In this lecture, psychotherapist and trainer Marion Elkin-Greener – who specialises in working with addictions – talks about: what addiction is defining and understanding addictive behaviour defining the issues regarding physical versus psychological addiction diagnosing substance dependency distinguishing between substance abuse and dependency how addiction or dependency is treated alcohol tolerance and mental health substance […]

In this lecture, Chloë Swinton – integrative counsellor, trainer and founder of Ambiguous Loss UK – aims to help you understand the term ‘ambiguous loss’ and how to support clients. After watching the lecture, you will be able to: describe the term and types of ambiguous loss analyse and understand your own ambiguous losses identify

In this lecture, counsellor and trainer Chloe Foster aims to support you to: understand what LGBTQ inclusion is increase awareness of why LGBTQ inclusion matters learn practical steps to make your counselling work more LGBTQ inclusive. The lecture comprises three key parts, covering a range of interesting information, exercises and tips: Part 1 Who am

In this lecture, counsellor and trainer Emma Chapman aims to help you understand what is required to pass academic writing assignments in counselling training. After listening to her presentation, you will be able to: identify what an assignment is asking you to do understand how to structure and plan an assignment to avoid feelings of

In this lecture, psychotherapist Amy Launder aims to help you become aware of moral injury, and how to work with this situation therapeutically. You will learn: to understand what moral injury is to explore what might cause moral injury to identify the impacts of moral injury to explore how we can work with moral injury

In this lecture, psychotherapist Mamood Ahmad aims to help you understand why core competence in race, culture and antidiscrimination matters so you can situate your learning. After listening to the lecture, you will be able to: explain why race and culture core competence is vital recognise the possible consequences of not being core competent understand

In this lecture, you will learn from counsellor and trainer Emma Chapman what a timeline is, why you might choose to use one, and the benefits of doing so in a therapeutic setting. By the end of the lecture, you can expect to be able to: describe what a timeline is understand the benefits of

This lecture offers you the opportunity to learn about working with goals in therapy from Mick Cooper, Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton. Mick introduces the topic by looking at what goals are and why they matter. He draws on research evidence to show the wide range of goal types that clients

In this lecture, you will learn from BACP-accredited counsellor and trainer Josephine Hughes how to understand procrastination both in yourself and in your clients so that you and they can move forward in life. After attending this lecture, you will be able to: identify specific goals in order to help you move forward in your

In this lecture, Lisa Mathurin (a counsellor, psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer) introduces you to life scripts in TA, a theory of child development. You will learn how to identify: the life script apparatus different types of life scripts. Drawing on Eric Berne’s work, Lisa defines the concept of life scripts, which essentially explain how our