SWACP

South-West Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists

Events

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    AGM  – please register and we will send joining details  

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      Online workshop with Nikki Reeves When ethical standards and guidelines are written with an eye on complaints procedures and regulation, how do we ensure that we are embedding ethical thought and consideration into our daily practice? Do we only consider ethical issues when we find ourselves in a difficult situation? – when our response is …

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        Dr Marie Adams inspired us at our 2019 launch event and we are delighted that she has agreed to run this full day workshop in 2020. In the course of our work as therapists we will inevitably hit some difficulties, whether it is periods of depression/anxiety, illness, relationship difficulties or the death of family members …

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          Gender, Sexual, & Relationship Diversity for Therapists and other practitioners This interactive and experiential workshop with popular self-help author and sex/gender expert Meg-John Barker prepares you to work with clients across the range of gender, sexual and relationship diversity. The workshop takes you through their BACP resource on Gender, Sexual & Relationship Diversity (GSRD) (Barker, …

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            Free Networking Event including a light lunch.      

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            Relational Trauma Graham Music (PHD) is Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics and an adult psychotherapist in private practice. His publications include Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Hope using neurobiology, psychoanalysis and attachment (2019), Nurturing Natures: Attachment and children’s emotional, sociocultural and brain development (2016, 2010), Affect and Emotion (2001), …

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              Venue: Wimborne TBA   Free Networking Event including a light lunch

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              This seminar will examine the complex nature of shame, its origins and function. Shame is like a virus that infects the soul and yet remains largely hidden. As a social emotion shame regulates social behaviour and is often shrouded in secrecy and silence. It will explore when healthy shame can become chronic, or toxic and …

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              Are you interested in using art with clients, in supervision or as a way of looking after yourself? Art is an effective, evidence-based therapy with children, young people and adults. Unfortunately it can also be a challenging one. Many of us have felt (or been told) that we are not artistic enough to put pen …