A Gestalt Approach to Working with Children and Adolescents

The Course

This five-day certificate level course caters for counsellors, psychotherapists and other practitioners working with young persons within NHS Trusts, social services, schools, voluntary services and private practice. It aims to develop participants' understanding of key issues and processes involved in working therapeutically with children and adolescents. Based on contemporary Gestalt Therapy this relational approach utilises creative arts methods and play
Training Methods

This 'hands on' workshop includes didactic input, practical demonstrations, video excerpts and experiential exercises. There will be opportunities to practice skills in dyads and triads and to discuss applications to participants' work.

Optional Certificate

On completion of the course, for an additional fee, participants may elect to submit a 3,000 word case study. This will describe a piece of therapeutic work undertaken with a young person using creative arts modalities. Successful candidates, whose work demonstrates an ability to engage a child /adolescent well and reflective practice, will be awarded a Certificate in Counselling Children and Adolescents: A Gestalt Approach.

Time: 9am to 4pm Monday, 10am to 5pm all other days