Welcome to Westmeria’s Continuing Professional Development Programme. Throughout the year we organise a variety of high quality and affordable CPD events with expert speakers for counsellors, psychotherapists and other interested professionals. All our courses are CPD certified. Click here to see our programme of events.
All of our training takes place in Bickley, South London and is easily accessible for those living in London, Kent, Sussex and the surrounding South East.
To be kept informed and up to date about all of our CPD and other charity events, please get in touch by clicking here.
Thank you!
Established in 2003 as a low-cost counselling agency, we have been able to continue providing the service through the generous donations & fundraising of our clients, staff and valued supporters. Providing CPD training and events is another way to help sustain our ever-growing and much needed service. So, by attending one of our fantastic training events, you are directly enabling someone to receive the counselling they need – thank you!
March 2019
*Clinical Forum – Early Trauma & DID (Westmeria employees only)
Facilitator: Group/Peer discussion information sharing client work, reading & research around this topic.
2 hours CPD (plus suggested & your own reading/research)
Find out more »May 2019
Disordered Eating & Attachment
This CPD workshop aims to offer a conceptual framework for understanding the misuse of food, using attachment theory, and then to offer a wide range of strategies for working with clients.
Facilitator: Professor Julia Buckroyd
Qualified Practitioners – £90; Counselling Trainee – £70; Westmeria staff/students – £65
Find out more »June 2019
Therapeutic Use of Stones
This course provides an experiential playground within which candidates can participate in several interventions designed to enhance the therapeutic process.
Facilitator: Adam Shaw
Qualified Practitioners – £65; Trainee Counsellor – £50; Westmeria Staff/Student – £45
(Limited spaces: 20)
Find out more »September 2019
Sex: Thinking, Feeling, Talking
This one-day workshop will focus on how the way you think about sex and sexual issues, affects the way you feel about it and how you talk about it.
Facilitator: Mishelle Stewart
Qualified Practitioners – £65; Trainee Counsellor – £50; Westmeria Staff/Student – £45
(Limited spaces: 20)
Find out more »November 2019
Suicide
Facilitator: Mishelle Stewart
Qualified Practitioners – £65; Trainee Counsellor – £50; Westmeria Staff/Student – £45
(Limited spaces: 20)
Find out more »January 2020
Couples, Relationships and Attachment
Facilitator: Anne Power
Prices: Qualified Practitioner – £90; Trainee Counsellor – £70; Westmeria Staff/Student – £65
(Limited spaces: 30)
Find out more »March 2020
Medication & Mental Health – Postponed until further notice
Facilitator: Dr. Padraig Wright
Prices: Qualified Practioner £35.00; Trainee Counsellor £30.00; Westmeria Staff & Students £25.00
Find out more »
