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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:
June 27, 2025
End Date:
June 27, 2025
Modern Challenges: How can we best support teens in 2025?
How can we support our adolescents amid social media, bullying, and risk taking in 2025, when we grew up in such a different world? As mental health professionals navigating these challenges, we face generational gaps, often finding ourselves 1+ generations Read More...
Start Date:
July 1, 2025
End Date:
July 1, 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:
July 1, 2025
End Date:
July 1, 2026
CHC81015 Graduate Diploma of Relationship Counselling
This Graduate Diploma is designed for counsellors, family support workers, family and children’s contact workers, or equivalent practitioners; seeking to enhance their skills to work with individuals and families affected by domestic and family violence.As a research and evidence-informed course, Read More...
Start Date:
July 2, 2025
End Date:
July 2, 2025
Masterclass: Physiology of Arousal and Desire for Vulvas
Sex education in Australia is woefully inadequate and focused largely on reproduction and disease prevention. There is a distinct lack of education around the physiology and arousal of vulvas. More often than not they are expected to arouse and experience Read More...
Start Date:
July 16, 2025
End Date:
July 18, 2025
ACCREDITED GOTTMAN METHOD COUPLES THERAPY Level 2 – Assessment, Interventions & Co-Morbidities – with Certified Gottman Therapists, Advanced Clinical Trainers & Gottman Consultants Trish Purnell-Webb & John Flanagan
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...
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 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:
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 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...
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