“Question, Silence, Statement, Encouraging noise, Facial Expression…”

Aims -

• To assist those who practice couples counselling in reflexive thought when they consider what might be a helpful therapeutic intervention for a couple.

Content -

• Discussion and consideration of psychodynamic and systemic interventions, their intention, their use, and their appropriateness when consideration a situation with a couple in counselling.
• What is the intervention meant to achieve?
• What do I want the couple to notice that might help them?
• How do I judge if what I want them to notice is what they might need to help them?
• Circular questions: having delivered one, how do I use the new information gained to help me create the next one?
• Which interventions are better than others toward a particular purpose?
• Nothing I’ve said appears to have helped – what now?

Note – whilst this workshop is intended for qualified couples counsellors, counsellors who are familiar with psychodynamic and systemic therapy and who are considering training as a couples counsellor may find this workshop of interest.

Trainers:

Sue Esau.

Originally trained by Relate, for whom she still works, Sue has been in couples practice as a therapist, supervisor and trainer, for 25 years.

Course Delivery

Registration.

To book your place, either print off the booking slip below and send it with your money (cheque made payable to Chichester Counselling Services), or pay by cash in person at our office (find us).

Related posts:

1. Client Assessment Training 5 November – 3 December 2011
2. Diploma & Certificate in Couples Counselling

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How we can help you:

Counselling is an effective way of helping people in a safe confidential manner.  People seeking help can examine their deeper feelings and discover for themselves new outlooks on life, and be assisted to make difficult choices for themselves.  It can also result in discovery of new and different ways of responding to the pressures of day to day living and the manner in which personal relationships work.

Our service offers:

• A prompt initial appointment
• Counselling on a weekly basis in Chichester in a secure, confidential setting
  • The counselling will be either open-ended where no fixed date is set for ending the counselling
  • or brief/time-limited where we agree together to a fixed number of sessions – usually 6 or to 12
  • or Couple Counselling – open ended or brief
  • Counselling at a reasonable cost, depending upon financial circumstances – no one is denied help because of lack of money
  • Professional psychodynamic counselling for individuals and systemic & psychodynamic counselling for couples
  • A team of trained counsellors or counsellors in training working under regular and professional supervision
  • People thinking about counselling may be:

Coming to Counselling:

As a first step, make an appointment to come along and meet an experienced counselling assessor.  They will listen to what you are wanting and can tell you about the resources that CCS can offer.  Regular sessions can be agreed with a selected counsellor.  These are arranged on a mutually convenient weekly basis and may be held during the day, or the evening.

Just call our office on 01243 789200 to book an initial consultation.

Counselling Contributions.

CCS relies on client contributions and fund-raising in order to provide its service.   Some of our services are charged at full-cost.   For our standard counselling service, we ask that clients consider a contribution of between £15 and £60 per session.  As a charity, however, we undertake to provide this service to all clients, regardless of their ability to pay, or willingness to make a donation.   As client donations are voluntary, they may be eligible for Gift-Aid.

Contracts with employers.

CCS works with employers and health insurance companies to provide counselling for their employees or clients (contact us to discuss).  CCS also welcomes NHS and Social Services funding for individual clients.

Related posts:

1. CCS Introduces Couple Counselling
2. CCS Introduces Brief Therapy

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(These details are for 2009-2010)

This course is for BACP Accredited Counsellors.

Aims: CCS’ Couple Counselling training aims to develop students in four areas:  Skills, Theory, Ethical considerations & Reflexive practice.

Content: An integration of psychodynamic understanding with systemic intervention covering: Communication, Management of conflict, Couple fit, Separation, Divorce & Sexual relationships.

Time: 6 hours per day, Saturday and Sunday on the 1st weekend of every month,except Bank Holiday weekends – marked * below.

Trainers
Course leader Sue Esau: Originally trained by Relate, for whom she still works, Sue has been in couples practice as a therapist, supervisor and trainer, for 25 years.

Cost
Members of CCS: £1,795, others: £1,990.

To receive further information:

• Register your details in the short course catalogue (click here),
• send us an email (click here),
• Telephone: 01243 789200,
• or write to us:
  Chichester Counselling Services,
  32 Little London,
  Chichester,
  PO19 1PL.

Related posts:

1. CPD: Couples Counselling – Sat 6 November, 2010 – ‘1,001 Interventions’
2. CCS Introduces Couple Counselling
3. Certificate in Psychodynamic Counselling Skills/Theory

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Chichester Counselling Services offer a couple counselling service. This service is staffed by experienced counsellors qualified to diploma level, most of whom are professionally recognised through British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy accreditation.

Our staff have added to their qualifications & experience in individual therapy by attending a fifteen month training in couple therapy. Our training is informed by both psychodynamic and systemic thinkings – tried and tested methodologies that stem back to 1970s family therapy thinking.

How to begin couple counselling with us.

Click to Contact us.

When you make contact with us we will ask for your availability.  We will try to offer you an initial assessment which matches your availability – but we ask you to be as flexible as possible.

The assessment begins with an initial appointment lasting fifty minutes where you both meet the counsellor together. During this time the counsellor will learn about your couple difficulties, you will get to experience how the counsellor works with you, and both you, your partner and the counsellor will get to understand and discuss if this therapy is right for you at this time.

If, after this session, all are agreeable, the counsellor may ask to meet with each individual separately in subsequent sessions in order to learn each individual’s points of view about the relationship … and also their individual history. Finally, the counsellor will meet with the couple again for everyone to discuss what they believe should be the focus of the counselling work, having gained some insight into the relationship during the assessment process.

If we cannot help we will do our best to refer to an agency/individual who can.

What could couple counselling help with?

Couple counselling helps with:-

• communication,
• present life events (eg children – including first babies & teenagers, retirement, job loss/change),
• ageing parents,
• impact of employment/unemployment,
• sexual difficulties,
• domestic abuse / violence,
• separation/divorce,
• step families,
• impact of childhood events,
• illness,
• bereavement

…and many other aspects of difficulties on couple relationships.

Make an appointment.

Ring us on 01243 789200 or email us today to book your “couple counselling” assessment appointment.

Related posts:

1. CCS Introduces Brief Therapy
2. Our Counselling Service
3. What is counselling?