Other Courses

This day is for new practitioners thinking about setting up in private practice for the first time and for more experienced practitioners looking for inspiration to develop their practice and business further. The speakers are:

Jon Wilson Cooper, Psychotherapist and Counsellor

• An overview of all the tasks involved in making your practice successful
• Looking after yourself, your clients and your professional and legal responsibilities
• Looking after yourself in the long term (CPD, professional isolation, supervision)

Jeremy Harrod, Accountant

• Registering yourself as a sole trader
• Record keeping
• Dealing with HMRC
• What you can and can’t claim as a small business
• Invoicing different organizations

Krystal Woodbridge, Psychosexual Therapist and Relationship Counsellor

• Marketing strategies involving websites, blogging, newsletters, Google ads
• Finding a brand identity
• Applying the above to social media

Paula Mates, Counsellor

• The pleasures and pitfalls of private practice
• Assessing clients for suitability
• Onward referral
• Managing boundaries
• Building a network

Optional / supplementary website session: 4.30-5.30pm

£10.00 per person (you will have a website by the end of the day, you will be invited to this session when you have booked onto the day and this session must be booked in advance to register for pre-workshop preparation)

TRANSITIONS COUNSELLING & CONSULTANCY

DEBUNKING GENDER IDENTITY

       (A REFLECTIVE GUIDE TO GENDER IDENTITY COUNSELLING)

Counselling professionals are increasingly seeking training in preparation for working
with gender variant/ trans clients. Madison-Amy Webb (a woman from a gender variant history) invites you to consider a simple fact. That everyone has a gender identity, whether or not they’ve given it consideration.

This training day will invite attendees to begin exploring your own gender identity through a series of experiential/ reflective exercises such as “How was Your Gender Identity Shaped”, What kind of Man/ Woman are you?” and “Personal meaning” which will allow you to develop a deeper personal understanding. As counsellors and psychotherapists, we can then begin to relate to our clients in new and productive ways, thus gaining a more nuanced understanding of the issues faced by clients and their own identity. The day will also include group work, discussions, and phenomenological journaling.

The day will also explore the social impact of a lack of gender variance within our cultural ancestry, the need to embrace a form of Genderism, and we’ll also look at clinical techniques which offer new ways to connect with gender variant clients effectively. This is an essential training for any counselling professional, those working with gender variant clients, and those interested in gender matters.

Saturday 28^thSeptember 10am until 4pm, the Albany Centre, St Albans

£65, inc light refreshments, training materials, CPD cert. 07891 400394 – madison@transitionscounselling.co.uk

Madison-Amy Webb (MBACP) Accred is a practicing psychotherapist and also trains other mental health professionals on how to support trans people. She lives in Peterborough, UK and is a WPATH Member. This training day takes its title from her book ‘A Reflective Guide to Gender Identity Counselling’ available May 2019- Jessica Kingsley Publishing.