A one Day CPD event – for Counsellors, Psychotherapists & Mental Health Professionals (including afternoon session on using art therapy)
Dates – Saturday 21st May ’16 and repeated… Saturday 18th June ’16
Time – 9.30am – 4.30pm
Trainers – Jo Watson & Sue Akehurst
Venue – Alvechurch, Birmingham (full address and directions sent out after booking)
Price – £85 (reductions & free places available)
To book – Contact Jo jowatson03@aol.com 07769158565
All hours are valid CPD hours for BACP and UKCP (CPD Certificates will be issued)
This course is inspired by the work of Judith Herman and aimed at counsellors, psychotherapists and mental health professionals who wish to increase their awareness of working with clients who have experienced trauma and learn person centred creative techniques, to integrate safely and effectively into their therapeutic practice.
The morning session (Jo)
This session will introduce Herman’s 3 stage model of working with trauma was introduced to jo almost 20 years ago when she undertook a course delivered by Women and Girls Network (WAGN) London, in collaboration with Rape Crisis Federation of Wales and England and the London Open College Network.
“The course… ‘Working Therapeutically With Women Who Have Experienced Violence’ was monumental in my growth as a therapist and I have been using this model of working with trauma ever since on a daily basis. I later went on to deliver the same training with WAGN to Rape Crisis Federation member groups nationally. Judith Herman’s work is integrated into all the training on trauma that I have delivered over the last 10-15 years for various organisations that provide therapeutic services for people who have experienced trauma.” jo
Work by Babette Rothschild and will also be introduced as well as the theory around post trauma identity.
About Sue ..
Sue is an experienced counsellor & supervisor working within the person centred tradition. She has considerable experience of working with adults and young people. Sue has worked in education and health for over 30 years, qualifying as a counsellor in 1998, she has a broad experience of working with people of all ages and from many different backgrounds.
Sue is particularly interested in working creatively from a person centred perspective and provides training in this area to empower other therapists and supporters to access the creative practitioner in themselves!
Afternoon Session (Sue)
The afternoon session will offer participants a chance to work with a highly experienced therapist who uses a creative and art based approach in her person centred work
Sue Akehurst will facilitate a experiential arts based creative experience which will translate directly to empowering and expressive therapeutic work with your clients.
When words just aren’t enough
“The session will enable you to feel more at ease using art to help clients express and integrate their whole story and the traumatic memories. You’ll have the opportunity to experience some embodied ways of working with themes of safeness and resourcing alongside the processes of expression and symbolisation. We’ll be playfully serious and seriously playful!” Sue
LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE 
May 23, 2016 @ 12:25 pm
Really enjoyed the teaching on trauma recovery work with this lovely group! It’s one of my very favourite subjects to teach partly because I believe it is so directly transferable to work with clients, it just makes so much sense! I’m eternally grateful to Judith Herman and Babette Rothschild for their amazing contributions to this area of therapeutic practice, its such a pleasure to pass it on in whatever way I can.
Sue Akehurst totally rocked the second half of the day with such a moving and creative session on working with art in therapy, and all the participants threw themselves into the process, it was really lovely to see!
Thanks to everyone who came and helped make the day exactly what it was.
Ps – don’t forget to use the animal finger puppets!
May 23, 2016 @ 2:43 pm
Thanks so much to Jo for the invitation to come and share some of what I love doing. Her morning session gave us all such great insight into what’s needed when working with trauma, giving me the delightful job of inviting this lovely group to connect with themselves and express some of what they were experiencing through art! Such a powerful and gentle way of working… thanks so much to you all for your contributions!
May 26, 2016 @ 10:30 am
Really informative and enjoyable CPD day on Saturday 21st June working with trauma. Thanks very much Jo and Sue.