Professional development and Workshops
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Multicultural Counselling
Multicultural counseling aims to address the unique needs and experiences of individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds. Our goals on this three-hours workshop are:
- Cultural Competence
- Respect for Diversity
- Empowerment
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Effective Communication
- Social Justice Advocacy
- Culturally Relevant
- Interventions
- Promotion of Cultural Identity
- Intersectionality
- Self-Awareness and Reflection
Microskills in Counselling
Microskills in counselling refer to specific techniques and abilities that counselors use to effectively communicate with clients and facilitate the counseling process. Our goals in this three-hours workshop are:
- Building Rapport
- Active Listening
- Reflection
- Clarification
- Summarization
- Open-Ended Questions
- Closed Questions
- Paraphrasing
- Empathic Responses
- Feedback Silence
- Nonverbal Communication
- Cultural Sensitivity
Mental Health Awareness
When teaching mental health awareness, the primary targets are to educate individuals about mental health issues, reduce stigma surrounding mental illness, promote help-seeking behaviours, and foster supportive environments. Our goals on this three-hours workshop are:
- Understanding mental health
- Recognising signs and symptoms
- Reducing stigma
- Promoting self-care
- Encouraging help-seeking behaviours
- Building Resilience
- Culturally sensitivity
- Destigmatising treatment
- Suicide prevention
- Lifestyle factors
- Early interventions
- Promoting mental health literacy
- Peer support and community building
Central to our work with couples is the concept of object relations which refers to how individuals internalise and relate to others. Couples counselling workshop aims to enhance knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to effectively work with couples and gain meaningful change in their relationship. Our goal in this six-hours workshop are:
- Building Rapport
- Understanding relationship Dynamics
- Theoretical knowledge
- Assessment skills
- Effective intervention strategies
- Enhancing communication skills
- Promoting empathy and understanding
- Conflict resolution skills
- Cultural sensitivity
- Self-reflection and countertransference
- Ethical considerations
- Promoting positive relationship outcomes
Personality Disorders
Teaching about personality disorders involves several goals aimed at increasing understanding, reducing stigma, promoting effective interventions, and enhancing empathy. Our goals in this three-hour workshop are:
- Understanding personality disorders
- Recognizing symptoms
- Differentiating from normal variation
- Exploring etiology
- Reducing stigma
- Impact on functioning
- Comorbidity
- Effective interventions
- Managing challenging behaviors
- Empowering clients
- Promoting therapeutic alliance
- Cultural sensitivity
- Ethical considerations
Complex trauma and PTSD
When teaching about complex trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) we provide a comprehensive understanding of the psychological, emotional, and physiological effects of trauma, as well as evidence-based approaches to assessment and treatment. Our goals in this three-hours workshop are:
- Understanding trauma
- Differentiating complex trauma
- Recognising symptoms
- Assessment skills
- Understanding neurobiology
- Attachment theory
- Object relation theory
- Promoting safety and stabilisation
- Trauma-focused interventions
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Secondary traumatic stress
- Promoting resilience
- Ethical considerations
