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This is a two-day course designed to introduce you to the power of sandplay therapy, introduce you to the theory and help set you up in practice. The course is highly experiential. It is suitable for anyone who wishes to learn about sandplay and think about...

This workshop is open to anyone who would like to understand hope and how we embrace and dismiss/sabotage hope. Preamble: Hope comes in many forms; it has its roots in neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology and faith. Integrate with TA and what do you get?...

This eight-week exploration, facilitated by qualified and experienced therapists, will give you the support and tools to examine what you find most challenging in relationships. Sessions will offer group counselling after introducing key ideas from the...

This event will be delivered via Zoom online. This lecture will touch on:  Do you want to increase your understanding of the issues facing gender non-conforming and trans clients? How to work therapeutically with a client questioning their gender...

A multi-session, live, online weekend workshop to help you better understand and tailor your own strategy for managing anxiety. In this workshop, I introduce anxiety in the context of evolutionary psychology and - using basic neuroscience as a framework to...

This workshop has been written for anyone interested in John Bowlby's attachment theory and its impact on human development. The day will include the impact of attachment experiences on brain development as well as relationships. What can be done to manage...

Introduction to Transactional Analysis (TA) (or understanding yourself and others). The 12-hour TA101 course is the official introduction to Transactional Analysis. It takes place over the four Tuesday evenings in October 2021, 6pm-9pm. TA is a theory of...

This workshop, by Storyteller Rose Rylands, is aimed at anyone who wishes to explore the pattern of erasure of language in relation to the living world and our mental health, to reclaim expansive descriptive ability, focusing on ecology, imagination and...

Focus Fridays - A diploma in gender and sexual diversity studies. For anyone with working with or supporting individuals with gender and sexually diverse presentations in the helping professions. The diploma covers: developing a gender and sexual...

In the therapeutic profession, one of our greatest assets is the empathy and compassion which we can offer to our clients. However, empathy can also be our greatest weakness, continuing to give and give to those in need until we have nothing left to give...

Anxiety is regularly the most searched for term by people who are looking for a counsellor/therapist, and a very common presenting issue in the counselling room. Very often, clients present with a diagnosis of anxiety and want to be rid of unpleasant feelings...

This event will be delivered via Zoom online. How can we work with the internalised experience of privilege and otherness and of internalised racism, sexism and homophobia, etc. in the consulting room? Are you interested in working with issues of privilege...