Taming Your Anxiety – Practitioner Insights This course equips counsellors with practical tools, simple techniques, and expert insights to support clients experiencing anxiety and emotional dysregulation. Designed to enhance your confidence in triage situations, the program focuses on effective, real-time 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:
March 29, 2025
End Date:
October 13, 2025
Certificate Initiatic Art Therapy Stream 1 2025
The Certificate in Initiatic Art Therapy is a foundation course for those looking for applicable art-based tools to work with their clients. The exercises are designed to be not messy to suit an environment set up for talking therapy. The Read More...
Start Date:
April 4, 2025
End Date:
December 14, 2025
Certificate in Clay Field Therapy with Adults, Apollo Bay
Clay Field Therapy is touch therapy, a breakthrough modality, endorsed by leading somatic experts. A box filled with clay, water and a sponge provide the simple setting for discovering safe relationships and the fulfilment of vital needs. The resistant clay Read More...
Start Date:
April 8, 2025
End Date:
August 12, 2025
IFS Skills Immersion – Attunement and Skill-building in the IFS Model
A step by step guide to the skills of IFS This series offers a highly experiential immersion into your own parts and working with clients. You will begin the practice of skills from the very first week. This course includes Read More...
Start Date:
April 11, 2025
End Date:
December 31, 2025
Play Therapy Clinical Program
The objective of this training is to equip those with a relevant undergraduate degree to obtain further training in the area of child centred play therapy in order to apply this knowledge and skill to clinical practice. Our vision for Read More...
Start Date:
April 15, 2025
End Date:
July 8, 2025
Working with Developmental Trauma – An Interpersonal Neurobiologically Informed Approach to Working in the IFS Model
This workshop offers a deepening into the skills of Internal Family Systems from a psychotherapeutic standpoint. This course is exclusively focused on attunement and skill building within the IFS Model, drawing on the research of Interpersonal Neurobiology to understand how Read More...
Start Date:
April 21, 2025
End Date:
April 21, 2026
Intuition in Conflict Resolution
In this webinar on demand, you will unlock the power of intuition in coaching, counselling and mediation. Discover how harnessing your innate wisdom can elevate your skills. Develop the ability to identify opportunities for intuition and learn a range of Read More...
Start Date:
April 24, 2025
End Date:
March 24, 2026
Discover how to Treat High-Conflict and Conflict-Avoidant Couples with the Power of the Developmental Model
The Benefits of This Self-Study Couples Therapy Course: Overcome fears and insecurities about working with hostile or conflict-avoidant couples. Feel confident that you can handle couples’ anger. Avoid the common traps that couples therapists fall into. Make your couples sessions Read More...
Start Date:
April 27, 2025
End Date:
October 26, 2025
Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing Online April 2025
This is an online, self-paced training over 6 months. The 28 hours of tutorials are pre-recorded and participants can study in their own time. Guided Drawing is a drawing and movement therapy. It introduces body-mapping with bilateral drawing on large Read More...
Start Date:
May 1, 2025
End Date:
September 6, 2025
Certificate in Sandplay Therapy & Symbol Work – with children, adolescents & adults
Twelve days of in-person experiential training and supervision and online case presentations, in the Expressive Therapies approach to Sandplay Therapy and Symbol Work. Â In addition, participants are strongly encouraged to experience three individual sessions with an approved sandplay therapist. Sandplay Read More...
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