EMDR STEPPING STONES: Training

“EMDR is only as effective as the hand delivering it” - Dr Francine Shapiro

EMDR Masterclass: Strategies to increase stabilisation for complex clients

Presented by Fiona Mawson - EMDRAA Accredited Consultant
Join Fiona online for two days of focussed learning and practice to safely and supportively assist complex and dissociative clients in reprocessing memories. Deepen your knowledge and skills to support complex and dissociative clients with a focus on 'parts work' so that you can interweave in Phase 2 strategies into Phases 4-7.

Thursday June 4th 2026 & Friday June 5th 2026. Location: ONLINE. 9:00AM to 2.30PM Fee: $550.00 (GST Incl.)
For any further Information contact fiona@emdrconsulting.com.au

Event Details

  • You will learn how to:
  • • Review the definition of dissociation and treatment implications
  • • Conceptualise parts of self and how to introduce parts language to clients
  • • Describe and apply the Theory of Structural Dissociation
  • o ANP, EP, action systems (approach/avoid), action tendencies (fight/flight, freeze, submit, attach), realisation & synthesis
  • • Use six strategies to work directly with phobias and parts of the self for trauma work
  • • Use Fraser’s Dissociative Table and how it is useful for working with a client’s parts of self
  • • Find solutions that arise from barriers and avoidance when working with parts of the self
  • • Observe through video how phobias and parts of self can be respected and resolved in trauma work

  • You will learn how to work with emotional parts to ensure they are oriented to time, safe, and able to work collaboratively to begin memory reprocessing.

  • Walk away with a structured workbook to support your clients so that you will be able to guide them through strategies for distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and safety in expressing/experiencing emotions. You will walk away with increased skills to interweave phase 2 stabilisation and resourcing strategies into the standard protocol to help your complex and dissociative clients stay present, regulated, safe, and within their Window of Tolerance, so they can maintain dual attention to reprocess trauma content successfully.

  • This work draws on some of the work of Joany Spierings, Carol Forgash, Phil Manfield, Jim Knipe, Onno Van der Hart, Janine Fisher, Ellert Nijenhuis, Kathy Steele, Suzette Goon, Robin Shapiro, Roger Solomon and of course, Francine Shapiro, coupled with over fifteen years of experience that Fiona brings to her training.

  • Please note that you will need to have completed your EMDR Basic Training to attend this Masterclass. In registering for this training, you also agree to seek your own therapeutic support if the 'parts work' of this training opens up specific areas or issues for you.
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About Fiona

Fiona Mawson is an EMDRAA accredited Consultant. She is a trainee-trainer and completed her EMDR basic training in 2015 progressing to advanced training with Dr. Roger Solomon in 2015. Fiona has developed an EMDR focused practice in Chelsea Heights, Victoria. Fiona has developed skills integrating EMDR with ego state therapy to work with complex clients such as returned veterans, clients with dissociative disorders and clients with complex childhood trauma.

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Clinic Hours
Face to Face or Virtual appointmentsMonday 9-5Tuesday 9-5Wednesday 9-5
Clinic Location
Benchmark Corporate Centre35, 93 Wells RoadChelsea Heights, VIC 3196
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