Courses
Strengthen Personal Growth and Family Relationships using SATIR Model course
In the course, learners will get to identify the Coping Stances and its effects; apply the Iceberg Model to discover self and others, and manage expectations; combat repeated negative and unhealthy patterns of feelings, thoughts and behaviours; and resolve differences. The application of congruence interactions helps to improve family interactions and strengthen family relationships.
Grief and Its Complications - Meaning Crises in the Landscape of Loss course
This training will equip you with the fundamental understanding of grief and loss as a meaning crisis from the meaning reconstruction perspective, as well as how to assess grievers’ adaptation and needs for support in the aftermath.
Pre-Death Grief and Loss Series - Quest for Meaning in Terminal Illness course
In the course of counselling, you may come across clients who foresee their own impending death and separation from their loved ones through different dying trajectories. This training will introduce meaning-oriented perspectives to examine death anxiety and preparatory grief as experienced by those diagnosed with a terminal illness. It will also equip you with meaning reconstructive tools to support these clients for life review and preservation of sense of self, as well as facing their end of life and eventual death.
Basic Training in Gestalt Play Therapy course
In this workshop, participants will learn the overview of the therapeutic process developed by Violet Oaklander, key neuroscience findings, Gestalt relational perspective on child development, and Gestalt play therapy process of working with projections through creative arts.
Certified Behavioural Consultant
Based on the DISC Personality System, this specially designed 2-day intensive certification and training programme will equip you with a framework to understand human behaviour more profoundly and key people-reading skills that will help you become proficient in behavioural analysis.
Microskills for Effective Paracounselling (Practical Counselling Intermediate)
This intermediate course will help para-counsellors apply techniques and skills throughout an effective 5-step counselling process in order to draw out the strengths, positives and power in the counselees to help them to cope/overcome their difficulties and promote change and growth.
Grief and Loss in Families Series - Separation and Divorce from Meaning Reconstruction Perspectives course
This training will invite you to look at separation and divorce and other forms of relationship dissolution from a grief and loss and meaning reconstruction perspective. This will also equip you to use meaning oriented intervention tools to facilitate one’s transition and adaptation in the aftermath.
Loss of Another, Loss of the Self - Reconstructing Identity in Times of Transition course
In the losing of a loved one, we may lose crucial relationships that anchor our sense of who we are. This 2-day workshop will address the themes of relearning of self and relarning the world, and teach procedures by which people can start to reconstruct their lives as they grow through grief.
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) course
The 4-day training provides an intensive review of the TF-CBT treatment components, with a specific focus on clinical implementation strategies, and will give participants an opportunity to develop and increase their skills in the practice of TF-CBT.
Introduction to Self-Compassion Practices course
This 1-day workshop is an introduction to Self-Compassion (SC), an empirically supported training program based on the clinical perspective of Chris Germer, PhD and the pioneering research of Kristin Neff, PhD. The workshop will teach social service professionals simple, practical SC skills that they can use in everyday life.
Certified Advanced Behavioural Consultant
This advanced certification programme will dive deep into theories of psychology and equip you with in-depth knowledge of the DISC, TEAMS, Values and BAI. This will help you master your skills to handle situations, issues and questions when consulting with individuals and teams in business environment.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Practice course
Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is an evidence-based approach with more than 3 decades of research to counseling and therapy that focuses on solution-building instead of dwelling on client’s past or analyzing their issues. Participants will learn concrete SFBT skills and techniques that they can apply immediately in their practice.
Transforming Trauma through Art - A Comprehensive Introduction to Art Therapy course
Participants will gain understanding of the roles both process and product in image-making play in art therapy, and ways to develop art themes for therapeutic interventions based on nature of their care-giving roles.
Pre-Death Grief and Loss Series: Supporting Families in the Face of An Impending Loss course
This training will introduce meaning-oriented perspectives of anticipatory grief and separation anxiety as experienced by the family members and the surrounding significant others of those who are critically ill and given poor prognosis. It will also equip you with meaning-oriented intervention tools to support the affected family members and friends in the face of their looming separation from their dying loved one.
Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) With Adults course
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a third-generation, evidence-based, behavior therapy that balances mindfulness and acceptance processes with commitment and behavior change processes to weaken the unhelpful influence of thoughts and emotional avoidance in guiding behavior, while promoting greater experiential engagement and psychological flexibility in the service of valued ends.
Families and Trauma Work - Integrating Key Ideas from Individual and Systemic Practice course
This workshop is useful for those with a therapeutic role with families with complex trauma but would also be appropriate for those with roles in case management, child protection, and family or individual support.
Integrating Self-Compassion into Counselling With Adults course
This intermediate level workshop will guide clinicians on how to effectively integrate empirically-validated self-compassion skills into their sessions with adult clients. Participants will begin by learning and practicing self-compassion perspective and skills for themselves on Day 1 and in the subsequent weeks. On days 2 and 3, participants will learn a practical, clinical model for comprehensive integration of self-compassion into counseling.
Social Service Professional Development Courses
We organise different types of trainingss and courses to equip social service professionals with psychology and counselling therapies and techniques, and also assis them to attain recognised accreditations. Some topics we offer include family therapy courses, solution-focused brief therapy, grief and loss courses, trauma courses, psychotherapy approaches, mental health courses, marital and divorce course, play therapy courses, cognitive behavioural therapy course, attachment theory courses, intervention training, case management courses, trauma-informed courses, and programme research and evaluation courses.
Our trainers - with their extensive years of experiences, skills and knowledge - can bring out the best in our students and help them excel in their professions. Many of our trainers have spent decades in social service and clinical practie, and have the requisite expertise to deliver the course professionally, as well as to relate it to the learners' work context.
General Counselling / Social Service courses
We also provide courses for the general public who do not have a background in social service or do not have a diploma/degree in social service/counselling. We specialise in a wide range of value-added programmes for individuals seeking to improve their personal effectiveness, enhance their interpersonal relationships and beocme a better person, people-helper, or para-counsellor. Our well-designed courses enable many individuals to learn new skills and realise their potential.
Course Subsidies
We seek to defray costs incurred by our students through grants offered by government agencies. Please check our individual course listings for the available subsidies.