How to work with depressed and anxious clients: a trauma-informed approach
Schedule
Mon Sep 23 2024 at 09:30 am to Tue Sep 24 2024 at 05:00 pm
UTC+10:00Location
27 Royal Parade,Parkville,3052,AU | Melbourne, VI
Learn how to support clients struggling with depression and anxiety in an experiential workshop.WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
Date | Monday 23 & Tuesday 24 September 2024, 9.30am–5.00pm
Fee | $660 includes GST.
Venue | Elie, Gestalt Centre Training Campus, 27 Royal Parade, Parkville
Facilitator | Noel Haarburger, BBSc, BEd(Counselling), AdvDipGestaltTherapy, ClinMGANZ, MAPS
Depression and anxiety are two of the most common presentations in therapy and other mental health and support services. These conditions frequently co-occur and are often challenging to manage together.Despite their prevalence, these clients can still be difficult to work with.
This 2-day workshop is designed to provide you with the skills and confidence to work with depressed and anxious clients. It will support you in understanding the somatic expressions of both anxiety and depression, help you distinguish different expressions of these feeling states, and meet the challenge of the work with more confidence and compassion.
IS THIS FOR ME?
This workshop is suitable for anyone interested in developing a better understanding of the nature of depression and anxiety and how to support clients to develop awareness of, manage, and live with these conditions.
LEARNING CONTENT, FORMAT & OUTCOMES
The workshop will include the following theories and practices, as well as how to apply them to support clients in regulating and understanding depression and anxiety:
-Paradoxical theory of change
-Self-compassion
-Holism
-Experiment
-Phenomenological inquiry
-Here and now immediacy
-Relational and field theory
The workshop is facilitated through experiential exercises, group discussions, and didactic teachings.
At the end of this workshop, you will have a deeper understanding of:
-The phenomenology of depression and anxiety
-The somatic and psychological function of depression and anxiety
-Different types of depression and anxiety
-What these conditions are communicating about, what is out of balance and needing to be listened too, loved and learnt
-The common ways we relate to and manage symptoms of these coditions and things that can perpetuate it
-Underlying drivers, as well as cultural and contextual conditions that often live in the ground behind the figure of depression and anxiety
-The relationship between depression, anxiety, shame, core beliefs and the inner critic
-The role polyvagal theory and neuroscience play in helping us understand and work more effectively with depression and anxiety
-15 bio-psycho-social principles that support people to recover from depression and anxiety.
About your facilitator
Noel Haarburger BBSc, BEd(Counselling), AdvDipGestaltTherapy, ClinMGANZ, MAPS
Noel is a faculty member and trainer at GTA (Gestalt Therapy Australia), and works in full time private practice as a psychologist, and psychotherapist working with individuals and couples, as well as offering supervision to allied health professionals.
Noel has worked extensively in a wide variety of counselling and psychological services since 1995, including most recently the role of senior psychologist at Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre for 4 years. Previous to this he has worked in family counselling, drug and alcohol, sexual assault, problematic gambling, men’s behavioural change programs, and the mental health fields. As a trained somatic experiencing practitioner, he offers 'somatic experiencing' a highly effective bodywork method for negotiating and releasing trauma, originally developed by Peter Levine.
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!
Where is it happening?
27 Royal Parade,Parkville,3052,AU, Early Music Studio, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, 27 Royal Pde, Parkville VIC 3052, Australia,Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
