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Our mission:

We exist to equip clinicians with the skills and confidence, and trauma informed understanding needed to deliver EMDR therapy safely and effectively.

Our training is grounded in evidence, shaped by clinical experience and delivered with care.

Our approach:

We believe learning should feel safe, structured and deeply relevant to clinical practice.

Our training integrates:

  • Adult learning principles

  • Experiential learning

  • Evidence base practices

  • Cultural sensitivity and reflexivity

  • Identity Affirming

  • Clear frameworks

  • Clinical relevance

  • Supportive feedback

Our values:

  • Safety: Psychological safety in learning and practice

  • Competence: Evidence based, clinically grounded training

  • Integrity: ethical, transparent, professional

  • Community: ongoing support and consultation

Meet your Trainers

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    Dee Cooper

    CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
    EMDR ACCREDITED CONSULTANT AND TRAINER

    Dee Cooper is a Clinical Psychologist, accredited EMDR Trainer and Consultant with over 38 years of experience supporting people to heal from trauma. Across her career in both public and private settings, Dee has developed a deep respect for the resilience of her clients and a strong commitment to helping clinicians feel confident and grounded in their work. Her own personal experience of growing up in war torn Zimbabwe as a child has also shaped her understanding of the impact of trauma on community and people and has fueled her passion for working in this field to help people heal and recover.

    EMDR therapy has become central to Dee’s practice, and underscores her belief in the importance of compassionate, responsive, and evidence-based approaches to trauma treatment. She is especially passionate about its application in working with complex presentations, including attachment injuries, preverbal trauma and dissociation. Her clinical work has included a strong focus on supporting ex-service personnel and first responders.

    Dee has also been involved with TRNA  as an EMDR trainer, reflecting her commitment to providing trauma-informed training for clinicians who are often servicing clients in remote and regional areas. She has worked as facilitator for many other trainers, nationally as well as internationally.

    As a trainer, Dee is known for creating a warm, supportive learning environment where clinicians can grow in both skill and confidence. She combines clear, practical teaching with a reflective, relational style, encouraging participants to integrate EMDR therapy in a way that feels authentic and sustainable in their own practice.

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    Anna-Michèle Antoine-Cooper

    PSYCHOLOGIST
    EMDR ACCREDITED CONSULTANT AND TRAINER

    Hi there, I’m Anna-Michéle (Anna) (she/her/ally). I am a person of colour, a migrant woman, variably abled, and proud to live and work on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Perth, Western Australia. Professionally I am a Senior Psychologist, Board Approved Supervisor, EMDR Practitioner, Consultant, and the first EMDRAA-Accredited Trainer of Colour. And of course a trainer for Adaptive Edge EMDR.

    My EMDR journey began in my work with survivors of early childhood trauma, where I witnessed just how powerful EMDR can be in helping people process painful experiences and reconnect with a sense of self, safety, and possibility. That work continues to shape everything I do.

    Over time, my clinical focus has grown with special interest complex trauma, dissociation, neuroaffirming practice, identity, and the ways culture and lived experience shape how we heal. At the heart of my work is a simple belief: people are never just a diagnosis, and healing happens in relationship, context, and care.

    Alongside my clinical practice, I now have the privilege of teaching and consulting with therapists on their EMDR learning journeys as an EMDRAA Accredited Trainer. I love this part of my work deeply. I’ve been described “an incredibly warm and respectful individual, with a training style that builds real confidence while staying very human and grounded” and “authentic, knowledgeable, and straightforward” as a trainer, and I aim to create spaces where people feel safe enough to be curious, ask questions, and learn without fear of getting it “wrong”.

    I have had the privilege of training psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, psychiatrist and other allied health professionals and pride myself on adapting your training to meet the needs of people in the room. Whether you are just beginning your EMDR journey or deepening your practice, my hope is that you feel supported, seen, and genuinely welcomed in the learning process.

    I look forward to walking alongside you in your EMDR learning journey.

Meet your Consultants

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    Anita Smith

    CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
    EMDRAA ACCREDITED CONSULTANT

    Anita is a Clinical Psychologist, Board-Approved Supervisor, and EMDRAA Accredited Consultant. She runs a busy private practice where she works primarily with trauma, PTSD, grief, and anxiety. In addition to facilitating EMDR trainings at both introductory and advanced levels, Anita provides individual and group consultation to clinicians completing EMDR training or seeking further accreditation with EMDRAA. She is committed to supporting the next wave of trauma-informed practitioners.

    As a consultant, Anita’s style is clear, practical, and grounded in real-world clinical experience. She fosters a supportive, collaborative learning environment where questions are welcomed, clinical curiosity is encouraged, and nuance is explored. Alongside this, she brings a warm, engaging, and occasionally light-hearted approach to consultation, creating a space that is both safe and energising, where clinicians can stretch their skills and grow with confidence.

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    Mish Kumar-Jonson

    ACCREDITED MENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL WORKER
    EMDRAA ACCREDITED CONSULTANT

    Mish Kumar-Jonson (they/them) is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, EMDR Consultant, clinical supervisor, and trainer with extensive experience across trauma, mental health, crisis response, family violence, and community services. They are the founding Chairperson of The Iceberg Foundation and Principal Practitioner of Niram EMDR and Trauma Counselling, where they provide identity-affirming, healing-centred support for LGBTIQA+, neurodivergent, people of the global majority, and forcibly displaced communities.

    Mish’s EMDR consultancy practice is grounded in relational, anti-oppressive, and anti-colonial approaches to healing and support. They integrate EMDR with attachment-informed, somatic, dissociative, and parts-informed frameworks, with a focus on supporting therapists to work flexibly, authentically, and culturally responsively with intersectional presentations.

    Their special interest areas include complex and developmental trauma, EMDR with LGBTIQAP+ communities, dissociation, neurodivergence, attachment and relational trauma, systemic and intergenerational trauma, minority stress, and Identity Affirming EMDR practices. Mish also has a strong interest in EMDR intensives, complex case conceptualisation, and integrating embodiment and somatic-informed practices into therapy.

    Alongside EMDR consultation and clinical practice, Mish creates and delivers training focused on culturally responsive and identity affirming EMDR therapy.

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    Allie Mackay

    (Alison Mary Mackay)

    PSYCHOLOGIST

    EMDRAA ACCREDITED CONSULTANT

    Allie Mackay is a Sydney based Psychologist, and Founder of a client -facing group practice and a therapist- facing supervision/consultancy practice.

    Her research interests in biofeedback and mindfulness interventions for people living with chronic illness led her towards trauma therapies as modalities to understand the importance of recognising the way the body stores experience, and how it can heal.  Body based work led to EMDR, which she currently uses along with ego state parts work (IFS), compassion focussed therapy and mindfulness. She works predominantly with health professionals, first responders from NSW Police Force and NSW Ambulance Service, and people who have experienced recent trauma as well as historical/relationship trauma.

    Allie enjoys supporting other therapists to develop confidence and skills in therapy and trauma work through EMDR consultancy, facilitation and training, supervision practice groups and individual consultation.

    As a board approved supervisor and EMDR Consultant, she is sought out by therapists at every stage of their career for supervision and therapy and supports Psychologists towards accreditation with AHPRA and therapists towards accreditation and consultancy with EMDRAA.