Training

Today’s training will describe and demonstrate 5 different ways of using artwork to help clients get in touch with their emotions and explore different situations.

Using picture cards
Using symbols
Working with parts of self
Using Fairy Tales
A guided visualisation

Participants will follow Pauline’s guidance to create their own artwork, sharing in small groups, and maybe with the bigger group, witnessing the variety of different reactions there can be to simple interventions.  The training will also include how to introduce interventions, and how/whether to work with a highly resistant client, and those who plead, “I can’t draw!”.

Today’s training offers some new interventions for working with the Inner Child.  You will be invited to explore how these might work in the counselling room by experiencing the activities for yourselves, sharing in small groups and perhaps in the larger group. 

The most common presenting mental health issues in a doctor’s surgery are Anxiety, Depression, PTSD/Trauma and Personality Disorders.  But what does a clinical diagnosis actually mean for the counsellor?

Today’s session will focus on how we can support clients who have been given a mental health diagnosis, without feeling out of our depth.  Dr Chris will explore both the benefits and limitations of a condition being given a ‘name’, and what might present in the room.  He will address what helps and what doesn’t, including common misunderstandings.

Research tells us that Burnout is increasingly present in life, not simply as exhaustion, but as a deeper signal that something in a person’s way of living, relating, or being has become unsustainable.