Working Successfully with Addictions

Course Description 

This course is for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Coaches, Psychologists, Nurses, Drug & Alcohol Workers…and for all Professionals and Trainees wanting to enrich their current knowledge, understanding and skills in their work with addictions and dependency issues. This training is also a compulsory Module of our Advanced Diploma is Contemporary Psychotherapy – for those Psychotherapists working towards UKCP Registration with BeeLeaf.

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 and process dependency, such as co-dependent relationships.

The training explores these applications in both group and individual therapy settings and the therapist's role in the dependency matrix.

  • Learn that recovery is possible and highly likely when people learn how
  • 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
  • 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

Entry Requirements 

This course is for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Coaches, Psychologists, Nurses, Drug & Alcohol Workers…and for all Professionals and Trainees wanting to enrich their current knowledge, understanding and skills in their work with addictions and dependency issues. This training is also a compulsory Module of our Advanced Diploma is Contemporary Psychotherapy – for those Psychotherapists working towards UKCP Registration with BeeLeaf.

Fees 

Early Bird: £500 when you book and pay in full by 14th April 2012

Registered Charity: £500 when you book/submit Purchase Order by 14th April 2012

Normal: £599. Pay £100 deposit with booking. Balance of £499 due by 7th May 2012

Venue 

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Trainer

Pamela Gawler-Wright
Pamela Gawler-Wright

MSc B.A. Hons., Dip. EHP, Adv. Dip. THP,  UKCP Registered Psychotherapist and Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapist, Master and Certified Trainer in NLP, Clinical Supervisor. Trainer Member of ANLP.

Director of BeeLeaf

Pamela Gawler-Wright is a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist who has taught on UKCP Accredited trainings since 1994. As Director of Training, Pam created the Contemporary Psychotherapy qualifying training as a much needed qualifying path for today’s psychotherapist who wishes to align with the best contemporary approaches to psychotherapy within a pluralist framework for a diverse society. Qualified by UKCP in two different modalities herself, Pam is a champion of integration of the combined wisdoms of different psychotherapy traditions into a 21st Century paradigm. Pam is also External Moderator for the Institute for Transactional Analysis and a long serving member of the UKCP Ethics Committee. She is a guest trainer for several other institutes, has presented at numerous conferences and events for organisations such as UKCP, BACP and ITA. Pam is particularly known for her exposition of Ericksonian Psychotherapeutic principles and is a celebrated story teller with two published CDs of therapeutic storytelling. She is a frequent and sought after writer who is published in many trade and other publications. Her training is renowned for being creative, fun, challenging and within a safe environment, bringing together tremendously diverse groups into harmonious and uplifting shared experience.

Pam runs a busy East End of London psychotherapy practice and continues to push the boundaries of current psychotherapeutic understanding to serve more clients better.