Working with self-injury can evoke strong emotional responses in both clients and counsellors. Many practitioners report feeling anxious, uncertain, or overly cautious when self-harm is disclosed. Today’s training offers a compassionate, evidence-informed approach to understanding and responding to self-injury within counselling relationships.

As counsellors, we may sit with clients for whom spiritual pain is central to their presenting issues, yet difficult to name. This training day will help us meet clients in a spiritually literate, ethically safe and non-preachy way, with sensitivity to both the potential resources and the potential harms of spirituality.