Sessions will be ran once a month on a Sunday  

10am - 3pm

£30 per session

Are you a student wanting to develop your counselling and therapy skills? If so, these themed workshops are for you. 

These skills practice sessions are an opportunity to join your peers and hone your skills as a developing therapist. We know that finding the opportunity for practice sessions is often challenging, so during these workshops there will be a chance to re-visit theory and plenty of time to make use of the counselling rooms within the building and work in triads to gain skills, valuable peer feedback and build practice hours.   

 During the workshops we will look at some of the challenges when working with clients in a clinical setting. We will discuss how theory can be applied in practice and we will explore topics in relation to working clinically with clients. 

Some of the topics that will be covered are:

General counselling skills, Note and record keeping, Defensible Documentation, Use of language and Non-Verbal communication, Identifying Ego states, Boundaries, Building the therapeutic relationship/rapport, Contracting, Creativity, Self disclosure, The Drama triangle, Endings Planned and unplanned.

The format of the day will include:

10am - Brief Check in

10.30 Introduction to skill/theory and discussion

11.30 1st skills practice session

12.30 Lunch

12.45 Skills Practice/group work

2.45pm Check out

3.00pm finish

Please note - ECPT students may count each 30 minute practice piece towards practice hours to the maximum of 12 hours per year.