One Day Workshop on Single-Session (ONEplus) Therapy – Windy Dryden

The assumption that therapy should always be long term has been challenged repeatedly over the last twenty-five years. The difficulty is that Single-Session Therapy has become associated in many therapists’ minds with being “money driven”, “superficial” and “poor quality”. This workshop sets the record straight and shows what can be achieved when the therapist and client work together to see if they can help the client in one session knowing that more help is available.

Single-Session Therapy (SST) is best viewed as a mindset and a way of delivering services rather than an approach to therapy. Indeed, SST can be practised with therapists from a broad range of orientations.

The workshop will outline the basis of Single-Session Therapy and show, in particular, how it can provide help at the point of client need rather than at the point of service availability. Issues covered include:

• The nature of SST
• Assumptions underpinning SST
• The components of the SST mindset
• SST as a mode of service delivery
• The goals of SST
• Setting the stage for SST
• Good practice in SST
• Follow-up and evaluation
• Responding to common doubts, reservations and objections to SST

Live demonstrations of SST will be conducted with volunteers from the audience who have a genuine problem that they would like help with.

Participants will be given an opportunity to practise SST with one another

RECORDING

This workshop will be recorded. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, £40.00 & £60.00 however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

Windy Dryden

I am Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths University of London and have been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975.

I was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and have trained with Drs. Albert Ellis, Aaron T. Beck and Arnold Lazarus.

I have also trained at the University of Warwick where I was awarded an MSc in Psychotherapy. This was an eclectic course and gave me a very broad view of the field. What has been important and sustaining in my career has been variety. Thus, I work as a practitioner, trainer, academic and writer/editor.

CBT Practice

I have worked as a therapist in many settings: including in private practice, in a GP practice, in a clinical psychology service and in private psychiatric hospitals.

CBT Training

I have been active in training counsellors and therapists since 1975 and have trained therapists in many countries including Britain, USA, South Africa, Turkey and Israel.

Academic

I began my career as an academic as Lecturer in Counselling at the University of Aston in Birmingham (1975-1984) and joined Goldsmiths University of London in 1985 where I became Britian’s first Professor of Counselling in 1992. I am now Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths and have held Visiting Professorships at University of Birmingham, University of East London, University of Westminster and London Metropolitan University. In 2005, I was awarded a DSc in Psychology at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania.

Writer and Editor

My first book was published in 1984 and I have now authored or edited over 230 books. I write for both the profession and for the general public. In addition, I have edited 20 book series and was, until 2012, the editor of the ‘Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy’.