Short Courses and Workshops

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

Take the opportunity to expand your professional development while making a meaningful difference in the lives of those impacted by ACEs.

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

Are you interested to explore the transpersonal dimension to the human condition and on our mental health? Do you want to connect with other people who share this longing? Join Geoff Hopping for the day and explore the connection between psychotherapy and spirituality.

Explore the profound dynamics of Erotic Transference and Love in psychotherapy in this masterclass designed for mental health professionals seeking to deepen their understanding and enhance their therapeutic practice

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. 

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

This course is a six day, introductory training for trainee and qualified counsellors who are preparing to go into placement with clients aged 4-18. It has been designed to be an enjoyable first step into working with children and young people.

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 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.

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. 

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.

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.

A six 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.

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.