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EMDR Part 1: Introduction – Sydney
Early bird price: $940. Use code 16062025 at checkout up to three weeks before workshop.
Standard price: $990
Student (full-time) price: $840. Email proof before registering to receive discount code.
Trainer: Larissa Meysner
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop, however therapists should ensure they meet eligibility criteria set out by the EMDR Association of Australia.
Overview
Including 7 hours of pre-workshop reading – completed at your own pace – followed by a two-day face to face workshop, this course is accredited by the EMDR Association of Australia. Workshops include active practice of EMDR and working in small groups on personal memories that you consider ahead of time.
Workshop outcomes
Review the development of EMDR from its beginnings to the present day
Link EMDR with mainstream theory and findings in Information Processing and the Psychobiology of Trauma
Observe and practice the eight steps of EMDR treatment
Observe and practice strategies to deal with abreactions
Observe and practice ways to help clients develop more adaptive and positive beliefs about themselves
A wide range of strategies to work with more emotionally vulnerable clients
Experience key elements of EMDR as both a client and therapist in 10 hours of closely supervised practicum exercises
Receive a detailed (70+ pages) training manual and drop box link with additional assessment questionnaires, handouts, clinicians guides and research papers
Workshop prepartion
Participants are required to complete a series of readings and complete the pre-workshop booklet.
EMDR Part 1: Introduction – Sydney
Early bird price: $940. Use code 05082025 at checkout, up to three weeks before workshop.
Standard price: $990
Student (full-time) price: $840. Email proof before registering to receive discount code.
Trainer: TBA
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop, however therapists should ensure they meet eligibility criteria set out by the EMDR Association of Australia.
Overview
Including 7 hours’ of pre-workshop reading – completed at your own pace – followed by a two-day face to face workshop, this course is accredited by the EMDR Association of Australia. Workshops include active practice of EMDR and working in small groups on personal memories that you consider ahead of time.
Workshop outcomes
Review the development of EMDR from its beginnings to the present day
Link EMDR with mainstream theory and findings in Information Processing and the Psychobiology of Trauma
Observe and practice the eight steps of EMDR treatment
Observe and practice strategies to deal with abreactions
Observe and practice ways to help clients develop more adaptive and positive beliefs about themselves
A wide range of strategies to work with more emotionally vulnerable clients
Experience key elements of EMDR as both a client and therapist in 10 hours of closely supervised practicum exercises
Receive a detailed (70+ pages) training manual and drop box link with additional assessment questionnaires, handouts, clinicians guides and research papers
Pre-reading for this workshop
Participants are required to complete a series of readings and complete the pre-workshop booklet.
EMDR Part 2: Advanced – Sydney
Early bird price: $940. Use code 19082025 at checkout, up to three weeks before workshop.
Standard price: $990
Student (full-time) price: $840. Email proof before registering to receive discount code.
Trainer: TBA
Prerequisites:
This training is for clinicians who have already completed an EMDRAA accredited Level 1 training and had experience delivering EMDR therapy with either four clients or 12 sessions. If in doubt, contact us.
Overview
This workshop involves approximately 7 hours of pre-workshop reading – completed at your own pace – followed by a two-day face to face workshop. The course is accredited by the EMDR Association of Australia and covers:
Cognitive Interweaves: a more therapist-active variant of EMDR when processing becomes stuck.
Specialised assessments for clients with generalised long term problems (e.g. Personality Disorder, Complex Trauma).
Specialised protocols for disorders such as addiction.
Adapting standard EMDR for clients with dissociative defences.
Integrating EMDR with cognitive, behavioural and experiential therapy approaches.
Building and integrating client resources for those who lack them.
Research update detailing recent published papers and new evidence on EMDR.
A detailed workshop manual, with all assessment and treatment protocols.
An introduction to the fidelity assessment and making sure you know how to deliver standard EMDR well.
Supervised practicums.
FAQs
How long after attending Level 1 training can I enrol in Level 2 training?
There is no strict rule around the number of clients you must have seen, or period of time since Level 1, and we understand this will vary depending on how and where you practice. However, as a general guide we recommend that after seeing four clients or using EMDR for 12 sessions, you are probably getting comfortable with the standard protocol and ready build on your skills and knowledge.
I completed my level 1 training with a different training provider. Can I still enrol in this course?
Yes, so long as you completed your level 1 training with an EMDRAA Accredited provider.
If it has been more than three years since you completed level 1 training, please contact us to discuss whether you will need to do anything else prior to attending the workshop.
EMDR Australia affirms that the content and presentation of these trainings meets the curriculum requirements published by EMDR International Association (EMDRIA).
Schema Therapy Advanced – Sydney
Early bird price: $775. Use code 25082025 at checkout, up to three weeks before workshop.
Standard price: $825
Student (full-time) price: $675. Email proof before registering to receive discount code.
Trainer: Associate Professor Christopher Lee
Prerequisites:
A good working knowledge of the basic Schema Therapy model taught in Schema Therapy Standard workshop.
Overview
This workshop teaches you to the mode model of schema therapy. You’ll learn how to assess and conceptualise individuals with emotional regulation, including personality disorders, in mode terms. You’ll also learn and practise therapeutic strategies to deal with schema modes in a therapy context, including:
How to bypass detached and dissociated modes
How to confront angry modes
How to nurture vulnerable modes
How to banish punitive modes linked to shame
Chairwork techniques
Understanding the role of therapist’s schemas in the therapeutic relationship
Exploring limit setting and reparenting techniques
Pre-actions for this workshop
Administer the Schema Mode Inventory to at least one client and score it using the computer programme here
DBT Introductory – Sydney
Early bird price: $688. Use code 08092025 at checkout, up to three weeks before workshop.
Standard price: $738
Student (full-time) price: $688. Email proof before registering to receive student rate.
Trainer: Dr Sian Jeffrey
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop.
Overview
This workshop is intended for therapists who are familiar with, as well as those with little or no previous exposure to DBT or cognitive behavioural therapy. You’ll learn:
A dialectical biopsychosocial theory of borderline personality disorder
Structuring treatment for multi-problem, high-suicide risk clients
Basic strategies used in individual DBT
Enhancing and maintaining the therapy relationship
Dealing with unrelenting crisis
Applying behaviour change principles
Application and practise of core DBT skills including mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotional regulation
Common group issues in DBT and how to manage these
Body Focused Schema Therapy with Janis Briedis – Sydney
$840*
*Price includes a compulsory two-hour introductory online seminar with Janis which must be booked separately on either: Friday 10 October, Tuesday 14 October or Thursday 16 October.
Trainer: Janis Briedis
Prerequisites
Completion of two hour introductory Zoom seminar with Janis (scheduled in Australian Western Standard Time.)
Learning objectives:
Viewing schemas and modes through a somatic prism - top-down vs bottom-up approaches of working
Latest developments in working with the body in the field of psychotherapy and its relevance to schema therapy
Principles of working with the body safely - Window of Tolerance (Siegel, 1999), dual awareness (Rothschild, 2000) and therapist’s awareness of own somatic patterns
Building somatic mode awareness - tracking the body sensations, movements and impulses via directed mindfulness (Ogden et al 2006)
Where to start? Structure for working with the body – ‘dancing with the core organizers’ (Briedis et al., 2020)
Creating internal safety with the use of somatic resourcing
Resonance and co-regulation: relational aspects of somatic attunement in the therapeutic relationship
Managing too little or too much feeling in the body including dissociation and overwhelmed Child Modes
Somatic interventions for anger
Compassionate somatic work with coping and critic modes
Enhancing limited parenting of Child Modes using a somatic focus
Facilitating development of an embodied Healthy Adult mode
EMDR Part 1: Introduction – Sydney
Early bird price: $940. Use code 28102025 at checkout, up to three weeks before workshop.
Standard price: $990
Student (full-time) price: $840. Email proof before registering to receive discount code.
Trainer: Larissa
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop, however therapists should ensure they meet eligibility criteria set out by the EMDR Association of Australia.
Overview
Including 7 hours of pre-workshop reading – completed at your own pace – followed by a two-day face to face workshop, this course is accredited by the EMDR Association of Australia. Workshops include active practice of EMDR and working in small groups on personal memories that you consider ahead of time.
Workshop outcomes
Review the development of EMDR from its beginnings to the present day
Link EMDR with mainstream theory and findings in Information Processing and the Psychobiology of Trauma
Observe and practice the eight steps of EMDR treatment
Observe and practice strategies to deal with abreactions
Observe and practice ways to help clients develop more adaptive and positive beliefs about themselves
A wide range of strategies to work with more emotionally vulnerable clients
Experience key elements of EMDR as both a client and therapist in 10 hours of closely supervised practicum exercises
Receive a detailed (70+ pages) training manual and drop box link with additional assessment questionnaires, handouts, clinicians guides and research papers
Pre-reading for this workshop
Participants are required to complete a series of readings and complete the pre-workshop booklet.
Schema Therapy Standard – Sydney
Early bird price: $775. Use code 03042025 at checkout, up to three weeks prior to workshop.
Standard price: $825
Student (full-time) price: $675. Email proof before registering to receive discount code.
Trainer: Associate Professor Christopher Lee
Overview:
This workshop provides an introduction to early maladaptive schemas, how they maintain problematic behaviours and techniques for changing them. Learning outcomes include:
Review current state of evidence on schema focused therapy including research conducted by Chris Lee
Learn how to assess the key developmental tasks of childhood, and how these affect schema development
Learn a range of ways to assess problematic schemas and practice these in small group exercises
Explore the methods by which clients subtly maintain their self defeating schemas
Learn how to challenge client’s schema maintaining strategies
Practice emotive, interpersonal, cognitive and behavioural interventions designed to regulate emotions
Learn experiential interventions to highlight the link between current emotions and earlier learning
Develop practical strategies to consolidate emerging beliefs which are more adaptive
Receive extensive background notes and client handouts
Workshop preparation
Pre-reading: Chapter One of Schema Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide, by Young, Klosko and Weishaar, with an emphasis on pages 1-37.
Administer the revised Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ-R) to yourself, and ideally also one client and score using the computer program here.
EMDR Part 2: Advanced – Sydney
Trainer: Logan Harvey
Prerequisites:
This training is for clinicians who have already completed an EMDRAA accredited Level 1 training and had experience delivering EMDR therapy with either four clients or 12 sessions. If in doubt, contact us.
Overview
This workshop involves approximately 7 hours’ of pre-workshop reading – completed at your own pace – followed by a two-day face to face workshop. The course is accredited by the EMDR Association of Australia and covers:
Cognitive Interweaves: a more therapist-active variant of EMDR when processing becomes stuck.
Specialised assessments for clients with generalised long term problems (e.g. Personality Disorder, Complex Trauma).
Specialised protocols for disorders such as addiction.
Adapting standard EMDR for clients with dissociative defences.
Integrating EMDR with cognitive, behavioural and experiential therapy approaches.
Building and integrating client resources for those who lack them.
Research update detailing recent published papers and new evidence on EMDR.
A detailed workshop manual, with all assessment and treatment protocols.
An introduction to the fidelity assessment and making sure you know how to deliver standard EMDR well.
Supervised practicums.
FAQs
How long after attending Level 1 training can I enrol in Level 2 training?
There is no strict rule around the number of clients you must have seen, or period of time since Level 1, and we understand this will vary depending on how and where you practice. However, as a general guide we recommend that after seeing four clients or using EMDR for 12 sessions, you are probably getting comfortable with the standard protocol and ready build on your skills and knowledge.
I completed my level 1 training with a different training provider. Can I still enrol in this course?
Yes, so long as you completed your level 1 training with an EMDRAA Accredited provider.
If it has been more than three years since you completed level 1 training, please contact us to discuss whether you will need to do anything else prior to attending the workshop.
EMDR Australia affirms that the content and presentation of these trainings meets the curriculum requirements published by EMDR International Association (EMDRIA).
EMDR Part 1: Introduction – Sydney
Trainer: Logan Harvey
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop, however therapists should ensure they meet eligibility criteria set out by the EMDR Association of Australia.
Overview
Including 7 hours’ of pre-workshop reading – completed at your own pace – followed by a two-day face to face workshop, this course is accredited by the EMDR Association of Australia. Workshops include active practice of EMDR and working in small groups on personal memories that you consider ahead of time.
Workshop outcomes
Review the development of EMDR from its beginnings to the present day
Link EMDR with mainstream theory and findings in Information Processing and the Psychobiology of Trauma
Observe and practice the eight steps of EMDR treatment
Observe and practice strategies to deal with abreactions
Observe and practice ways to help clients develop more adaptive and positive beliefs about themselves
A wide range of strategies to work with more emotionally vulnerable clients
Experience key elements of EMDR as both a client and therapist in 10 hours of closely supervised practicum exercises
Receive a detailed (70+ pages) training manual and drop box link with additional assessment questionnaires, handouts, clinicians guides and research papers
Workshop preparation
Before attending this workshop, participants must complete a required reading list and answer a set of questions. These materials will be emailed to you after you enrol.
EMDR Australia affirms that the content and presentation of these trainings meets the curriculum requirements published by EMDR International Association (EMDRIA).
DBT Introductory – Sydney
Trainer: Dr Sian Jeffrey
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop.
Overview
This workshop is intended for therapists who are familiar with, as well as those with little or no previous exposure to DBT or cognitive behavioural therapy. You’ll learn:
A dialectical biopsychosocial theory of borderline personality disorder
Structuring treatment for multi-problem, high-suicide risk clients
Basic strategies used in individual DBT
Enhancing & maintaining the therapy relationship
Dealing with unrelenting crisis
Applying behaviour change principles
Application and practise of core DBT skills including mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotional regulation
Common group issues in DBT and how to manage these