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SUMMARY:CHC81015 Graduate Diploma of Relationship Counselling - June 2026\, Online
DESCRIPTION:Enhance your counselling skills and work confidently with people experiencing complex relational issues.\nThis research and evidence informed course is designed for counsellors\, family support workers\, family and children’s contact workers\, or equivalent practitioners. It provides graduates with the practice theories\, skills and practical experience to work with a range of complex issues affecting relationships\, including family and domestic violence. \nWhy this course?\n\nBlended learning approach that incorporates self-paced modules\, online webinars\, a field trip\, work placements and placement seminars.\nResearch and evidence-based.\nInformed by over 75 years’ counselling experience.\nIncludes an organised\, fully-supported practical work placement.\nQualified and skilled facilitators are also practicising practitioners.\nAccredited with Family Safety Victoria in meeting the principles for Family Safety Practitioners\, and with the Australian Counselling Association.\n\nCourse dates\nIntroductory webinar \nOnline materials will also be available from this date. \n\n24 June 2026 from 2 – 4pm (Victorian local time)\n\nPractice workshops \nAll workshops will be delivered online from 9:30am – 4:30pm (Victorian local time) daily. Each workshop will be held over multiple days. \n\nWorkshop 1 – 29\, 30\, 31 July 2026\nWorkshop 2 – 4\, 5 November 2026\nWorkshop 3 – 3\, 4 February 2027\nWorkshop 4 – 21\, 22 April 2027\nWorkshop 5 – 26\, 27 May 2027\n\nIntroduction to placement webinar \n\n9 June 2027 from 2 – 4pm (Victorian local time)\n\nPlacement seminars \nAll seminars will be delivered online from 2 – 5pm (Victorian local time). \n\n18 August 2027\n15 September 2027\n13 October 2027\n10 November 2027\n8 December 2027\n\nGet started\nIf you’re ready to take the next step in your career\, enquire now via the button at the top of the page. \nYou can also contact us for more information: \n\nCall us (03) 8573 2222\nEmail us at ravtraining@rav.org.au\n\nRelationships Australia Victoria (RAV) is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO registration code 21977)\, providing nationally-recognised courses. Through our RTO\, RAV is regulated by ASQA\, and maintains its compliance with The 2025 Standards for Registered Training Organisations. \n
URL:https://frsa.org.au/event/chc81015-graduate-diploma-of-relationship-counselling-june-2026-online
LOCATION:Online\, Select a Country:
CATEGORIES:Professional Training
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ORGANIZER;CN="Relationships%20Australia%20Victoria":MAILTO:ravtraining@rav.org.au
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SUMMARY:Couples Counselling Course: A contemporary and client-focused approach
DESCRIPTION:Transform your work with couples and gain comprehensive knowledge and skills with our contemporary\, client-focused course.\nOur 12-week course is designed for counsellors who are new to working with couples\, and students and practitioners in related fields who want to enhance their couples counselling skills. \nIt offers an immersive journey into contemporary couples counselling theories and approaches\, with an emphasis on how this knowledge can enhance your counselling skills and deepen your relationships with clients. \nDiscover what sets our course apart\n\nResearch & evidence-based\nClient-focused content\nRelevant to contemporary Australia\nConvenient\, online delivery\nPractice-based seminars & workshops\nA hybrid delivery of interactive modules & self-paced learning\nInformed by more than 75 years of counselling service delivery\n\nContent and topics\n\nEstablished couples counselling theories and approaches in use in Australia today\nExtensive research and expert commentary on why particular approaches work well\nWays to enhance your therapeutic skills and apply new theories and competencies to your practice\nStrategies to support reflective practice\nCommon challenges that couples face\, such as infidelity\, communication difficulties\, life transitions\, conflicting use of social media\, avoidance patterns\, family violence and trauma\nEthical decision-making\nHow to support couples who are experiencing complex challenges\nHow couples’ emotional and sexual connection can be affected by identity including cultural diversity\, gender\, religion\, health\, disability and/or neurodiversity\nThe role and impact of single session consultations when working with couples\nHow to apply assessment processes and develop working formulations which consider couples’ unique narratives\, backgrounds and presenting dynamics\n\nGet started\nIf you’re ready to take the next step in your career\, register via the button at the top of the page\, or contact us for more information: \n\nCall us on (03) 8573 2222\nEmail us at ravtraining@rav.org.au\n\n
URL:https://frsa.org.au/event/couples-counselling-course-a-contemporary-and-client-focused-approach
LOCATION:Online\, Select a Country:
CATEGORIES:Professional Training
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SUMMARY:SYSTEMS AND STORIES
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nA Narrative Therapy Approach to Meaning Making and Change\nThis two-day workshop will provide participants with key skills in Narrative Practice including practical clinical skills that can be used immediately with individuals and families (children\, adolescents\, adults and older persons).  Participants will consider the relevance of Narrative Practice in their work setting\, and applications relating to the context of trauma\, relationships\, and grief and loss.  Participants will gain an understanding of the role of neuroscience in enhancing narrative practice and consider how to “tread lightly” but effectively with Narrative Practice. \nCourse Outline \nIn this course participants will develop an understanding of: \n\nWhat Narrative Therapy is\nThe Systemic Family Therapy context of Narrative Therapy\nAssumptions and systemic concepts underpinning Narrative Practice\nThe importance of stories in our own lives and the lives of those we work with\nTherapist positioning in Narrative Therapy\nHow applications of neuroscience can boost narrative practices and thicken preferred identities\n\nParticipants will develop skills in: \n\nDeconstruction\nExternalising Conversations\nReauthoring conversations\, including\n\nAbsent but Implicit Conversations\nUnique Outcomes Conversations\n\n\nThickening alternative storylines to amplify change\, including\n\nRemembering conversations\nOutsider witnessing\nTherapeutic documents\n\n\nWorking with the Landscape of Action and Landscape of Identity.\n\nPresented by: Dr Leonie White is a Psychologist and Clinical Family Therapist with over 20 years experience working with children\, adults\, families\, foster families\, residential care providers\, teachers and other therapists\, in Health\, Education\, and Child Protection Services as well as in the Non-Government sector and Private Practice. Currently Leonie provides psychotherapy and counselling with a special interest in Mental Health\, supporting young people and their families/carers with emotional\, behavioural\, social and family difficulties. Leonie also provides psychotherapy and counselling services for adults\, couples and families. Leonie specialises in providing Clinical Supervision to other helping professionals. Leonie is the Co-Director of the Queensland Institute of Family Therapy\, works in Private Practice (Supervision\, Group Supervision\, Training) and a member of Staff at the Queensland University of Technology. She is the author of the best selling Helping Families Thrive card set. \nAudience: for mental health and educational professionals at all levels & any professional that applies attachment theory and behavioural/developmental/neuro-science to their practice. \nMental Health Professionals: All mental health professionals including\, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors\, Psychologists\, Psychotherapists\, Psychiatrists\, Social Workers\, Nurses\, Occupational Therapists\, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers\, Youth Workers\, Mental Health Workers\, Addiction Specialists\, Marital & Family Therapists\, Child Protection and Disability Workers\, Guidance Officers\, Speech and Language Therapists\, Residential Care Workers and Foster Support Workers\, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants\, General Practitioners\, and all other mental health professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills. \nEducation Professionals: Professionals who work with children or youth including\, but not limited to K–12 School Counsellors\, School Paraprofessionals and all other professionals who support behavioural challenges and complex learning needs. \nCredit for Recognised Prior Learning: Interested in working towards becoming a family therapist? Systems and Stories is a credited workshop of Recognised Prior Learning with the Family Systems Institute as part of its training programs in family therapy. For more information go to www.thefsi.com.au \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://frsa.org.au/event/systems-and-stories
LOCATION:The Glen Hotel\, 24 Gaskell Street\, EIGHT MILE PLAINS\, QLD\, 4113\, Australia
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