Workshops
Getting Started with CBT
Aims of the Course:
Awareness
- To teach how to recognise anxiety/low mood
- Self-assessment skills to enable you to identify if/when you are affected by symptoms of low mood/anxiety
Education
- to teach about wellbeing
- Learn about both the long and short term affects of low mood and anxiety
Self care
- to teach how to manage anxiety/low mood
- Learn a range of techniques that enable you to manage your wellbeing more effectively
The following video will give you an introduction to this workshop:
Getting Started with Counselling
The Getting Started with Counselling workshop aims to explore 4 key areas of life and how these areas impact on symptoms of depression and anxiety. It’s aim is to increase awareness and facilitate change.
- Week 1: Support Systems and Relationships
- Week 2: Focusing on Emotions
- Week 3: Conflicting Parts of Self
- Week 4: Problem solving
The following video will give you an overview of this group:
Getting Started with Overcoming Trauma
The Getting Started with Overcoming Trauma Workshop will present you with information and practical techniques to better understand and manage your symptoms caused by trauma.
The following topics are covered:
- Week 1 – What is PTSD , The Fight and Flight response , Understanding triggers and Grounding techniques
- Week 2 – BreathingTechniques , Impact of posture and Relaxation Exercises
- Week 3 – Window of tolerance , Self-Soothing kit and Stress Relieving techniques
- Week 4 – The 3 Systems of Emotional Regulation
Please see the following video for an introduction and overview of this group:
Breathing Space
The Breathing Space group aims to support you with managing your anxiety. It will inform you about what anxiety is, what you can expect in terms of symptoms and teaches you practical and actionable coping strategies to manage your anxiety in a different way. The following topics are discussed in the 6 weeks of the course:
- Week 1 – What is anxiety/worry? Introduction to how CBT can help. Types of worry
- Week 2 – Relaxation and improving sleep
- Week 3 – Attention training and worry postponement
- Week 4 – Problem-solving and stress management
- Week 5 – Thought challenging
- Week 6 – Staying well
Please see the following video for an introduction and overview of this group:
Mood Matters
The Mood Matters group aims to support you with managing your mood. It will inform you about what depression is, what you can expect in terms of symptoms and teaches you practical and actionable coping strategies to manage your mood in a different way. The following topics are discussed in the 5 weeks of the course:
- Week 1 – What is Depression? Introduction to CBT model.
- Week 2 – Activity and Depression
- Week 3 – Problem solving
- Week 4 – Negative thoughts and how to challenge them
- Week 5 – Staying Well
Please see the following video for an introduction and overview of this group: