Working Effectively with Addiction & Recovery
Total fee £570. Pay £150 deposit with Application.
4th – 8th August 2025
Description
This unit of training will run for the last time 4th – 8th August 2025
Booking Deadline 4th July 2025 Subject to Availability of Places
This 5-day in-person training is a Unit of the BeeLeaf Advanced Diploma
This 5-day training explores applications in both group and individual psychotherapy settings and the therapist’s role in the dependency matrix. You will come away with a practical, empathic and greater spiritual understanding of “the addict” and their journey from psychic ruin to sustainable recovery. Participants can look forward to learning from participants and trainers from a variety of modalities and to being encouraged to consolidate their application of theory to flexibly effective practice.
Where, when, how much?
Where & When
5-days 4th – 8th August 2025
Booking Deadline 4th July 2025 Subject to Availability of Places
This unit of training will run for the last time summer 2025
This in-person course will take place in London E3. Nearest tube Mile End. Full address details will be provided with booking.
How Much
BeeLeaf Members £570 Pay £150 deposit with booking. Balance of £420 due by 4th July 2025.
Submission of an application form and /or payment does not constitute a booking. Bookings are not confirmed until we send you a confirmation of booking / enrolment.
What’s Included
- 5 full days experiential in-person training with group size limit of 10 delegates.
- Engaging articles and video links and practical materials to enrich your learning and confident practice.
- Group exercises, time to ask questions, live demonstrations.
- Fully comprehensive workbook.
- Certificate of Attendance. Counts as 35 hours of Accredited training with a UKCP Accredited Organisation; BeeLeaf. Minimum of 90% course attendance required.
- Membership of the BeeLeaf Register; Community for Contemporary Psychotherapy (CCP) is NOT included
- Light refreshments freely available throughout the week however lunch is NOT included. There are several supermarkets, cafes and restaurants nearby.
Payment Methods
We accept payment of deposit online by Paypal, MasterCard, Visa (debit and credit cards) and Paypal. You do not need a Paypal account. Balance will be payable on invoice by direct bank payment.
Terms & Conditions
CANCELLATIONS Cancellation-Policy-Addiction-2024
All cancellations must be made in writing by sending an email to admin@beeleaf.com or by writing to:
The Administrator
BeeLeaf Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy
34 Grove Road
London
E3 5AX
OR Download Cancellation Form HERE.
If you cancel your place within 14 days of your enrolment being confirmed by us you will receive a full refund. Fees are not transferable.
We count the date of enrolment as being from the date we send an email to you with confirmation of booking / enrolment.
If you cancel your place more than 14 days after your enrolment being confirmed by us and before the course start date, you will receive a refund minus your deposit of £150.
Cancellation by Us
We reserve the right to make changes or cancel this course where due to circumstances outside of our reasonable control (including, but not limited to, insufficient number of students enrolled for the course) it would not be possible to deliver the course to a satisfactory standard. We shall have no liability for direct or indirect losses or costs which you may incur due to such changes or cancellation. In these circumstances we will endeavour to provide as much notice as possible of such changes and you will be offered a full refund, or you may choose to accept an alternative course that we may offer.
Please READ the following before submitting a booking form.
Application & Enrolment Policy
Group Agreements and Boundaries in Training
Teaching and learning
Syllabus
(Subject to Update)
- Recognising and understanding the process called “addiction”
- Implementing psycho-socio-bio-eco models of dependency
- Understanding why clients with dependency need something more from psychotherapy
- Identify the most common error of well-meaning psychotherapists and counselors which can perpetuate the system of pain
- Engaging with the client’s denial and motivation to engage in healing
- Understanding the emotional syndrome of pain, shame, craving and lapse
- Identifying crises and cravings as opportunities for healing
- Locating addiction within family systems and attachment patterning
- Activating Interpersonal and Social healing systems
- What key figures such as Jung, Bateson and Erickson contributed to and took from recovery culture
- The place of interventions such as Motivational Interviewing, CBT, Group Therapy, 12 Step Psychology, Storytelling and Psychodynamics
- Considering Codependence as the underlying driver of unhealthy dependencies
- Enhancing relationship with self, other and world as the site of recovery
- Addressing the trauma of addiction
- Sustaining recovery and utilising challenges for further growth
- Reflecting on the “better than well” phenomenon of successful recovery – what does this offer our understanding of being human
- Applying the Continuous Becoming model in Addiction and Recovery
Teaching & Learning
- This is an in-person training set at high challenge level within a friendly, safe and supportive environment.
- The training involves exercises in pairs & small groups, live practical demonstrations & theoretical input.
- Group size is limited to 10 participants to ensure maximum support for Trainees.
- Information rich colourful workbook published by BeeLeaf and additional digital resources are included in the course fee.
- Trainer: Pamela Gawler-Wright
Assessment
No formal assessment. Minimum of 90% course attendance required for Certificate of Attendance of 35 hours of accredited training with BeeLeaf; a UKCP Accredited Organisation.
Entry requirements
You must have completed the BeeLeaf Certificate in Skills & Principles of Contemporary Psychotherapy (formerly BeeLeaf Foundation Certificate in Contemporary Psychotherapy).
Terms & Conditions
CANCELLATIONS Cancellation-Policy-Addiction-2024
All cancellations must be made in writing by sending an email to admin@beeleaf.com or by writing to:
The Administrator
BeeLeaf Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy
34 Grove Road
London
E3 5AX
OR Download Cancellation Form HERE.
If you cancel your place within 14 days of your enrolment being confirmed by us you will receive a full refund. Fees are not transferable.
We count the date of enrolment as being from the date we send an email to you with confirmation of booking / enrolment.
If you cancel your place more than 14 days after your enrolment being confirmed by us and before the course start date, you will receive a refund minus your deposit of £150.
Cancellation by Us
We reserve the right to make changes or cancel this course where due to circumstances outside of our reasonable control (including, but not limited to, insufficient number of students enrolled for the course) it would not be possible to deliver the course to a satisfactory standard. We shall have no liability for direct or indirect losses or costs which you may incur due to such changes or cancellation. In these circumstances we will endeavour to provide as much notice as possible of such changes and you will be offered a full refund, or you may choose to accept an alternative course that we may offer.
Please READ the following before submitting a booking form.
Application & Enrolment Policy
Group Agreements and Boundaries in Training
