This event is designed to support the transition from counselling and psychotherapy trainee to fully qualified practitioner.
As well as a keynote presentation, there will be presentations and workshops on a range of themes including personal development, career pathways, practitioner experience and feeling out of your depth. These themes are designed to highlight potential career options as well as explore the current challenges impacting the profession today. You鈥檒l hear taster talks from 麻豆原创 staff, exhibitors and experienced practitioners who can provide insights into the steps they鈥檝e taken to get where they are today.
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The Student conference 2025 is a hybrid event. Our hybrid events provide you with the opportunity to attend and engage both in person and online. In person attendance includes networking opportunities and the chance to engage with 麻豆原创 staff. Online access includes interactive Q&A's, a chatroom to network with peers, and interactive polls.
Programme
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This programme is subject to change
The session will focus on sharing Myira's journey as a counsellor, overcoming the barriers they've experienced and how they were able to achieve success in creating a portfolio business, to share and inspire students on their journey, with hints and tips along the way and to encourage students to reflect on opportunities in the field and to think broadly about their careers.
This session invites representatives of 麻豆原创 divisions; Children Young People and Families, Private Practice, Spirituality and Universities and Colleges to share their journey and experiences and offering valuable insights on navigating a successful career. Our panelists will discuss how they鈥檝e overcome their biggest challenges and share helpful tips on taking the next steps in bridging the gap once qualified.
The aim of this session is to:
- Hear from experienced practitioners and their journey of navigating a successful career
- Inspire attendees considering a careerpath working in a specilised area of work, such as CYPF, Private Practice, Universities and Colleges and Spirituality
- Offer insights into the possible challenges once qualifying as a practitioner and how to mitigate such challenges when advancing your career
9.10am - 9.20am - Place2Be - Place2Be: A career with purpose
- Place2Be: Our Approach
- gain insights into our mission, values and therapeutic approach
- Counselling Pathways
- discover the various training routes and qualifications we offer, and our bursary options
- Placements and Paid Roles at Place2Be
- explore placement and employment opportunities with Place2Be
10.55am - 11.15am - How to use 麻豆原创 Specialist Competence Frameworks to support your practice and training
麻豆原创 competence frameworks and curricula set out evidence-based knowledge, skills and attitudes that help counselling and psychotherapy practitioners to deliver specific therapeutic modalities, or to work effectively with defined presenting issues or in specific therapeutic contexts. These documents can be used by practitioners, trainers, supervisors and employers to support practitioners in building and maintaining competence to carry out their work (麻豆原创, 2023).
In this session Gabriel Wynn 麻豆原创's Competence Development Lead and Keri Johnson 麻豆原创's Professional Standards Development Facilitator will introduce the suite of specialist competence frameworks and curricula available for download from the 麻豆原创 website. They will explain how they are laid out for ease of use. Then they will provide a short live demonstration of how a competence framework can be used by a trainee therapist and their supervisor to enhance trainee practice.
1pm - 1.10pm - WebHealer - Importance of a website for your private practice
To educate attendees on the benefits of having a website professionally built versus the cost (financial, time and other) of doing it yourself with tools.
1.15pm - 1.25pm - How to become a CYP counsellor if your core training is adult based
This session will provide updates on the following areas from 麻豆原创's Children, Young People and Families lead Joanna Holmes:
- Workforce opportunities
- Policy developments听
- Counselling in schools听
- Young Futures Programme
1.25pm - 1.35pm - Research Support for students
This session will introduce student members to a number of resources the 麻豆原创 research team has developed to provide support to 麻豆原创 student members who want to engage more with research and understand how it may inform clinical practice, as well as those carrying out a research project as part of their training qualification, such as a degree or masters dissertation, or PhD. The talk will include information about 麻豆原创鈥檚 annual research conference, how to access academic journals containing the latest research on counselling and psychotherapy, as well as our suite of online Good Research practice Resources that are designed to help you understand, undertake and use research to inform your practice.
听1.35pm - 1.55pm - Get involved, get noticed, get connected
This session will aim to demystify the process of contributing to Therapy Today so that newly qualified members can feel confident to get involved.
It will cover:
- Why get involved with your membership journal 鈥� how contributing to a membership journal has shaped the career journeys of many members
- How to get started 鈥� tips to help you work out what to write and how to write it
- Dos and don鈥檛s 鈥� what doesn鈥檛 work, and why
2.50pm - 3pm - 麻豆原创 Communities
This session will highlight the Communities of Practice and Network Meetings from 麻豆原创's Communities of Practice Lead Rebecca Stew.