Psychology & counselling

We have a long-standing experience in offering a wide range of psychology, personal development and counselling courses. Courses range from introductory to professional levels of training and our experienced tutors are committed to personal and professional development themselves. Every year we introduce new courses, ensuring that there’s always something different to try.

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Psychology & counselling highlights

Counselling

Psychology

Professional development

Working with shame

Course Date: Sun 29 Oct 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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Shame is a powerful, often hidden emotion. Through experiential exercises, discussion and some theoretical input, we'll explore the many faces of shame, its manifestations and ways therapy can help. This course is aimed at counsellors, other helping professionals and trainees. It is not aimed at people seeking help for the specific course subjects.

Full fee: £89.00
Senior fee: £71.00

Concession: £54.00
Political psychology

Course Date: Tue 31 Oct 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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Do we trust what politicians say? What governs our political beliefs or the way we vote - the head or the heart? Explore the psychology behind politics: ideology, voting behaviour, influence and propaganda.

Full fee: £179.00
Senior fee: £179.00

Concession: £90.00
Social psychology

Course Date: Thu 2 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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Human-beings are inherently social and exist in complex interdependencies with each other. This has both psychological benefits and costs. How are we to understand these and other psychological dimensions of our social being?

Full fee: £179.00
Senior fee: £179.00

Concession: £90.00
Using art in therapy

Course Date: Sat 4 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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Some experiences are beyond words. Using expressive arts, learn how to help your clients explore and process difficult emotions and experiences through drama, music, movement, poetry, art and masks.

Full fee: £69.00
Senior fee: £69.00

Concession: £42.00
Group facilitation

Course Date: Sun 5 Nov 2017 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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Learn how to lead groups and develop your facilitation skills through an exploration of group roles, hidden dynamics, facilitator styles, methods of intervention and stages of group development. This course is both experiential and theory based. This course is aimed at counsellors, other helping professionals and trainees.

Full fee: £129.00
Senior fee: £129.00

Concession: £79.00
Working with bereavement and loss

Course Date: Sat 11 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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We'll use the theories of Bowlby, Winnicott and Klein to explore your reactions to bereavement and loss, and increase your ability to help others work through their reactions. This course is aimed at counsellors, other helping professionals and trainees. It is not aimed at people seeking help for the specific course subjects.

Full fee: £69.00
Senior fee: £55.00

Concession: £42.00
Mental health and ethnicity

Course Date: Sun 12 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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Several recent studies have highlighted the differences in how mental ill-health affects different communities and in how services respond. Sometimes cultural factors can play a part in how we react to stress and ill-health and this course will explore some of these issues.

Full fee: £69.00
Senior fee: £55.00

Concession: £42.00
Introduction to emotion-focused therapy (EFT)

Course Date: Sun 19 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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An introduction to the key concepts and skills of emotion-focused therapy, a humanistic approach which uses emotional experience as an agent of change to help clients develop emotional intelligence.

Full fee: £59.00
Senior fee: £47.00

Concession: £36.00
Introduction to Gestalt counselling

Course Date: Sat 25 Nov 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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'Lose your head and come to your senses', recommended Fritz Perls, founder of the Gestalt approach. The emphasis is on being fully present in the here and now using role play, movement, body awareness and more.

Full fee: £69.00
Senior fee: £69.00

Concession: £42.00
Working with anger

Course Date: Fri 1 Dec 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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Anger seeks to communicate and is not just something to be expressed or got rid of. Learn some creative ways to give voice to your anger and help clients give voice to theirs. Gestalt is the underlying approach. This course is aimed at counsellors, other helping professionals and trainees. It is not aimed at people seeking help for the specific course subjects.

Full fee: £89.00
Senior fee: £71.00

Concession: £54.00
Assessment in counselling

Course Date: Sat 2 Dec 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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Counselling can be helpful, harmful or inappropriate. How do we know which clients need, want and can use counselling and whether we have the skills to help? Learn about the crucial first step of counselling assessment. This course is aimed at counsellors, other helping professionals and trainees.

Full fee: £89.00
Senior fee: £71.00

Concession: £54.00
Introduction to systemic family constellations

Course Date: Sat 2 Dec 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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An experiential introduction to this profoundly healing way of revealing hidden dynamics in family and other systems, and for resolving the personal issues that lie behind them. Please read the full course outline before enrolling. This course is aimed at counsellors, other helping professionals and trainees.

Full fee: £159.00
Senior fee: £127.00

Concession: £80.00
Autism awareness

Course Date: Sat 2 Dec 2017
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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Much autism is unidentified or misdiagnosed. When this occurs autistic clients can be thought of as stuck, resistant or challenging rather than simply autistic. Understanding autism can enable you to better understand

such people and help them navigate a path to success.

Full fee: £69.00
Senior fee: £55.00

Concession: £42.00
CBT for therapists and counsellors

Course Date: Thu 4 Jan 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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Expand your knowledge and understanding of cognitive behavioural therapy and learn some basic skills to help you decide for yourself whether you want to make use of it in your own practice. Please note this course is exempt from our standard refund policy. This course is aimed at counsellors and therapists - please note this is not meant as a substitute for personal therapy and is not suitable for those who are not trainee or practising psychological counsellors or therapists.

*There will be no class on Thursday 15th February 2018. This course is aimed at counsellors and therapists.

Full fee: £299.00
Senior fee: £299.00

Concession: £182.00
The role of attachment in counselling

Course Date: Sun 7 Jan 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street

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Early relationships play a key role in how we relate to others for the rest of our lives. Discover how attachment theory helps us to understand individual patterns of relating for client and counsellor and the impact on the counselling relationship . This course is aimed at counsellors, other helping professionals and trainees. It is not aimed at people seeking help for the specific course subjects.

Full fee: £99.00
Senior fee: £99.00

Concession: £60.00

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Psychology & counselling