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How to create healing stories for children
A masterclass in devising therapeutic metaphors This inspiring day gives you powerful, non-intrusive ways to help distressed young people overcome difficulties in their lives – the skills you w...
Stopping addictions: Effective treatment and recovery
When combined with key insights into the addictive process and what drives it, the techniques covered on this day prove effective at helping people successfully quit a wide range of addictions. They a...
Overcoming self-harm: Reduce and prevent self-harming behaviours
Why take this course Emily Gajewski has decades of hands-on experience helping children and adults successfully overcome or significantly reduce their self-harming behaviour. Her insightful training...
Outdoor group therapy day
Sean Stevens (MBACP) and I are offering outdoor therapy group days in 2025 - the location is Kettleshulme, Peak District and the dates are 16th May, 21st June and 11th July 2025. Each day is a stand-...
Me and my shadow: Helping clients befriend and integrate
The shadow is composed of all that we have split off, hidden, or suppressed from both ourselves and others; it is at odds with our public-facing face or image of how we would prefer to be seen. Yet th...
Sound foraging
Discover the forest in a different manner, through your sense of hearing. Experience the calming, surprising and joyful effect of sounds. On Earth, everything can make a sound. Sounds can transport u...
The therapeutic power of language – a brief therapy masterclass
This course is suitable for anyone working with adults, teens or children – the knowledge and skills you will gain have a wide range of applications in addition to therapy and counselling, inclu...
Couples therapy - a practical online masterclass
Drawing on pioneering research, Jennifer Broadley’s one-day couples counselling course gives you this important knowledge, along with a range of strategies and proven tips for working effectivel...
How to tell stories that heal - powerful therapeutic storytelling
Stories can be incredibly powerful therapeutic tools. They help bypass rigid views about life, enhancing the listener’s flexibility of thought. And by suspending ordinary constraints, they help...
How to avoid burnout - self-care for all caring professionals
New research gives us practical ways to prevent burnout in ourselves and others, manage workplace stress, avoid ‘compassion fatigue’ and much more… What you will learn: The lat...
How to control chronic anxiety – a practical skills workshop
This practical skills workshop concentrates on generalised anxiety (including generalised anxiety disorder – GAD), social anxiety and panic attacks, but also addresses how to handle the anxiety...
How to lift depression - the practical skills you need
Until recently, depression was little understood but key new insights into its causes and symptoms have made treatment easier and more consistently effective. On this day you will learn how combining...