Working with Client Experiences of Domestic Abuse – A Handbook for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, and Other Mental Health Professionals
This is a unique handbook for counsellors and psychotherapists working with clients who have experienced abuse. Containing both the theory required to understand the client and helpful tips and ideas on how to work in session, it provides the foundational training for successful domestic abuse counselling work as the client moves through the recovery stages. Importantly, it also highlights the importance of counsellor self-care for anyone working with this client group.
In this workshop Karin and Jeannette will be talking about Working with Client Experiences of Domestic Abuse – A Handbook for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, and Other Mental Health Professionals. We will include one or two group activities around the topic and we’ll also have a Q&A at the end.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Have a much better understanding of what domestic abuse is and why this is important to the client.
- Understand why effective domestic abuse counselling is not just about the counsellor.
- Understand the domestic abuse counselling model.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Counsellors, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals who work with clients who can or do present with domestic abuse experiences.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- It will increase understanding and the counsellor’s ability to respond to domestic abuse experiences.
Course Content
Presenter
Jeannette Roddy is a qualified counsellor/psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, working online and in-person from her base in North Yorkshire. She has been working and researching in the area of domestic abuse counselling since 2008 and has published two books about her research drawing on client experiences of domestic abuse counselling and what works and does not work for them. She has presented papers internationally has also published a competency framework for domestic abuse counselling with Professor Lynne Gabriel which is free to download.
In 2022, she started Dactari, a specialist domestic abuse counselling, counsellor training, supervision and research organisation which operates online to provide access to specialist services to counsellors and clients across the UK. She has personally trained over 70 therapists in domestic abuse counselling, which she estimates has increased options for specialist counselling support to over 1500 clients per year.
Karin Brauner is a twice published author, a bilingual coach/counsellor/psychotherapist, as well as a supervisor in private practice. She trained in Guatemala and in Brighton, England. Karin has always been interested in many areas, which focus on her training as a therapist, but also her passion for writing and IT. These have led her to have a variety of services and product offerings, which she keeps adding to. These include social media marketing and content creation, as well as website support, tutoring, academic support, and other areas.
Karin is passionate about everything she does, and she enjoys seeing her colleagues and clients thrive in their work and lives. This is why she’s offering these workshops (and other courses to come in the near future). She enjoys supporting people be the best they can be, meeting them right where they are, and together figuring out what the best way forward is.
Marketing on social media became a focus of Karin’s back in 2017, when she started blogging. This propelled her practice into moving from 2-4 clients, to a full client list, followed by supervisees and now coaching clients as well. This means she can now offer the learning she’s done in the past few years, to practitioners starting their practices or thinking of growing their practices but needing the practical support to do so.
That’s what Karin offers – practical support to get you on the right track to building a successful business (whatever that means to each one of us individually).
