Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse Training with Lynn Findlay MBACP(Accred)
An interactive online safeguarding training designed specifically for therapists and counselling professionals. This training will provide knowledge and confidence to recognise, respond to, and appropriately manage, safeguarding concerns within therapeutic practice.
The training is informed by Level 3 safeguarding competencies and applies them to the therapeutic setting, including confidentiality, information sharing, responding to disclosures, professional boundaries, recording, and referral. It is fully updated to meet the new BACP 2026 Ethical Framework requirements for safeguarding.
The morning
- 3 hours: Safeguarding Training for Counsellors and Therapists
- 1 hour: Working with Domestic Abuse and the DASH Risk Assessment
Why attend? This training will increase your knowledge and confidence in making safeguarding decisions about children and adults in the therapeutic context, with a focus on joined-up thinking across families and networks.
Who is it for? Therapists and therapeutic practitioners working with adults and young people.
What you will learn
- The therapist's role and responsibilities in safeguarding children and adults
- Understanding signs and indicators of abuse, neglect and exploitation
- Responding to disclosures and concerns
- Thresholds, professional curiosity and safeguarding decision-making
- Information sharing and confidentiality
- Recording and reporting concerns, and whistleblowing
- Working effectively with other agencies and professionals
- Applying safeguarding principles to therapeutic practice through discussion and case examples
Domestic Abuse: Understand the requirements of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, learn how to use the DASH risk assessment tool, and explore how to work therapeutically with clients affected by domestic abuse.
About your trainer
Lynn Findlay, MBACP(Accred) Counsellor and Psychotherapist, Safeguarding Consultant, Social Work England Registered
CPD Certificates will be issued.