your format, and your audience, and I will follow up with fees for your event.
Will you do a podcast interview?
Yes. Reach out with your show, your audience, and the topic you have in mind.
Do you provide learning objectives for our CE application?
Yes. They come in the proposal along with the session description and content outline, formatted so you can drop them straight into your CE paperwork.
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