Past Events

Please come along to The Chichester Inn for a meeting with fellow members to discuss all things therapy and non-therapy related! We can share ideas, resources and link people in with others.

The committee thought it would be a lovely idea to get together in the new year to talk about Solent and what you, as members, would like to get from the group. For this reason, you are invited to the Chichester Inn on Thursday 19th January to chat with us about your thoughts, meet others from Solent, and, perhaps most importantly, enjoy a drink on us! We have booked out the front bar for the evening, so the space is ours to enjoy for a few hours.

This event has now been cancelled

It is now very common for people experiencing mental and emotional distress to be given a psychiatric diagnosis. This includes many clients seeking and receiving counselling and psychotherapy. This session will offer a conceptual overview of psychiatric diagnosis and the classification of mental disorders, along with providing an insight into how a psychiatric diagnosis is made. It will also consider the range of subjective meanings and psychosocial consequences of receiving a psychiatric diagnosis and explore some of the implications for our work as counsellors and psychotherapists.

Emma will talk through how therapy can work in an outdoor setting, looking at the implications for your practice, as well as the practicalities of where/when and the famous Britsh weather! Whilst we will meet in the Friends's Meeting House, we hope the weather will be nice and we can use Priory Park (situated opposite) for some practical examples and practice.

Simon is a psychosexual psychotherapist specialising in the treatment of sexual and relationship issues. He presented a useful and well-received talk for us in 2019 which explored the life in a day of a psychosexual therapist. The issues Simon treats also include erectile dysfunction, pain during intercourse, loss of libido (sexual desire), sexual addictions including Internet pornography addictions, relationship difficulties and the impact of serious illnesses including cancer, strokes and cardiovascular issues on sexual function and relationships.

In this workshop Meg-John aims to help us gain a broader understanding on the topic of gender, sexual and relationship diversity by means of an interactive Zoom workshop as a taster to gender issues. The session will comprise a 45 minute Q&A session with a participant on a relevant set of questions; followed by opening it out for the group to ask questions, comment, and explore the topic further.

This has been a year like no other and some of you may feel very disconnected to fellow therapists, as our work tends to be very isolating. For this reason, SGPC would like to invite you to attend this free keeping in touch session. Come along, have a chat with fellow counsellors about anything that would be useful. That could be a discussion around how you've adapted your work in response to the pandemic, or it could be a space to dicuss anything other than Covid! If there are people wanting different topics of conversation, break-out room can be utilised to seperate these out

A number of members have requested that we run an afternoon workshop on this theme and we look forward to welcoming Pam, for whom this has been an area of interest and expertise for many years.  You can read more about her background, her experience and her achievements below. She is keen for people to bring questions and ideas from their practice to the session, and hopes to lead a lively and interactive session.

Karunavira (aka ‘KV’) holds an M.Sc. in Mindfulness-based Approaches with Bangor University, an FdSc in Person Centred Counselling (BACP), and a Dip Ed. KV is a senior trainer and tutor on the CMRP Masters Programme, and is a founding director of Mindful health Llp, which delivers Mindfulness Teacher Training programmes within the NHS, he is also a part-time NHS psychotherapeutic counsellor.

Trainer: Helen Riseborough (Consulting and Training Solutions)

Dr Lorraine Bell is a consultant clinical psychologist; fellow of the British Psychological Society and leads the psychological therapies service in secondary mental health for Portsmouth. She is an experienced therapist, trainer and supervisor who now practises exclusively third wave therapies.

Members Only Workshop  Facilitator: Janet Aldridge Transitions Many of us have an inner pull towards the status quo, especially if it is comfortable, and when we make changes we enjoy the sense of mastery that that brings. When change is imposed on us, often change that takes place over weeks or months or even years, then we find ourselves in the land of transition. Learning to navigate that period of the unknown, perhaps the unknowable, and the resources needed for this is a challenge indeed.

AGM: 1pm – 1.40pm A new Committee will be elected during a brief business meeting. 2:00pm – 5:00pm Key Speaker: Kate Dunn “Internet  Counselling – ‘To Meet or not to Meet?’ The Therapeutic Relationship in Cyberspace’ Friends Meeting House, Priory Road, CHICHESTER, West Sussex, PO19 1NX

Understanding a Hoarders Mind-set. Please note seats will be allocated on a ‘first come first served’ basis. All members are welcome to join us for the shared lunch from 1.00pm – 1.30pm.

Please Note:- This is a change to the event previously advertised. Attendance is for MEMBERS ONLY. Talk will begin at 2.15pm. There will not be a shared lunch on this occasion.