Short Courses and Workshops

This one-day workshop aims to provide an overview of the wider system of mental health care provision and the role of Counsellors and Psychotherapists within it. This training has been designed to meet the aims of the ‘Working within the Wider Systems of Care’ component of the UKCP’s requirements for a Mental Health Familiarisation Placement.

A Socially Responsible Understanding of Mental Health one-day workshop aims to provide an essential overview on mental health, mental illness and mental health care from a social rather than individual context.

This dynamic 4-part series of 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 fulfill the UKCP’s Mental Health Familiarisation Placement requirements.

A 30 hour online workshop for counsellors and therapists to understand how the brain and the body interact, drawing on key principles of Interpersonal Neuroscience. Participants will be supported to learn experientially and interactively in a supportive learning environment.

This 6 hour online workshop is aimed at people who want to develop or enhance their ability to work relationally with clients. It is for all levels from first year trainees to qualified practitioners.

A 30 hour online workshop (10 Tuesday evenings from April to July) for counsellors and therapists to understand how the brain and the body interact, drawing on key principles of Interpersonal Neuroscience. Participants will be supported to learn experientially and interactively in a supportive learning environment.

6 Thursdays between January and June 2024.

This online course will provide practicing students and qualified counsellors with all the skills and underpinning knowledge they need to practice couples and relationship counselling.

This workshop is designed to work for those at all stages of their training and clinical practice. These workshops will utilise a reflective inquiry method that will enable participants at all stages of their training and practice to identify their growing edges.

6 days of Exam Prep / CPD TA Training. An ongoing 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.

This two-day or four-evening 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.

A 6 x 3 hour online course (on Friday evenings) enabling practitioners to develop an understanding of Family and Systemic Therapy 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.

16th February to 22nd March 2023

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.

A five-day online course, delivered by Dr Mark Widdowson, which will provide practicing counsellors and psychotherapists with a detailed understanding of how to work effectively with trauma in therapy.