Professional Training Events (CPD)

Training for counselling & psychotherapy services and organisations

I offer workshops, courses and seminars for counselling services and other organisations providing therapeutic services. I am also available as a guest tutor for counselling and psychotherapy trainings.

All my courses and workshops aim to provide space for both individual process and skills training, as well as theoretical and experiential learning.

The training events, therefore, provide a blend of structures, from pairwork, experiential exercises and skills practice to role-plays and demonstrations. The teaching is usually supported by theoretical input appropriate to the experience of the group, backed up by hand-outs, papers and references.

I have been invited by a wide range of organisations to provide input on trauma and trauma work, ranging across a variety of themes from general trauma awareness to the neuroscience of trauma to somatic and integrative approaches to trauma work. I have a reputation for offering clearly structured, accessible and applicable input which participants find easy to assimilate and translate into their practice. I also receive feedback regarding the safety established within the group, both on professional and personal levels.

These workshops can be useful for all kinds of organisations involved in therapeutic work, including Refugee Resource Centres, Women’s Centres as well as general counselling services or other voluntary organisations.
I am also available for workshops or in-service training on other topics, including working with the body, integrative approaches to psychotherapy and counselling, supervision and others.

To arrange a discussion of the kind of input your organisation is looking for, depending on participants and their practice and learning needs, please contact me.

Workshops and training events currently planned

One-day workshop at Oxford Co-operative Training Scheme

November 23rd 2010 with Morit Heitzler

Working with Trauma

This one day workshop focuses on trauma in the body and it will address the following topics :

· What is trauma and PTSD?
· Brain function during and after trauma
· Different types of trauma
· Disturbances to self regulation in trauma
· How re-traumatision occurs and what we can do about it
· Trauma in practice: basic principles of a body-based approach

This workshop is designed as a combination of teaching and experiential work.

'Working with trauma in the body'

One-day workshop: Sat. March 14th, Terrence Higgins Trust, London

First module:

- What is trauma and PTSD ?
- Brain function during and after trauma
- Different types of trauma
- Disturbances to self regulation in trauma
- How re-traumatision occurs and what we can do about it
- Trauma in the therapy room: basic principles of a body-based approach

The first module could later on be followed by a second module, which will focus on 'Working with complex trauma'.

Guest tutor on counselling & psychotherapy trainings