Dear Colleague,

Many of you have taken the Weekend Webinar but know you need more.

What makes this EMDR seminar course so unique, effective, and powerful is the integration of multiple learning styles within the supportive container of a small group setting. The book chapters guide you through the depths of the work: what is happening in the brain and how to make targeted decisions in sessions. During the monthly class meetings, these concepts are expanded and vivified through lecture, group discussion, and practicum experiences. Group consultation allows for practical application to real-time clinical work over the course of the academic year.

One-time workshops can introduce essential concepts; this long-term, small-group seminar offers a “slow, delicious pace of learning” to help break through the barrier of working with complex trauma to truly synthesize learning into powerful clinical skills to help clients heal more effectively. 

A Special Note from Farnsworth Lobenstine, LICSW 

I created this ten-month class 19 years ago in my living room and taught it there for ten years. In 2019, my colleague, Kristen Wold, LICSW, enabled us to teach it together online, with one Introductory and 2 Advanced webinars. We served about 45 EMDR therapists each year. 

I have been thrilled to co-teach these webinars this past academic year with Christine Molina and Katy Gelinas, two of my closest colleagues on my Treating Complex Trauma team. 

After 19 years, I need to retire. I am deeply delighted that two other colleagues, Jason Rose-Langston, LICSW and Amy Winters Champoux, LICSW have agreed to continue my work. I have known both of them from the Western Mass EMDRIA community for 15 or more years and deeply trust their clinical wisdom and teaching ability. I will always be available to them to share my nearly two decades of experience and wisdom. I will be joining them only as a second facilitator for the two practicums in the Intro class and the one practicum in the Advanced class. You will deeply appreciate each of them.

We hope you will join us!

Delightedly,

Farnsworth, Jason, and Amy

Beginning September 2026: A Game-Changer for Your Practice!

Below find more information and introduction videos!

Previous participants have said ... 

“Through this course I began to integrate my understanding of the structural dissociation theory. I grew to admire the intricacy of the system of personality. More importantly, my understanding of my role, as a therapist and an external regulator, to the clients’ system and its parts has greatly increased.”

"My takeaway from this clinical seminar is increased confidence in my ability to assess and

begin to treat dissociation. I feel more prepared and confident to introduce parts of self to

clients, creating the Meeting Place with clients in session, and beginning to explore parts of

self with clients." 

“I truly appreciate the opportunity to participate in this workshop and I am humbled by the amazing work all of the clinicians are doing. Furthermore, I admire the participants’ willingness to share their work, revealing so courageously their places of ‘stuckness’.”

"I think the thing that has been the most helpful from this 10-month webinar is the structure and length of thre program. All the content was incredibly valuable, so the fact that it was spread out over the course of almost a year, and organized in a way that gave me a dedicated reason to learn, with set aside time to show up was all very helpful."

The Introductory Webinar is suitable for EMDR clinicians who are building their understanding of complex trauma and dissociation. It is also valuable for clinicians who are experiential learners and learn best at a slower pace and with more experiential practice. 

This webinar will lead you though an in-depth study using Gonzalez and Mosquera's book, EMDR and Dissociation: The Progressive Approach as the primary text, and includes practice of interventions including Meeting Place, Loving Eyes, and Tip of the Finger. 

Learning Objectives:

●      Discuss a coherent theoretical framework of dissociative processes from a Structural Dissociation perspective.

●      Demonstrate ability to utilize Meeting Place intervention to facilitate work with parts of the personality through discussion and consultation of participant’s clinical work.

●      Discuss at least three types of internal phobias in Structural Dissociation (phobias of attachment, traumatic memories, and inner experience) and identify strategies for addressing these in clinical work. 

●      Demonstrate competence in accessing parts of self by working through the current adult self in the Meeting Place intervention through supervised practicum.

●      Demonstrate ability to utilize Tip of the Finger Strategy, Loving Eyes, and other EMDR interventions through supervised practicum and discussion of clinical work.

WHEN: TUESDAYS: 10 am - 1 pm EST

DATES: 1st Tuesday of the month 

Sep 1, Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1, Jan 5, Feb 2, Mar 2, Apr 6, May 4, Jun 1

Instructor: Amy Winters Champoux, LICSW

Continuing Education Credits: 

●      For those pursuing EMDRIA Certification: You will earn 1.5 hours of EMDRIA Continuing Education credits and 1 hour of group consultation for each session that you attend live for the full session.

●      You will earn 3 NBCC CE hours for each session you attend live for the full session. 

Classes will be recorded for review, however CE credit is not available for viewing recordings. The video of each session will remain online until July 1st 2027.

●     We are pending CE approval through NASW that would give credit to Social Workers in: AL, AK, AR, CA, FL, GA, HI, IL, IA, KY, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, NV, NH, NJ, NM, OH, OR, RI, SC, SD, VA, WA, WV, and WI.

From 2025-26 graduates of the Introductory 10-Month Webinar:

"This webinar has revolutionized my work with my clients. I now have such a better understanding of complex trauma and dissociation, and I'm able to apply EMDR with more clarity and confidence. I've had many instances throughout the years where I've felt ill equipped to support my clients. It is my ethical responsibility as a clinician to continue expanding my knowledge with ongoing training and consultation, and this webinar has been an excellent way to do that." 

The willingness of fellow clinicians to share successes, challenges, questions, and clinical insights has created a rich learning environment that has expanded my knowledge and confidence. I leave this course feeling more equipped, more curious, and far less stuck when working with highly complex trauma presentations.

This course has not only transformed me but also transformed the way that I engage in therapy with my clients. It has given me the freedom to be the therapist I always wanted to be."

 "It is a wonderful gift to be able to say to someone 'I can help you' when perhaps they haven't heard that before in an authentic way."

Another invaluable tool I've gained is learning to introduce parts work to my clients. The concept of parts is universal -- we are all comprised of many states. Leaning in with an attitude of curiosity and respect while facilitating parts work with my clients has been such a gift....The script provided along with the practicum opportunities made it so easy to implement right away."

"This course has helped me feel more confident working with dissociative clients It took the mystery out of the work by giving me concrete skills that built off the knowledge that I have in my therapy practice."

Appropriate for EMDR clinicians who have taken Farnsworth Lobenstine’s and Paula Merucci’s Weekend Webinar. It is also appropriate for clinicians who have a working knowledge of complex trauma and dissociation.

This webinar will lead you though an in-depth study using Gonzalez and Mosquera's book, EMDR and Dissociation: The Progressive Approach as the primary text. We will also be reading chapters of Steele et al's seminal 2017 book, Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation. Additional readings will be assigned throughout the course. The Advanced webinar includes practicum of the Meeting Place and emphasizes application to clinical practice through in-depth consultation of ongoing work.

Learning Objectives: 

●      Demonstrate proficiency in discussion of the Theory of Structural Dissociation of the Personality.

●      Discuss ways in which EMDR therapy practice with clients with complex trauma histories has become more effective by applying principles and strategies from the Theory of Structural Dissociation. 

●      Demonstrate increasing confidence in ability to develop case conceptualizations and treatment plans for complex presentations.  

●      Demonstrate ability to utilize Meeting Place intervention and other interventions with clients with complex trauma and dissociative symptoms through discussion and consultation of participant’s clinical work.

●      Identify ways to utilize EMDR protocols and other interventions in the Meeting Place and how to address stuck points.

●      Discuss at least three types of internal phobias in Structural Dissociation (phobias of attachment, traumatic memories, and inner experience) and identify strategies for addressing these in clinical work. 

●      Identify and discuss transference and countertransference dynamics in the therapeutic relationship to facilitate resolution and healing of relational wounds in clients with complex trauma histories.

WHEN: THURSDAYS 10 am to 1 pm EST

Dates: 2nd Thursday of the month

Sep 10, Oct 8, Nov 12, Dec 10, Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 11, Apr 8, May 13, Jun 10

Instructor: Jason Rose-Langston, LICSW

Continuing Education Credits: 

●      For those pursuing EMDRIA Certification: You will earn 1.5 hours of EMDRIA Continuing Education credits and 1 hour of group consultation for each session that you attend live for the full session.

●      You will earn 3 NBCC CE hours for each session you attend live for the full session. 

Classes will be recorded for review, however CE credit is not available for viewing recordings. The video of each session will remain online until July 1st 2027.

"Before the webinar, I felt lost and alone at times when working with my complex clients; fortunately for me this webinar has been a vital turning point for me professionally. I now have the roadmap and foundation I was searching for as well as a community to learn from and be supported by. I am now walking my path as a trauma therapist with more sure-footedness, curiosity, compassion and effectiveness."

“The learning in this course has further allowed me to access clients that are traditionally referred out by other therapists or tossed around the system for many years, if not their whole lives thus far. I am forever grateful for this learning and for the two of you to place so much energy, attention, and love

into this process. Thank you!”

“One of the things that has shifted as a result of this course is my increased ability to be present, to feel confidence in responding authentically to clients in real time, instead of scrambling in my head for the elements of the recipe that I “should” be following.”