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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.

We hope you will join us!

Delightedly,

Farnsworth, Christine, and Katy

EMDR Therapy and Structural Dissociation: Deepening Your Skills A 10-Month Webinar

Beginning September 2025: A Game-Changer for Your Practice!

Join Farnsworth, Katy, and Christine for our 10 month, in-depth study of EMDR Therapy, the Theory of Structural Dissociation of the Personality, and the Meeting Place.

Through this intensive, small group webinar, you will learn essential skills for complex clients while being connected to a supportive community of like-minded clinicians.

This year, we are offering one Introductory and two Advanced webinar options. Each class is limited to 15 participants.

In each seminar, we will use EMDR and Dissociation: The Progressive Approach as our primary text, facilitating a deeper integration of the wonderful work of Anabel Gonzalez and Dolores Mosquera. For the Advanced webinar, we will also be referencing Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach by Kathy Steele, et al.

Participants must have completed an EMDRIA Approved Basic Training.

These webinars have been structured to provide clinicians with multiple ways of learning and integrating the concepts.

Before each meeting, you will read the assigned book chapters and any additional materials. During our monthly Zoom meetings, we will discuss and synthesize the material through lecture, group discussion and case consultation.

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’.”

Introductory Webinar

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 (except the first meeting is on the 2nd Tuesday)

Sep 9, Oct 7, Nov 4, Dec 2, Jan 6, Feb 3, Mar 3, Apr 7, May 5, Jun 2

Instructors: Farnsworth Lobenstine, LICSW and Christine Molina, LCSW

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 2026.

“I started our EMDR and Structural Dissociation class after training in EMDR and quickly learning

that the Standard Protocol, while helpful, was not enough… This Seminar and the Dolores and Mosquera book gave me the tools I needed to do EMDR with this type of client. Thanks for a wonderful EMDR seminar. I have learned so much, and I am deeply grateful.”

“I have found so much growth within myself personally and professionally in the last 10 months. I

have learned so much from this training, but what I want to touch on is how much I have learned the

importance of Silence, co-regulation, and being aware of my own self and parts.”

Advanced Webinar

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.

● 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.

GROUP 1: FRIDAYS: 1pm to 4pm EST

Dates: 3rd Friday of the month

Sep 19, Oct 17, Nov 21, Dec 19, Jan 16, Feb 20, Mar 20, Apr 17, May 15, Jun 19

Instructors: Farnsworth Lobenstine, LICSW and Katy Gelinas, LPC

GROUP 2: THURSDAYS: 10 am - 1 pm EST

Dates: 2nd Thursday of the month (except the 9th meeting is on the 1st Thursday)

Sep 11, Oct 9, Nov 13, Dec 11, Jan 8, Feb 12, Mar 12, Apr 9, May 7, Jun 11

Instructors: Farnsworth Lobenstine, LICSW and Christine Molina, LCSW

Continuing Education Credits:

● 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 2026.

"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.”

Fees:

Early Bird Rate: $1,000 if paid in full by August 1, 2025.

Early Bird Payment Plan: 5 payments of $220 per month.

Standard Rate: $1,250 if paid after August, 1 2025.

Standard Payment Plan: 5 payments of $275 per month.

For Community Mental Health clinicians (30 hours or more per week). See below for required letter.

Early Bird Rate: $800 if paid in full by August 1, 2025.

Early Bird Payment Plan: 5 payments of $175 per month.

Standard Rate: $1000 if paid after August 1, 2025.

Standard Payment Plan: 5 payments of $220 per month.

CMH clinicians: Within one week of registration, you must submit a letter on agency letterhead from your supervisor or director stating that you work 30 or more hours per week and that there are no reimbursement funds for training.

About your Co-Teachers

Farnsworth Lobenstine, LICSW

Farnsworth was the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation in recognition of his years of teaching EMDR clinicians how to more effectively and safely work with complex trauma and dissociation. Farnsworth has been an EMDRIA Approved Consultant since 2003, and since 2007, has been teaching this academic year-long Advanced Seminar on the Integration of Structural Dissociation and Ego State Therapy with EMDR Therapy. In 2013, Farnsworth created his practicum-focused weekend workshop on using EMDR with clients with complex trauma and dissociation, which he has taught both in-person and virtually with his team. Farnsworth will co-present at the EMDR International Association conference in 2025.

Farnsworth is passionate about the extraordinary privilege of working as a psychotherapist, walking for a time with others on their journey towards health and a vibrant life. He is equally passionate about teaching EMDR trained clinicians advanced skills so they can succeed with their most complex clients. In cooperation with Kristen Wold, LMFT, he has offered this in-depth study to expand EMDR offerings nationally and internationally since 2019. This year he is delighted to co-teach this webinar with Katy Gelinas and Christine Molina.

Christine Molina,

LCSW

Christine Molina, LCSW is an EMDRIA-Approved Consultant who specializes in EMDR therapy, neurodiversity, attachment and trauma. She is passionate about helping clinicians learn EMDR therapy in ways that support their learning style and foster deep healing in clients.

To deepen her skills and knowledge of complex trauma, Christine has pursued formal training in a wide range of therapeutic modalities. She is in her second year of the two-year certification process for both Clinical Hypnosis with the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH) and Ego State Therapy with Ego State Therapy (EST) North America.She is in her last year of the three-year training program in Somatic Experiencing with Somatic Experiencing International. Christine has also trained in relational, attachment-focused therapies and is currently in the certificate program for Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning Experience (DARe) and has completed level 2 of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) therapy from the AEDP Institute. In addition, Christine has studied Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), structural dissociation theory, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), completing a 16-week program with IFS Canada and level 3 training for IFS-Informed EMDR with Syzygy Institute.

Christine is also an EMDR Basic Training facilitator and a facilitator for Farnsworth’s and Paula Merucci’s “Weekend Webinar: EMDR, Polyvagal, and Parts Work” training. She has developed and presented several trainings on neurodiversity, including an advanced EMDR training on EMDR and “Subtle” Presentations of Adult Autism. In the Fall of 2025, Christine will co-present with Anita Jung an ASCH-approved on training on Hypnosis and “Subtle” Presentations of Adult Autism.

Katy Gelinas,

LPC

Katy (Kathryn) Gelinas, LPC is an EMDRIA Certified EMDR therapist and Consultant-In-Training working with Farnsworth Lobenstine LICSW. She has a private practice offering psychotherapy and clinical consultation in Waterbury, CT, specializing in working with trauma survivors with complex PTSD and dissociative conditions. She holds an Advanced Certificate in Complex Trauma and Dissociation from the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation Professional Training Program and has completed Level II Training in Clinical Hypnosis through the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis. In addition to EMDR, ego state therapy, and clinical hypnosis, Katy practices within a relational therapy framework informed by psychodynamic and person-centered principles.

Katy believes in amplifying the perspectives of survivors with lived experience in learning about trauma and dissociation, and celebrating the diversity of human experience in a neuro-affirming approach with openness and curiosity.

Katy is a facilitator and moderator for Farnsworth’s and Paula Merucci’s “Weekend Webinar: EMDR, Polyvagal, and Parts Work” practicum-based training for EMDR therapists and has co-taught trainings about dissociative identities with Farnsworth and colleagues.

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