For Health Professionals
With over twenty years experience Carrie shares her knowledge, experience and expertise with other like minded professionals. Workshops cover a variety of topics from specific mental health diagnosis and treatment, practice management, counselling skills, understanding mechanisms of motivation and change, and other health practitioner essentials. Look below for current workshops on offer.
Mental Health for Allied Health and Complementary
Medicine Practitioners (MHCM) Workshop
A great opportunity to fine tune and enhance your skills in working with clients with mental health issues.
- Clearly differentiate between high prevalence disorders (depression, anxiety, trauma and stressor related disorders)
- Delivering therapeutic psycho-education
- Maladaptive vs adaptive coping skills
- Working with self harm and suicide risk
- Developing self reflection skills to develop and refine your skills
- Setting appropriate boundaries while maintaining empathic responding
- Communicating with other health professionals around mental health issues
The focus will not be on applying CM principles to mental health symptoms. MHCM is up-skilling in Mental Health for Allied Health and CM Practitioners. However, depending on the event format – visiting representative may deliver information sessions on products.
(Numbers are limited to allow for experiential format)
Best suited to early career psychologists, counsellors and allied health professionals and complementary medicine practitioners.
NB: MHCM-Brief is a brief version of the full day MHCM-Foundation workshop. You still get lots of great content – but there is less time for practical skill development and interactive segments.
MHCM-Advanced is the advanced workshop involving furthering your understanding of a wide range of mental health presentations, as well as personality disorders. Completing MHCM-Foundation or MHCM-Brief is a prerequisite before completing MHCM-Advanced.
COMING SOON MHCM-Online. Register on the CONTACT page to be the first to be notified of specials and intakes for MHCM-Online.
Psychology and Complementary Medicine
Develop an understanding of how CM (Complementary Medicine) can be integrated with psychology practice (while staying within scope of practice). This course is for those who are curious about developing skills and referring to other CM providers.
With the growth of clients seeking support for their mental health concerns from a CM practitioners (close to 50% of presentations to CM practitioners are for mental health concerns) it is important for psychologist to have an understanding of CM principles and treatments. This workshop aims to provide psychologists with knowledge to be able to discuss treatment options and alternatives with clients, discussing advantages and disadvantages, and making appropriate referrals and working collaboratively the client’s preferred CM modality.
Develop a working knowledge of a wide range of CM modalities
Modes of CM that work well with psychology
Relevant literature about CM uses, benefits, limitations, and contraindications in mental health.
Current Research in Nutrition and Mental Health
Ethics and guidelines when working in this area
Resources and tools
Best suited to psychologists with an interest in CM modalities
NB: PCM-B is a brief version of the full day PCM workshop. You still get lots of great content – but there is less time for practical skill development and interactive segments.
Evidence in Creating Change and Outcomes (ECCO)
- Key factors in an effective therapeutic relationship
- Repairing relationships ruptures
- Setting boundaries and compassion fatigue
- Developing the therapists inner dialogue
- Essential counselling skills (client centred, listening and reflecting)
- What works (evidence based) when you want to create therapeutic movement
- Factors that assist in adherence to programs/treatment plans
(Numbers are limited to allow for experiential format)
NB: ECCO-B is a brief version of the full day ECCO workshop. You still get lots of great content – but there is less time for practical skill development and interactive segments.
Supervision
