5 Simple Tips for Starting a Therapy Session

About this event

How can you get your therapy and counselling sessions off to a flying start? This webinar offers 5 simple, practical, memorable techniques for counsellors and therapists.

As counsellors we are only too aware of the need to get the therapy session off to a good start. And yet this is not a skill taught on most training courses. If anything the only advice given in most training courses is: Negotiate an Agenda - and yet the majority of counsellors do not do this.

But what should we do?

While no single approach will fit all, this free webinar offers 5 simple tips to manage the first 5 minutes of any counselling session.

What have previous delegates said about similar workshops?

• "Excellent overview. Great Case Studies"
• "Very Informative"Learned a lot of new techniques - thank you!
• Excellent, I’ve learnt a great deal today .... thank you!
• This was very clear and practical l. The techniques simple to understand. Excellent session
• Interesting Patrick - helps me to get my thoughts in order. Enjoy some of the links and will find overall very useful"
• "Informative and educational""Thought provoking""grounded in research""good resources provided"
• "Very interesting Good knowledge and excellent research"

Who is leading this webinar?

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.