Our counselling CPD workshops for counsellors and psychotherapists run throughout the year, in person in Muswell Hill, North London, and online. Each workshop is led by an experienced practitioner and focuses on a specific area of psychodynamic practice, from risk and ethics to diversity, diagnosis and setting up in private practice. They’re open to qualified practitioners and trainees looking to deepen their clinical thinking. A CPD certificate is provided for each workshop. To book, email training@highgatecounselling.org.uk and we’ll send you an invoice; your place is confirmed once payment is received.
Saturday, 7 November 2026 | 12:45 to 18:30
Working with Suicidality and Risk
Suicidal distress is a complex phenomenon that exists along a spectrum ranging from hopeless feelings and thoughts of death, through to active planning and suicidal acts that can end life. The aim of the workshop is to explore how and why someone may experience suicidality and consider practical options for psychotherapists and counsellors managing this particularly stressful aspect of clinical work.
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Venue: Quakers Meeting House, 77 Church Crescent, N10 3NE
Saturday, 14 November 2026 | 10:00 to 16:00
Setting Up Private Practice
Making the transition from either training or agency work into private practice can seem daunting to begin with. This one-day workshop aims to de-mystify the process, and to provide participants with some practical tools in making this transition.
The workshop is highly interactive and will provide participants with ample opportunities to find out about the above and to explore other issues that are related to the establishment of a successful private practice.
Online via Zoom
Saturday, 28 November 2026 | 9:30 to 16:30
Psychosexuality
This workshop will offer an overview of psychosexual presentations, assessment and treatment options in psychotherapy. We will explore the definition of sexuality and how it may manifest in the different developmental stages.
Online via Zoom
Saturday, 23 January 2027 | 12:45 to 18:00
Mentalisation Based Treatment
Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT) is psychodynamically-orientated and has been manualised with a focus in helping people to understand their own thoughts and feelings and why they do what they do and to help people to understand what others might be thinking and feeling and how come they might behave in the ways that they do.
The workshop is as an introduction to MBT and is not designed to enable participants to practice MBT. However, it will give you some new ways of thinking about your own work and aims to complement your existing skill set.
Venue: Quakers Meeting House, 77 Church Crescent, N10 3NE
Saturday, 30 January 2027 | 10:00 to 16:00
Diversity, Power, and Difference in Counselling
This workshop explores how our position in society shapes the way we listen to clients and make sense of what they tell us. It introduces two approaches to working with diversity in counselling. Intersectionality helps us understand how aspects of identity interact and why people who share a background may experience the same situation differently. Anti-oppressive practice asks us to examine how we use our ‘power’ as counsellors and what we can do when our assumptions or ways of working disadvantage a client. [Read more]
Online via Google Meet
Saturday, 15 May 2027 | 12:45 to 18:00
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT)
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a time limited and structured psychotherapy, typically delivered over 16 weekly sessions. It aims to help the client understand the connection between presenting symptoms and what is happening in his/her relationships through identifying a core repetitive pattern of relating that can be traced back to childhood. Once this pattern is identified, it is be used to make sense of difficulties in relationships in the here-and-now that contribute to psychological stress. [read more]
Venue: Quakers Meeting House, 77 Church Crescent, N10 3NE
Saturday, 5 June 2027 | 13:00 to 16:00
Diagnosis and Medication
The aim of the workshop is to provide participants with an overview of common mental health conditions, together with an exploration of the range of medications prescribed for some of these conditions. We will also explore some of the side effects of some of these medications.
In addition, we will explore mental health as a continuum and discuss when to make a referral to a mental health professional. Finally, we will also examine the social and cultural impact on mental health.
Online via Zoom
Saturday, 26 June 2027 | 12:45 to 18:00
Transference and Countertransference
In this workshop we will explore the meaning of transference and how we think about the dynamic and its meaning, between counsellor and client. How do we recognise the transference and the different shapes it takes? How do we observe the communication from our clients, the way in which they bring themselves, how they speak and act with us? How do we listen to our clients? Our clients’ stories tell us about patterns and experiences which may refer to the kind of object-relationship we can expect to be representative in our dynamic in the room – both positive and negative. [read more]
Venue: Quakers Meeting House, 77 Church Crescent, N10 3NE
Contact us to book your place or find out more.
For any queries about our CPD workshops, please email us at: training@highgatecounselling.org.uk
To maintain appropriate professional boundaries, current counselling clients of HCC are not eligible to attend our CPD workshops.
Recent workshops
Our workshops usually run once a year. Email training@highgatecounselling.org.uk to hear when the next dates are announced.
Saturday, 13 June 2026 | 12:45 to 18:00
Assessment
The first meeting between a client and a psychodynamic counsellor may be one of the most significant occasions in the client’s life. This one-day workshop aims to set out how such a meeting is conducted, the information to be gathered and what happens next.
The training will give participants ample opportunity to find out about and discuss the above as well as other issues relating to assessment and to prepare, in small groups, information following assessment.
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Venue: Quakers Meeting House, 77 Church Crescent, N10 3NE
Saturday, 10 October 2026 | 10:00 to 13:00
The BACP Ethical Framework Working with Ethical Dilemmas
The BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions (2018) creates a shared structure within which we all work but with the flexibility to respond to the needs of different contexts and client groups. This workshop is a mandatory introduction to the BACP Ethical Framework and working with ethical dilemmas as required by the BACP for their accredited courses. The workshop is designed to briefly explore the BACP Ethical Framework.