FREE On-Demand Training with Fiona Kennedy and Tom Richardson

Discover powerful strategies for managing mood swings, perfectionism, and the pull of “highs” in this insightful session with Tom Richardson.

Tom is a clinician, researcher, and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton. He leads research into the psychological mechanisms of bipolar disorder, trains clinicians in CBT for bipolar, and contributes to international panels shaping best practice in treatment.

What makes Tom’s perspective truly unique is that he combines his clinical expertise with his own lived experience of bipolar. His work with the Integrative Cognitive Model offers practical and effective ways to formulate and treat both depression and mania—and his strategies are just as valuable for anyone supporting clients with mood-related challenges.

In this training, Fiona Kennedy asks Tom about the “tricks of the trade”: how to feel effective when working with bipolar presentations, and how his insights can be applied across different clinical contexts.

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On-Demand Masterclass With Dr Thomas Richardson

Supported by Dr Fiona Kennedy

Do you work with bipolar disorder and want to increase your skills? Or are you new to this area? This on-demand masterclass will give you practical guidance and powerful insights on how to deliver effective therapy with this group.

Through this course, you’ll deepen your understanding of the psychological mechanisms of bipolar—exploring the role of perfectionism, positive beliefs about mania, and other factors that drive mood swings. You’ll also gain specific, practical strategies to support relapse prevention, address acute mood changes, and work with underlying vulnerabilities.

What You Will Learn

• Diagnostic criteria and epidemiology of bipolar
• The psychological mechanisms of bipolar: perfectionism, over-optimism, and self-esteem fluctuations
• Formulating both depression and mania using the Integrative Cognitive Model
• CBT techniques for relapse prevention
• An overview of group-based interventions
• Skills for addressing issues such as sleep difficulties, substance use, and the appeal of mania
• Working psychologically with acute mood episodes
• Applying third-wave techniques to enhance recovery and quality of life
• Working with underlying issues that fuel mood swings, including dysfunctional assumptions and trauma considerations

Who Will Benefit?

CBT and third-wave therapists, practitioner psychologists, and other mental health professionals.
This masterclass is designed for those with experience working with bipolar disorder, but is equally valuable for practitioners new to this client group.

Learning Methods

Expert presentations, lived-experience videos, interactive role plays, and practical formulation exercises.

Takeaways

• Detailed handouts and models
• Measures and formulation templates
• Relapse prevention plans and tools

Your Trainer

Dr Thomas Richardson is a clinical psychologist, BABCP-accredited CBT therapist, and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton. He teaches CBT for bipolar disorder at diploma level and leads research projects into the psychological mechanisms and treatments of bipolar.

He is a member of the clinical advisory panel and bipolar commission for Bipolar UK, and part of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders’ psychological therapies task force. He is also editor of the forthcoming book “Psychological Therapy for Bipolar Disorder: A Handbook of Evidence-Based and Emerging Approaches” (Springer, 2023).

What makes Tom’s training especially powerful is that he also has lived experience of bipolar disorder and draws on this in his workshops.

Dr Fiona Kennedy, Director of Greenwood Mentors Ltd, facilitates discussion and ensures an interactive, engaging learning experience.

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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.

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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 Tobyn Bell and Matt Pugh

Hosted by Fiona Kennedy

Workshop Overview

Chairwork is a dynamic, experiential approach that uses chairs, movement, positioning, and dialogue to create meaningful change in therapy. Rooted in psychodrama and gestalt therapy, chairwork has become a versatile, evidence-informed method across CBT, CFT, schema therapy, DBT, and ACT. It helps clients gain new perspectives, regulate emotions, increase compassion, and expand behavioural and cognitive flexibility.

This practice-focused workshop introduces therapists to core chairwork techniques and explores their application across different therapeutic contexts. Through demonstrations, guided self-practice, group discussion, and reflection, participants will experience chairwork from the inside out. Strategies for overcoming common obstacles and adapting techniques for online therapy are also covered.

Who Will Benefit

This training is designed for mental health practitioners, including psychological therapists, counsellors, supervisors, OTs, social workers, and psychiatrists seeking fresh, effective tools to enhance their practice.

What You Will Learn

• The history and evolution of chairwork as a therapeutic method
• The four pillars of chairwork: principles, processes, procedures, and process skills
• Hands-on experience of chairwork through guided self-practice
• How to use chairwork to facilitate perspective-taking, embodiment, emotion regulation, cognitive change, and compassion
• Methods for helping clients explore multiple aspects of the self to increase self-acceptance and choice

Trainers

Matthew Pugh – Clinical Psychologist, CBT and Advanced Schema Therapist, Voice Dialogue Facilitator, co-director of Chairwork UK, and author of Cognitive Behavioural Chairwork: Distinctive Features.

Tobyn Bell – Compassion Focused Therapy Trainer and Psychotherapist, accredited Schema Therapist and CBT practitioner, co-founder of Chairwork UK, and co-author of Compassion Focused Therapy from the Inside Out.

Supported by Fiona Kennedy – Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Director of GreenWood Mentors, and author of Integrating CBT and Third Wave Therapies. Fiona makes complex concepts accessible and engaging for practitioners.

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On-Demand Training with Michelle Ayres & Carol Vivyan

Workshop Overview

GreenWood Mentors is proud to present the creators of The Decider Skills. This interactive recorded webinar introduces simple, evidence-based DBT and CBT skills designed to help children, young people, and adults recognise and manage thoughts, feelings, and behaviour.

Complex psychological theory is distilled into practical, memorable techniques delivered with creativity, role-play, visual props, and imagery. Clinicians can adapt these skills to any client group, forming a core foundational skillset and a shared language across individuals, groups, and carers.

The Decider Skills help participants:

• Manage distress and regulate emotions
• Increase mindfulness and focus
• Improve communication and decision-making
• Build foundations for more intensive therapies like CBT, DBT, or trauma-focused work

Used extensively across the UK and ROI in NHS trusts, charities, educational and social settings, The Decider Skills are suitable for proactive mental health interventions, treatment plans, or waiting list support.

Service User Involvement

Developed and refined through pilot studies and feedback, The Decider Skills are evidence-based, structured, and adaptable for remote learning and diverse environments.

Learning Outcomes

• Introduction to The Decider Skills
• Overview of evidence base
• Demonstration of all 12 Decider Life Skills
• Practical application in clinical practice

Trainers

Michelle Ayres & Carol Vivyan – Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapists, EMDR practitioners, and Mental Health Nurses with over 35 years of experience. Co-creators of The Decider Skills, The Decider Life Skills, and the STOPP app. Carol Vivyan is also author of the Get Self Help website. Both trainers are dynamic, interactive presenters passionate about improving mental health outcomes.

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On-Demand Training with Dr Lorraine Bell

Supported by Dr Fiona Kennedy

Workshop Overview

Working with suicidal thoughts and behaviours is highly stressful and challenging for mental health professionals. This workshop equips practitioners with the knowledge and skills to deliver the safest, most effective interventions. Drawing on Dr Bell’s cutting-edge expertise, you will learn how to assess risk, create collaborative safety plans, and implement interventions that reduce suicide risk.

Even when viewed on-demand, the training remains highly interactive, offering exercises, demonstrations, and reflective activities to embed learning.

Who Will Benefit

Mental health practitioners and therapists working with people at risk of suicide, including psychological therapists, nurses, OTs, social workers, psychiatrists, and medical staff.

What You Will Learn

• How to assess suicide risk and identify key risk and protective factors
• How to develop collaborative safety plans
• How to design and deliver interventions to reduce suicide risk
• Evidence-based approaches to reducing access to lethal means

Course Content

• Overview of suicide in the UK: myths, statistics, policy, and links with mental health and self-harm
• Principles and aims of suicide-focused interventions
• Practical skills for assessing risk and implementing interventions
• Applied exercises to embed knowledge and practice interventions

Learning Methods

Instruction, demonstrations, role-plays, reflective exercises, and breakout discussions create an interactive, engaging, and practical learning experience.

Trainer

Dr Lorraine Bell is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Solent NHS Trust, Fellow of the British Psychological Society and leads the Psychological Therapies Service in secondary mental health for Portsmouth. Lorraine has undertaken a number of service development roles and is currently the Suicide Prevention lead for Solent NHS Trust. She has implemented a suicide focused intervention throughout the Solent adult mental health service. Her latest book Helping people overcome suicidal thoughts, urges and behaviour: Suicide-focussed intervention skills for health and social care professionals comes from Routledge.

Supported by Dr Fiona Kennedy. Fiona is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Director of GreenWood Mentors. She makes complex concepts accessible and enjoys having fun whilst training on serious topics. She has many years experience as an NHS clinician and manager, as well as in private practice. She has written books and published papers on the sequelae of trauma in childhood and other topics. The latest, “Integrating CBT and Third Wave Therapies” (2020) is part of the CBT Distinctive Features series from Routledge.

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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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On-Demand Training With Marie Wassberg and Dr Fiona Kennedy

Overview

Following her acclaimed BABCP 2022 workshop, Marie Wassberg returns to GreenWood Mentors for a two-day deep dive into DBT-A skills. This interactive online training teaches you how to run skills groups that help participants generalise DBT strategies into their daily lives.

DBT-A (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents) is a strength-based, evidence-informed approach for young people and adults struggling with emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, relationship difficulties, and low self-esteem. It can be delivered in groups, individually, with families or carers, and in residential settings.

You do not need to be a DBT practitioner to apply these skills. The course combines experiential learning, role-play, and practical demonstrations to equip you with techniques that can immediately enhance your practice.

Who Will Benefit

• Therapists and mental health professionals working with adolescents, adults, and their families/carers
• Professionals supporting young people with emotional dysregulation, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, ASD, ADHD, trauma, or emerging personality disorders
• Clinicians running skills groups or seeking practical, hands-on DBT-A training

Course Content

Day 1:

• The bio-social model and adolescent brain
• Introduction to DBT and DBT-A principles
• Engaging parents/carers in the skills process
• “Walking the Middle Path” and practical mindfulness exercises

Day 2:

• Emotion Regulation: down-regulating intense emotions
• Distress Tolerance: surviving crises
• Interpersonal Effectiveness: building healthier relationships
• Practical guidance on group and individual skills teaching

Learning Methods

Interactive teaching with demonstrations, role-plays, breakout groups, and video material. Recordings are available for three weeks after the event.

What You Will Learn

• How DBT-A skills improve emotional regulation for adolescents and adults
• How to teach DBT-A skills to individuals, groups, and caregivers
• How to integrate DBT-A into existing therapeutic approaches
• Practical strategies for applying skills across settings

The Trainers

Marie Wassberg – Social Worker, Accredited CBT Therapist (BABCP), and DBT-A Specialist. Extensive experience with adolescents facing trauma, self-harm, complex PTSD, ASD, ADHD, and challenging behaviours. International lecturer and trainer.

Fiona Kennedy – Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Director of GreenWood Mentors, BABCP Fellow, award-winning trainer. Experienced in DBT service development and training, trauma, and integrating CBT and Third Wave therapies.

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