Short Courses and Workshops

Through a range of short courses and workshops, The Link Centre offers training in specific areas of counselling and psychotherapy. Our short courses and workshops, which are delivered online or in-person in East Sussex, are designed for anyone with a general interest in psychology, personal and professional development, or health professionals looking for CPD training.

Each workshop is delivered by an experienced professional in the area of focus, and our workshops cover things like addiction counselling, trauma counselling and working with family dynamics.

If you aren’t sure whether a workshop is suitable for you, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.

Short Courses and Workshops Courses

“Bearing the Unbearable, Speaking the Unspeakable”: How we can work relationally, with profound loss, grief and the aftermath of suicide

This course will provide qualified and trainee practitioners with enhanced skills and confidence to work relationally, sensitively and effectively with clients navigating these painful and profound experiences of loss.

Projective Identification in Clinical Practice: A Six-Stage Relational Methodology

One-day live online psychotherapy CPD course with Alistair Berlin exploring projective identification and a six-stage relational framework for clinical practice.

Certificate in Working with Couples and Relationships

Run over six Fridays, we will look at different types of loving and relating to understand better how we can function and flourish with a partner or partners in life.

Class and Belonging in a Middle-Class (Therapeutic) Profession Workshop

This workshop explores the impact of social class on professional identity, relational dynamics, and belonging.

Beyond Language in Relational Psychotherapy Masterclass

Join relational psychotherapy expert Dr Helena Hargaden for this one-day in-person masterclass.

Certificate in Counselling Skills – online (30-hour course)

This 30-hour in-person beginners counselling skills course is for those who are at the beginning phase of their counselling practice and would like to gain practical knowledge and confidence. 

Certificate in Working with Trauma – ‘Emerging from Emergency’

This five-day online training in trauma counselling with Jonathan Lake will provide practising counsellors and psychotherapists with a detailed understanding of how to work effectively with the various types of trauma we see in the therapy room and onsite at critical incidents.

How to Become a Supervisor (free online talk)

Join Geoff Hopping to find out how to transition from being a counsellor to supervisor.

Counsellors and Psychotherapists as Mental Health Practitioners: A Mental Health Familiarisation online series

This dynamic series of online workshops has been designed to support trainee and qualified Counsellors and Psychotherapists to develop a critical appreciation of our professional roles within the wider system of mental health care. They will also support those seeking to fulfil the UKCP’s Mental Health Familiarisation Placement requirements.

Certificate in Counselling Skills in-person (30-hour course)

This 30-hour in-person beginners counselling skills course is for those who are at the beginning phase of their counselling practice and would like to gain practical, knowledge, and confidence. 

Exam Preparation/CPD Group – Online

10 sessions of Exam Prep/CPD TA Training. An ongoing monthly group to support students on the final leg of their TA journey and a collegial environment that will give challenge, motivation and focus to achieve whatever your goal might be.

The Official Introduction to Transactional Analysis (TA101)

This internationally recognised course is our most popular course. You will come away with new ideas, perspectives and models that you can use in every area of your life. People who attend this course come away with real insight into their own process and others and gain useful practical ideas of how to do things in a way that serves them better.

Certificate in Working with Family Dynamics

Six sessions, on Monday evenings enabling practitioners to develop an understanding of working with family dynamics and how this can be used in their practice to support individuals in the context of their family as well as more complicated systems in their practice.

Certificate in Working with Addiction

A 24 hour online course (4 x Fri and 4 x Sat) providing an overview of working with addiction and the psycho-social-neurobiological factors to be considered for therapeutic practitioners who are working with addictive processes in their practice.

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