Adult mental health CPD courses
Our short courses will appeal to a broad range of practitioners in psychiatry, psychology, nursing and social work and focus on working with couples, families and young adults.
February 2019
Eight-Week Mindfulness Course
What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is a very effective way of training our attention. In our fast-paced world, we are increasingly reacting...
Nurturing Parents: Mindfulness based well-being for parents
The Nurturing Parents Programme (NP) has been developed at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University. It is an...
Safeguarding Adults: Level 3 Training
This one-day training is based on the Level 3 Safeguarding Adults Intercollegiate document and will offer an understanding of the legal and policy...
Supervision for staff working in schools and community contexts: working relationally and reflectively
Supervision is a work-based learning relationship, characterised by relating and reflecting. It is a critical component of safe and effective...
March 2019
Intermediate motivational interviewing
Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based approach based on a person-centred counselling style for addressing the common problem of...
April 2019
Families and beyond: an introduction to systemic thinking (online)
We all live our lives in and through our relationships, both past and present, and we are all shaped by the social and cultural contexts in which...
Understanding development – adolescence
Adolescence is a time of life that is central to our sense of who we are in the world. It is a time of intense emotion, of startling changes, of...
May 2019
An introduction to compassion focused therapy
Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) was developed by Professor Paul Gilbert to work with people with severe and enduring mental health problems, many...
Mental Health First Aid Training
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an internationally recognised training course, designed to teach people how to spot the signs and symptoms of...
Reflective Practice for people working with clients who have experienced historical childhood sexual abuse (HCSA)
Working with HCSA In recent years more and more information is coming into the public eye about the extent of childhood sexual abuse amongst those...
June 2019
Motivational Interviewing: A tool for change in Criminal Justice Practice
Motivational Interviewing (MI) has its roots in the treatment of substance use problems. It was first developed for use with people who were...
July 2019
Introduction to Psychodynamic Concepts: A workshop for mental health professionals
This is a five-day workshop for qualified mental health professionals and those nearing the end of their training. It aims to provide an...
Voice and communication therapy within the Trans and Gender Diverse Care Pathway: essential knowledge and skills for speech and language therapists
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is the national provider for both the paediatric gender identity service and the largest gender...
September 2019
Working with families with physical illness: a systemic approach
The care and support of children and adults affected by serious physical illness, disability and treatment regimes falls largely to their families.
October 2019
Motivational interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a person-centred counselling style for addressing the common problem of ambivalence about change.
Working with refugee people and their families (D35)
This is the first module of the oldest and longest running course in this field in the UK and aims to assist those working with asylum seeking...
Courses you can join at any time
Working with personality disorder, severely ill and complex patients
This programme presents an opportunity for qualified psychotherapists/analysts to join the Fitzjohn’s unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS...
Bespoke courses
Reflective mental health practice today short course
This is a bespoke 10-week short course for mental health nurses, which develops the capacity to understand, process and thoughtfully respond to...
Coming soon
An introduction to working with people with eating disorders and body dysmorphia
This is an introductory course on eating disorders and body dysmorphia, based on a psychodynamic frame of reference.
Brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy
A three day course introducing the principles and practice of working with Brief Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the application of these...
Couples as parents and parents as couples
Does your work involve contact with children and parents? Do you come across couples who are struggling to parent together? Do you want to...
Introduction to psychodynamic and systemic practice applications in work with young people and adults
This course explores a diverse range of practice applications of both psychodynamic and systemic theoretical models to professional work.
Nursing in Mind: Developing psychologically minded approaches to contemporary nursing and its dilemmas
“The nursing service, therefore, bears the full, immediate and concentrated impact of stresses arising from patient care” Menzies Lyth 1959
Assessing risk: a relational approach
This ten week course offers you an innovative framework for understanding the complex and subtle issues involved in assessing and managing the risk...
Understanding couples
This half-day workshop is designed for counsellors and psychotherapists who are concerned with couples in the course of their work and...
Working with couples
Therapeutic work with couples is an important mode of intervention which is relevant in child, adolescent and adult clinical settings.
Working with teams and networks under stress
Teams and networks are about relationships. We all function in relation to networks, whether we are part of one, or feel outside and not properly...
