A Person Centred Counsellor is the latest release from Counselling DVDs.

In 2000 Norma James, already a highly experienced therapist with many years of practice behind her, made the decision to work only from a Person Centred perspective. In this video she demonstrates her practice and talks about her understanding of the approach.

The DVD consists a 55 minute unscripted session in which the client - in reality a colleague of Norma’s - works with real material. This is followed by two short debrief sessions conducted by Mike Simmons in which he talks to both the counsellor and client about the session and then a 33 minute interview in which Mike talks to Norma about the Person Centred Approach.

This DVD  provides a rare opportunity to see a real counselling session, unscripted, unplanned, just as it happened.

Further details on the Counselling DVDs web site 

Therapists and Professional Negligence by Peter Jenkins is the latest release from Counselling DVDs. You can find out more about it here, and read a review by Sue Murphy that appeared in Contemporary Psychotherapy here.

Maybe not the most exciting piece of news, but Counselling DVDs has a new trailer - and here it is - http://youtu.be/tfKbULX-WU4

A new release from Counselling DVDs!

Following on from A Confidential Space (“a wonderful educational tool” – Children & Young People) and Counselling Confidentiality and the Law (“essential viewing for counsellors, counselling trainers and students” – Therapy Today) Peter Jenkins’ third DVD looks set to become another valued addition to the Counselling DVDs catalogue. It covers essential elements of the law which are relevant to a wide range of counsellors, psychotherapists, counselling psychologists and therapists in the UK.  Topics covered include: Introduction to the law, key boundaries,  common law , case law, statute, ethical principles and the law, the law of negligence, assessing the therapists competence, Implications for practice, duty of care, the Bolam test and much more! This DVD offers a comprehensive introduction to the UK legal system as it relates to counselling. Any therapist viewing it should find themselves better informed of the issues that impact on their practice.  For more information visit the Counselling DVDs website

A new release from Counselling DVDs and this time it's a book - The Counselling Trainer's Handbook. It's for anyone who teaches counselling or counselling skills and you can find out more here

Maslow 2.0

This made me smile - of course wi-fi wasn't around when Maslow was writing!

Employment Opportunity

Operational Manager for the Newport Community Counselling Service (part time) .

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a  team which will be responsible for the day to day running of the Newport Community Counselling service in Newport, located at both campus and community based venues. The post holder will be responsible for the coordination and mentoring of trainee counsellors working on the project, identifying and providing appropriate training opportunities as required.  The postholder will be responsible for referrals, assessment and allocation of counsellors to clients as well as the collation of data for monitoring and evaluation purposes The person appointed will be educated to degree level with a Diploma in Counselling and/ or  Psychotherapy  and be an accredited Counsellor or Psychotherapist (BACP).  The post holder will have extensive experience of coordinating and evaluating a counselling service.

This job is 0.6 FTE.

CLOSING DATE:   Tuesday, 26th November 2013

For more information please go to: http://jobs.southwales.ac.uk/vacancies/#results