In this lecture, you will gain from counsellor, supervisor and trainer Bernie Wright an understanding of how to work with eating disorders. This is a specialist area that requires more training to work competently in; this lecture provides a guide map to the required knowledge, enabling you to plan your next steps if you would […]

In this lecture, Kairen Griffiths aims to help you consider the awareness and theory needed to work with teenagers or their carers. After listening to the lecture, you will: understand how the teenage brain develops have an awareness of the ways in which the development of the teenage brain may affect mood and behaviour be

In this lecture, you will learn from counsellor, supervisor and trainer Lisa Mathurin, who introduces the concept of contracting in the context of transactional analysis (TA), enabling you to: describe different types of contracts identify the benefits and limitations of contracting list factors for effective contracting. Lisa opens the lecture by looking at definitions of

In this lecture, counsellor and former bodyworker Maggi McAllister-MacGregor gives you an understanding of: how neuroscience can enhance our work as therapists how our nervous system responds to safety and threat how trauma affects the nervous system responds to environmental cues. Watch this Lecture + Access Hundreds of Hours of CPD Certified CPD for Qualified

In this lecture, you will learn from counsellor and trainer Emma Chapman how to understand different attachment styles, how they develop, and how we might recognise and support clients who present with insecure attachment styles. After listening to the lecture, you will be able to: understand what is meant by the term ‘attachment’ describe the

In this lecture by counsellor Emily Mitchell, which aims to help you raise awareness of the effectiveness of online therapy, considering theoretical and practical implications, you will look at: what online therapy is its current evidence base, with both strengths and limitations research on therapists’ experiences of videoconferencing psychotherapy the therapeutic encounter: client, therapist, body,

In this lecture, Lisa Mathurin (a ccounsellor, psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer) provides an introduction to – and general overview of – ttransactional analysis (TA). After listening to this lecture, you will be able to: describe the philosophical principles of TA define ‘thinking Martian’ categorise two levels of communication. Lisa introduces the seven TA approaches, and

You will hear in this lecture – from counsellor and trainer Emma Chapman – what ‘co-dependency’ is, how it develops, and how to recognise and support clients who tend towards co-dependency in relationships. After watching Emma’s lecture, you will: be able to describe what co-dependency is and how it might present in a client understand

This lecture features Lisa Cromar, who is a person-centred counsellor, trainer and author; she is also studying for her doctorate at the University of Chester. Lisa has both personal and professional experience of autism, and is the co-founder of Counsellors Working with Neurodiversity (a network for counsellors who work with neurodiverse clients, helping to spread

In this lecture, you will hear from clinical psychologist Dr Richard Bennett, who works as a CBT psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor. With his special interest in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Richard will encourage you to be able to: define and discriminate behaviour under appetitive or aversive control understand the key principles of the ACT