On-demand training with Dr Fiona Kennedy

DID is more prevalent than schizophrenia or OCD, yet it remains one of the most misunderstood and stigmatised conditions. This specialist training shows you how to apply CBT and Third Wave therapies to recognise, formulate, and treat DID – helping clients move towards integration and choice.

What You’ll Learn

• Aaron T. Beck’s cognitive model of the self, personality, and self-states, applied specifically to DID
• How dissociation affects perception, experience, and sense of self (PES model)
• Practical strategies to reduce dissociation and support mindful observation of self-states
• Tools to help clients work with, rather than against, their self-states—turning conflict into cooperation
• How to assess and formulate DID cases using CBT and Third Wave approaches
• Structured methods to enhance client commitment, clarify shared values, and foster a “team” approach to self-states

Key Clinical Applications

• Reducing dissociation between self-states with grounding, mindfulness, and experiential work
• Using ACT and DBT to clarify values, reduce therapy-interfering behaviours, and build skills for self-regulation
• Developing a compassionate observing self to increase psychological flexibility
• Applying the therapeutic relationship to build safety and break down barriers created by shame and invalidation
• Supporting clients to integrate and align self-states into a functioning, cohesive system

Learning Experience

This training combines clear teaching, demonstrations, role-plays, and case examples. Complex ideas are made practical, accessible, and engaging—equipping you to approach DID with confidence and compassion.

Takeaways

• The D-ISS (Dissociation-Integration of Self-States Scale, in development)
• A free article by Dr Kennedy
• Practical skills to assess, formulate, and treat DID using CBT and Third Wave models
• Credit towards the BPS Approved Certificate in Working with Self-States Across Disorders (if completing all modules)
• Access to an ongoing supervision and support network

Your Trainer

Dr Fiona Kennedy is a highly respected clinician, author, and trainer. She brings decades of NHS leadership experience and has co-authored and edited key texts on CBT and dissociation. Known for her clarity and warmth, she makes complex material engaging, practical, and enjoyable to learn.

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On-Demand Training With Dr Fiona Kennedy

This specialist 7.5-hour CPD training explores how to recognise, understand, and transform self-states in dissociative disorders using CBT and Third Wave approaches such as DBT, ACT, and CFT. It is part of the BPS Approved Certificate in Working with Self-States Across Disorders, but also available as a stand-alone module.

What You’ll Learn

• The CBT model of self, personality, and self-states, based on Aaron T. Beck’s theory
• How self-states (or modes) are formed and why they can dominate behaviour in dissociative disorders
• Practical techniques to help clients increase awareness, acceptance, and control of self-states
• How to work effectively with depersonalisation, derealisation, fugue states, PNES, and somatoform symptoms
• Ways to reduce dissociation and strengthen a compassionate observing self

Key Topics Covered

• Trauma and dissociation – how helplessness during trauma disrupts information processing and memory
• Self-state dissociation – why adversity in childhood can fragment self-states and limit awareness and choice
• Clinical presentations – understanding depersonalisation, fugue states, PNES, and medically unexplained symptoms
• Interventions – from grounding techniques and mapping self-states to ACT/DBT value-based work, mindfulness, and exposure without dissociation

Learning Experience

This training blends theory, demonstrations, role-plays, and case examples to make complex ideas accessible, practical, and engaging. You’ll leave with new tools to approach dissociative presentations with clarity and confidence.

Takeaways

• The D-ISS (Dissociation-Integration of Self-States Scale, in development)
• A free article by Dr Kennedy
• Credit towards the BPS Approved Certificate in Working with Self-States Across Disorders (if completing all modules)

Your Trainer

Dr Fiona Kennedy is an internationally respected clinician, author, and trainer. She has extensive NHS leadership experience, has authored multiple influential books on CBT and dissociation, and is known for making complex concepts clear, practical, and enjoyable to learn.

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On-Demand Training with Dr Fiona Kennedy

Gain practical, evidence-based strategies for working with dissociation and self-states across complex presentations—including cPTSD, EUPD/BPD, eating disorders, and psychosis.

In this 7.5-hour CPD training, Dr Fiona Kennedy shares innovative, integrative approaches that bring new depth to CBT and Third Wave therapies. Learn how to connect more meaningfully with clients, address “treatment-resistant” patterns, and build confidence in navigating even the most challenging presentations.

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On-demand training with Dr Fiona Kennedy

This course introduces you to Aaron T. Beck’s cognitive model of the self and shows how dissociation and self-states play a role in common mental health problems. Using CBT and Third Wave approaches (ACT, DBT, CFT), you’ll learn how to identify, formulate, and intervene with self-states to create lasting change in your clients.

What You’ll Learn

• The CBT model of self, self-states, and dissociation
• How dissociation affects perception, experience, and sense of self (PES model)
• Formulating anxiety, depression, and OCD through the lens of self-states
• Interventions that increase awareness, acceptance, and choice over self-states
• Practical tools to help clients strengthen a compassionate observing self

Key Clinical Applications

• Anxiety: Managing dissociation, intrusive imagery, and frozen states that block therapy progress
• OCD: Working with inflated responsibility, compulsions, and self-state conflicts
• Depression: Addressing hopeless, numb, and suicidal self-states, plus fatigue and loss of joy
• PTSD and trauma links: Understanding how dissociation splits emotional and “apparently normal” selves

Interventions and Techniques

• Mindfulness practices to build a compassionate observing self
• Parts work, chairwork, schema and gestalt techniques
• Creative tools such as art, journaling, or scrapbooking to represent self-states
• DBT and ACT skills to clarify values, commit to change, and manage therapy-interfering behaviours
• Compassion-focused approaches to strengthen kindness, wisdom, and acceptance across self-states
• “Team-building” strategies to align self-states towards shared goals

Learning Experience

This training combines clear teaching, case demonstrations, role-plays, and group work to make complex ideas practical and engaging.

Takeaways

• The D-ISS (Dissociation-Integration of Self-States Scale, in development)
• A free article by Dr Fiona Kennedy
• Foundations for further modules on PTSD, cPTSD, EUPD/BPD, depersonalisation, fugue, PNES, and DID
• Credit towards the BPS Approved Certificate in Working with Self-States and Dissociation Across Disorders (if completing all modules)

Your Trainer

Dr Fiona Kennedy is a highly respected clinician, author, and trainer with decades of NHS leadership experience. She is known for making complex concepts engaging and accessible, and has authored influential books including Get Your Life Back and Integrating CBT and Third Wave Therapies.

Ready to grow your skills?

Access this On-Demand training today and learn at your own pace. Gain practical tools, evidence-based strategies, and expert insights you can apply immediately in your work. Register Now.

On-Demand Training with Dr Fiona Kennedy

Integrating CBT, DBT, ACT, and CFT

Gain the skills to understand and work with multiple self-states and dissociation across a range of mental health presentations. Using evidence-based approaches, this on-demand training equips you to help clients develop awareness, acceptance, and control over their self-states, improving resilience and overall functioning.

This certificated course is delivered online in four modules, totalling 32 hours CPD, with the option to complete individual modules.

About the Course

Dissociation is a common response to trauma, often learned in childhood, which can persist into adulthood and affect many mental health presentations, from anxiety and depression to complex trauma and dissociative disorders. Yet, training in this area is limited.

Developed from Dr Fiona Kennedy’s Cognitive Theory of Dissociation, this course integrates insights from CBT, DBT, ACT, and CFT to provide practical, clinically relevant strategies. You’ll learn how to assess, formulate, and intervene with self-states and dissociation, helping clients regain choice and coherence in their lives.

What You Will Learn

• The CBT model of self and self-states, including the concept of the working self
• Cognitive model of dissociation and its impact on perception, experience, and behavior
• How dissociation manifests across anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, cPTSD, EUPD/BPD, depersonalisation, PNES, and DID
• Assessment tools, including the D-ISS (Dissociation-Integration of Self-States Scale)
• Evidence-based interventions to increase awareness, acceptance, and control over self-states
• Practical techniques from mindfulness, DBT, ACT, CFT, schema therapy, and creative therapies

Training Approach

This course combines instruction, demonstrations, role-plays, video materials, and interactive exercises, delivered in a small-group online environment to maximize engagement. Participants also gain access to a support and supervision network to continue learning beyond the course.

Modules

Module 1: Working with Anxiety, Depression, OCD, and More

Understand self-states and dissociation in common mental health presentations. Learn to apply CBT and Third Wave approaches to help clients shift between self-states and manage intrusive thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.

Module 2: Working with PTSD, cPTSD, and EUPD/BPD

Explore trauma-based presentations and learn how dissociation affects memory, perception, and self-experience. Develop strategies to support clients in integrating fragmented self-states and improving emotional regulation.

Module 3: Working with Depersonalisation, Fugue, Somatoform Disorders, and PNES

Gain practical tools to help clients experiencing dissociative disorders. Learn techniques for assessing and reducing dissociation and improving communication between self-states, including creative and experiential interventions.

Module 4: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

Focus on DID, exploring extreme dissociation between self-states and the challenges it poses. Learn structured CBT, DBT, ACT, and CFT approaches to increase awareness, acceptance, and control, helping clients integrate self-states into a cohesive and functional sense of self.

Who Will Benefit

This course is designed for clinicians, therapists, and mental health professionals working with anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, trauma-based disorders, and dissociative disorders. It is especially useful for those seeking fresh, evidence-based CBT and Third Wave approaches to complex presentations.

About Your Trainer

Dr Fiona Kennedy is a renowned trainer and therapist with extensive experience in NHS service management and private practice. She integrates CBT, ACT, DBT, and CFT in her teaching, making complex concepts accessible and practical. Fiona is a BABCP Accredited Trainer and Supervisor, an Associate Fellow of the BPS, and a visiting academic at Southampton University. She has authored multiple books and co-edited works on dissociation and CBT.

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On-Demand Training with Dr Fiona Kennedy

Using CBT and Third Wave Therapies

Explore how to understand, assess, and work with self-states and dissociation in trauma-based and complex presentations. This on-demand training (7.5 hours CPD) equips clinicians with evidence-based strategies from CBT, DBT, ACT, and CFT to help clients develop awareness, acceptance, and control over their self-states.

About the Course

Self-states, or CBT ‘modes,’ are sets of schemas learned in childhood that shape how we perceive and respond to the world. Trauma and adversity, particularly in childhood, can cause dissociation between self-states, limiting clients’ awareness, acceptance, and control of themselves.

Dr Fiona Kennedy presents the CBT theory of self, personality, and dissociation, showing how these insights can be applied to trauma-based and complex presentations, including PTSD, cPTSD, eating disorders, psychosis, and EUPD/BPD. You’ll learn to help clients regain choice over which self-state to access, reduce dissociative symptoms, and live more meaningful lives.

What You Will Learn

• CBT model and concepts of the self, working self, and dissociation
• How dissociation affects perception, experience, and functioning
• Assessing and formulating trauma-based presentations using the cognitive model
• Evidence-based interventions to reduce dissociation and enhance control over self-states
• Practical techniques from mindfulness, DBT, ACT, CFT, schema therapy, and creative therapies

Intervening with Self-States

Mindfulness practices and creative techniques help clients observe and describe self-states, fostering a compassionate observing self. Key approaches include:

• Reducing dissociation across perceptual, experiential, and self levels
• Creative representation using art, poetry, journaling, music, scrapbooking, and digital communication tools
• Commitment work and values-based goal setting using DBT, ACT, and motivational interviewing
• ‘Parts’ work including chair work, gestalt, and schema therapy techniques
• Compassion-focused strategies to develop self-acceptance, strength, and emotional regulation
• Team-building approaches to encourage cooperation between self-states

Who Will Benefit

This course is ideal for clinicians, therapists, and mental health professionals working with PTSD, cPTSD, EUPD/BPD, and complex trauma presentations. It provides fresh, practical approaches for those looking to expand their CBT and Third Wave skills in working with self-states and dissociation.

Learning Methods

Instruction, demonstrations, role-plays, breakout exercises, and video materials create a dynamic, interactive online experience in a small-group format.

About Your Trainer

Dr Fiona Kennedy is a highly respected, engaging trainer and therapist with extensive NHS experience and private practice expertise. She integrates CBT, DBT, ACT, and CFT, making complex concepts practical and clinically relevant. Fiona is the author of Get Your Life Back and co-editor of Cognitive Behavioural Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Dissociation. She developed the CBT theory of dissociation and brings real-world clinical experience alongside global volunteering work with disadvantaged youth in India.

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On-Demand Training with Dr Fiona Kennedy

Overview

If you are a mental health clinician, you are working with dissociation, whether you realise it or not. This workshop gives you the tools to recognise, assess, and treat dissociation effectively.

Dissociation is not just “spacing out”, it is a set of processes that can affect self, memory, consciousness, perception, and bodily experience. Often rooted in trauma, dissociation can profoundly shape clinical presentations including PTSD, cPTSD, personality disorder, psychosis, depersonalisation, eating disorders, somatic symptoms, non-epileptic seizures, and severe anxiety or depression.

Dr Fiona Kennedy, co-developer of the CBT model of dissociation, presents practical ways to assess, formulate, and intervene using CBT, DBT, ACT, and CFT.

Who Is This Course For?

• Therapists and mental health professionals working with trauma, neglect, or complex mental health needs
• Clinicians supporting clients with BPD/EUPD, DID, psychosis, PTSD/cPTSD, unexplained medical symptoms, or dissociative amnesia
• Professionals seeking a deeper understanding of dissociation and practical clinical tools

Course Content

• Defining dissociation and its neurobiology
• The CBT model of dissociation: perceptual, mode, and between-mode levels
• Assessing dissociation with psychometric tools, including the Wessex Dissociation Scale (WDS)
• Formulating dissociation in clinical practice: PTSD, psychosis, BPD, DID, anxiety disorders, self-harm, somatic disorders, and more
• Explaining dissociation to clients in accessible ways
• Intervening effectively with grounding, CBT, DBT, ACT, and CFT strategies
• Case formulation and treatment planning using clinical vignettes

Learning Methods

Interactive teaching with demonstrations, role-plays, breakout groups, video material, and case-based learning. Recordings are available after the event so you can revisit key concepts.

Trainer

Dr Fiona Kennedy is an experienced and engaging trainer known for making complex clinical ideas practical and accessible. She has decades of NHS and independent practice experience, co-developed the CBT theory of dissociation, and authored numerous books, including Integrating CBT and Third Wave Therapies and Get Your Life Back. She also co-edited Cognitive Behavioural Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Dissociation.

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Access this On-Demand training today and learn at your own pace. Gain practical tools, evidence-based strategies, and expert insights you can apply immediately in your work. Register Now.