Continue your Gottman training journey with Advanced Gottman Clinical Trainers, Trish Purnell-Webb and John Flanagan. Relationship Institute Australasia is one of the leading agencies in Australia in Gottman training and therapist certification. Deepen your understanding of Gottman Method Couples Therapy… Read More...
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Ongoing Professional Development (OPD)
Ongoing Professional Development (OPD) is the process through which members improve and broaden their skills, knowledge and expertise, and develop the qualities required for professional practice.
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Start Date:
July 21, 2025
End Date:
July 25, 2025
Essentials of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy
This four-day training outlines the theory and practice of EFIT focusing on the primacy of emotion and the creation of a safe haven & secure base alliance. It will explain how EFIT conceptualises health and dysfunction from an attachment perspective Read More...
Start Date:
July 21, 2025
End Date:
June 23, 2026
Graduate Diploma of Sandtray Therapy NAT11242
Entry Requirements You hold a Bachelor in Counselling or equivalent or Diploma of Counselling with min/ 3 years current and relevant vocational experience and have a level of language proficiency that demonstrates potential to undertake this AQF level 8 training Read More...
Start Date:
July 24, 2025
End Date:
August 8, 2025
A Fresh Look at Personality Theories and Developmental Models from an Existential-Phenomenological Perspective
Existential-phenomenological approaches to therapy have traditionally kept their distance from classic personality theories and developmental models. These models often risk narrowing our understanding of human beings by framing them in rigid, essentialist, or deterministic terms, the polar opposite of an Read More...
Start Date:
July 25, 2025
End Date:
March 19, 2027
AABCAP Buddhism & Psychotherapy 2 year Professional Training Course – Face-to-face or Online
A two-year, part-time, advanced specialist training program for psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists and other qualified mental health professionals. Each weekend module will have a hybrid delivery, so students may attend face-to-face in Crows Nest, Sydney, or attend online from home. There Read More...
Start Date:
July 26, 2025
End Date:
July 26, 2025
Counselling Autistic Adults: Understanding the Complexity of the Autistic Experience
Autism can be seen in many ways as a type of culture, with different ways of communicating, relating and doing life.  Many counsellors do not feel confident in working with Autistic adults or adapting their counselling practices to suit the needs Read More...
Start Date:
August 5, 2025
End Date:
August 5, 2025
Supporting Separated Families
Separation can be a difficult time for both parents and their children. Enhance your understanding of the separation process and how to support families going through separation or divorce. It’s normal for separating families to experience a range of strong emotions Read More...
Start Date:
August 6, 2025
End Date:
August 6, 2025
Prepare/Enrich Training – Zoom
Prepare/Enrich is a relationship education and counselling tool used by counsellors, psychologists, religious leaders, social workers and other professions in their work with couples. It can be used for relationship education, relationship enrichment and as a tool in counselling and Read More...
Start Date:
August 9, 2025
End Date:
August 9, 2025
Counselling Autistic Adults: The diagnostic journey
Autistic adults face unique issues and require specific support in both the pre & post diagnosis journey.  Many counsellors do not feel confident in counselling Autistic adults.  This is an underserviced population in the counselling space, with a lot of focus existing Read More...
Start Date:
August 11, 2025
End Date:
August 11, 2025
Vicarious Trauma
Understand the nature and impact of vicarious trauma and learn strategies to reduce your risk of experiencing it. Clinicians, frontline staff, supervisors, managers and other professionals can experience vicarious trauma when hearing about another person’s trauma and witnessing their associated Read More...
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