Our Kitchen Table CPD events are informal but structured two-hour events which take place approximately five times per year, both in person and online. Topics covered have included disordered eating, supervision, Transactional Analysis and Existential ways of working.
25th October 2024: Introduction to Internal Family Systems and Self Led Magic with Anzella Gregg and Sue Smith.
28th June 2024: How to prevent burnout and maintain a compassionate practice using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), with trainer Caroline Rolling.
17th April 2024: Forum AGM
8th March 2024: Knowing Your Therapeutic Ground: re-examining assumed practices and concepts in our therapeutic work, with trainers Duncan Stoddart and Scott Reeve.
27th October 2023: Working with Autism and ADHD, with trainer Neville Tomlinson.
30th June 2023: Introducing the ChrisLin Method of using Creativity as a Therapeutic Approach, with trainers Christina Bachini and Lindsay Wheeler.
19th April 2023: Forum AGM
22nd March 2023: Spiritual abuse: Coercion and control within a religious context; recognising, responding and supporting well within healthy cultures replenished Life.
14th October 2022: Working with Metaphor as a Therapeutic Tool, with trainer Anita Knight MA MBACP (Accred)
10th June 2022: Working with Self-Harm in Counselling and Psychotherapy, with Professor Andrew Reeves.
5th April 2022: Forum AGM
29th March 2019: The Neuroscience of Transformation. An introduction to memory reconsolidation in coherence therapy, with trainer Paul Sibson.
25th May 2021: "How have we made sense of Covid?"
11th March 2020: Is the counselling profession doing enough to understand and serve the needs of autistic clients? With trainer Neville Tomlinson
7th October 2020: Forum AGM
4th October 2019: Introduction to Dramatherapy and the Sesame Approach, with trainer Laura Hurkett.
21st June 2019: Understanding and Working with PTSD and Complex Trauma, with trainer Christina Buxton.
29th March 2019: An Introduction to Working with Shame using Compassion-Focussed Therapy (CFT), with Dr Andrew Rayner.
9th November 2018: An Introduction to Family Constellations, with trainer Gillian Kelly.
11th May 2018: Clinical Issues in Working with Transgender Clients, with trainer Alex Drummond.
17th March 2018: Trauma Related Complex Dissociation – Origins and Consequences, with trainers Melanie Goodwin and Kathryn Livingston.
17th June 2017: Psychosynthesis, with trainer Brian Graham.
31st March 2017: Narrative Therapy, with trainer Hugh Fox.
6th October 2016: Recent ethical developments for the talking therapies, with trainer Tim Bond.