COMMUNITY COUNSELLOR TRAINING

The workshop aims to address the following:

1. The link between trauma, attachment, and dissociation
2. Understanding the spectrum of dissociation and dissociative disorders
3. Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
4. Identifying and responding to dissociation when it happens in the room
5. Working with trauma related-dissociation
6. Understanding the perspective of someone who experiences dissociation/DID
7. How we can help in counselling
   
   

The workshop will involve a combination of didactic teaching and interactive exercises in order to enhance learning. There will also be space for questions and answers.

Facilitator: Dr Anna Preston

I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist previously working for 16 years within the NHS psychiatric inpatient, community, personality disorder, and forensic services. I now work as an independent practitioner, trainer and expert witness. I deliver a range of training packages to mental health professionals working both within and outside of NHS services. I work as an expert witness providing assessments for the Family, Immigration and Criminal Courts.

CPD Title: Awareness of Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders
Date: Saturday, 7th September 2024
Time: 10.00 - 4.00
CPD Hours: 5
Trainer: Dr Anna Preston
Venue: CCT Training Room, 27/28 Roper Close, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7EP
Fee: £85 / £68 students & staff

An evidence-based intervention for childhood trauma

Imagery Rescripting (ImRs) is a powerful therapeutic technique that has recently been shown to be effective for adverse experiences and PTSD like symptoms arising from childhood trauma (IREM Study. Katrina Boterhoven de Haan. PhD.2022). In this international, multi-centred, randomised clinical trial (RCT), ImRs was compared with EMDR. Researchers found no significant differences between these therapies for childhood trauma, both were found to be effective.

Taster sessions introduce you to the theory, practice and growing evidence base for ImRs and an opportunity to experience the magic of Imagery Rescripting for yourself.

The taster aims to introduce participants to:

• The Origins of Imagery Rescripting
• Recent developments – ImRs as a stand-alone treatment for PTSD like symptoms arising from childhood trauma
• Personal experience of the Imagery Rescripting technique
• Acts as a taster day for those who may want to join the certificated practitioner training at CCS in the Autumn 2024 intake

Who is this workshop for?

Those who might be thinking about joining the certificated practitioner training (Level 6) in the Autumn, 2024.

The taster session is offered in two formats, face to face in a small group and online, mirroring how this therapy can be successfully used in a remote format. (Note: this session is face to face)

Facilitator: Steve Sharkey

Steve is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and former NHS Consultant Adult Psychotherapist (retired). Steve continues to practice on a private basis a day a week and teach. He has a special interest in personality disorder - he completed a post graduate training in forensic psychotherapy in the NHS and is a former executive council member of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. He has completed the internationally recognised trainings in both individual and group schema therapy. He has had over seventy hours videoed supervised practice on imagery techniques with Dr Alessandro Carmelita, Past President of the Italian Society for Schema Therapy and inventor of the Mindful Interbeing Mirror Therapy approach.
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CPD Title: Imagery Rescripting (Taster Sessions)
Date: Friday 20th September 2024
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
CPD Hours: 3.5
Trainer: Steve Sharkey
Venue: CCT Training Room 27, 27/28 Roper Close, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7EP
Fee: £40

Workshop aims

• gain an awareness of healthy and pathological forms of disappointment, embitterment, grievance, and entitlement
• understanding narcissism in the context of early development
• learn how to navigate through the self-defeating coping strategies of the narcissist
• raise awareness of the feelings generated in the therapist – avoid colluding with the “victim” in favour of working with the “shadow”

This workshop will look at the spectrum of relational difficulties associated with feelings of disappointment, embitterment, entitlement, grievance and introduce participants to the concept of narcissism.

Misplaced feelings of disappointment and an inflated or excessive sense of entitlement are amongst the most challenging and at the same time common presenting problems that we are likely to face in practice. We delude ourselves into believing that if we offer a safe, caring, and therapeutic space, the client will resolve their sense of injustice, but instead the client’s problems begin to deepen, and in time, this may include a growing sense of disappointment, with us!

Normal or healthy entitlement involves giving and receiving - rights are balanced with responsibilities. In contrast, excessive entitlement is associated with a lack of empathy or appreciation of the others point of view - arrogance and a pervasive sense that one has been wronged begin to dominate when life’s realities conflict with unrealistic, polarised, or magical thinking. When challenged by the therapist, underlying feelings of fragility may give rise to rage and a sense that one has been mortally wounded.

Facilitator: Steve Sharkey

Steve is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and former NHS Consultant Adult Psychotherapist (retired). Steve continues to practice on a private basis a day a week and teach. He has a special interest in personality disorder - he completed a post graduate training in forensic psychotherapy in the NHS and is a former executive council member of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.

He has completed the internationally recognised trainings in both individual and group schema therapy. He has had over seventy hours videoed supervised practice on imagery techniques with Dr Alessandro Carmelita, Past President of the Italian Society for Schema Therapy and inventor of the Mindful Interbeing Mirror Therapy approach.

CPD Title: Disappointment, Embitterment, Entitlement, Grievance - An Introduction to Narcissism
Date: Saturday, 19th October 2024
Time: 10.00 - 4.00
CPD Hours: 5
Trainer: Steve Sharkey
Venue: CCT Training Room, 27/28 Roper Close, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7EP
Fee: £85 / £68 students & staff

The workshop aims to address the following:

1. Broad categories of offending behaviour
2. Overview of the forensic / criminal justice system
3. Overview of mental health in the forensic population
4. Consideration of mental health issues (including trauma) that are associated with offending
5. Consideration of neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g. ASD and ADHD) that are associated with offending
6. Addressing signs of offending risk in clients
7. Working in counselling on issues which may lead to offending, or with those who have offended

There will also be space for questions and answers.

The workshop will involve a combination of didactic teaching and interactive exercises in order to enhance learning.

Facilitator: Dr Anna Preston

I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist previously working for 16 years within the NHS psychiatric inpatient, community, personality disorder, and forensic services. I now work as an independent practitioner, trainer and expert witness. I deliver a range of training packages to mental health professionals working both within and outside of NHS services. I work as an expert witness providing assessments for the Family, Immigration and Criminal Courts.

Please Note: Because of the experiential nature of the workshop, places are strictly limited to 6 persons.

CPD Title: Understanding Forensic Issues in Mental Health and Counselling
Date: Saturday, 14th December 2024
Time: 10am - 4pm
CPD Hours: 5
Trainer: Dr Anna Preston.
Venue: CCT Training Room, 27/28 Roper Close, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7EP
Fee: £85 / £68 students & staff