Menopause impacts 51% of the population and yet there is little to no research into the psychological and physiological health and wellbeing of menopausal people.
Workshop Details
Therapists and wellbeing practitioners can sometimes be unarmed and uninformed when it comes to clients’ experiences, as well as how your own menopause journey can influence your work. Collectively and individually, we need to be aware of the cultural and gender-bias limitations that we may unintentionally bring into our therapy practice.
So, how can we have these conversations in the therapy room and supervision?
The mere mention of menopause in the therapy room can evoke embarrassment, shame and confusion for both client and therapist. As therapists, we can offer our clients the psychological skills, awareness, and context to make sense of their experiences in ways that can shape the direction of therapy in new ways.
We’ll look at practical ways to frame menstrual cycle awareness and menopause through a counselling & psychotherapy lens that can better support therapist and client. We’ll take a relational approach to explore how clients may present in therapy with symptoms and experiences that overlap with the early stages of perimenopause, and beyond. We’ll also consider the implications for the therapist experiencing peri/menopause both personally and professionally.
Everyone is welcome. If you see people who identify as female, queer, trans and non-binary, are a couple’s therapist, or are likely to experience menopause yourself, then this workshop is for you.
Course Content
Presenter
Joanna runs the Affinity Centre in Manchester, which focuses on couples training, workshops for couples, and all things relationships. As well as a CTA, Joanna is a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist. She is currently exploring the joy of Grief Tending.
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
