Participants in this workshop will learn about how to work with couples, with an emphasis on over 40 practical and innovative cognitive, emotive, and behavioural interventions. In addition to the interventions, the workshop will address the following: REBT premises about 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 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 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 22, 2025
End Date:
July 24, 2025
Clinical Supervision Services Certificate of Attainment in Professional Supervision: July 2025
Successful completion of this course provides participants with the Clinical Supervision Services Certificate of Attainment in Professional Supervision. The aim of this course is to provide a framework for conducting and evaluating effective clinical supervision using a competency-based framework incorporating Read More...
Start Date:
July 23, 2025
End Date:
July 24, 2025
Peaceful Kids Facilitator Training – ADELAIDE
The ‘Peaceful Kids’ program is a Mindfulness and Positive Psychology based program to lessen anxiety and stress and increase resilience in children from Prep through to Year 12. This program helps children to build their emotional resilience, so they are 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:
July 29, 2025
End Date:
July 29, 2025
It’s Time to Ask: Responding to Adult Sexual Violence and Child Sexual Abuse in FDV Presentations
Its Time to Ask: Identifying and responding to adult sexual violence & child sexual abuse in Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) presentations WHO : This course is suitable for front line responders, emergency services (police, child protection and hospital staff etc), Read More...
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