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December 2019
Online Training – An Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Date: Access anytime
Location: Online
Tayside & Fife Psychodynamic Seminars
Date: Monthly
Location: Perth, Scotland
Online Psychotherapy: An Introduction to the Relational & Practical Considerations – Interactive Webinar
Date: 14th December
Location: Online
Sandtray Therapy in Counselling & the Health Care Professions – Level 2
Date: 7th December
Location: Arundel, West Sussex
Working with Emotional Abuse & Narcissism
Date: 7th, 8th December
Location: Cambridge
Working with Children through Rock Painting
Date: 14th December
Location: Kings Langley, Hertfordshire
Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor
Date: 23rd November start
Location: Exeter
Understanding TA Script Theory with Lesley Parker
Date: 6th December
Location: Cambridge
Aspects of the self: Working with Clients’ Self & Body Image – Julia Buckroyd
Date: 7th December
Location: Banbury
Understanding & Resolving Ruptures in the Therapeutic Relationship: practical skills interactive webinar
Date: 7th December
Location: Online
November 2019
Hakomi practice group
Date: Monthly
Location: Liverpool
Working with Self-Harm in Children and Young People
Date: 30th November
Location: London
Online Training – An Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Date: Access anytime
Location: Online
Transactional Analysis TA101
Date: 23rd, 24th November
Location: Leeds
Mindful Relating
Date: 9th November
Location: Carlisle
Therapeutic Photography
Date: 16th November
Location: Perth, Scotland
Interactive Webinar: Sex Addiction – A Relational Approach to Assessment, Formulation & Intervention.
Date: 16th November
Location: Online
How to Run a Successful Private Practice: All you Need to Know – Interactive Webinar.
Date: 23rd November
Location: Online
The Therapist at Court
Date: 16th November
Location: Lisburn, Northern Ireland
Working with Metaphor and Play
Date: 23rd November
Location: Boscombe, Dorset
Supervision in Counselling & the Health Care Professions -Level 1
Date: 9th November
Location: Arundel, West Sussex
Creative Arts Therapies in Counselling & the Health Care professions – Level 2
Date: 23rd November
Location: Arundel, West Sussex
Creative Supervision Skills
Date: 16th November
Location: Bristol
Diversity & Awareness
Date: 23rd November
Location: Cambridge
Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor
Date: 23rd November start
Location: Exeter
Attachment Theory: Closeness, Comfort, Self-Control & Social Comprehension
Date: 23rd November
Location: Stroud, Gloucestershire
The Art of Working With Anxious, Antagonistic Adolescents
Date: 30th November
Location: Stroud, Gloucestershire
Absent Father Workshop
Date: 2nd, 9th November
Location: Brighton & London
Counselling Approaches to Addiction
Date: 16th November
Location: Bradford
Creative Techniques for Breakthrough Counselling
Date: 18th Oct, 15th Nov
Location: Reading
Foundations of Human Relations and Counselling
Date: 9th November
Location: Glasgow
‘A Disorder for everyone!’ – Challenging the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Exploring Socially Informed Alternatives
Date: 29th November
Location: Cardiff, Wales
How to Run a Successful Private Practice: All you Need to Know
Date: 8th November
Location: Manchester
Sex addiction: A relational approach to assessment, formulation, and intervention, and how to engender affirmative sexual desire
Date: 7th November
Location: Manchester
Puppet Making for Use in Healing Self-Concept
Date: 16th November
Location: London
An Introduction to Therapeutic Photography
Date: 7th November
Location: Glasgow
CBT Toolbox on Working with Anxiety
Date: 2nd November
Location: Banbury
Introduction to Sexual Grounding Therapy
Date: 15th, 16th, 17th November
Location: Monmouth, Wales
ENSOU Expressive Arts Therapy Workshops for counsellors in training & practice
Date: 19th October, 16th November
Location: Southport
Getting The Love You Want – Imago Couples Weekend Workshop
Date: 2nd, 3rd November
Location: Cheadle, Stockport
October 2019
Online Training – An Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Date: Access anytime
Location: Online
Social Media & Mental Health
Date: 19th October
Location: Manchester
On Children Who Privilege the Body – With Thoughts on the Ideal Self
Date: 19th October
Location: Perth, Scotland
How to Run a Successful Private Practice: All You Need to Know – Interactive Webinar.
Date: 26th October
Location: Online
Sandtray Therapy in Counselling & the Health Care Professions
Date: 12th October
Location: Arundel, West Sussex
Working with Domestic Abuse (DA refresher) – Annie Wimbush
Date: 11th October
Location: Cambridge
Supervisor Workshop
Date: 7th October
Location: Cambridge
Working with Gender Diverse Children & Young People
Date: 12th October
Location: Stroud, Gloucestershire
Professor Windy Dryden: Single Session Therapy & One At A Time Therapy
Date: 1st October
Location: Liverpool
Creative Techniques for Breakthrough Counselling
Date: 18th Oct, 15th Nov
Location: Reading
Person-Centred Art Therapy Skills Course
Date: 19th October
Location: Brentwood, Essex
Open Day- Professional Doctorate in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
Date: 5th, 10th October
Location: Glasgow
Treating Anxiety: A Practical CBT Approach
Date: 12th October
Location: Manchester
How to Run a Successful Private Practice: All You Need to Know
Date: 31st October
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
MSc in Psychoanalytic Observation & Reflective Practice: Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People
Date: 1st October start
Location: Glasgow
Expressive Arts Therapy Workshops for Counsellors in Training & Practice
Date: 19th October
Location: Southport
Developing a Relationship of Trust
Date: 19th October
Location: Banbury
Working Therapeutically with People Experiencing Family Estrangement
Date: 18th & 19th
Location: Sheffield
Discover Hypnosis & Self-Hypnosis
Date: 6th October
Location:Southend on Sea
ENSOU Expressive Arts Therapy Workshops for counsellors in training & practice
Date: 19th October, 16th November
Location: Southport
Working With The Shadow
Date: 26th October start
Location: Frome
An Introduction to Working With Couples
Date: 21st, 28th October
Location: Cheadle
September 2019
Introduction to Counselling & Listening Skills: Autumn Course
This training will be helpful to anyone with a listening or counselling function in their work. It is also for anyone interested in developing their listening skills or in finding out more about counselling.
2 Day training in Eating Disorders and Weight Issues
An inspirational and experimental course, for health professionals who wish to deepen their understanding of eating disorders and weight issues.
Creative Techniques for Breakthrough Counselling
Date: 18th Oct, 15th Nov
Location: Reading
ScapeCoat – Full Day Retreat Workshop
This is a day of development, relaxation, creative work, deep healing, nurturing and celebration!
Social Media and Mental Health Workshop
This workshop will look at the practical challenges of helping those struggling with the negative impact of social media.
Grief Theory Through the Ages and its Implications for Practice
This workshop is suitable for professionals and practitioners who work in the field of loss and bereavement.
Level 2 Counselling Skills: 30-week course
Introducing you to the core counselling skills and theory.
Working with Bereavement
This CPD will look at the main models inc. Kubler Ross, Worden and dual purpose.
Sexuality, Gender and Sex – What’s the Difference? – with Chloe Foster
Part 1 of a Series of 4 Online Workshops: Does the difference between sex and gender confuse you? Perhaps when we put gender expression, and physical and emotional attraction into the mix you are left even more confused?
Expressive Arts Therapy Workshops for Counsellors in Training & Practice
Date: 19th October
Location: Southport
Working With Groups
This successful 2 day course has been developed to give you a grounding and some practical experience of effectively working with groups.
The Focusing Skills Certificate Course – Level 1: The Essence of Focusing
n Introduction to Focusing. Learn how to listen to your inner wisdom through creating a positive inner relationship with yourself.
Successful Private Practice
This one-day experiential workshop will give you time to explore your visions, hopes and fears about setting up your private practice with a group of colleagues also in the early stages of their journey.
One day seminar on sexual trauma – Guest speaker Madeleine Black
CPD Presentation creating positive disclosure in relation to sexual, physical and emotional trauma.
The Business of Therapy
This unique two day event will help you create a full and thriving private practice.
Healing Trauma
These two workshops will explore working with historic trauma and ripple effect of trauma.
Working with Complex Trauma: Exploring the Impact and Challenges of Working with Girls and Women who have a History of Trauma
A one day CPD training event which will look at working with complex trauma, exploring the challenges of working with girls and women who present with a history of trauma, and the impact on therapists.
Attract More Clients – Keeping It Simple With The Private Practice Angels
This training day will inspire you, help you simplify your marketing and give you practical strategies to attract more clients.
General Certificate in Online Counselling Skills
This introductory course follows a weekly timetable and introduces qualified counsellors to online therapeutic counselling.
Introduction to Imago Relationship Therapy
Two day official introductory course designed for therapists interested in training in Imago Relationship Therapy and who want to experience the model.
Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
This two-day course is suitable for anyone who is interested in finding out more about ACT.
Getting The Love You Want – Imago Couples Weekend Workshop
This is a workshop for couples. Therapists who are interested in exploring or expanding on their interest in working with couples.
August 2019
Listening After Bion: Seminars with Jeff Eaton
This three-part seminar series will focus on the way we listen in a session, drawing on Jeff’s 20-year study of Bion.
July 2019
Understanding and Working with Complex Trauma and Complex PTSD
A workshop on how to engage with, understand and help clients that have experienced complex trauma and complex PTSD.
An Introduction to Working with Youth Self-Harm
A one-day workshop for practitioners and professionals working with children & young people.
An Introduction to Working With Couples
This course will help you be an effective, potent couples therapist and give you an insight into how working with couples is different to working with individuals.
Person-centred encounter group
Not what you're looking for?
June 2019
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Couples – 2 day workshop
In this excellent introduction to the theory and practice of EFT by Gulya Diyarova, participants will get a clear sense of what the EFT model is and its well researched effectiveness as a therapeutic approach.
The Essential Elements of Working Safely with Trauma
This one-day workshop provides a basis for Counsellors, Psychotherapists and other Mental Health Practitioners to develop a safe and effective approach for working with individuals who have lived through traumatic events and who now live with post-trauma symptoms.
Working With Suicide in Private Practice
This is a course for counsellors who are or want to work in private practice. You will explore how you will work with suicidal clients.
Love vs Trauma-The Frontiers of Healing Childhood Trauma. A Symposium
This momentous event will bring dialogue, creativity and connection to one of the most important public health issues of our time: childhood trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
This interactive workshop will give delegates a full introduction to the basics of the approach, key ideas, practical techniques and real-world applications.
Out of control sexual behaviour: A Cognitive Analytic Therapy informed relational approach to assessment, formulation, and intervention, and how to engender affirmative sexual desire.
Drawing on clinical material throughout, this workshop covers the principal issues to consider through the stages of assessment, formulation, and intervention.
How to run a successful private practice: all you need to know
Whether you are considering starting private practice, or want to develop your existing private practice, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed for running a successful private practice.
Exploring Menopause
This workshop aims to explore the Menopause as a natural phase in women’s lives effecting them mentally, emotionally and physically; an existential transition into another phase of life.
Family Constellations & Internal Family Systems Day Retreat for Women
Family constellations and Internal Family Systems sculpting are both ways of bringing about deep inner and outer shifts in a safe and held group therapeutic space.
Developing Your Counselling Skills Bereavement & Loss
This one-day interactive workshop is designed to provide a helpful underpinning of skills, awareness and knowledge for anyone who encounters bereavement and loss within counselling contexts. It considers bereavement and loss as an unavoidable part of the human experience and as a key reason for clients to seek counselling support within both private practice and an array of agency settings.
Resourcing Resilience – 3 Night Retreat
A 3 night nourishing retreat for psychotherapists, counsellors and well-being practitioners.
Working With Addicted Clients
This workshop provides an introduction to working with addicted clients and is intended for practicing therapists who wish to broaden their knowledge and skills to respond to addiction when it presents.
Starting Your Private Practice
A practical two-day workshop to help you create a successful, fulfilling private practice
May 2019
GDPR training for Clinical/Counselling Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Counsellors in Private Practice.
This webinar dispels any myths around GDPR and explains in easy to follow steps what is needed to adhere to it.
Introduction to Addiction in Therapy
This awareness training aims to help attendees develop a deeper understanding of addiction and addictive behaviours.
Improving Practitioner LGBTQI+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Cultural Competence and Confidence
Three day training to increase competence and confidence working with LGBTQI+ clients.
Getting The Love You Want – Imago Couples Weekend Workshop
Therapists who are interested in exploring or expanding on their interest in working with couples are invited to attend with their partner
An Introduction to Imago Relationship Therapy (2 days)
Two day introductory course designed for therapists interested in training in Imago Relationship Therapy
April 2019
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): What to do and how to do it for therapists in private practice.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on May 25th 2018, replacing the Data Protection Act. This webinar dispels any myths and explain, in easy to follow steps what is needed to adhere to GDPR.
How to run a successful private practice: all you need to know.
Whether you are considering starting private practice, or want to develop your existing private practice, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed for running a successful private practice.
How to run a successful private practice: all you need to know. Interactive Webinar
Whether you are considering starting private practice or want to develop your existing private practice, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed for running a successful private practice.
Out of control sexual behaviour: A Cognitive Analytic Therapy informed relational approach to assessment, formulation, and intervention and how to engender affirmative sexual desire.
This workshop is aimed at CAT therapists and trainees, clinical/counselling psychologists, psychiatrists, GUM/HIV specialists, psychotherapists and counsellors who wish to develop their skills in this area of work.
Accessing your Embodied Intelligence
Develop the key qualities of curiosity, interest and inner kindness.
Working with Domestic Abuse in Therapy
This course looks at different forms of abuse, including, physical, psychological, financial, sexual, emotional and coercive control. It and aims to equip therapists with sound knowledge.
Forgotten Mums
This course will help provide a clearer understanding how to work with mums who have social care involvement and how to engage and support them therapeutically.
A Reflective Guide to Gender Identity Counselling
Incisive yet accessible, this unique training shines a light on how the popular conception of gender identity came into being by looking at the social and historical influences at play.
March 2019
Out of Control Sexual Behaviour
A CAT informed relational approach to assessment, formulation and intervention and how to engender affirmative sexual desire.
How to run a successful private practice: All you need to know – Interactive webinar.
Whether you are considering starting private practice, or want to develop your existing private practice, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed for running a successful private practice.
How to run a successful private practice: All you need to know.
Whether you are considering starting private practice, or want to develop your existing private practice, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed for running a successful private practice.
Polyamory
Polyamory – raising awareness, challenging myths and stereotypes.
Private Practice Q&A / Workshop
Thinking about private practice but not sure where to start, then this course is for you!
Sand Tray (for supervisors)
We will be exploring this powerful and creative intervention, it’s use in therapy and supervision, the speed and depth of work it offers and some basic ‘dos & don’ts’.
Single-Session and One-at-a-Time (OAAT) Therapy Facilitated by Windy Dryden
In this workshop, I will discuss the nature, principles and practice of
single session and one-at-a-time therapy.
Tax Made Easy for Counsellors
Are you looking to set up on private practice this year? Maybe your 1st tax return is due after April or you just want more confidence in understanding tax. Then this workshop is for you.
Five Practical CBT Skills for Everyday Life
Five Key Tools from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for everyday life and professional practice.
Chronic illness and cancer counselling skills (Online)
This three hour online workshop on is suitable for all qualified therapists and counsellors.
Introduction to Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
This two-day course is suitable for anyone who is interested in finding out more about ACT.
Free Open Evening – Working With Couples and What is Imago Relationship Therapy?
Imago Relationship Therapy and how working with couples is different to working with individuals
Starting and developing a private practice
A workshop to discover what’s involved in setting up and maintaining a private practice.
Animal-assisted therapy in counselling
A 3-day course in Telford: Saturdays 9 March, 13 April and 11 May 2019
Understanding autism
Not what you're looking for?
February 2019
WE’VE BEEN SCoPEd! – David Murphy, Andy Rogers, Andrew Samuels, & Clare Slaney
Will the proposed competencies framework advance the profession or is it fiddling while Rome burns?
Who do we think we are? – Neil Young
Who do we think we are? Lessons from emergent and sexual identities – Neil Young
January 2019
EMDR: How to increase therapist responsiveness
Insights from working with children and the mind–body connection.
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We’re currently on hold…
Thanks to everybody who contributed content to the site in 2019.
I’m currently taking a breather to pursue other things. So I won’t be adding new content to the site until further notice.
Please check with individual organisers whether groups, trainings and other events are running before going to them!
Thanks and best wishes for 2020.
Leah.