One Day CPD Workshops

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 Mindful Interbeing Mirror Therapy approach.

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

With very few exceptions, schools of psychotherapy recognise the centrality and importance of helping a client to construct a ‘Healing Narrative’ although it may not be explicitly stated. To construct a narrative that ‘heals’ we have to connect with emotion, to ‘feel it’ as healing is not just a matter of thoughts and words - Imagery Rescripting seems to do this particularly well and then facilitates a corrective emotional experience.

The workshop aims to introduce participants to:

• The Origins of ImRs from Schema Therapy
• Recent developments – ImRs as a stand-alone treatment for PTSD like symptoms arising from childhood
• Personal experience of the Imagery Rescripting technique
• Acts as a taster day for those who may want to join the certificated practitioner courses at CCS starting in March/September 2025

Who is this workshop for?

• Anyone practising or training in counselling/psychotherapy who might want a taster of this powerful evidence-based approach.
• Qualified practitioners who want to attend the L6 certificated ImRs practitioner training at CCT starting in March in Crowborough or September in Canterbury 2025. (Course details are on the CCT website – applicants for these courses must be qualified counsellors/therapists)
  
  Please Note: Because of the experiential nature of the day, places are strictly limited to 8 persons

NAME OF WORKSHOP: Imagery Rescripting: An evidence-based intervention for childhood trauma

DATES: Saturday 1st March 2025

TIME: 9:30am - 1pm

VENUE: CCT training room, 34 Roper Close, Canterbury CT2 7EP

FEE: £40

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 Mindful Interbeing Mirror Therapy approach.

Please note: this training is being run online

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

With very few exceptions, schools of psychotherapy recognise the centrality and importance of helping a client to construct a ‘Healing Narrative’ although it may not be explicitly stated. To construct a narrative that ‘heals’ we have to connect with emotion, to ‘feel it’ as healing is not just a matter of thoughts and words - Imagery Rescripting seems to do this particularly well and then facilitates a corrective emotional experience.

The workshop aims to introduce participants to:

• The Origins of ImRs from Schema Therapy
• Recent developments – ImRs as a stand-alone treatment for PTSD like symptoms arising from childhood
• Personal experience of the Imagery Rescripting technique
• Acts as a taster day for those who may want to join the certificated practitioner courses at CCS starting in March/September 2025

Who is this workshop for?

• Anyone practising or training in counselling/psychotherapy who might want a taster of this powerful evidence-based approach.
• Qualified practitioners who want to attend the L6 certificated ImRs practitioner training at CCT starting in March in Crowborough or September in Canterbury 2025. (Course details are on the CCT website – applicants for these courses must be qualified counsellors/therapists)
  
  Please Note: Because of the experiential nature of the day, places are strictly limited to 8 persons

NAME OF WORKSHOP: Imagery Rescripting: An evidence-based intervention for childhood trauma

DATES: Thursday 8th May

TIME: 6pm - 9pm

VENUE: Online – we will send a link to the invitation

FEE: £40