Informed Clinical Supervision In Practice: Integrating Foundational Concepts And Competencies To Optimize Process And Outcomes Continues… - Intermediate

This one-day workshop is designed to integrate foundational concepts and competencies in clinical supervision. It is based on the premise that informed clinical supervision emphasizes thoughtful intentionality and is designed to accommodate both a framework structure and responsive flexibility. Workshop participants will engage in reflective discussion and practice as they articulate a philosophy of change in counselling and supervision, demonstrate their preferred supervision models, anticipate ethical and legal issues, contemplate cultural and other diversity issues, and explore risk management practices designed to prevent or respond to supervisory challenges.

The intermediate level workshop presumes prior didactic training in clinical supervision and emphasizes experiential learning. The workshop builds on concepts presented in the introductory level workshop and fosters consolidation of prior learning via applied demonstration in a professional learning community context with counselling and psychotherapy colleagues.

Blythe Shepard, a University of Lethbridge counsellor educator, teaches the CCPA course in counselling supervision, and is co-editor of the textbook, Supervision of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Profession.

Jenny Rowett is an instructor at the University of New Brunswick. She is a clinical supervisor for students and for counselling professionals in her private practice.

Trauma-Informed School Counselling: Therapeutic And Classroom-Based Strategies - Intermediate

This interactive session will provide participants with information on best practice in supporting children who have undergone previous trauma. There will be opportunity to dialogue about recognizing the symptoms of trauma, assessment, and interventions that can be used in the classroom and in individual therapy. Case examples will be provided, as well as the chance to collaborate on various approaches and strategies to trauma-informed practice in the classroom and in counselling. Resources on trauma work with children will also be included as a take away from this miniworkshop.

Having worked in schools for over 22 years as an elementary school counsellor, Gillian Smith began the journey of learning about trauma, and how she can be of most help.

Couple / Marriage Counsellors Needed! - Introductory

If you are intrigued about couple counselling, but don’t know where you would even start; if you ever wondered about specializing in a counselling field in demand in order to grow your practice; or if you’re already doing couples counselling but don’t feel as effective as you would like, this session is for you. Come learn from a counselling therapist who never thought in a million years she would ever be doing couple counselling, but ended up finding a true passion that she now wants to share with other therapists. Why her need to share? Because MANY couples and families struggle finding specialized services to help them, and therapists should know there is a counselling approach that offers an amazingly effective framework to work with couples!

Come and learn about the speaker’s journey to becoming a Certified Emotionally Focused Couple’s Therapist (EFT) and learn what this evidenced-based approach is all about. See for yourself if the EFT approach would be a fit for you and find out about the multiple training opportunities and international support provided in the process of becoming a specialized EFT couple counsellor.

Tina Sirois-LeBlanc has her private-practice in Fredericton, N.B., and is a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist for couples and Supervisor Candidate with the International Centre for Excellence in EFT.

The Ethics Of Helping - Boundaries And Relationships - Introductory

It is very common for anyone working in the helping profession to encounter ethical dilemmas. Ethics are at the heart of competent and effective practice for anyone in the helping field. This workshop is designed to give individuals and organizations an opportunity to review common principles and standards for ethical practice that are relevant for their settings. Participants will practice using an ethical decision-making process to work through common areas of ethical concerns and leave with a stronger awareness of their own ethical base.

Some of the Topics Reviewed:
- Boundaries and Ethics
- What’s Involved with Building Ethical Competence
- Common Principles in Helping Professions
- An Ethical Decision-Making Process
- Common Standards of Practice
- Confidentiality and Limits to Confidentiality
- Helper and Client Boundaries
- Cultural and Diversity Competence
- Ethical Technology

Sheri Coburn is a trainer with Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute (CTRI). She has experience in justice, addictions and domestic violence counselling and co-authored CTRI's Counselling Insights book.

Author: Vicki Enns

A Spiritual Approach To Counselling And Psychotherapy - Intermediate

This session incorporates the overview of a variety of spiritual approaches to counselling and psychotherapy that are incorporated into Susan Doiron’s latest book called: Journalling with Soul. These approaches include: the use of guided meditations that evolved from her journal writing; journalling with intent using prompts/questions that follows each guided meditation in her book; meaning/purpose exercises; poetry in prose form that take the form and shape of the deep and mystical meditations contained in her book; and communing with nature.

The guided meditations include a lot of symbolism that incorporates spiritual elements that inform and enrich the integration of spirituality into the counselling process. These elements form a spiritual approach within a counselling framework.

This session will incorporate an experiential approach using guided meditations and spiritual journalling that are two techniques used in her approach to spirituality in counselling and psychotherapy.

This session would be helpful to counsellors and therapists who are looking for ways to be more authentic and intentional about creating sacred spaces for clients to explore their spirituality and incorporating spiritual approaches to counselling into their practice. It also would be a helpful resource for mental health and addictions counsellors and therapists.

Susan Doiron is a counselling-therapist and author. She maintains a private practice and works as a school counsellor. She previously worked as a trauma therapist. She holds a MEd in Counselling.
 

Get To The Heart Of The Narrative Assessment: Learn To Use Storylistening, Clarification Sketch And Gamification - Intermediate

How can we listen to clients’ stories in ways that increase hope and optimism, unjumble thinking, and support feeling more clear and confident? Missed it in 2018? Maybe you participated and want more! Join this expanded session to learn an evidence-based narrative assessment method (Franklin, Yanar & Feller, 2015), coupled with an Online Storyteller and storylistening game for blended delivery. Completing the Self-Directed Narrative Assessment beforehand, participants learn how to listen to client stories using an interactive clarification sketch – into which story content and even assessments such as MBTI can be integrated. Next, we learn how to support clients to become empowered by engaging in a fun and social yet structured game experience in which they verbalize their clarification, generate powerful future possibilities and receive helpful peer feedback. Finally, we learn to build and support exploration plans where clients follow clues and take inspired action to overcome procrastination. Used successfully with over 5000 diverse clients across the lifespan, the OneLifeTools/CareerCycles Narrative Assessment framework is a toolset with deep theoretical underpinning that relies on practitioners’ professional judgment and empathic listening. Over 1000 practitioners have used it successfully in counselling, coaching, career services, postsecondary education, school counselling, pre-retirement and private practice.

Mark Franklin is the award-winning leader of counselling social enterprises, CareerCycles and OneLifeTools, and instructor at University of Toronto. Mark and team have supported 5000+ clients using narratives and storylistening.

The Nervous System Always Wins - Intermediate

How neurobiological strategies can help amplify therapeutic results in clients with a range of diagnoses including PTSD, anxiety, depression, postpartum depression, chronic pain, trauma, and more. This approach, using Self Regulation Therapy, reduces flooding and re-traumatizing, keeps the client in a healing vortex and non overwhelming range of content, and builds new neural pathways around health and resilience while turning off stuck fight or flight responses in the nervous system. This allows for better outcomes with other modalities as clients maintain a more grounded and controlled position in session. As a result, therapists as well, experience reduced vicarious trauma and lower burn out by creating a grounded nervous system and environment to work in.

Tara Miller is a psychotherapist and registered clinical counsellor in private practice in Kelowna, BC. She is a published author and researcher and speaks across the country on resilience.

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Psychology - Intermediate

During this immersive experience, you will: Practice mindful movement and meditation, set your intention for cultivating connection, and learn to apply mindfulness and attachment theories, to deepen relationships.

Melissa Jay is a Registered Psychologist and Advanced Yoga Instructor passionate about integrating mindfulness into all aspects of life to foster a deeper sense of connection to self & others.

Le Développement De La Personne Du Conseiller Ou Du Psychothérapeute : Contingences Et Possibilités - Intermédiaire

La personne conseillère ou psychothérapeute consciente de ses propres caractéristiques personnelles mises en jeu dans sa pratique sera susceptible d’adopter les attitudes et les conduites les plus aptes afin d’optimiser son impact.  À diverses étapes de sa vie professionnelle et au fur et à mesure de son développement; le conseiller/psychothérapeute sait mieux cibler ses forces et veiller sur ce qui, dans sa propre personne, peut affaiblir ou maximiser son impact.

Cette activité de précongrès vise à provoquer une réflexion sur soi-même et sur sa pratique en counseling et psychothérapie. Elle donnera des outils pour mieux baliser un développement autogéré en s’inspirant des recherches les plus rigoureuses et des pratiques exemplaires dans le domaine.

Pour y arriver, nous allons décrire la contribution du conseiller/psychothérapeute au succès de l’intervention en espace thérapeutique. Nous allons réfléchir sur la relation entre les caractéristiques personnelles et l’efficacité professionnelle. Les causes des pratiques difficiles ou désengagées seront discutées.  Enfin, l’impact des activités de formation sur le développement du conseiller/ psychothérapeute sera évoqué. Plusieurs moyens et outils pour entreprendre une pratique réfléchie et un développement autogéré seront partagés et discutés.

Nous vous convions à cette activité précongrès pour prendre soin de votre développement personnel et professionnel.

Liette Goyer, conseillère d’orientation psychothérapeute. Elle est professeure titulaire à l’Université Laval. Elle dirige le laboratoire portant sur les dispositifs d’accompagnement en counseling et elle est chercheure régulière au CRIEVAT.

Sylvie Arseneau est professeure en orientation à l’Université de Moncton. Elle possède un doctorat en éducation et s’intéresse au processus de counseling, au bilan de compétences et au sentiment d’efficacité personnel.

Take Charge Of Your Life

Take Charge of Your Life is designed as a six-hour course to help improve our own mental health and well being. Based on the work of Dr. William Glasser, author of Choice Theory, A New Psychology of Personal Freedom, this six-hour course will offer a basic understanding of the ideas. This course is the property of William Glasser International.

Maureen Craig McIntosh is Senior faculty member of William Glasser International and has been teaching these ideas for the last 30 years.

Mental Health With Younger Children

In this session, individuals will discuss and unpack mental health challenges emerging in elementary age youth. After reviewing startling facts and statistics, we will engage in meaningful discussion regarding the reasons for this rise, how this may manifest itself in the child, the implications on the individual’s mental health as they grow older, and how we as teachers, counsellors and concerned communities can defeat this trend. We will uncover the effectiveness of such ideas as play therapy, relationship building, emotional control and the effect of the information highway on brains still in development. When we leave this session we will have some practical ideas on how to assist younger individuals and their families with increasing their positive mental health. 

Davina Melanson has had extensive experience in working with marginalized youth and guiding new and established teachers in assisting youth with their mental health.