CaPPP - CPD Workshop details:This workshop aims to build confidence and resilience in working with anxiety as a presenting issue. In this seminar we will be re-setting our approach to anxiety, moving away from trying to cure or fix it and towards coming alongside and listening to it. We will explore our work with anxiety to date, consider different manifestations of anxiety (including OCD and panic attacks), review recent research on the efficacy of compassionate resonance and introduce a compassionate-focused approach…
Find out more »CaPPP – CPD Workshop details: This workshop is an introduction to working with ASD / ASC / Aspergers clients. Through a mixture of presenting and group discussion we will explore the concerns around working with this client group, dispel some myths and look at effective ways of tweaking traditional therapy to make it more suitable for this client group. We will explore the many and interconnecting issues a person on the spectrum may be dealing with. We will look at…
Find out more »Free online seminar for CaPPP members hosted by Angela McCormack Event Description: The current pandemic is a challenging context for engaging in therapeutic work, and it is vital that we uphold our wellbeing as therapists. This trauma-informed online seminar is designed to provide an opportunity to creatively reflect on how we can resource ourselves in deepening our resilience and wellbeing in these troubling times. Facilitator Profile: Angela McCormack I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist, MBACP, clinical supervisor, facilitator, trainer and…
Find out more »Working with Transgender Clients Gender reassignment involves a fundamental lifestyle change. It is important we as counsellors / psychotherapists, or other health care professionals, work in our client’s best interest and do not knowingly do our clients any harm. A clear understanding of the onset of our clients Gender Dysphoria, and why they are seeking gender reassignment is essential. This full day programmed workshops will explore the biological, or psychological, reasons for Gender Dysphoria. The workshops will also explore the…
Find out more »Free online workshop for CaPPP members This is a CaPPP members only eventEvent Description:It is hard for white people to understand the privilege they have. Often, they do not feel very privileged themselves. Even well-meaning white people struggle to understand the depth of feeling that people from BAME communities feel about this privilege which can be obvious but is also hidden and subtle so hard to see. This workshop is designed to help white counsellors and psychotherapists gain a greater…
Find out more »The theme of this year’s Annual Gathering is navigating the landscape of trauma and will be hosted by Angela McCormack. Theme: Navigating the Landscape of Trauma This is a two-part seminar and will begin with an exploration of trauma in general, from context-sensitive and body-based perspectives. Afterwards, we will focus on the terrain of sexual trauma, and some the nuances and challenges this work can present. Description: Using a balance of facilitator input and focused breakout group reflection sessions, we…
Find out more »CaPPP CPD training day with Mick Cooper This interactive workshop provides participants with an opportunity to develop their understanding of goals in counselling and psychotherapy, and to develop their skills and knowledge in this area. The workshop is particularly oriented towards participants from a humanistic or integrative background: who are interested in an understanding their clients as agentic and purpose-oriented beings, but wary of more mechanistic or ‘outcome-oriented’ goal-based approaches. The workshop starts by introducing the concept of ‘directionality’—that human…
Find out more »CaPPP online cpd training day This interactive workshop provides participants with an opportunity to develop their understanding.Telling stories and the vagueness which clients often struggle with as they talk about all that troubles them, can seem to be a problem in the counselling room. Drawing on his work from using creative writing therapeutically, and narrative approaches including Narrative Therapy, alongside his work as a Focusing-oriented Therapist, Nigel will lead an experientially-based day to help us work with the narratives and…
Find out more »CaPPP online cpd training day This interactive workshop provides participants with an opportunity to develop their understa This workshop This workshop is an introduction to working with ASD / ASC / Aspergers clients. Through a mixture of presenting and group discussion we will explore the concerns around working with this client group, dispel some myths and look at effective ways of tweaking traditional therapy to make it more suitable for this client group. We will explore the many and interconnecting…
Find out more »CaPPP online cpd training day This training is a unique experience for you to explore and increase your understanding of Compulsive Hoardi This training is a unique experience for you to explore and increase your understanding of Compulsive Hoarding and to obtain practical skills from a therapist who lived for 10 years with a partner who was compulsively hoarding. The training is a mixture of theory and experiential learning and will include: • We will clarify the issue of: ‘Is…
Find out more »CaPPP online CPD event Saturday 15th May 2021 Description: Insecure attachments form neural behavioural pathways that manifest throughout childhood and are replicated in adult loving relationships. In addition, infant trauma and the vandalization of the sexual template during critical periods in the development of the brain may lead to the later development of paraphilias and inappropriate sexual behaviour. Similar maladaptive strategies can lead to codependent relationships, domestic violence and sometimes into psychopathology. In a synthesis of neuroscience, developmental, and social…
Find out more »CaPPP CPD event Saturday 12th June 2021 at Engineer's House Mari will explain and facilitate exercises to explore how your body senses inform you and your client unconsciously and consciously. When you gain familiarity in simple ways with your own body's sensory language, you can voluntarily choose to engage and resource yourself and your client creatively in times of challenge. The day will be discursive and experiential, introducing three realms of body senses which can be utilised as resource for…
Find out more »CaPPP members only event: This year as well as introducing an event focusing on therapy against a background of political turmoil and climate change we want to offer members plenty of time to socialise and connect with each other. With that in mind the day will start with registration and 40 minutes for tea, coffee and refreshments, there will also be time to stay on after the afternoon workshop for wine, soft drinks and refreshments when we will also hold…
Find out more »CaPPP CPD Event A rare opportunity to spend the day with one of the leading figures in the world of psychotherapy, Susie Orbach. Susie is one of the most well-known psychoanalysts of our time. Her eloquent and yet continually pressing thoughts and insights on women, feminism, bodies, food, relationships and the climate crisis have entered into our shared social consciousness. The author of twelve books, numerous newspaper columns and articles, she has brought alive the crises faced by many people,…
Find out more »CaPPP CPD Event This is a fast-paced active relational model, mainly informed by the work of David Malan, Gertrude Mander and Angela Molnos, among others. In the present economic climate, with new clients able to afford fewer sessions and with less funding for organisations who offer free or low-cost counselling, counselling sessions are often limited to 6 or even less sessions. The fear is, with limited sessions, how far can one go with the client? Will the relationship perhaps only…
Find out more »CaPPP Online CPD This event will illustrate how to understand and work with more shut-down states, such as those seen after trauma, neglect and learned helplessness. The talk addresses not only trauma, but emotional flatness and lack of energy, the variety of forms this can take, and how to come back to life after it. New science will be linked with clinical insights needed to shift people from "desparked" lifeless unenergized states – and think about how to reboot and…
Find out more »CaPPP Online CPD The therapeutic dyad is, among other things, a space where two people struggle over narratives about what is happening now, what has happened in the past, and what may happen in the future. Each person inherently has one vote; so each has a natural incentive to try to make their vote count for more than the other person’s. Many tools for winning this struggle are available to both people – domination, seduction, intellectual argument, emotional manipulation, and…
Find out more »CaPPP Online CPDThis is an introductory workshop exploring gender diversity, which aims to increase awareness of gender diversity and the roles we can take in supporting people who are trans, gender diverse and/or gender non-conforming. Who is this workshop for? This workshop is for anyone who wants to understand more about gender diversity and how to support gender non-conforming people. You could be working with gender diverse people, be a friend, family member or parent of someone who is gender…
Find out more »CaPPP CPD event Saturday 23rd April 2022 at St Michael's CentreA one-day workshop for therapists offering practical know how. We will look at basic techniques as well as exploring some theoretical ideas about working with dreams. Among other things we will:• Explore the different kinds of dreams and pay attention to how we notice that.• How much it is appropriate, if ever, for us to interpret the dream world of another.• How to find ourselves in a fluid attention that…
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