We are excited to bring you our immensely popular National Counselling and Psychotherapy Conference as a virtual toolkit.
Discuss the contemporary trends of 21st century psychology, new approaches to understanding mental health and ethical guidelines and best practice for therapy. You will also Learn how to develop new approaches and techniques for counselling and psychotherapy and much, much more.
Hear from our experts in their respective fields, delivering world class content and it’s all 100% online!
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Learning Objectives
- Module 1: A new future for counselling and psychotherapy in the UK – By Professor Peter Kinderman
- Module 2: Integrating theories and practices – refining your style to improve client outcomes – By Dr Sara Tai
- Module 3: Working with the unprepared client – working from the ground up
- Module 4: How can growing as a practitioner grow your practice? – By Rosalyn Palmer
- Module 5: Bringing coaching into your counselling practice – benefits and approaches – By Rosalyn Palmer
- Module 6: ‘My life path of cultivating everyday heroism’ by Dr. Philip Zimbardo, together with articles by leading practitioners such as Dr Ivanka Ezhova and Professor William Damon.
Agenda
- Module 1
A new future for counselling and psychotherapy in the UK
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Professor Peter KindermanProfessor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool
- How is counselling and psychotherapy changing?
- Societal, political and economic impacts on clients and practitioners
- The 21st century counsellor: progressing from traditional approaches
- The modern face of therapy: where are we now?
- Module 2
Integrating theories and practices – refining your style to improve client outcomes
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Dr Sara TaiSenior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology & Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- A new vision for therapeutic integration
- Diversifying your understanding of theory into practice
- Mechanistic vs. Humanistic approaches: where should we integrate?
- Setting a new standard for integrative thinking
- Module 3
Working with the unprepared client – working from the ground up
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Michelle BridgmanPsychotherapist
- Identifying the different needs of unprepared clients
- Overcoming initial boundaries and responding to initial challenges
- Develop effective ways to work to your strengths and get results
- Module 4
How can growing as a practitioner grow your practice?
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Rosalyn PalmerAdvanced Rapid Transformational Hypnotherapist and Coach
- Confidence in your counselling: supporting client growth
- Is specialising the key to attracting clients?
- Promoting self-care and wellness and preventing burnout
- What constitutes a leading practice?
- Module 5
Bringing coaching into your counselling practice – benefits and approaches
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Rosalyn PalmerAdvanced Rapid Transformational Hypnotherapist and Coach
- Exploring the added value coaching can bring to your practice
- Reviewing options for integration: the key theoretical models
- Instilling coaching ethically and effectively
- Understanding potential pitfalls
- Module 6
'My life path of cultivating everyday heroism'
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Professor Philip ZimbardoProfessor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford University
- A special presentation by Professor Philip Zimbardo
- Articles by leading practitioners such as Dr Ivanka Ezhova, Professor William Damon and Ann Maloney.
Speakers
Dr Sara Tai
Dr Sara Tai is the Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester and Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. She is a reflexive scientist practitioner, therapist, educator and researcher, who has worked in a range of mental health settings, with people experiencing serious and enduring problems affecting their mental health.
Sara conducts research internationally, including large clinical trials in the UK, USA, Canada, China, and across Europe. Her work elucidates how key psychological mechanisms such as control and awareness cross traditional diagnostic boundaries and help unify apparently disparate therapeutic traditions. Her work not only helps explain the nature and origin of psychological distress but, with colleagues, offers new therapeutic opportunities.
Michelle Bridgman
Shelley is a Psychotherapist and is a regular commentator in the media. As a Keynote Speaker she speaks on Developing a Fearless Mindset.
She is a member of The Professional Speakers Association (PSA), United Kingdom Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (UKCP), British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP).
Media Psychotherapy expert on: - BBC Breakfast News, BBC World News, SKY News, LK Today, Channel 4, and Channel 5
MSc in Psychotherapy and RTT Practitioner
Professor Geoffrey Beattie
Professor Geoffrey Beattie is professor of psychology at Edge Hill University, with a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the Spearman Medal by the British Psychological Society for 'published psychological research of outstanding merit' for his research on nonverbal communication, and the internationally acclaimed Mouton d'Or for his work in semiotics on gesture-speech mismatches in deception. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is the author of twenty-five books and over one hundred academic articles in a range of journals including Nature, Nature Climate Change and Semiotica. He was the resident on-screen psychologist for eleven series of Big Brother on Channel 4 from 2000-2010, and has presented a number of television series, including 'Life's Too Short' (BBC1), 'Family SOS' (BBC1), 'The Farm of Fussy Eaters' (UKTV) and 'Dump Your Mates in Four Days' (Channel 4). In 2016, he published ‘Rethinking Body Language: How Hand Movements Real Hidden Thoughts’, Routledge, which was described as ‘brilliant and a must read for anyone who is interested in the mind-body-culture nexus that makes humans unique’ by the distinguished professor Marcel Danesi of the University of Toronto.
Professor Peter Kinderman
Professor Peter Kinderman is the Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool, and former President of the British Psychological Society.
Peter is also an honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Mersey Care NHS Trust, so possesses a wealth of experience and advocates a keen passion for supporting clients via psychological social solutions rather than prescribing medication.
Professor Philip Zimbardo
Professor Philip Zimbardo is a true pioneer of psychology. Alongside his world famous ‘Stanford Prison Experiment’ in 1971, he was previously president of the American Psychological Association and a Professor at Stanford University.
After 50 years lecturing, Zimbardo retired from lecturing in 2008 – this will be one of his last ever lectures.
Rosalyn Palmer
Rosalyn Palmer is an Emotional Wellbeing Expert, an Advanced Rapid Transformational (RTT) Hypnotherapist and a Certified Coach. Rosalyn was one of the very first to train in RTT with Marisa Peer and has become one of the most sought-after RTT practitioners worldwide.
As bestselling author of the award-winning self-help book: ‘Reset! A Blueprint for a Better Life’, Rosalyn makes emotional wellbeing accessible to all. Rosalyn is also a co-author of Amazon No.1 bestselling self-help books ‘Ignite Your Life for Women’ and ‘Ignite Your Female Leadership’.
Rosalyn co-hosts the popular radio show Girls Around Town on Radio Newark (as the wellbeing expert), has a monthly newspaper column and features regularly on podcasts and in many publications, including most recently Psychology in Practice. She was featured as an Emotional Wellbeing Expert on the Janey Lee Grace show on UK Property Radio.
Formerly the MD/Founder of award-winning PR agency RPPR, Head of Marketing for an international charity and with an enviable CV from leading London agencies in the 80s and 90s, Rosalyn has grown from many challenging life experiences. This colour and tempers her writing, broadcasting and speaking.