Skills for Working with Clients

Motivational Interviewing: An Overview

Explore the fundamental skill set of Motivational Interviewing and learn how to assist people to engage in behaviour change.

Advanced Suicidal Ideation and Nonsuicidal Self-injurious Behaviour: Models and Strategies for Interventions

An advanced workshop for professionals with some level of training and experience in screening and managing youth and adults with self-injurious and suicidal behaviours.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Key DBT Skills for Helping Clients with Emotion Regulation

An introduction to Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and some of its key components. Develop an understanding of DBT skills and how they may be used in their daily practice with clients.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: The Skateboard Model for Children and Youth

Gain the knowledge and skills to use an evidence-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) model designed in a way that is fun and engaging for children and youth.

Motivational Interviewing: Evoking and Planning for Change

Further develop your Motivational Interviewing (MI) skill set with a focus on enhancing evoking and change talk.

An Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT is a transdiagnostic model and has an impressive body of research showing its efficacy across a range of disorders. This workshop will provide an introductory overview of the ACT model and its components. Participants will have an opportunity to practice and build skills over the day.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Applying DBT Informed Skills

This follow on workshop will focus on individual sessions and incorporating DBT skills as well as other DBT strategies into practice.

Trauma Informed Care: Providing Support to Children and Adolescents

Explore current research on trauma, including Complex Trauma, and the affects on development for children and adolescents.

Improving Client Interventions through Therapeutic Communication

This workshop introduces an advanced linguistic model which enables counsellors, therapists and helpers to conversationally assist healing and change in their clients.

Trauma Informed Care: Providing Safe and Effective Support to Adults

Explore current research on trauma, including vicarious trauma, and how this affects people’s everyday lives.

The Mental Health Intervention Web: Responding to Complex Issues

The Intervention Web presents an engaging exploration into the world of one individual in community care, who is experiencing complex impacts on their mental health and wellbeing. This workshop is suitable for anyone working in the mental health sector supporting people in residential care.

Understanding and Managing Change: Skills to Assist People

Explore perception, control and aims to develop your skills to help people navigate change.

Relapse Prevention and Growing Recovery Capital

This highly interactive, practical workshop explores the process and stages of relapse. Participants will apply theory to practice and case studies.

Physical Trauma and Psychological Distress: Creating a Paradigm of Care for Clinical Practice

An interactive introduction to Distress-Informed Care (DIC) involving the science behind trauma and distress associated with the acute and chronic stress response, along with simple guidelines for a variety of service provider and clinical practice backgrounds, followed by integration of the course content into a workshop involving hypothetical case studies.

Distress-Informed Care: The Science of Distress along with Guidelines for Service Providers and Clinicians

An interactive introduction to Distress-Informed Care (DIC) involving the science behind trauma and distress associated with the acute and chronic stress response, along with simple guidelines for a variety of service provider and clinical practice backgrounds, followed by integration of the course content into a workshop involving hypothetical case studies.

Distress-Informed Care: The Science of Distress along with Guidelines for Service Providers and Clinicians working with Māori

An interactive introduction to Distress-Informed Care (DIC) involving the science behind trauma and distress and how this relates to Māori, along with simple guidelines for a variety of service provider and clinical practice backgrounds relating to Māori, followed by integration of the course content into a workshop involving hypothetical case studies.

An In-Depth Review of the Whare Tapa Whā Model and Comparative Scientific Literature

An in-depth review of the four Pou of the Whare Tapa Whā Model involving Tinana, Hinengaro, Wairua, and Whānau, as well as the respective hierarchy of the four Pou.

Supporting Clients with Disordered Eating: Transforming Relationships with Food

This interactive workshop teaches participants the fundamental skills to recognise and treat disordered eating with clarity and confidence.

Enabling Equity Through Exploring Power and Privilege

Explore the dynamics of power and privilege in a safe, reflective and collaborative space. Reflect on your experience of disadvantage, discrimination and privilege.

Understanding the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury and Ways to Support Clients

Understand what traumatic brain injury (TBI) is, how it affects people, strategies to support them and how to access specialist services.

An Introduction to Working with People Who Have Sexually Harmed Others

This workshop will increase your skills and knowledge around supporting people who have engaged in sexual harm.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Understanding the Impact on Adult Mental Health and Pathways to Healing

Gain an insider’s view on the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma and develop effective ways to provide support.

Harnessing Hypnosis: Therapeutic Tools for Clinical Practice

Explore how to utilise hypnosis in your clinical practice as a method for mental and somatic therapeutic change.

Distress-Informed Care: The Science of Distress and Kaupapa for Providers

An introduction to Distress-Informed Care (DIC) involving the science and factors associated with the stress response, in addition to kaupapa for providers to assist in clinical application.

Understanding and Preventing Youth Suicide: Masterclass for Working with Youth

This comprehensive workshop aims to equip people working with youth with strategies and tools to effectively identify and address suicide risk in young people. Participants will gain a understanding of the factors contributing to youth suicide and learn evidence-based approaches to support young people in crisis.

Let’s Talk Concussion: Understanding the Effects of Concussion and Ways to Support People

Understand what concussion is, how if affects people and strategies for support.

Understanding School Avoidance and How to Re-engage Young People

Mastering Case Management: Balancing Structure, Integrity and Care

This workshop equips practitioners with structured, person-centred case management strategies to streamline complex clinical factors into clear, effective plans.