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Openforwards: Counselling Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) Birmingham

Birmingham City-Centre Psychology Service offering Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), ACT, EMDR and Compassion-focused Therapy, professional training and well-being consultancy.

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Looking to organise some training that can bring your team together?

Limited by a low training budget for psychology?

This workshop will give your team of mental health professionals a safe place to reflect together. Guided by an approach grounded in Contextual Behavioural Science (CBS) and process-based CBT, you’ll get to explore useful ways of enhancing your professional successes and personal well-being.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has a history of self-practice and self-reflection, which encourages the therapist to live the model. You’ll be taught several useful tools that will show you how to identify your strengths and learn from common mistakes.

You’ll get to identify:

  • Areas you typically get stuck
  • Unhelpful tendencies you adopt in those situations
  • What not to focus on when trying to improve your practice
  • Your Strengths and relative weaknesses in the Cycle of Caring
  • An experiential method for building perspective-taking and self-compassion
  • The purposes that matter to you most in both your professional and personal lives

The Demanding Context of a being a Professional Helper

When working in a helping role, it is easy to lose connection with your own needs. This puts you at increased risk of stress, compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatisation and burnout. Many causes of stress are environmental and outside of your direct control. Whilst it is important to address organisational sources of stress, this workshop will focus primarily on ways you can directly improve you individual psychological well-being.

Your Trainer

Jim Lucas

BABCP ACCTD. cbt pRACTITIONER & sUPERVISOR

Jim works is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He has taught 100s of therapists in the theory and application of CBT and ACT. He has a specific interest in burnout prevention and using simple-effective tools you can use in during a busy working day.

In this workshop, you can expect a blend of theory, practical exercises and experiential methods. This is to help you:

Get a solid grasp of the purposes behind the tools, reflect individually and learn from others in the group and, develop new skills you can use for your self and with your clients.

What people are saying…

Jim Lucas…had clearly put considerable effort into preparing this and in tailoring it to our needs… we enjoyed the training and found it helpful, in particular…you did a great job of creating a safe space for reflection and balanced this with the more didactic elements of the presentation.

jim geekie
Consultant Clinical Psychologist (NHS Midlothian) and Clinical Tutor (NHS Education Scotland / University of Edinburgh)

Who is this workshop suitable for?

This workshop will be useful to any mental health professional who uses therapy-informed approaches in their clinical practice. Specifically designed for teams, any IAPT, secondary or psychology service will benefit hugely from the opportunities to reflect together on your own strengths and relative weaknesses. Both experienced practitioners and trainees will get the chance to reflect in a safe space with the close guidance of the trainer.

How much does it cost?

This 1-day workshop is priced at £850.00*. To arrange an informal telephone call to discuss this for your team or to email me, please fill out the attached form.

*Plus all necessary travel and accommodation expenses.

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What not to expect

This workshop will not point out obvious self-care strategies. We know that you know what makes you feel better.

Instead of seeing work-life and personal-life as two completely distinct areas of your life, you’ll discover a thread between the two. Rather than discussing how to manage a work-life balance, you’ll identify in detail what you care about most deeply and how to use this as a focus in your clinical practice.

You will not be asked to participate in pointless team-building exercises. Each section of the day has a carefully chosen purpose. And that purpose is to help you learn something new and useful that you can use with your clients, together with your peers and for yourself.

If you’re looking for a stimulating training workshop that gives your team a chance to develop routine reflective practices, better self-care and stronger professional relationships, then get in touch.

Priced at just £850.00*

* Plus, all necessary travel and accommodation expenses

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