Psychotherapy and Counselling: Reflections on Practice provides a balance of engaging and in-depth stories and case studies from the inside of therapy. Representing the key practice modality sections of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia, the book explores examples from a range of therapeutic practices, grounded in the theoretical and evidence frameworks of the modality or approach and supported by clear and authoritative commentary. ... Details
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The PACFA Counselling and Psychotherapy brochure is available exclusively to PACFA Clinical and Provisional Members. Members can include their own stamp or sticker with contact details, on the back of each brochure, to help promote their services.
Brochures are sold at cost price and the price includes postage and handling.
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The PACFA Counselling and Psychotherapy brochure is available exclusively to PACFA Clinical and Provisional Members. Members can include their own stamp or sticker with contact details, on the back of each brochure, to help promote their services.
Brochures are sold at cost price and the price includes postage and handling.
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The PACFA Counselling and Psychotherapy brochure is available exclusively to PACFA Clinical and Provisional Members. Members can include their own stamp or sticker with contact details, on the back of each brochure, to help promote their services.
Brochures are sold at cost price and the price includes postage and handling.
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PACFA Webinar Recordings
College of counselling presents: Children's experiences of family violence: The most in need, the last to receive
In this webinar, Emma Hodges and Jane Parkinson will present on the practice issues in working with young children who have experienced DV/FV. Emma is a counsellor and researcher who is one of a handful of Infant Mental Health practitioners in Victoria specialised in supporting children 0-5 years living in refuge,... Details
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PACFA Webinar Recordings
ACRC presents: Working with Relationships in the context of the Death of a Child/ Young Person
This presentation will examine the additional strain, stress and complexity imposed on a relationship following the death of a child/young person. There will be an examination of the reasons for this, the common pitfalls that couples can fall into and things to be mindful of as practitioners in this field. Theoretical input about grief as... Details
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PACFA SA Presents: How to work with anxiety in the therapeutic space
COVID-19 has heightened and amplified the most common presentation in therapy: anxiety.
We are all coping with grappling the technology; delivering our services via phone and video link; the existential anxiety of what our future will look like and the loss of the co-regulation we all depend on with our family and friends.
Anxiety does not change the way it works, only what it attaches to. ... Details
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Elder abuse: When getting old gets dangerous, working with DV/FV in our ageing population
Presented by Dr Rosalie Hudson
The College of Counselling will be exploring Power and Control: What all counsellors need to know about domestic & family violence
Saturday June 20th 2020
Domestic and family violence perpetrated towards our senior population was exposed with the Royal commission into Aged care, which will provide its final... Details
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Thinking about Psychotherapy: Practice-Process and Praxis
This is the first session in the 2020 ACCAPE Webinar Series:
Integrating a philosophy of practice into Counselling and Psychotherapy accredited training: New controversies and new challenges in 2020.
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
—Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 1972
The first... Details
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PACFA Webinar Recordings
Over the time of running webinars about ethical practice two areas have repeatedly appeared as questions and issues that practitioners are concerned about. It is for this reason that we are focussing on these topics in this webinar.
Firstly, Boundaries - maintaining professional boundaries is integral to the and professional practice of therapy. It is also critical to the development of the therapeutic relationship between client... Details
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This webinar presented psycho-education, techniques and tools for therapists to work through, understand and therapeutically challenge resistance in clients.
Resistance during the therapeutic process is natural and common and can be presented in different ways. Understanding where the clients' resistance is coming from and being equipped with tools to work through it can be essential for a healthy therapeutic relationship. Although this is not just about the client, being... Details
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This webinar was organised by the LGBTQI+ Interest Group's Leadership Group as a part of their efforts in:
- elevating and increasing the visibility of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's voices and community wisdom in the domains of genders, bodies, sexualities, and kinship,
- challenging systemic racism and colonising practices within LGBTQI+ spaces, within the counselling and psychotherapy fields, and across the mental health sector, and
-... Details
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This professional development webinar will give you a practical and theoretical introduction to three Energy Psychology approaches and how they can be applied to treating emotional problems. A live via video demonstration of the techniques which utilise tapping on acupoints to bring emotional relief:
· Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
· Simple Energy Techniques (SET)
· Intention-based Energy Process (IEP), or Intention Tapping
Including research evidence,... Details
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An Existential Crisis is an event that challenges your entire life and turns everything upside down.
In this online event we shall consider what Existential Therapists and philosophers can offer to those in crisis. We shall look at the way in which people respond to crisis and how they can build their resilience in order to rise to the challenges put to them. This is as relevant to dealing with the impact of the pandemic as to dealing with other political, natural,... Details
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LBQ women form and find chosen families in innovative ways that reimagine family. This often helps them overcome marginalisation through entering the mainstream parenting community but can also create challenges for them as ground breakers. Ruth will discuss her personal, clinical and research-based insights into this dichotomy and how-to best support LBQ kinship as a health professional.
The focus of this webinar will be on LBQ women, including some LBQ women who also... Details
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Working for the NHS in a time-restrictive non-touch and goal-oriented environment for nearly 20 years, Courtenay will outline how he collaborates with patients from a somatic psychotherapy perspective and how this differs from how he engages with clients in a clinical practice outside of the NHS. Courtenay works from the perspective of being an embodied therapist, able to relate with patients and clients at a variety of different levels. He promotes pragmatically: ‘what works’ for... Details
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Racism is a barbaric form of genocide that only serves to enforce and perpetuate colonial violence. This genocide is enacted not only through physical violence, but also through administrative and social means, including through the actions of counsellors, psychotherapists, supervisors, and practitioner training programs. For generations, racism has continuously removed the freedom of my people. It eradicates and racialises peoples that are other than white. In our black lives,... Details
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PACFA QLD Webinar: The biosocial model of borderline personality disorder (BPD)
12/3/21
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is often described as a 'behavioural' problem - at times not even considered a 'true' mental illness. This presentation will describe the biosocial model of BPD which explains how the transaction of biological and environmental factors lead to a bona fide mental illness. Recent neurobiological findings will also be... Details
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Dadirri – Inner Deep Listening and Quiet Still Awareness
Working with Indigenous community members.
Realising the widespread impact of generational trauma for Indigenous Australians by exploring ‘history of place’.
Rebuilding connection to community, family and kin, country, culture, body-mind and spirit-spirituality through;
• Creating culturally safe environments.
• Finding and telling our stories.
• Making sense of the... Details
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GBKS Interest Group Presents:
Affirmative Practice: LGBTQI+ People and Forced Displacement
LGBTIQ+ people more broadly report much poorer mental health outcomes. For those who have been forcibly displaced those experiences are exacerbated by both the history of complex trauma and challenges in settlement experiences in Australia. despite the need to access mental health support, often LGBTIQ+ forcibly displaced people do not receive this support for a number of... Details
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PACFA NSW Webinar: Regulating the Client's Nervous System through Body Consciousness
Imagery has a long tradition in psychotherapy. Combined with somatic awareness, it is an artful tool that can be used to regulate and calm the nervous system, tracking sensations and internal experiences that lie within the deeper layers of consciousness within a client’s body. Building this connection creates a sense of empowerment for your clients that open doorways to healthier... Details
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Demystifying NDIS
Bianca from Warida Wholistic Wellness will help demystify NDIS so that you can get moving on operating a successful therapeutic business accessing NDIS participants.
Click Here to watch this video to see more about what will be discussed in this webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ljTiTYBIN0
Presenter:
Bianca Stawiarski
Founder and Managing Director of Warida Wholistic Wellness, Bianca... Details
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Eligible practitioners may apply for listing on the PACFA National Register as a PACFA Accredited Supervisor. PACFA Accredited Supervisors are Clinical Registrants whose practice includes the provision of professional supervision to counsellors and/or psychotherapists.
Pre-requisites to apply for listing as a PACFA Accredited Supervisor;
Before applying to become a PACFA Accredited Supervisor, a practitioner must be listed on the PACFA Register. Applicants... Details
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Purchase this insurance if you reside in ACT. This payment covers the insurance from January to June
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Purchase this insurance if you reside in NSW. This payment covers the insurance from January to June
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