CPD Event title: How to build a successful private practice

Brief Description Of Event:

Whether you’re starting out in private practice, or have been in business for a while, this course will help you build the practice and lifestyle you want – it’s also packed full of tips, advice and information that will save you time and money.

Although word of mouth is one of the best ways to get business, being a good counsellor or therapist isn’t always enough to fill your practice with clients – and that’s where the easy-to-learn, simple but effective business and marketing skills you will learn on this online course come in.

Jennifer Broadley has been a qualified and practising psychotherapist for 10 years and has been in business for herself for well over 20 years. She brings her extensive knowledge of the personal and professional ups and downs to life in this practical and motivating day.

You will also gain a wealth of time-saving devices and tips that others who have successfully built their thriving practices have used, all of which will allow you to focus more time on your clients.

Jennifer built her business, Healthy Chat, from no clients to full practice within 2 years. She has tried-and-tested marketing strategies and will share with you the ones that have worked for her and the ones that haven’t. She is fully transparent with her client numbers, systems and finances so that you will leave the course clear about whether a full-time or part-time therapy practice is for you – and how to go about getting the work/life balance you want.

What you will learn

• The essential actions to take when starting your practice from scratch – what’s worth spending money on and what’s not
• Confidence to take on your first client(s) or increase your client intake until you have a full practice
• Clear systems for starting or growing your counselling / therapy practice
• Tools to ensure clients easily find you, trust that you can help, and then book sessions with you
• Clarity about how long to work with a client – average timings and outliers (for stress, trauma, panic attacks, relationships, etc); when to keep a client and when to let a client go
• Key information that will help you decide how much to charge and when/whether to be flexible
• Important things to remember if you work with clients online
• Time-saving methods for client management: intake, treatment, ending well and future follow up
• How to manage yourself as a business owner – when to work hard, when to take time out
• How to make your therapy practice fit in with the lifestyle you want to live – and what to do to avoid becoming overwhelmed
• When (or whether) to let go of your full or part-time work and shift to letting your counselling practice support you financially
• How to get your 9 emotional needs met while working for yourself
• How to define your ideal client(s) and where to find them
• Practicalities: taking payments, tracking your numbers, meeting your targets, turnover v’s net income, paying VAT (or not), paying tax, chasing non-payments
• Creating a healthy, open attitude and language around money and finances
• How to set up your therapy practice to be financially successful and more…

Course Programme

The ‘How to build a successful private practice’ live online workshop starts at 9.15am and runs until 4.00pm. (BST).

Date of event: Jan 27, 2027

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Jennifer Broadley

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: 

Website: https://www.humangivens.com/college/how-to-build-a-successful-private-practice-live-online-training/

Maximum number of participants:

Cost of Course: £149

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CPD Event title: Online and phone therapy training

Brief Description Of Event:

Essential guidance for safe and effective remote working

Join our tutors – who have extensive experience of working with a wide range of clients remotely – to discover how you can make online therapy work for your practice.

Delivering online therapy, or counselling clients on the phone, requires a particular set of skills and brings with it specific considerations. This live online workshop will help you gain confidence in working safely and ethically, examining the advantages, potential drawbacks and adjustments you need to make to work remotely successfully. There will be plenty of time for questions, and helpful discussions with your peers and experienced tutors.

What you will learn

• The importance of aligning client and therapist expectations for online therapy, or therapy over the phone
• How to set-up successfully for work on the phone or online – including template agreements to use with your clients
• Managing your technology and ensuring good communication – key things to ascertain, plus troubleshooting tips
• What to do when the call won’t connect
• The importance of confidentiality and privacy – and the potential problems you need be aware of when working online
• Agreeing safe communication methods between sessions
• How to successfully manage dual therapy spaces
• The importance of setting and maintaining professional boundaries
• Discussion regarding what is / is not acceptable in a home therapy space
• How to manage transitions before and after the session – for clients and therapists
• The key differences between online and face to face therapy work
• How to adapt and work successfully with a range of key therapeutic skills – such as Guided Imagery and The Rewind technique
• Assessing suitability of client presentations – including guidance on cases that are not suitable for online therapy
• How to manage risk effectively in an online or telephone environment
• How to put in place effective contingency plans for when technology fails
• Developing flexibility: dealing with the unexpected – including what to do if a session is interrupted
• When to refer a client on
• The additional pressures and potential stressors of online and telephone working
• Working in a blended way – combining remote and face-to-face sessions
• Key differences for the client of receiving therapy online or over the telephone
• The particular considerations of working with a wider client group from different geographical locations
• The importance of self-care and self-awareness
• Insurance and GDPR considerations when delivering online therapy or counselling, or
  working via the phone
• The importance of appropriate supervision

Why take this course

Whether you are a new practitioner wanting to develop your online practice, or an experienced therapist who has decided to start offering services online or on the phone, this course will help you gain the skills and understanding you need to do so safely and effectively. Unlike other online courses, this practical live online CPD training gives you the opportunity to ask our experienced tutors questions about any aspects that concern you, as well as learning from their case histories about what has worked – and what hasn’t – for them.

Covering essential areas such as managing client expectations, setting up a therapeutic online environment, risk management, and the use and adaptation of various skills and techniques for online or telephone work, this course gives you the essential information you need to deliver therapeutic interventions remotely.

Both Jo Baker and Ros Townsend, the alternating course tutors, have extensive experience of working with clients online, with Ros now running her entire therapy practice remotely. Jo works using a blended approach (combining face-to-face counselling and online psychotherapy), and both bring a wealth of practical tips, hands on experience and real-life examples to the training.

During the day, there will be ample opportunity to discuss and share ideas with the tutor and your peers, and to enter into both structured and more free-ranging discussions about both the benefits and potential difficulties that one might encounter when working therapeutically through remote mediums.

Course Programme

The ‘Online and phone therapy training’ course starts at 9.00am and runs until 1.15pm (GMT).

Date of event: Dec 02, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Ros Townsend and Jo Baker

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: 

Website: https://www.humangivens.com/college/online-and-phone-therapy-training/

Maximum number of participants:

Cost of Course: £115

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CPD Event title: Trauma: Patterns from the Past

Brief Description Of Event:

The causes, symptoms and best ways to overcome trauma and PTSD

Join our expert tutor live online to deepen your understanding of trauma, learn practical techniques for supporting recovery – and much more

Why take this course

Experiencing any extremely stressful, distressing and/or frightening events can lead to symptoms of post-traumatic stress which can, in themselves, be very frightening.

The effects of trauma, whether as a result of a single incident or multiple events spread over many years (sometimes called Complex Trauma), may only occasionally surface, or they may be badly impacting a person’s day-to-day life – their mental and physical health, relationships, ability to work etc – as well as the lives of those around them. It can also lead to unhelpful coping strategies, such as an addiction.

Recovery is possible – understanding is key

Having a solid understanding of how our brains and bodies react to distressing events, the causes of different PTSD symptoms and what makes us vulnerable to becoming traumatised (not all distressing events result in trauma), is key to successful recovery. This knowledge creates a firm foundation on which to build successful coping strategies and clarifies what needs to happen to enable successful self-help and recovery.

During the day you will also gain a clear understanding of how to spot the ‘early warning signs’ of trauma, before they go on to affect further areas of someone’s life, which red-flag signs indicate that it is time to seek professional help, and how trauma specialists are able to help people recover, from even the most difficult times, effectively – and lots more.

Jam-packed full of essential information and important insights, real-life case studies and tips, this trauma course clarifies the different ways trauma can impact on people, leaving you better equipped to help support recovery and build resilience. It is an essential course for anyone who works with distressed people or who wishes to support someone they care for in their recovery from trauma, or for those simply wishing to better understand what they, or someone they care for, are experiencing.

You will have plenty of time to ask questions throughout the day as the course is designed as a balance between structured learning, group discussion and activities (it is a live, expanded version of our shorter online course: Understanding Trauma).

What you will learn

• A clear understanding of what trauma is – and the different survival responses we have evolved to help us deal with it
• What happens in our body when we experience a traumatic event
• And what happens in our brain
• Why some people are affected by traumatic events, but not others
• What makes something ‘a trauma’
• Whate symptoms may indicate that someone has been traumatised
• Why post-traumatic stress (PTS) occurs – and the many different ways it can present
• The physical and psychological causes of post-traumatic stress symptoms such as flash-backs, hypervigilance, anger, poor sleep, poor memory, physical pain, difficulty thinking, digestive problems, low mood, apparent over-reaction to non-threatening situations
• Why PTSD symptoms can develop many years after a traumatic event
• The importance of ‘pattern-matching’ in understanding how our brains work
• The fight, flight and freeze response – its impact on our brain and body, and why it can be triggered inappropriately
• How the high emotional arousal of these survival states impacts on our ability to think clearly
• Why post-traumatic stress triggers seemingly inappropriately extreme fear reactions
• Why dissociation or shutdown sometimes occurs in response to trauma
• The reason our brains evolved this way
• Why experiencing trauma in freeze, shutdown or a dissociative state can affect an individual particularly deeply
• Why people who experience trauma in a freeze, shutdown or a dissociative state may be affected by symptoms of moral injury alongside trauma – and why shame and guilt can sometimes be a part of the picture
• Why anger and other strong emotions can follow when someone comes out of a shutdown state during recovery from trauma
• The pre-disposing factors for PTSD
• The blocks to recovery from trauma – and how to create the right environment for recovery to take place
• Why traumatic memories can stay ‘live’, keeping us on constant alert for danger
• Why one seemingly small event can cause PTSD symptoms to develop after years of exposure to other distressing events
• The far-reaching effects of unresolved trauma, including the development of co-morbid conditions and unhelpful coping strategies, such as addictions
• How unresolved trauma can lead to depression – the trauma / depression cycle
• Differences when treating single incident trauma, multiple trauma or ‘complex trauma (CPTSD)’
• When to seek professional help – spotting the ‘red-flag’ signs that you, or someone you care for, might need further support
• Where to find effective professional help
• An understanding of how the rewind technique for treating trauma works; its many advantages and applications
• The common elements of all effective treatments for post-traumatic stress (PTSD)
• How we need to adapt traditional approaches to treating trauma for those experiencing shutdown or dissociative symptoms in the present
• Working holistically with trauma using the human givens approach, and drawing on the natural way we recover from distressing events
• How to access the ‘Recovery Zone’
• An understanding of what we all need as human beings to live emotionally healthy lives
• How to best employ self-help strategies to support your own recovery or to help others suffering from the effects of trauma
• How to build resilience
• Introducing breathing techniques and other self-help strategies to use for ourselves or with clients suffering from trauma
• and more…

Course Programme

The ‘Trauma: Patterns from the Past’ live online course starts at 9.15am and runs until 4.00pm (BST).

Date of event: Dec 01, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Ros Townsend

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: 

Website: https://www.humangivens.com/college/trauma-training-course/

Maximum number of participants:

Cost of Course: £149

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CPD Event title: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder – understanding OCD and how best to treat it

Brief Description Of Event:

This online training event takes an in-depth look at Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and focuses on practical and effective methods of treatment. It also highlights the lesser known forms of OCD and shows how we can prevent early signs of OCD from developing further…

Why take this course

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is not only distressing for sufferers but for their family members and friends too. Contrary to the popular view of OCD being harmless over-cleanliness or simply checking things over and over again, people living with OCD experience a high level of anxiety – and the condition can damage their relationships, social and work lives, and physical health.

Many sufferers are ashamed of their problem and hide it. Sometimes therapists fail to recognise the rarer forms of OCD and therefore fail to offer effective treatment. And many people with milder forms of OCD do not realise that they can be helped, and do not seek help until their condition becomes much more severe.

This accredited live online course offers an in-depth look at OCD in all its guises and focuses on practical and effective methods of treatment – OCD recovery is possible in most cases.

The day is interactive and includes demonstration videos of therapy sessions, short video clips, in-depth discussions and case studies.

What you will learn

• New information that will enable you to help OCD sufferers more effectively
• A better understanding of OCD, what it is and how it develops
• The ability to recognise the less familiar types of OCD – these are often missed by both client and therapist
• An effective 4-step method for treating OCD
• New ways to help people overcome their compulsive tendencies
• Illuminating video clips of OCD sufferers describing their experience
• Helpful ways parents and educators can prevent signs of OCD in children and teenagers from developing further
• The important role of guided imagery in treatment and why it improves success rates
• How to separate the person from their OCD
• ‘Pure O’ – we look at ‘purely obsessional’ OCD, where people experience distressing intrusive thoughts without any external signs of compulsions
• The chance to observe effective therapy for OCD and discuss case studies
• How obsessive compulsive disorder fits with other psychological conditions – and with autism
• What to do when OCD symptoms are firmly entrenched
• The opportunity to discuss some of your own cases with a highly knowledgeable tutor
• How to handle challenging cases successfully and more…

Course Programme

The ‘Obsessive Compulsive Disorder – understanding OCD and how best to treat it’ online course starts at 9.15am and runs until 4.00pm. (BST).

Date of event: Nov 24, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Miriam Chachamu

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: 

Website: https://www.humangivens.com/college/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-live-online-training/

Maximum number of participants:

Cost of Course: £149

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CPD Event title: How to reduce Suicide Risk – working with suicidal ideation

Brief Description Of Event:

This indepth, trauma-informed suicide prevention training via Zoom gives you essential information, guidance, practical strategies and more for working effectively with anyone who is potentially suicidal, has admitted they are, or has survived a previous attempt.

What you will learn

• The warning signs to look out for
• How to broach the subject of suicidal thoughts (suicidal ideation)
• The reasons people consider suicide – and how you can use this knowledge to help them
• What to look for in their answers to your questions
• How a suicidal impulse can be time-limited
• Crucial elements needed to build rapport with suicidal people
• How to normalise circumstances safely – and work with what the person brings
• Effective information gathering to challenge unhelpful beliefs
• A structure for difficult conversations
• The ability to reframe unhelpful beliefs
• Ways to use your own demeanour to instil confidence in the person who is, or may be, feeling suicidal
• A model for running therapeutic sessions that best manages suicide risk
• The important first steps for suicidal risk management and suicide intervention
• Methods of risk assessment that do not risk losing rapport
• Advances in psychiatric research on suicide risk management and the implications of this for psychotherapy and counselling
• How to use language of influence
• Effective means to address beliefs about being a burden
• How to set realistic and empowering goals
• How to make best use of the client’s own resources
• The importance of addressing emotional needs
• The impact of trauma
• How to create a safety plan – and rehearse it with the client
• Strategies for client safe self-management between sessions
• The power of guided imagery for working with suicidal clients and suicidal ideation
• Powerful insights and hope from real case histories – including break out sessions with fellow delegates to imbed your learning
• How to take care of yourself
• And much more…

Why take this suicide prevention course

Suicidal ideation can be a daunting and difficult subject to broach, this day gives you the information and tools you need to know how best to help, with plenty of time to ask questions.

Suicide is now the most common cause of death in young people under 35 in the UK, with 75% being boys and young men.¹    The highest suicide rate is in men aged 45–49; in women, it is highest in those aged between 50–54.²   

The shock and distress caused by suicide affects countless people, not only those directly involved – many wish there was more they could have done to prevent it.  As well as giving you invaluable knowledge and skills, with practical steps you can take to reduce the risk of suicide, this trauma-informed course gives you the opportunity to train in person online with someone who has extensive first-hand experience of successfully helping seriously distressed, often suicidal, people – with time for individual questions, exercises and discussion.

Suicide often seems to come from nowhere; suicidal ideation can be a difficult subject to broach and a daunting one to deal with.  Anyone working with distressed or depressed people wants to keep them safe, to give them the hope they need that circumstances can change for the better, and to provide the skills for coping until that comes about. When people can’t envisage an end to their difficulties, particularly in highly challenging times, a slump into depression can all too quickly spiral down into suicide ideation, suicidal thoughts, plans and suicide attempts. The negative trance state of depression itself can beguile people into thinking that there is no other way out of their hopelessness.

Thankfully, there is much we can do to help.

Tutor Malcolm Hanson has a wealth of experience at helping seriously distressed people get through difficulties which he draws upon as he takes you clearly through the steps to take when faced with anyone who feels suicidal.  (He worked for 9 years as a psychotherapist in NHS primary care in an area of extreme deprivation, and for many more years since has seen patients referred by GPs, social workers, psychiatrists, police and probation officers for complex issues.) He has successfully helped clients experiencing multiple trauma (including veterans), chronic pain and terminal illness, clients struggling with uncertain asylum status or facing deportation, and also victims of human trafficking – a tragic range of circumstances in which even the most resilient may sometimes sink into despair.

His compassion and understanding shine through this course as he shares with you what he has learnt, along with the latest psychiatric research and risk assessment strategies, to give you the knowledge and assurance you need to work confidently and respectfully with clients struggling to find reasons to stay alive.  You will learn how to build in expectation of positive change from the start, have plenty of time to benefit from group discussions and will work through case scenarios with other attendees to help embed your learning.

Join us for this essential online suicide prevention training – to be as prepared as you can be…

Course Programme

The ‘How To Reduce Suicide Risk’ live online course starts at 9.15am and runs until 4.00pm.

Date of event: Nov 19, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Malcolm Hanson

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: 

Website: https://www.humangivens.com/college/how-to-manage-suicide-risk-live-online-training/

Maximum number of participants:

Cost of Course: £119

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CPD Event title: Complex Trauma: working effectively with challenging cases

Brief Description Of Event:

This live online training covers the unique challenges of working with complex trauma cases, including shutdown and dissociation, and gives you clear guidance on the most effective ways to help.

Clients suffering from complex trauma, Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) or who have experienced trauma in a shutdown or dissociative state, can present unique challenges to practitioners working with them – but with the right knowledge and skills we can help sufferers move forward in their lives.

In this hands-on, experiential, live online workshop you will learn more about what makes trauma ‘complex’, why shutdown or dissociation are often experienced by sufferers, and how to best work with such presentations using the human givens framework of understanding. You will also have the chance to collaborate with other experienced practitioners and clinicians during exercises designed to further your understanding, add to your existing skillset, and bring wider context to an often-misunderstood area of work.

During this intensive day of live online training, experienced psychotherapist Ros Townsend will introduce you to a framework within which you can set your understanding of complex trauma presentations and discover the opportunities that we have to help clients move forward from their difficulties. You will learn more about the neurobiology of the automatic survival options that we have available to us, especially dissociative and ‘shutdown’ states, and leave with an understanding of how to use this knowledge to inform your work, giving you greater confidence to work creatively and flexibly with such presentations.

From understanding the symptoms that are now recognised as distinguishing C-PTSD, to adapting existing HG techniques and strategies and introducing new tools and skills, this course will explore how we, as clinicians, can approach such complex presentations without getting lost in the complexity ourselves. Using case histories and discussion you will have the chance to understand more about the unique challenges that such work presents and to leave feeling more confident in your ability as a therapist to work effectively and contextually with these.

What you will learn

• What Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) is
• What other symptoms a client may present with in addition to those meeting the criteria for ‘classic’ PTSD
• How to effectively work with these within the human givens framework of understanding
• Vital tools for psycho-education – both adding to your own understanding and to pass on to clients
• Why individuals enter into a dissociative or ‘shutdown’ state
• The difference between ‘freeze’ and ‘shutdown’
• Why anger can present when an individual comes out of a ‘shutdown’ state
• How to help a client deal effectively with anger if it does arise
• The crucial role of the pattern-matching processes in the brain in post-traumatic stress symptoms – and how the kinds of templates stored can subtly differ in more complex trauma
• How to adapt existing techniques – such as rewind and deconditioning molar memories – to work creatively with such presentations
• The Dos and Don’ts when working with Guided Imagery in complex presentations
• How to refine your Guided Imagery skillset to powerfully benefit clients who have experienced trauma in a shutdown state
• Why any work that we do must be informed by the innate ability we all have to recover from trauma
• How to avoid negatively reframing trauma and making symptoms worse
• The most effective ways to help clients towards recovery and post-traumatic growth

Under careful guidance from the tutor, you will:

• Explore and discuss the different survival options available to us as humans in traumatic situations
• Learn more about the neurobiology of these states – including our passive survival responses
• Develop a new framework of understanding within which to set your work with all kinds of trauma
• Understand more about why ‘shutdown’ or ‘dissociation’ are often associated with complex presentations
• Understand why addictions and self-harming behaviours are often a part of the picture
• Work collaboratively with peers and colleagues to extend and develop your own skillsets and knowledge
• Explore how guided imagery can be adapted and used to most powerfully benefit clients suffering in this way

You will leave with:

• The confidence to work creatively and flexibly with a wider range of presentations
• A clear understanding of a framework within which you can work and continue to develop and adapt your tools and skillsets
• An appreciation of the importance of taking your time with such work and proceeding at a pace right for each individual client
• An understanding of how to support clients in moving forward from the use of faulty coping strategies – such as addiction and self-harm
• Greater confidence in creating metaphors that work powerfully for clients
• An understanding of how helping a client to meet their emotional needs is particularly key to recovery in the most complex cases

Throughout the day there will be plenty of opportunity for you to ask questions and to engage in collaborative work and discussion with the tutor and with experienced colleagues and practitioners.

Course Programme

This intense 1-day live online training proceeds through a blend of talks, skill-developing exercises, discussions and deconstruction of real-life case-studies.

The training runs from 9.15am–4.00pm (GMT).

Date of event: Nov 18, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Ros Townsend

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: 

Website: https://www.humangivens.com/college/complex-trauma-workshop/

Maximum number of participants: 

Cost of Course: £149

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CPD Event title: Neurodiversity and relationships

Brief Description Of Event:

This 4-hour live online training session looks at how neurodiversity – in a partner or child – can impact relationships, identifies practical steps that can help, and much more…

Neurodiversity has been given significant media attention recently, which is hugely positive. As a result, more people are seeking out information and answers for their questions and personal experiences. As part of that process, they may well seek some counselling or therapy. It’s important then that, as therapists or counsellors, our knowledge, skillset, language and stories stay as up-to-date and relevant as possible to best serve our clients.

Specialist training for anyone helping with relationship issues…

In most cases, applying the skills and techniques learned in the Couples Therapy Online Masterclass is all that’s needed to help a couple move forward in their relationship. Sometimes though, some extra focused knowledge of the challenges within specific types of relationship can help a therapist assess more quickly and meaningfully the relationship dynamic, allowing them to help the couple more effectively to find a constructive and compassionate way forward. 

In this session, we take time to clarify what’s most helpful when working with couples who are impacted by neurodiversity in some way, to identify practical steps that can help, to explore how to help couples where one or other is level 1 autistic, or has ADHD, and much more >

What you will learn

• Debunking the myths about neurodiversity – and replacing them instead with newer, more positive and inclusive research-based thinking
• The value (or not) of a diagnosis – and the possibility of mis-diagnosis 
• The challenges when one or both partners are neurodiverse 
• The most effective tools to support a re-steer back to respect and compatibility
• What to look out for with right- and left-brain-orientated neurodiversity
• How best to get mutual emotional needs met when two partners have different priorities, awareness and emotional expectations
• Having a neuro-divergent child – and how that can impact a relationship (positively and otherwise)
• Managing expectations – around the speed of change, and the consistency of more-respectful and kinder behaviours after therapy is complete
• Strategies that could work well with a neuro-divergent partner – and when might we have to get more creative
• A therapist’s next steps – when they suspect one or both of a couple is neurodivergent. 
• And much more…

You will be able to ask Jennifer questions and also benefit from the discussions resulting from those asked by others.

Course Programme

The ‘Moral Injury’ live online course starts at 9.15am and runs until 4.00pm (BST).

Date of event: Nov 11, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Jennifer Broadley

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: 

Website: https://www.humangivens.com/college/couples-therapy-neurodiversity-relationships-live-online-training/

Maximum number of participants: 

Cost of Course: £115

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CPD Event title: Moral Injury

Brief Description Of Event:

Moral Injury is a very real cause of psychological distress often characterised by feelings of grief, shame, guilt, disgust, contempt, anger and a sense of betrayal, which can lead to depression, substance misuse, even suicide.

Originally identified in veterans and others affected by war, moral injury can affect anyone in high-intensity, emotionally impactful settings, and occurs in response to having had to act in a way, or having witnessed behaviours, which go against an individual’s values and moral beliefs. Left unresolved it can lead to a cycle of negative behaviours and decisions. Successfully addressing these feelings can prevent further harm – including to those around them – and lead to improved mental health so that they can lead fulfilling lives and maintain healthy relationships once more.

If your work involves supporting distressed individuals, it’s important to have a clear understanding of moral injury and how to identify it. This course will keep you up-to-date with the latest research and understandings about how best to help.

So what is moral injury? How do we recognise it? What does it mean? How does it relate to trauma? And, perhaps most importantly, how can we help people to recover? Or ourselves, if we have suffered like this…

What you will learn

• What is moral injury?  A clear explanation that clarifies a term many find vague
• How to recognise the symptoms of moral injury – and establish whether it’s the cause of your client’s distress
• How to effectively work with these within a human givens framework
• The three key causes of moral injury
• Vital tools for psychoeducation – to add to your own understanding and to pass on to clients
• Why moral injury often leads to depression, substance abuse and suicidality
• The relationship between moral injury and PTSD and complex trauma (CPTSD)
• Why it is not recognised as a diagnosable condition
• The relationship between morals and pro-social emotions
• What strong emotions often arise as a result of moral injury
• What the APET model brings to our understanding and how we can use this when working with moral injury
• The crucial role of the pattern-matching processes in the brain
• Why narrative is so powerful
• How to weave other techniques – such as trauma-focused work and work with metaphor and story – to successfully work with moral distress
• Why a client’s initial focus may not be the best place to start work
• How to build and collaboratively agree an effective plan for treatment and recovery

You will also, under careful guidance from the tutor:

• Explore and discuss what morals are, where they come from and why we each have a unique model of moral reality
• Learn more about the presentation of moral injury and how to recognise it
• Develop a new framework of understanding within which to set your work with moral injury
• Understand more about why ‘shutdown’ or ‘dissociation’ are often associated with complex presentations
• Understand why depression, addictions and suicidality are often a part of the picture
• Work collaboratively with peers and colleagues to extend and develop your own skillsets and knowledge
• Explore, through work with exemplar case studies, how to apply your learning and prior skillsets in challenging presentations

You will leave with:

• The confidence to work creatively and flexibly with a wider range of presentations
• A rich toolkit to use with people experiencing moral injury
• A clear framework within which you can work and continue to develop and adapt your tools and skillsets
• An understanding of how to support clients in recovery from moral injury
• An appreciation of the importance of taking your time with such work and proceeding at a pace right for each individual client
• Greater confidence in being able to identify and appropriately support clients suffering from moral injury
• An understanding of how to help a client move towards a narrative which supports recovery and growth.

Plus:  There will also be plenty of opportunity throughout the day for you to ask questions and engage in collaborative work and discussion with the tutor, as well as with experienced colleagues and other attendees in break-out discussion rooms.

Course Programme

The ‘Moral Injury’ live online course starts at 9.15am and runs until 4.00pm (BST).

Date of event: Nov 10, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Ross Townsend

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: 

Website: https://www.humangivens.com/college/moral-injury-live-online-training/

Maximum number of participants: 

Cost of Course: £149

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CPD Event title: How to create healing stories for distressed children

Brief Description Of Event:

What you will learn

• How to ‘think metaphor’ to find the right one for each situation
• A clear understanding of how to address emotional issues in children and adults
• Simple ways to calm and relax children – “it’s the way you tell ‘em”
• Tips for igniting your own imagination and creativity
• A step-by-step guide to creating your own stories – the 6 steps for creating short stories with metaphors specifically tailored to quickly bring about positive psychological changes
• Breathing life into inanimate objects and taking inspiration from nature – how to tune into your metaphorical mind
• Valuable experience in creating your own therapeutic story from scratch
• How to use your stories and metaphors
• The importance of paying attention to the words children, young people and adults use when telling you something
• Case histories which illustrate the effectiveness and flexibility of stories – and show why they are such powerful therapeutic tools, even with difficult cases
• How to find your own metaphors and connect them emotionally to distressing situations
• Using embedded suggestions in stories – exercise
• Different ways to use therapeutic stories, such as those in Pamela’s acclaimed Brighter Little Minds series, to develop emotional literacy
• The importance of incorporating all of our senses
• How to adapt stories to use with adolescents and adults
• Tips for thinking creatively ‘on your feet’ to come up with suitable metaphors and ideas there and then in the moment
• Flexible skills – that can easily be adapted to working with adults
• Why subtly entwining a child’s interests into a story makes its impact stronger
• How to introduce a story or therapeutic metaphor naturally into your conversation
• Feedback on the story you create and time to ask questions of the tutor – a highly experienced and creative psychotherapist who has spent decades working therapeutically with distressed children and young people
• A greater appreciation of the subtle power of metaphor, imagination and embedded suggestions and how to use them to help the young people you care for
• Increased confidence in creating and telling therapeutic stories yourself
• A variety of story examples and ‘scripts’
• Lots of new ideas from Pamela Woodford’s ‘treasure chest of healing spells’ to spark your own creativity
• Tips for improving your storytelling abilities
• and more…

Course Programme

The ‘How to create healing stories for distressed children’ live online workshop starts at 9.15am and runs until 4.00pm. (BST).

Date of event: Oct 27, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Pamela Woodford

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: 

Website: https://www.humangivens.com/college/how-to-create-healing-stories-for-children-live-online-training/

Maximum number of participants: 

Cost of Course: £149

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CPD Event title: How to avoid Burnout – or overwhelm, in yourself and others

Brief Description Of Event:

This live online workshop gives you everything you need to know to safeguard your and your colleagues’ mental health, manage workplace stress, avoid ‘compassion fatigue’ and vicarious trauma, create a personalised wellbeing plan – and much more… 

What you will learn

• How to identify burnout in ourselves and others – the warning signs you need to look out for
• New insights from the latest research on how to prevent burnout in your working life
• Easy, practical evidence-based steps to protect yourself in stressful work situations
• How to avoid ‘compassion fatigue’
• The importance of having enough ‘spare capacity’ to be able to help others effectively
• Evidence-based ‘top tips’ for optimal working practices to maintain your own wellbeing
• The Cycle of Stress – how to ‘work with it’ for optimal health
• An understanding of vicarious trauma – and how to avoid it
• Techniques to calm yourself in client sessions when you are ‘triggered’ by something they bring up
• Understanding the difference between compassion fatigue and empathy fatigue
• Reducing your own risk of depression when you’re worried about those you support
• The joy of creating ‘flow’ in our working life
• Constructive ways to manage difficult feelings that arise as a result of your work
• Practical techniques for grounding and ‘letting go’ of clients or someone you’re supporting
• How to safely explore our own areas of vulnerability
• Useful tips for ongoing stress management
• What you need to maintain your own mental health
• How to re-ground yourself if you’re feeling overwhelmed or derailed by a client or someone else you’re working with
• Tools you can easily adapt to help your clients / patients
• An opportunity for you to reflect on your own practice and wellbeing, take some time to step back, learn what works for you and how you can create more ‘spare capacity’
• Time to relax, try out techniques and refresh your tools to support your wellbeing and build resilience
• How to utilise what you’ve learnt to create your own realistic wellbeing plan

Why take this course

Burnout and feeling overwhelmed or stressed is very common among the ‘helping professions’ and thousands leave their jobs as a result. A 2018 research review paper published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology analysed 30 years of research on this topic, involving 9,000 psychotherapists. Staggeringly, over half of the therapists they sampled reported “moderate-high levels of stress and burnout”. It seems that even if we know good stress management techniques, it isn’t enough to avoid the impact of being consistently exposed to others’ emotional pain.

So when our day-to-day jobs involve continually listening to other people’s difficulties – and this isn’t limited to counsellors, therapists and those working in the NHS (see more) – how do we avoid being overwhelmed ourselves or succumbing to compassion fatigue? As we are the ‘tool’ of our trade, we could argue that we have a duty to those we work with to prioritise our own mental health and wellbeing so that we can give them the best possible service.

The good news is that burnout, overwhelm or empathy fatigue are not a given of working in the helping and caring professions. New research and insights into ‘buffering’ the stressful impact of this work mean that we can now consciously choose to put in safeguards for our own mental wellbeing, whilst remaining connected and present with our clients, or those we support.

Emily Gajewski draws on this research and her extensive experience of working as a therapist and clinical supervisor, in the NHS and privately, for over 20 years to give you the information and tools you need to protect yourself and/or others. Throughout the day she examines the many ways working in the caring professions can impact us personally and gives you a wealth of practical steps you can take to mitigate them. She also covers the most up-to-date guidance on keeping ourselves well and thriving in caring roles and will help you develop a realistic plan for your own continuing wellbeing, which you can adapt for those you support or work with…

Commonly defined as a physical and emotional state caused by excessive or overwhelming workplace stress, ‘burnout’ can of course be caused by other life events and caring roles too – this day will give you a new toolkit for surviving the many ups and downs life throws at us…

Course Programme

The ‘How to avoid burnout’ live online course starts at 9.15am and runs until 4.00pm. (BST).

Anyone who works within a role that involves caring for others, including:

• all medical professionals, GPs and nurses
• health and social care professionals
• counsellors
• therapists and mental health workers
• educators, teachers
• professional carers – inc. foster carers
• non-paid carers
• social workers
• occupational therapists
• outreach workers
• volunteers
• holistic practitioners etc.
• anyone involved in pastoral care
• anyone interested for personal reasons, perhaps because you support someone who is physically or mentally unwell

Date of event: Oct 21, 2026

Duration of Event: 1 day

Venue for event: Zoom

Name of trainer: Emily Gajewski

Tel bookings:

Email bookings: 

Website: https://www.humangivens.com/college/how-to-avoid-burnout-live-online-training/

Maximum number of participants: 

Cost of Course: £149

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