Psychotherapy insights
Helpful and inspiring training for small businesses
I offer short, in-person courses to small businesses, charities and organisations engaged in client facing roles. I share psychotherapy insights with employees, to help them understand their clients, and themselves, better.
Effective psychotherapy only occurs once a trusting, safe relationship is established between the therapist and the client. The same is true of many other professions which are client-facing. Years of professional experience, numerous qualifications – these are only of service once a client feels safe with you, and is open to your guidance. This process of building trust and safety can’t be rushed but it can be explained, with the rich insights that psychotherapy offers.
The Course
The Psychotherapy insights course runs for between four and six sessions, each lasting about an hour. The training takes place at your workplace. For locations outside of East and West Sussex, please get in touch to discuss.
Each course is tailored to your team’s specific needs and concerns, and the clients you are working with. The sessions are informal, friendly and interactive.
How I bring care, courage and compassion to your work with clients
I will share helpful psychotherapy models, clinical anecdotes and inspiring ideas alongside easy-to-remember, practical tips to help you:
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Bring care, courage and compassion to your work with clients
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Understand why communication goes wrong and how to put it right.
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Become an active listener, thoughtful speaker and attuned observer
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Notice when clients pull you out of shape, and discover why that might be
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Learn how the brain develops and the neurobiology of threat
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Theories of personality: accessible models for thinking about the mind, and the many selves within it
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The wider contexts that inform a person’s thinking, feeling and behaviour – from early scripts to existential pressures
What they say
“I cannot tell you how much everyone enjoyed the training and benefitted from it. I think anyone who is engaged in client facing roles would benefit from your course.”
Jessica Balkwill - Financial Advisor and Firm Principal
Brighthelm Financial
“The whole team has really enjoyed each session, and we’ve all been able to take away some interesting points and perspectives. The structure of each session and your personability made everyone feel at ease and comfortable asking questions, as well as making your sessions something that each of the team really looked forward to.”
Brandon Cressdee
Brighthelm Financial
Who I am
I am a psychotherapeutic counsellor in private practice in Brighton and Hove. I am trained to a Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Adult Psychotherapy, and have hundreds of hours experience working with clients, in person and online.
I am not a business coach promising to increase productivity or accelerate growth. Rather, I offer a psychotherapeutic lens on working with clients, helping you to understand the human context – why clients may think and feel as they do, and what that might provoke in you.
This is a chance to understand what makes humans, human; and to weave that understanding into daily working life so you can reassure, support and succeed with and for your clients.
Course participants can in turn apply these insights to themselves, becoming more attuned to their unique mental makeup. With this awareness, they become better able stay present, work calmly and avoid becoming drawn into games.
