Caroline & Associates

Accredited EMDR Trainer and Consultant

Caroline Burrows

I am an Accredited EMDR Trainer and Consultant, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, and Psychotherapist. I have 18 years of experience providing therapeutic services across community, hospital, medical and university settings. I currently provide innovative EMDR training and consultation and clinical supervision to mental health professionals across Australia and abroad. I am also the Owner and Director of Mindful Living Counselling and Psychology a clinic in Melbourne where I lead a team of over 20 highly skilled and passionate EMDR therapists. As the EMDR Coordinator at The Melbourne Clinic and The Victoria Clinic, I developed the first inpatient hospital EMDR programs in Victoria.

EMDR Therapy is a transformative therapeutic modality and the results it achieves are truly life changing. I am told that I have an infectious enthusiasm for EMDR Therapy! I love my work. It is so inspiring to encourage, motivate and mentor therapists as they embrace the opportunities that EMDR Therapy brings.

Outside of work, I am an animal lover. Besotted, you may say. My favourite things to do are to spend time with my beloved dog Willow, have a good laugh and share meals with my wonderful friends and family. If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you’ll discover I also have a fondness for flamingos.

Qualifications and Professional Associations

  • Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy

  • Graduate Diploma of Psychotherapy

  • Bachelor of Social Work

  • Member of the Australian Association of Social Workers - Accredited Mental Health Social Worker

  • EMDR Association of Australia - Accredited EMDR Trainer and Consultant

Associates

Kate Formston

Accredited EMDR Consultant

Kate is an Accredited EMDR Consultant, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, and Psychotherapist with 20 years of experience working with trauma and other mental health conditions. Her extensive background includes roles in a sexual assault counselling service, a hospital-based inpatient EMDR program, and private practice. Kate has completed extensive advanced training in EMDR Therapy and is highly experienced in working with complex trauma, attachment wounding, and dissociative disorders. She integrates EMDR Therapy with a range of modalities including schema therapy, ego state therapy, internal family systems and polyvagal theory. She is also experienced in delivering EMDR Therapy in intensive and group-based formats.

Kate regularly assists with practicums at Caroline’s EMDR training workshops and provides individual and group EMDR consultation to support therapists to embed their EMDR learning into their clinical practice. Kate also works as a Senior Clinician and Clinical Supervisor at Mindful Living Counselling and Psychology in Melbourne, alongside Caroline’s team of over 20 highly skilled and passionate EMDR therapists.

Outside of work, Kate enjoys martial arts, personal fitness, being outdoors, and spending time with family and friends.

  • Master of Social Work

  • Bachelor of Psychology

  • Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Psychotherapy

  • Diploma of Mindfulness Therapy  

  • Member of the Australian Association of Social Workers - Accredited Mental Health Social Worker

  • EMDR Association of Australia - Accredited EMDR Consultant

Qualifications and Professional Associations