This workshop aims to help you feel more confident counselling Vision Impaired clients, and will also be relevant to working with disabled clients generally. It offers an opportunity to explore the impact of disablism, both within the therapy space and wider society, as well as an invitation to stand back and reflect differently on your familiar communication style and the techniques and interventions you use in your practice.
Gemma will introduce some of the key issues we need to account for as therapists working with vision impaired and disabled clients.
Course Content
Presenter
Gemma Ryder is a blind psychotherapist who has spent the past 5 years counselling vision impaired clients in the voluntary sector. She has 30 years experience supporting VI and disabled people in various roles, including student mentor, parenting educator, doula and peer support facilitator. She is founder member of Blind Parents UK, and has qualifications in Disability Studies, Person-centred counselling, TA and Trauma-focused therapy.
This workshop in a collaboration between the Link Centre and Onlinevents
At the Link Centre we pride ourselves in delivering high quality options tailored to needs of clients and delivered in a relaxed, comfortable yet stimulating environment in which people feel safe to learn and develop. We work with individuals, groups, organisations, and educational establishments using the depth of our psychological knowledge, to facilitate growth and development.
Our training centre is located in the heart of the countryside, in Plumpton, East Sussex. It provides a variety of training rooms, extensive parking, and disabled access, to help meet the needs of individuals attending our courses. As well as this the centre has extensive grounds that can be enjoyed during lunch and tea breaks.
We also offer in-house coaching, training and consultancy that is tailored to the needs of our customers.
Our trainers and consultants are all fully qualified, experienced, skilled and accredited to both national and international level.
For more information about The Link Centre Visit thelinkcentre.co.uk
