Hope Psychological Services CIC - Counselling & Training

11/01/2022

Dates now set for our next Introduction to Counselling Skills course - fully online and interactive - April - July 2022, Saturday mornings via Zoom - increase your skills at work/community or start your counselling career. See website for more details.

This course will enable you to begin to apply a range of counselling skills to your own work setting and provide you with a firm foundation should you wish to progress onto further study and to develop a career in counselling

31/12/2021

Level 5 Supervision Training for counsellors and allied professionals - February to November 2022. Course format is 3 attended weekends and monday evening online sessions - BACP compliant, accredited with OCN, instalments available. See website for full details https://www.hopetraining.org/l5supervisioncourse

30/11/2021

Dates now set for our next Introduction to Counselling Skills course - fully online and interactive - April - July 2022, Saturday mornings via Zoom - increase your skills at work/community or start your counselling career. See website for more details.

This course will enable you to begin to apply a range of counselling skills to your own work setting and provide you with a firm foundation should you wish to progress onto further study and to develop a career in counselling

22/07/2021

Online Level 4 Certificate & Diploma in Counselling starting September with attended practice days. Increase your skills and work towards accreditation. Instalments available, See website for details. https://www.hopetraining.org/l4certficateincounselling

06/07/2021

https://www.hopetraining.org/post/stupid

Instinctively we know that ‘stupid’ isn’t a word to use to build others up, so why do we use it on ourselves? In a recent class I taught , someone said that they felt ‘stupid’ about something . I was impacted to the point that I dreamt about it that night. In the dream my student argued wi...

05/07/2021

Wanting to continue your counselling skills journey and head towards accreditation? Our level 4 (1 year) Certificate if Counselling could be for you! Weekly online and 6 Saturdays in Carlisle. See website for details. Closing date 31 July!

If you use counselling skills regularly as part of your role this Nationally recognised qualification will enable you to enhance those skills, increase knowledge and provide a stepping stone to those wishing to pursue a career in counselling.

29/03/2021

https://www.hopetraining.org/post/helping

How can we help without rescuing or fixing? I was having a chat to my friend Wendy this morning – she is a marvellous help. I think ‘helping out’ is in the very fabric of her being and she does it so well and so cheerfully that her help lifts the spirit. We were chatting about an instance wher...

22/03/2021

We are very excited to be starting our 2 year Diploma in Counselling - April 24th - in person and online interactive sessions - still a few places available. See website for full details:

This Nationally recognised qualification will qualify you to gain entry on the BACP register and start working towards accreditation.

19/03/2021

Our online (zoom) interactive L3 Foundation Skills in Counselling is running again - starts April 24th - 10 Saturday sessions (mostly mornings). Considering a new direction? want to enhance your skills and help people? This could be for you. Accredited with OCNWMR - £365 or 3 interest free payments of £91.25 + Deposit. See wesbite for full details and booking form.

This course will enable you to begin to apply a range of counselling skills to your own work setting and provide you with a firm foundation should you wish to progress onto further study and to develop a career in counselling

04/03/2021

Let’s not ever take the importance of 'presence' for granted again...

Let’s not ever take the importance of presence for granted again Many of us are considering aspects of ‘presence’ which we have taken for granted until this pandemic. The fact is that we are physical beings – living in bodies. We are not designed as solitary creatures, we are social and even...

15/01/2021

https://www.hopetraining.org/post/gratitude

There are some terrible things happening at the moment but actually I still have a lot to be grateful for…. There is plenty to gripe about at the moment! Plenty to criticise … plenty of fear, plenty of anger sorrow and loss. Plenty of conspiracy theories. Plenty of opposing political and social ...

12/01/2021

Recognising Su***de and Self Harm Risks online Training - starts Tuesday 26 Jan (2 evenings & Saturday). 5 key topics (Risk assessment, Management of risks, Hope Enhancer, Problem Solving and Maintaining Progress) - includes skills practice in a safe environment. See website for details: https://www.hopetraining.org/events-1/recognising-suicide-and-self-harm-risks-26-28-30-jan-2021-tuesday-thursday-evening-saturday accredited with Open College Network

On this course we offer 5 practical tools to work with those who are suicidal: Risk Assessment, Management of Risks, Hope Enhancer, Problem Solving and Maintaining Progress – each is presented with a demonstration and skills practice sessions