MASA® Online Training
Gentle, practical support for healing, resilience, and self-trust
The MASA® Online Training site offers self-paced courses created by Dr Baylissa Frederick to support people navigating prescribed drug injury, withdrawal, chronic symptoms, emotional distress, and the wider healing process.
Each course is designed to be calm, trauma-informed, compassionate, and practical. You can move at your own pace, pause when needed, and return to the material whenever it feels right for you.
Choose the Course That Is Right for You
MASA® – Four Healing Essentials (for Prescribed Drug Injury)
Mindfulness, Acceptance, Self-Kindness, and Appropriate Action
The full MASA® for Prescribed Drug Injury course is a structured self-paced course for people who want deeper support during the healing process. It introduces the four healing essentials of Mindfulness, Acceptance, Self-Kindness, and Appropriate Action, with practical tools to help you respond more gently to symptoms, fear, uncertainty, and emotional overwhelm.
This course may be especially helpful if you are navigating prescribed drug injury, withdrawal, chronic symptoms, or a long and difficult healing journey.
Four Healing Essentials 101
A free introduction to supporting yourself during healing
Four Healing Essentials 101 is a gentle introductory course for anyone who would like a simple starting point. It offers calm, reassuring guidance on understanding what may be happening, reducing fear, meeting the present moment, creating inner safety through self-kindness, and taking small, steady steps.
This course is ideal if you are new to this approach, feeling overwhelmed, or not yet ready for the full MASA® Program.
Prescribed Drug Injury Coaching Course
Training for those supporting others through prescribed drug injury and healing
This course is designed for coaches, practitioners, and supporters who want to understand how to offer safe, ethical, compassionate, and informed support to people affected by prescribed drug injury and withdrawal.
It covers key principles including trauma-informed practice, boundaries, safeguarding, coaching skills, mindfulness-based support, ethical considerations, and the importance of working safely within scope.
Why These Courses Were Created
Healing from prescribed drug injury, withdrawal, or chronic nervous system distress can feel frightening, isolating, and difficult to explain. Many people are left feeling misunderstood, dismissed, or unsure how best to support themselves.
These courses were created to offer a calm and compassionate way forward. They do not ask you to force positivity, deny your suffering, or push yourself beyond your limits. Instead, they offer practical ways to meet your experience with more awareness, groundedness, kindness, and appropriate action.
Learn in Your Own Time
All courses are self-paced, so you can move through the lessons gently and return to them as often as you need. You do not need to feel calm, confident, positive, or fully functional before beginning.
You are welcome to start exactly where you are.
About Dr Baylissa Frederick
Dr Baylissa Frederick is a therapist, author, coach, and creator of the MASA® Program. She has spent more than two decades supporting individuals and families affected by prescribed drug injury and withdrawal.
Her work is grounded in compassion, lived experience, clinical understanding, and many years of supporting people through some of the most difficult stages of healing.
Not Sure Where to Begin?
If you are new to this work, you may wish to begin with Four Healing Essentials 101.
If you would like deeper personal support through the MASA® framework, the MASA® Program may be the next step.
If you are a coach or practitioner supporting others, the Prescribed Drug Injury Coaching Course may be most appropriate.