Workshop Menu
1 day & 2 day CPD Online Workshops
Workshops can be commissioned by groups of practitioners, therapy businesses, charities
and professional organisations.
They are suitable for counsellors & psychotherapists, supervisors, psychologists, coaches, mental health professionals, mediators and workers in social and health care.
These, or new topics can be discussed and designed to suit specific training or practice needs.
- Affordable personal and professional development at all levels, including trainees, experienced professionals, management and support staff.
- Informative, interactive, interesting, with up to date law and guidance.
- Easy to budget - just contact Therapy Law to negotiate an appropriate fee.
- Workshops (delivered in English) are also available for NGOs and other organisations abroad
Choose your workshops from the list below, or
We can adapt or design a new workshop especially for your organisation
Keeping Our Balance: Confidentiality, Records, UK-GDPR;
making effective referrals and disclosures; what to include or omit in records, and when and how to share information with professionals and others. Exploring ethical dilemmas of confidentiality in practice.
Working with Children: Confidentiality, Records, Capacity and Consent, Safeguarding and Child Protection issues.
For practitioners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: Child Protection, Parental Responsibility, Confidentiality, Consent and 'Gillick Competence', Assessments and Referrals.
The Only Way is Ethics:
Ethical practice, duty of care, negligence, new legal and guidance developments and updates in counselling and psychotherapy practice and research.
Early Years, Trauma and Resilience:
Impact of early childhood experience on emotional development and adult resilience to traumatic stress.
The Road Map: Essential Law for the Counselling Professions
– (Great for practitioners setting up in practice.) Contracts, negligence, duty of care, insurance, risk assessment, practice dilemmas, and more...how to avoid the elephant traps!
Keeping Our Cool: Presenting therapy with Vulnerable Clients in the Courts.
A workshop designed for therapists who work with victims and witnesses, or working with clients involved in court proceedings, looking at the law, rules and special measures available for vulnerable witnesses and the Crown Prosecution Service pre-trial therapy guidance.
Holding the Court 1:
(For therapists working with anyone involved in court proceedings) Making and Keeping Therapy Records, Reports, and Preparing Evidence for Court.
Making and keeping therapy records, what to include or omit, fact and opinion, report writing, and preparing to give evidence.
Holding the Court 2:
(For therapists working with anyone involved in court proceedings) Court Practice and Procedure; Presenting our work as evidence in court.
For therapists working with anyone involved in court proceedings, a practical and confidence building workshop on court practice and procedure and how to present oral and written evidence in court.
Child's Play in Court 1:
(For Creative and Play Therapists.) Making and Keeping Records, Reports and Preparing Child Centred Evidence for Court.
For play and creative therapists working with children or adults involved in court proceedings, a practical course on making and keeping therapy records, report writing, and preparing to give child centred evidence.
Child's Play in Court 2:
(For Creative and Play Therapists.) Records, Reports and Giving Child Centred Evidence for Court.
For play and creative therapists working with children or adults involved in court proceedings, a practical course on how to present creative therapy materials and records, report writing etc as court evidence.
Counsellor 'Burn Out' and Compassion Fatigue
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Managing Stress in Therapeutic Work
Holding the Line Supervisors Course (A):
Duties and Legal Responsibilities of Supervision (Contracts, duty of care, professional standards, negligence, legal and ethical issues in supervision)
Holding the Line Supervisors Course (B):
Supervisory Relationships, Ethics and the Law (Confidentiality, records, mental capacity, consent, making disclosures, discussion of ethical dilemmas in supervision)
Unseen Influences in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Mediations:
the silent impact of culture, community, family myths and mysteries.
Exploring Spirituality in the context of Counselling
- Co-facilitated with Rachel Freeth, Psychiatrist and Counsellor, working with spiritual experiences, and with spiritual emergence, dilemmas, crises. Risk assessments and when to refer for other sources of help.