Read about previous HACP events
View photographs of past HACP events
Evening Meetings
Review of Evening Talk, Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails: Male Mental Health, Risk and Counselling, with Dr Andrew Reeves
Andrew’s talk “Slugs and snails and puppy dog tails; Male mental health and counselling” was an interesting look at the factors affecting men’s mental health and the alarmingly high suicide rate, disproportionally impacting men in the UK, compared to women. Andrew...
Review of Evening Talk, February 10th 2021, Working confidently with sexual issues, with Simon Halford
Simon, an experienced psychosexual and couples therapist whose training was through the work of Freud but who has since incorporated other theories into his practice, invited us to explore what is often an unspoken and possibly embarrassing subject with knowledge,...
Review of Evening Talk Tuesday 19th January 2021. Wise Parenting , with Nancy Wilson
Nancy began her talk by telling us a moving story about her parenting of her son and how it had not been so successful, and how and what she has learnt from that. She very honestly and movingly told the story of her son’s troubles and her own parenting mistakes. She...
Review of Evening Talk: Eating Disorders (ED) Unzipped By Deanne Jade Via Zoom – Monday 23rd November 2020
The talk was well received and seen as useful by many people though some had reservations about the talk being too prescriptive’. ‘HACP is a broad church and its members include all categories from trainee or newly qualified counsellors who confirmed they...
Review of Olivia Hoines Evening Talk on the 14th October 2020 ‘An Insight into I.A.P.T.’
Olivia shared some of her experience of initially training as a Pluralist Counsellor in Scotland and her decision to then to join ‘IAPT’ (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies), in the main to learn more about the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy model (CBT) but...
Review of Talk- The 5 Jungian Functions, with David Brown, September 21st, 2020
Review of Talk- The 5 Jungian Functions, with David Brown, September 21st, 2020 The map of the 5 Functions shows the five functions of sensing, feeling, intuition, thinking and transcendence. Sensing and thinking are opposite functions, as are intuition and...
Review of Evening Talk – Breaking the Stigma of Self Harm, with Claire Dixon on July 9th, 2020
Another talk on Zoom... It was with a slightly heavy heart and sore head from a day of zooming with clients that I sat down to more screen-time. But within minutes of Claire starting her talk the heaviness lifted and my brain clicked into engage mode. Claire comes...
Review of Toxic Masculinity, Banter & Therapy, with Ben Scanlon, June 15TH, 2020 on Zoom.
Along with many other participants, as I have seen from feedback comments, I wish Ben’s talk had been on just one of the two topics, (toxic masculinity and banter) not both. I would like to deal with the two topics separately in this review as the connection between...
Review of the Evening Talk Thursday 14th May, 7.30 p.m. via Zoom ‘Sex Addiction – Myth or Reality’ with Dr Thaddeus Birchard
Thaddeus shared some of his own story of struggle and vulnerability, explaining he had been a Vicar for 30 years before training to be a Psychotherapist/Psychosexual therapist and subsequently integrating accreditation in CBT into his portfolio and establishing the...
Review of Evening Talk Thursday 4th May, 7.30pm. ‘Getting started with online meetings using Zoom’, with Graham Shavick
What strange times we are in with the virus and resulting lock-down. A Professor Karol Sikora, ex-director of the WHO Cancer Programme gave an interview on the internet and said that he learnt about the “R” number as an undergraduate and hadn't really thought about...
Training
Review of the Day Training, ‘The Neuroscience of Transformation’ on 22 February 2020 with Paul Sibson
Perhaps the title of the workshop should have been The Coherence Therapy Model rather than the Neuroscience of Transformation as the day was focused on the theory and practice of the Coherence Model. A huge amount of information was given to us so this review attempts...
Review of Day Training -Addictions – The Bigger Picture presented by John Baker on 30 November 2019
The day saw a crowded room - a wonderful mix of new counsellors and experienced counsellors - all of whom were yearning to learn more, refresh previous learnings and add to their skill set. John imparts his wisdom in a way that makes you feel like you’re mostly...
Reviews of WILD THERAPY weekend, October 4th to October 6th, 2019, with Emma Palmer
The Cold Ash Centre, and the Sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who live there welcomed us warmly and looked after us so well, under the guiding hand of Sister Tram, in a way that was both efficient and completely, quietly discreet. The food was good and...
Review of Day Training on September 21st, 2019, COUNSELLING ETHICS, with Ruth Mackintosh
An experiential day underpinned by the BACP’s ‘Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions 2018’. Ruth wished this to be an inclusive day and so ethical guidance of other modalities and Associations including UKCP, BPS, the Association for Cognitive Analytic...
Review of Day Training on June 15th, 2019, WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, with Marilyn McGowan
Marilyn arrived for the talk, laden down with ‘stuff’ - official things like laptops and paperwork, but also a ton of toys, games and stuff that children and young people use to engage. The 2 aspects haven’t always got a lot in common or sometimes a little...
Review of Day Training on March 23rd,2019, FOCUSING, with John Threadgold.
A collaborative day underpinned by discussion and demonstration. A Safety Protocol, including confidentiality, was agreed. John explained his belief that people consist of body, mind, emotions, the psychological and the soul and all needed to be whole. A key influence...
Review of Day Training on Saturday, Four Chair Work – an expansion of the Gestalt Two Chair Work through the lens of the Four Main Archetypes on 26th January 2019 with Stefan Charidge
Stefan offered a litle of his own background and how his work had evolved to include an interest in Two and Four Chair Work underpinned by, what he sees as, the four main Archetypes: the Warrior, Sovereign, Lover and Magician and informed by the four key emotions,...
Review of Day Training: Working with the Elements, with David Brown, Saturday November 10th, 2018
Our workshop with David started over a week before ‘the due date’. David kindly prepped us with information on the elements and invited us to get in touch with the elements in a 9 day build up to the workshop itself. On one of these days I could hear the sea...
A review of the Day Training, Exploring Dreams, on Saturday, 20th October, with Diane Hardiman
Diane led us through an enlightening, experiential journey with dreams and the necessity of healthy sleep. Before she began, Diane invited us to choose one of her beautifully prepared booklets entitled ‘Exploring our Dreams’. Each had a different image, colour, saying...
Review of HACP Day Workshop: Saturday, 29th September 2018 Family Therapy and Family Dynamics with Graham Shavick
Glorious sunshine greeted us last Saturday for Graham’s workshop on Family Therapy and Family Dynamics. Graham treated us to a wonderfully prepared slide pack so we could note important things along the way. The day was filled with a mix of theory, along with...