continuous
professional development
Looking for quality continuous professional development opportunities? Care To Listen offers a range of topical and relevant training workshops and seminars for psychotherapists, counsellors, and those in the helping professions. We deliver both online and face to face workshops. CPD certificates are available for all our training.
UPCOMING EVENTS
‘Single Session Therapy – Common Emotional Problems and Dealing with Difficult People’
By Professor Windy Dryden
Saturday March 12th 2022
10am – 4pm Online via Zoom
About this course
In this workshop, Professor Dryden will show how Single Session Therapy (SST) practice principles can be used with clients with common emotional problems such as anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, hurt and the unhealthy forms of anger, jealousy and envy. He will also show how SST can be used with clients who struggle to deal with people whom they find difficult.
He will demonstrate his work with volunteers from the audience and participants will practise SST skills with one another.
Windy Dryden is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths University, London. He has authored or edited more the 240 books, including ‘Single Session Integrated CBT: Distinctive Features’ (Routledge, 2017).
Tickets: *Earlybird offer* – £95 (book before December 31st 2021)
Standard – £115
‘Time Limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy – How to Utilize a Structured 12 Session Model’
By Bernadette Katchoff
Saturday 30th April 2022
10am – 4pm Online via Zoom
About this course
As we emerge from COVID-19 into an era where the mental health crisis is deemed by some to be of pandemic proportions, there is an increasing demand for brief psychodynamic interventions. In this workshop, Bernadette will introduce Mann’s 12 session model. The model emphasises the meaning of time in individual life development and particularly in the experience of separation and loss.
Using anonymised material from your own previous clients, (which you will be asked to utilise in the role play and discussion aspects of this session) we will revisit how you might have worked differently with those clients, utilising this model. The intention is to give you the option and the confidence to use Mann’s model in future.
Bernadette Katchoff is an integratively trained counsellor with 22 years’ experience of psychodynamic therapies including 1 year spend at Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Trust where she saw clients using exclusively Mann’s model. She is a clinical supervisor for CTL and other adult and youth counselling agencies. Bernadette also has extensive college and university teaching and training experience.
Tickets:
£75
‘An Introduction to Anger Management’
By Dwayne Rowe
Saturday 14th May 2022
10am – 4pm Online via Zoom
About this course
Anger is a normal stress response, but inappropriately high levels of anger can be harmful to the self and to others. This course will equip you to explore anger management techniques; helping clients to identify their triggers, warning signs and developing strategies for backing off, as well as strategies to de-escalate risky situations and self soothe.
You’ll be able to work with clients to improve communications skills such as listening, assertive communication, self-disclosure and negotiation and assist clients to be reflective about what works for them and what doesn’t.
Dwayne Rowe qualified as a Counsellor in 2016. He has a BSc with honours in Psychology and a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling. During his training, Dwayne worked with the Everyman Project, a charitable organisation whose mission is to prevent interpersonal violence, in particular domestic violence and abuse. He worked with perpetrators challenging violent and/or abusive behaviours for change to occur. He is a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and a member of the Black African and Asian Therapeutic Network (BAATN).
Tickets: £75
Tickets coming soon.
‘Working with Religion and Spirituality’
By Martin Stokley
Saturday 25th June 2022
10am – 2pm Online via Zoom
About this course
Petruska Clarkson famously recognised the importance of the spiritual or transpersonal dimension of the healing relationship in her five-relationship model. Spirituality and religion can be a significant part of our clients’ experience and lives. It can be source of trauma or a beneficial resource which can be drawn upon for coping, growth, and healing. However, because as counsellors we can feel our own anxiety about talking and working with religion and spirituality, this aspect of our clients’ lived experience can so often be denied or pathologized. This workshop will help us think about our personal responses to religion and spirituality and how these may help or hinder our ability to work with clients in this major area of human experience. We will also look at some ways in which a client’s spiritual experience or spiritual history could be beneficially incorporated into the therapeutic process.
Martin Stokley has been practicing as a qualified counsellor since 2013. He holds a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (Spurgeon’s College) and a MSc Therapeutic Counselling (University of Greenwich). He has experience working in bereavement counselling and general counselling contexts. Additionally, he works as a counselling trainer at a college in Croydon. Before training to be a counsellor Martin was a Baptist Church Minister and this led to his interest in how spirituality can be of value in psychological healing and growth.
Tickets: £55
Tickets coming soon.