This is one of two workshops on basic group facilitation. They are standalone workshops that complement each other to build out your knowledge on facilitating groups. This first workshop is designed to assist the participants in gaining a better background of understanding regarding the objectives, procedures, and experiential climate of group counselling. This experiential and […]
Join us for this second workshop on basic group facilitation. Each one is a standalone workshop that compliments the other to build out your knowledge on facilitating groups. This second workshop will focus on ways to use transference and countertransference in group leadership, in addition to focusing on critical tasks during the different stages of groups. […]
Introduction to Standards 2 & 6 Join us on Tuesday, March 5th for the next discussion in this series that looks to clarify the new Standards of Clinical Practice and Code of Ethical Conduct. In this webinar we will have a conversation about: Standard 2: Competence and Quality Improvement Standard 6: Clinical and Counselling Assessment and […]
In this one hour presentation, we will discuss 10 strategies for supporting a child with anxiety. These strategies are informed by evidence based intervention with an emphasis on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) techniques. Although geared towards caregivers supporting a child between the ages of 6-12, the information will hold relevancy for caregivers of older children […]
Early attachment injuries forge a neurophysiological template of self and impact affect regulation, relational functioning, and distort one’s internal working model(s). The heart of this training addresses the reparation of insecure attachment. The curriculum weaves a framework that draws upon diverse theoretical and conceptual understandings from: attachment theory, somatic psychotherapy, trauma studies, affect regulation and […]
NAVIGATING VIRTUAL COUNSELLING IN 2024 Four years on from the start of the pandemic, new research and new learnings provide us with direction for doing video counselling better. Discoveries in fields as diverse as neuroscience and social psychology give us clues about how we process information and (re)act in online environments. Lawrence Murphy, founder of the first […]
FOT is a remarkably effective somatic approach, particularly valuable for working with trauma and clients who are ‘stuck’, and for preventing therapist burn-out. Focusing was developed by Dr. Eugene Gendlin, a colleague and key contributor to the work of Carl Rogers. Gendlin’s research sought to answer the question – Why are some clients successful in counselling, […]
This online workshop offers a nuanced perspective for working with the difficult and often therapeutically evasive presentations of chronic shame. It offers a blend of theory and clinical insight on the etiology and impact of chronic shame, illuminates ways to identify its clinical presentations, and presents a framework for working with it from an embodied, […]
Sexual difficulties in adulthood can often be traced back to past childhood sexual trauma including shame that often accompanies intimate trauma. This workshop will provide a theoretical understanding as well as clinical techniques in working with sexuality concerns of survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Case material will be discussed.
Early attachment injuries forge a neurophysiological template of self and impact affect regulation and relational functioning and distort one’s internal working model(s). The heart of this training addresses the reparation of insecure attachment. The curriculum weaves a framework that draws upon diverse theoretical and conceptual understandings from attachment theory, somatic psychotherapy, trauma studies, affect regulation […]
FOT is a remarkably effective somatic approach, particularly valuable for working with trauma and clients who are ‘stuck’, and for preventing therapist burn-out. Focusing was developed by Dr. Eugene Gendlin, a colleague and key contributor to the work of Carl Rogers. Gendlin’s research sought to answer the question – Why are some clients successful in counselling, […]
