Transactional Analysis (TA) is a practical model for understanding how people relate to themselves and others, and why certain patterns can feel so hard to shift. It helps us notice what’s happening in communication, how early experiences shape beliefs and “scripts,” and how we can support clients to respond with more choice, self-compassion, and relational confidence.

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.

Through a combination of theory, demonstration, and creative ways of working, participants will explore how dreams can be approached as meaningful emotional experiences rather than symbols to be interpreted. You will learn how to invite, explore, and close dreamwork safely, while remaining firmly client-led and ethically attuned.

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.