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Foundation training in Contemporary Psychotherapy incorporating NLP Practitioner

Central London

 

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Normal: £2,700inc.VAT

With Discount: £2,500

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Intermediate training in Contemporary Psychotherapy incorporating NLP Master Practitioner

Central London

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Normal: £2,700inc.VAT

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Diploma in Contemporary Psychotherapy

Central London

Rolling Programme

 

Length of training dependent on previous qualifications/experience

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Advanced Diploma in Contemporary Psychotherapy

Central London

Rolling Programme

Length of training dependent on previous qualifications/experience

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Wider Mind: Ericksonian Hypno-Psychotherapy in Practice

Central London

20th - 24th  October 2008

 

5 days

Normal: £599inc.VAT

With Early Bird Discount (deadline 29th September): £550inc.VAT

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Working Successfully with Addictions

Central London

6th - 10th April 2009

 

5 days

Normal: £599inc.VAT

With early Bird Discount (deadline 6th March 2009): £550inc.VAT

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Psychopathology in Psychotherapeutic Practice

Central London

31st October -

 2nd November 2008

 

3 days

Normal: £350inc.VAT

With Early Bird Discount (deadline 30th  September): £330inc.VAT

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Ethical Practice

Central London

14th - 16th March 2008

 

3 days

Normal: £350inc.VAT

With Early Bird Discount (deadline 14th February): £330inc.VAT

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Human Development

Central London

27th - 29th June 2008

 

3 days

Normal: £350inc.VAT

With Early Bird Discount (deadline 27th May): £330inc.VAT

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Comparative Psychotherapy & Clinical Practice

Central London & Self-study

Rolling Programme

 

New intake from January to August

24 months part-time

Normal: £990inc.VAT

With one off payment discount: £950inc.VAT

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Introduction to Postgraduate Research Design

Central London 

4th - 5th October 2008

6th December 2008.

(3 days) 

 

Normal: £450inc.VAT

With Early Bird Discount (deadline 4th September): £400inc.VAT

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The Art and Science

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Therapeutic Storytelling

Central London

6th - 7th September

 

2 days

Normal: £280inc.VAT

With Early Bird Discount (deadline 6th August): £250inc.VAT

CCP MEMBERS: £200inc.VAT

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FOUNDATION CERTIFICATION IN CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY INCORPORATING NLP PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION 

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Whatever your background and level of 'expertise' this training will provide you with invaluable communication and facilitation skills that can be transferred to any environment. This course forms part of the BeeLeaf Advanced Diploma in Contemporary Psychotherapy and may also be attended as a stand alone training.

 

'Everything I learnt on this training far exceeded my expectations. This course has changed my life! I am a fuller and more rounded person than I was before and I know that I have so many capabilities and talents that I never thought I had. Thank you BeeLeaf!'

Sofie Cadwallader, Alcohol Support Worker

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'Structure, pace, resources, learning systemically and gaining more than just patterns and techniques has been fantastic.'

Catherine Wright, Marketing Manager, 'Epilepsy Action'

'The pace and opportunities to absorb material were ample. Unlike most other courses I have taken on, with the BeeLeaf Foundation training I really enjoyed the process of learning - I had fun and felt inspired doing so. There's a good balance between profound, inspiring work and light hearted fun. Thank you!'

Laira Armstrong, Trainee Psychotherapist (former Investment Banker)

 

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 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Learn how to facilitate ecological, client generated process with far greater effectiveness.
  • Access natural, undiscovered creativity and problem solving strategies.
  • Discover how we create experience of life, through editing our sensory perceptions.
  • Acquire more refined skills in outcome-oriented assessment.Hone your senses to fine-tune your awareness of all types of communication.
  • Understand how your mind owns, creates and responds to the past and the future.
  • Optimise verbal and non-verbal communication.
  • Be able to establish authentic natural rapport with all kinds of people, and strengthen therapeutic alliance and appropriate boundaries.
  • Generate confidence and resourcefulness, even within challenging environments.
  • Develop ways to become free of unwanted habits and introduce positive habits.
  • Cultivate and manage positive emotional and mental states.
  • Observe, promote and utilise dynamic changes in awareness for access to greater inner resources, sometimes called “non-authoritarian hypnosis”.
  • Learn how to identify more accurately what motivates individuals, families and organisations.
  • Learn how to avoid collusion with problem patterns of communication.  
  • Understand how to resolve conflict, internally, in relationships and within groups.
  • Enjoy the art of Ericksonian Hypno -Psychotherapy.
  • Learn how to release emotion safely and easily.
  • Learn from the brilliance of yourself and others.
  • Gain a recognised qualification.
  • Take a step on the path to becoming an Accredited Psychotherapist.

DATES

10 weekends (Sat/Sun)

 

12/13  April 2008

10/11 May 2008

7/8 June 2008

12/13 July 2008

Break for August 2008

13/14 September 2008

11/12 October 2008

15/16 November 2008

Break for December 2008

10/11 January 2009

7/8 February 2009

14/15 March 2009


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INTERMEDIATE CERTIFICATION IN CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY INCORPORATING NLP MASTER PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

You may wish to consider this course if you have already achieved NLP Practitioner Certification or you hold a recognised Diploma in Hypnotherapy and you are wanting to further develop your skills at Master Practitioner level AND combine these skills with in-depth psychotherapy training.

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'This was the most powerful learning experience I have had in my life. I found the course content perfect to nourish and enrich my own therapeutic practice'

Margaret Breen, Therapist

'The hands on element of this course and the opportunity to practice and apply have been so useful! Fun, inspiring and moving. Thank you BeeLeaf!'

Wajih Sheikh, Counsellor

 

 

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 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Recognise and utilise the distinct cognitive and emotional processes that make up the structure of both your Client’s problems and their problem solving abilities.
  • Work with your Client to develop their relationship to their past, to transform pain and harvest wisdom.
  • Engage your Client in learning the specific life-skills that empower them to strategically address the current issues they face, whether these come from within or from environmental influences.
  • Embrace the human self-balancing system of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual forces that combine towards recovery as a natural process.Facilitate organically – by responding to your Client’s beliefs, values, resources and experiences that make their recovery path unique to them.
  • Master dynamic linguistic skills that help to unlock the matrices of a problem and create new possibilities for change.
  • Acknowledge and enhance the multi-level communication that occurs ‘consciously’ and ‘unconsciously’, within an individual and within all relationships, including the sensitive rapport that is the therapeutic alliance.
  • Enable your Client to make use of their natural and cyclical states of changing awareness that supports different kinds of thinking, understanding and healing.
  • Apply these processes to your own life and development, in a warm, active and creative environment, supporting the unique facilitator and human being that you are.Gain a recognised qualification.

DATES 

10 weekends (Sat/Sun)

 

27/28 September 2008

25/26 October 2008

29/30 November 2008

13/14 December 2008

24/25 January 2009

21/22 February 2009

28/29 March 2009

25/26 April 2009

30/31 May 2009

27/28 June 2009

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THE DIPLOMA & ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOTHERAPY

The Diploma Programme is ongoing and is made up of various modules of training and clinical practice as follows:

  • Foundation Certification in Contemporary Psychotherapy incorporating NLP Practitioner Certification (2 Certificates)

  • Intermediate Certification in Contemporary Psychotherapy incorporating NLP Master Practitioner Certification (2 Certificates)

  • Ethical Practice

  • Clinical Practice and Comparative Psychotherapy

  • Wider Mind; Ericksonian Hypno-Psychotherapy in Practice

  • Working Successfully with Addictions

  • Psychopathology

  • Research Methods (for Advanced Diploma leading to Accreditation and UKCP Registration)

  • Human Development and Sexuality (or Advanced Diploma leading to Accreditation and UKCP Registration)

     'On a personal level, the last few years have been the fullest and most challenging of my life. I have changed career, had 3 children and am working pretty much full time as a Psychotherapist. (I mention this simply to encourage anyone who is thinking of going for Accreditation as part of a career change)...It seemed like a daunting journey when I started the whole process but I have been well supported by the BeeLeaf Team. There have been times when I needed help and this has always been available... Although I know I have a lifetime of learning ahead, achieving Accreditation is a very satisfactory step to take. I hope your experience will be as interesting and rewarding as mine.'

Andy Flack, BeeLeaf Graduate and UKCP Registered Psychotherapist

 

To view a diagram showing the BeeLeaf Route to UKCP Registration as a Psychotherapist, click HERE.

 

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WIDER MIND: ERICKSONIAN HYPNO-PSYCHOTHERAPY IN PRACTICE

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This training is for qualified or trainee Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Hypnotherapists and Mental Health Professionals.

'Pam is a magnificent Trainer. She creates stimulating learning experiences by sharing her considerable passion and knowledge with humour, sincerity and dedication. It’s as though what I’ve learnt has lodged deep inside the fibres of my being – experience it to believe it!'

Nikki Townsend, Psychotherapist

 'The pace was fantastic. Thank you so much for an enriching and stimulating week - so uplifting and refreshing. Lodged deep inside the fibres of my being – experience it to believe it!'

Steph Corrin-Pendry, Counselling Psychologist

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  WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • On this beautifully designed training, you will learn through experience of your own naturally occurring, rhythmic states of wider internal awareness. Clear and cogent theory will interconnect with personal creativity to liberate you to communicate even more authentically and effectively with the whole person of the client.
  • Explore the relationship between “conscious” and “unconscious” mind that is at the heart of all therapeutic process.
  • Understand “symptoms” of distress as communication within a self-balancing organism that seeks well-being.
  • Embrace “resistance” as a natural and healthy force that demonstrates  your client’s autonomy and uniqueness.
  • Align with the client’s internal “ecology” so that their process of change is organic and self-motivated.
  • Learn a new relationship with language that better reflects our internal linguistic processes so that conversation can become a dynamic tool to facilitate change.
  • Examine a new analysis of Dr. Milton H. Erickson’s cognitive behavioural approach that demystifies his apparently “magical” interventions and tasks.
  • Experience your voice, body and emotional state as undeniably influential factors in the therapeutic encounter and discipline your influence with respectful, humane boundaries.
  • Differentiate the linguistic transactions of validation, permission, suggestion and instruction and become aware of their presence in the therapeutic allegiance.
  • Utilise metaphor and storytelling for powerful effect as client’s reshape their identity and belief systems.
  • Practice the skills of observing, utilising and maintaining the naturally occurring altered  state of “hypnosis” or “trance”.
  • Celebrate your client’s own imagination as one of their key resources in healing and beneficial change.
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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PRACTICE

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This seminar is for Professionals and Trainees working in the field of Psychotherapy & Counselling who wish to practice psychotherapy responsibly, and with respect for the diversity of individuals who may present for treatment. This brief and inspiring study will heighten your awareness of the wider mental health community and your role within it. 

 

'A comprehensive training that was easy to understand. The Trainer was very knowledgeable about mental health theory and practice.'

Salmah Cheeroo, Therapist

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  •  Madness, Meanings and Maps - A History of Mental Health Perception
  • Reality, Normality and Individuality - When and How does Difference become Difficulty?
  • Theories and models of psychopathology centred around DSM-IV categories
  • Elements of psychopharmacology – drugs commonly used in treatment
  • The relationships of the above to the practice of Hypnotherapy, NLP and Contemporary Psychotherapy
  • Recognising when individuals are severely disturbed and outside of limitations of own practice
  • Working in co-operation with other healthcare professionals
  • Protocols for working with clients with exceptional needs - Life and Death Issues
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ETHICAL PRACTICE

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This fascinating course provides a safe environment in which to explore the ethical and practical basics of practice in psychotherapy. Attendance is recommended even if you are only using your psychotherapy & NLP skills in an occasional manner or as part of another professional application. Attendance is considered essential if you are intending or have already begun to practice.

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Management of Therapeutic Relationship
  • Awareness of Self and Boundaries
  • Case Management, from Assessment to Termination
  • Note-Keeping and Confidentiality
  • Dealing with Difficult Situations and Cases
  • Use of Supervision and Supervision Monitoring
  • Practice Log
  • Contracting
  • Ethical Codes as Exercised Moral Muscle
  • Management of Own Learning and Challenges
  • Understanding your Personal Support System and Professional Network
  • Practice Management and Development
  • Awareness of Own Limitations
  • Self-Modelling of Your Emerging Clinical Identity and Process

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WORKING SUCCESSFULLY WITH ADDICTIONS

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This training is for Professionals and Trainees wanting to enrich their current knowledge, understanding and skills in their work with addictions and dependency issues.  

‘This is certainly one of, or even the best training I have attended on addiction and generally...very professional, very informative, well thought out and presented and very enjoyable.'
JUDITH STRAUS, COUNSELLOR

‘Practical, inspirational and thorough framework for thinking about addiction & recovery - thank you.'
MABEL KING, CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN

‘Good solid theory presented very well. Safe place to experience new learning. Fabulous informative take home Training Manual.'
IRENE MILLS, PSYCHOTHERAPIST

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

In a highly experiential training, you will learn a tried and tested Contemporary model that unifies the main psychotherapeutic approaches, as diverse as Counselling, CBT, 12 Step and Motivational Interviewing, into the core conceptual and intervention commonalities that support recovery from substance addiction (drugs and alcohol) and process dependency, (such as sex and gambling). The training explores these applications in both group and individual therapy settings and the therapist's role in the dependency matrix.

  • Practice active methods for transforming dependency conditions.
  • Follow case histories to uncover the various roads to recovery
  • Activate resources for liberation from co-dependent relationships
  • Assist Individuals to regain and sustain a genuine quality of life
  • Identify your role in dependency and recovery
  • Learn that recovery is possible and highly likely when people learn how
  • Recognise when a dependency issue is primary to a person's difficulties
  • Understand the nature of the problem
  • Demystify the structure of addictive process and recognise its pattern at numerous levels of Emotional, Cognitive, Spiritual and Behavioural Systems
  • Develop a special rapport of compassion and challenge with the inner experience of the ‘addict'
  • The influence of relationships in dependency and recovery
  • Understand relapse and relapse prevention
  • Explore a new and useful approach to addictive patterns and personality development

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND SEXUALITY

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This seminar is for Professionals and Trainees working in the field of Psychotherapy & Counselling who want to progress their understanding of the development of the human species from infancy to old age.  

‘Enlightening, informative and well delivered. I would highly recommend it for opening your eyes in the subject of Human Developemnt.'
LOU LEBENTZ, ADDICTIONS THERAPIST

‘This was a most stimulating and satisfactory mixture of theory, professional application and personal insight. This was a superb 3 days - smooth and engaging delivery and a profound learning experience.'

PETER SHARPE, CJIT DRUGS WORKER

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • You will gain a knowledge and understanding of the various theories of Human Development and Sexuality and how they may inform your psychotherapeutic practice for better results
  • You will be able to respectfully and relevantly model your client’s development and, where in line with the client’s outcome frame, design interventions to help the client develop more awareness and autonomy in their continuing process of growth
  • You will be able to more confidently engage in issues of sex and sexuality as they arise in clinical practice, addressing aspects such as identity, language, inclusion, belonging, internalized prejudice and ontological security from Development and Social Influence perspectives
  • You will be invited to reflect upon your course of development and the positive and negative influences that can inform and influence your psychotherapeutic practice
  • You will gain an awareness of when a client may have experienced an arrest or dysfunction in any particular aspect of human development, and be able to support them in both remedial and generative change in this area, and with greatest positive impact on the wider ecology of their outcome work
  • You will have the opportunity to consolidate your learning by writing a 2-3000 word piece in response to an inspiring exploration of this material. (This written work is a requirement for award of the BeeLeaf Advanced Diploma and UKCP Accreditation)

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COMPARATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This is the over-arching 24-month module of the Diploma in Contemporary Psychotherapy that spans your transition from trainee to professional Psychotherapist. This is a module that works at levels of spirit and identity by opening up your accumulated training to its practical interface with the world that you live in. A component of the four-year route to Accreditation, it involves convenient distance-learning components, accompanied by monitoring of your Clinical Supervision and Practice Hours. There is for 2008 an additional optional 3 days of face-to-face training with two internationally acclaimed trainers, Judith DeLozier and Judith Lowe who are renowned specialists in the utilisation of systemic NLP for integration of personal and social change.

All-in-all, this module is what so many graduates of psychotherapy and counselling training crave - a genuinely supportive, practical and systemic process of taking your passion and skill from training room to thriving professional practice. 

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

During the Clinical Practice and Comparative Psychotherapy Module, you will enjoy engrossing study that draws parallels and contrasts between different models of psychotherapy, consolidating your appreciation of these in a way that enhances your clinical application and flexibility. You will also take self-selected steps towards joining the wider environment of professional psychotherapy, identifying from a range of options your best actions towards professional practice - or development and recognition of your existing practice. These may range from voluntary placement, private practice to creating a new psychotherapeutic service, depending on where you are and where you want to get to.

A fully comprehensive manual, including guidelines, required paperwork, networking ideas, success stories and personal development practices (for those inevitable challenges), will guide you through the processes of starting your practice off on the right foot. Access to personal ongoing mentoring and a wide network of similar people will insure that you have the necessary support for continuing development that comes from connection to others. This invaluable, multi-modal learning experience will serve you for many years to come.


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  • Choosing the right path for you in your Practice of Psychotherapy
  • First and Continuing Steps in Practice Development
  • Connecting with the right kind of Client for your level of Expertise and Specialist Interests
  • How to find, interview, select and contract an appropriate Clinical Supervisor
  • Managing Case Studies for the purpose of monitoring, modelling and research
  • Learning from others’ successes and avoiding the pitfalls of setting up in Practice
  • Monitoring Protocols for establishing a Clinical Log for Professional Registration•
  • Using your Psychotherapy skills for your own self-care
  • Inspiring study and consolidation of Comparative Psychotherapy in Application
  • Self-modelling for your own model development
  • The power of networking, connecting with others to make things happen
  • Uniting Personal and Career Growth into a cogent Professional Identity
  • Attending to the “Business” of practice
  • Accessing Organisations and Services
  • Taking your vision into action
  • Connecting your mission with genuine social need and conditions for change 

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INTRODUCTION TO POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH DESIGN 

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This module is A required component for Students enrolled on the BeeLeaf Diploma & Advanced Diploma in Contemporary Psychotherapy andf attendance is recommended after a minimum of one year of psychotherapy training. This module may also be attended by all Psychotherapists needing to add Research Methods to their professional repertoire. 

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Establish a broad foundation in research methodology for psychotherapists
  • Build your confidence and experience in the practice of research
  • Develop knowledge and skills in support of later dissertation work
  • Rehearse project management of dissertation work
  • Develop a critical and creative research mindedness


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THE ART AND SCIENCE OF THERAPEUTIC STORYTELLING

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This module is for Psychotherapists, Hypnotherapists, Counsellors, Coaches, Complementary Practitioners and Facilitators.

‘Lots of good ideas and techniques. Great to be with Pam walking the talk.'

MO SHAPIRO

‘Structured, flexible and spontaneous...you came highly recommended and I will now highly recommend you to others'

CAROL THOMPSON

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

On this highly experiential training you will learn how to...

  • Deepen your rapport with your client
  • Stimulate your client's natural healing resources
  • Offer solution strategies in a non-directive, client evaluated exchange
  • Naturally facilitate states of relaxation and imagination that are so vital to whole brain learning, healing and meaning-making
  • Increase your confidence in using language as a therapeutic tool
  • Facilitate your client to revise the belief structures within their conscious and unconscious mind
  • Stimulate your client's processes of autonomous evaluation and decision making
  • Introduce humour into your practice in an authentic and appropriate way

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