Therapy Today writes that, “‘The book represents a ‘gentle revolution’. The gentleness comes from its lack of stridency and from its inclusiveness, and the radical quality is that person-centred therapy in particular, and all therapeutic work in general, cannot be the same again’”
Sue Wilders has strongly critiqued the propositions set out in the book Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy written by Dave Mearns and Mick Cooper, a text that was met with wide acclaim in the field of counselling and psychotherapy, engaging with an experience recognised by many practitioners as both transformative for the client and deeply meaningful for the therapist.
Aims of the Workshop
Increase your self awareness.
Equip you with simple tools you can use in practice with your clients.
Space to reflect and focus on who you can be for your clients.
Develop or Re-inspire your passion and drive to be a great counsellor.
Anne Stokes has co-authored with Professor Robert Bor “Setting up in Independent Practice: A Handbook for Counsellors, Therapists and Psychologists” which gives hands-on advice and support in planning, setting up and running independent practice.
Each month Kate and DeeAnna offer Open Office Hours as a way for people to find out more about Online Therapy Institute and Online Coach Institute and also ask general questions about utilizing techno
Each month Kate and DeeAnna offer Open Office Hours as a way for people to find out more about Online Therapy Institute and Online Coach Institute and also ask general questions about utilizing techno
Each month Kate and DeeAnna offer Open Office Hours as a way for people to find out more about Online Therapy Institute and Online Coach Institute and also ask general questions about utilizing techno
Each month Kate and DeeAnna offer Open Office Hours as a way for people to find out more about Online Therapy Institute and Online Coach Institute and also ask general questions about utilizing techno
Each month Kate and DeeAnna offer Open Office Hours as a way for people to find out more about Online Therapy Institute and Online Coach Institute and also ask general questions about utilizing techno
Each month Kate and DeeAnna offer Open Office Hours as a way for people to find out more about Online Therapy Institute and Online Coach Institute and also ask general questions about utilizing techno
Colin Lago Temenos Conference 2011
Is ‘Person-Centred Leadership’ an oxymoron?
A Way of Being outside the therapy room?
Exploring the potential of the person-centred approach in a wider context.
Divine Charura has contributed the chapter “The effects of an African heritage” to “The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy” edited by Colin Lago. The chapter “explores the general, historic, cultural, religious and other influences of an African heritage and considers how these influences might impact a therapeutic relationship conducted in another country where the cultural style is different.” In the chapter Divine also proposes 10 principles to consider when working with individuals of African heritage. This work is a rich resource for therapists, helping to expand our own world view and openness to the other.
Kate Lakeland interviewed Anne Stokes and Gill Jones from online training for counsellors ltd at the OCTIA 2011 conference about the training they offer to assist counsellors to work online.
Kay Laurie has been Part of encounter groups since the late 1970′s and has become deeply passionate about the human connection possible in these groups and their potential for personal and community growth.
Sunflower Garden offers a range of therapeutic support to children and young people in Edinburgh aged from 5 to 14 years old. The interview is an opportunity to hear about the skills and resources both practitioners and managers need to deliver therapeutic support to vulnerable children.
Sue takes a passionately relational approach to working with anger and feels strongly that some of the more traditional approaches to working with anger and violence are not helpful and may even be traumatising to the client.
Talking with clients about their sexual experiences is a challanging endeavour for many therapists and comes with lots of questions, should I ask client’s about their sexual relationship, why am i not asking, am I embarrassed and what’s the impact of my own sexual experience on my client work.
Psychotherapy tends to consider itself discrete from the non-psychotherapy world. When we’re being psychotherapists and discussing psychotherapy we don’t also think about the gross domestic product of the country in which we’re working, labour relations or what’s on television.
We enjoyed interviewing Colin Lago about his new book “The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy”. This new book is a seminal work which brings together recent critical thinking and research and the exploration of the impact of different cultural heritages upon potential clients and therapists.
Dr. Jacqueline Simon Gunn gives a compelling discussion on the many different questions and conflicts that come up involving romantic relationships. Using her years of clinical experience with patients as a foundation for her theory and practice she is able to answer and give feedback that arise and unfold within the context of the most complicated relationship human beings can have.
As part of our series on Relational Depth we have already interviewed Mick Cooper and Sue Wilders about their thoughts and experiences of “relational depth” as theoreticians and practitioners. In this event we interviewed Rosanne Knox about her research of the client’s experience of relational depth.
Motivational Interviewing has been extensively used in working with addiction and is widely known as an effective intervention in this kind of work. Buck has taken this technique and used it successfully in his work with a wide range of clients in his face to face and online practice. Buck describes his use of this technique as closely aligned to the person centred approach while giving both the therapist and client a framework to use in their working alliance.
Sandra Grieve and Lucia Berdondini are currently delivering the COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills, on behalf of Strathclyde University, to a group of students in Afghanistan.
Will Stillwell was a colleague of Carl Rogers and is Co-Director of the La Jolla Program, a 43 year old residential program for individuals which is still following in the client centered/person centered tradition associated with Carl Rogers. Will works in organisations as a coach to individuals, facilitator to groups & mediator in conflict situations.
OCTIA 2011 Interview: ACTO – The Association for Counselling and Therapy Online
Kate Lakeland interviewed Stephanie Palin Vice Chair of ACTO the website for online counsellors and their clients.
This is an important, but often neglected area of Person Centred Counselling. There is very little theoretical writing which is exclusively person centred, on this subject. This presentation is unashamedly person-centred and will focus on PCA theory as it is applied to couples work.