Deepening for those whose basics already hold — Lynchpin, chronicity, complex cases.

Who this training is for

For certified IEMT practitioners who notice in practice that some clients do not move despite correctly executed K-pattern and Identity Pattern work. These are usually clients with:

• Persistent recurring patterns — the same dynamic surfaces again after a few sessions, despite an interim shift.
• Identity-bound resistance — *"I'm just someone who…"* statements held as fact rather than as a workable layer.
• Broader chronicity — patterns that persist longer than a single event explains, often tied to secondary gain or to relationships in which the complaint serves a role.

If you see these client types regularly and have the feeling that IEMT does *something* but not *enough*, this is the right place.

What you learn

Three connected layers of depth on top of the Practitioner work:

1. Lynchpin work. The intervention where one targeted adjustment can unlock an entire pattern. When is something a lynchpin and when a symptom — and how you tell the difference before you devote a session to it.
2. Patterns of Chronicity. Austin's five primary patterns of chronicity that protect problems against change, regardless of modality. Recognising, naming and methodically dismantling them.
3. Complex casuistry. Bringing in your own stuck cases, dissecting them together, and exploring methodical routes that a short Practitioner conversation does not reach.

Structure — three days

The training runs over three consecutive days, divided into nine parts following the four-phase session structure (engage / present / implicit / conclude) you know from the Practitioner.

Day 1 — Lynchpin as a frame of thought

Theoretical grounding: what a lynchpin is in IEMT terms, how it relates to the K-pattern and Identity Pattern, which questions you ask to find a lynchpin. Demonstration session with live debrief. First peer exercises on non-complex cases.

Day 2 — Patterns of Chronicity

The five primary patterns — three-stage over-reaction, secondary gain, identity-based reluctance, prediction-failure protection and the unhelpable client. Per pattern: how you recognise it in the client's language, which interventions do work, and which mainly do not (and why a client switches therapist endlessly).

Day 3 — Your own casuistry + integration

Each participant brings in at least one of their own stuck cases. Joint dissection, exploring methodical options, a proposed follow-up approach. Along the way: integration questions (*"how does this material relate to your existing work"*) and supervision arrangements for the first months after the training.

Lynchpin work in detail

A lynchpin is a specific experience, memory or meaning that holds an entire cluster of patterns in place. Work the lynchpin and the cluster shifts; work a different element and nothing moves — or the pattern reforms around a new pin.

The skill is twofold: recognising that an element is a lynchpin rather than a symptom, and working it without pulling at other cluster elements that are not yet ripe. In the Advanced you practise both layers, with live feedback from me and peer observation.

Patterns of Chronicity

In his clinical work, Austin observed five recurring structures that actively protect problems against resolution. Not as a conscious game — rather as ingrained organisations of the self and the environment that systematically disrupt change.

The training treats each pattern in the same structure: definition, recognition signals in client language and behaviour, the psychological function the pattern serves, the typical pitfall for the practitioner, and the IEMT route that does work. With practice casuistry per pattern.

Practical — duration, price, cohort

• Duration: three consecutive days
• Cohort: six to eight participants, a smaller group than the Practitioner for depth of case work
• Price: €1,297 per participant
• Location: Hoorn (central NL on request), in person or online depending on cohort composition
• Alumni access: Oefengroep NL and WhatsApp community after completion; supervision and peer review in development
• Date: being scheduled — join the waiting list for the next opportunity

Entry criteria

The Advanced is not a "join in" course. Two conditions:

1. Completed Practitioner certification — with me or another recognised equivalent (Andrew Austin, Roni Matar, or another approved trainer of The Association for IEMT Practitioners).
2. Demonstrable practice experience — you use the K-pattern and Identity Pattern in your own work. For the Advanced we assume the basics are automatic; we do not work on basic-protocol refinement.

If you are in doubt about whether your experience is ready, book an introductory call. Not being a fit takes priority over enrolling — better six months later with the right basis than starting too early now.

What I teach and what you bring

What I teach: IEMT in its deeper layers — Lynchpin protocols, chronicity recognition, methodical routes for clients who do not move with basic work.

What you bring: your practice experience, your client casuistry, your craft as a coach or therapist. I do not prescribe what your clinical context should look like — that is your field. I teach you to master IEMT as a method more deeply; you apply it within the broader context you oversee.

Less suitable (with me)

If you are still working on the basic protocols — if the K-pattern or Identity Pattern is not yet automatic — then the Advanced is too early. The training assumes we are past that layer, and we do not return to it. No reason to abandon it — rather to first run another three to six months of your own practice plus, optionally, a Refresher day, and then step in.

Getting started

Two ways forward:

• Join the waiting list →

  The next edition is not yet fixed. The waiting list gets first word as soon as the date is known.

• Book an introductory call ↗

  30 minutes, free of charge. Meant to gauge whether you are ready to enter.