Being-Becoming: Evolving Together in Counselling Training

Wednesday 22nd April 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Presented by Prof Divine Charura, Dr Charlotte O’Brien and various uuthors

About This Event

Join editors Charlotte O'Brien and Divine Charura for a dialogue to celebrate the launch of the new book, The Handbook of Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy: A Training Companion.

Charlotte and Divine will be joined by many of the contributing authors from across the book's 17 chapters, including Colin Lago, John Wilson, Andrew Reeves, Gerrie Hughes, Sarah Corrie, David Lane, Lynne Gabriel, Sofie Bager-Charleson, Robin Shohet, Arianna Jordan, Keisha Green and many more.

This won't just be a conversation about what's in the book. The editors and authors will be sharing what they believe are the key components in psychotherapeutic training, speaking to the heart of what effective therapeutic training requires today - a commitment to growth, relational learning, and the ongoing shaping of professional identity. We will also be exploring topics that often come up on training programmes such as top tips for self care, making good use of supervision and the placement experience.

Training begins with the capacity to know oneself, to sit with uncertainty, difference and diversity, and to cultivate presence. This includes developing self-awareness, reflexivity, and emotional and theoretical literacy. Understanding one's values, identities, and lived experiences, and how these shape diverse therapeutic encounters. When being-becoming and evolving together are woven into training, practitioners develop not only technical competence but also relational depth, ethical sensitivity, and a strong sense of professional identity. This integrated approach prepares trainees to meet clients with humanity, cultural humility and confidence.

Whether you are a trainee, educator, supervisor, or experienced practitioner committed to lifelong learning, this is a rich opportunity to hear directly from the voices shaping the future of counselling psychology, counselling and psychotherapy training.

We thought that we would take time to go through this and share our thoughts with you so that we capture an accurate representation of the book. We are so excited about the launch and grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with you and online events, and so delighted that you are a central and integral part of the handbook.