Counsellors commonly use email every day. This can be to set up sessions, communicate when we are sick and send our contracts. Have you come across some sticky situations with your clients by email?
How would you feel about offering your sessions solely by email? Email Counselling has risen in popularity due to it’s accessibility and flexible nature. Clients enjoy the privacy and depth it can offer, but as counsellors ourselves are we thinking enough about what could go wrong?
Without the traditional structure of a 50-minute session it can be easy to feel lost in knowing what to do. How do you manage your time and set expectations for clients?
Join us for a conversation about email in counselling and learn the 5 things you should never do.
This event will be presented as an informal interview style where you will have the opportunity to ask questions.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Reflect on your own use of email in private practice
- Practical considerations for counsellors working by email with clients
- Explore the benefits of email counselling for both clients and counsellors
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Qualified Counsellors, Trainee Counsellors, Clinical Supervisors
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Join us to learn about the potential dangers of email and what you can do differently in your private practice
Course Content
Presenter
Chloe Foster is the author of Email Counselling, an Introduction for Counsellors, a popular accessible e-book for counsellors and trainees.
With a first-class degree in Education, she loves teaching and training and is proud to have made training an ongoing part of her career since 2003. Over her counselling career she has trained hundreds of counsellors to become more confident working with LGBTQ+ clients through her work with The National Counselling Society, Onlinevents and The Counselling Tutor.
Today, with over 5 years’ experience working as an email counsellor, Chloe enjoys sharing the skills she has honed with fellow counsellors through interactive live training courses.
In addition, she runs Sussex Rainbow Counselling where she offers email counselling as well as video and phone counselling to her clients. Chloe works predominantly with LGBTQ+ clients, specialising in gender, sexual and relationship diversity.
