Continuing Professional Development Courses for Therapists, Mental Health & Allied Professionals

A core strength of our Diploma in MI & CBT is its emphasis on the seamless integration of both modalities. Motivational Interviewing provides the relational foundation, building the therapeutic alliance, eliciting intrinsic motivation, and preparing clients for change. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy offers a structured framework to consolidate change, equipping clients with practical tools to identify, challenge, and reframe unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Through an integrative framework, both modalities offer a very responsive and clinically robust therapeutic approach.

Our Specialist Diploma in Neurodiversity Informed Psychotherapy is suitable for qualified Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Art Therapists, Play Therapists, Guidance Counsellors, and therapists in training, who wish to ensure a strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming and informed approach in their clinical work.

Therapeutic Life Story Work supports children and adolescents who are adopted, under special guardianship, kinship care and/or foster care in making sense of their past experiences, putting difficult or traumatic histories into context while simultaneously developing the child’s/ adolescent’s sense of self, identity and belonging through reconstructing personal narratives within a creative, developmentally sensitive, trauma and attachment informed Therapeutic Life Story Work Framework.

Therapeutic intervention with children is a specialised area of practice, in ensuring principles of best practices when working with this client group therapists need to possess the appropriate knowledge, skills, and competencies in order to ensure they are working ethically, professionally, and effectively with this population group.

Integrative Sand Tray Stories is a projective, dynamic, symbolic, and sensory model of psychotherapy. Using a sand tray, water, and symbols, the client is enabled to bypass their thinking, logical, and analytical brain, facilitating the safe unfolding of their unconscious conflicts. The sand tray story therapist’s attunement and unconditional acceptance of the client’s process enables the development of the client’s sense of agency and psychological healing.

The importance of understanding, appreciating and evaluating the impact of trauma has substantial implications for therapeutic needs assessment, case-conceptualisation, treatment planning and therapeutic outcomes. In order to ensure safe, ethical and informed therapeutic interventions, therapists must have and embody a deep appreciation and understanding of the neurobiology and physiology of trauma in order to prevent inadvertently re-traumatising clients.

Adolescent Psychotherapy is an expanding and specialist area of practice. In ensuring principles of best practices when working with this client group, therapists need to possess the appropriate knowledge, skills, and competencies in order to ensure they are working ethically, professionally, and effectively with this population group.

Our Specialist Diploma in Eating Disorders will present a holistic, evidence-based exploration of eating disorders and equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and competencies to identify, support, and engage therapeutically with clients who present with an eating disorder from an integrative framework.