CMCS Workshop for Counsellors - 2024

 

Fundamentalist religious childhoods and adult health: Implications for practice in one-to-one therapeutic encounters

 

Saturday 5 October - on Zoom

Provisionally 09:15 for a 09:30 start, finishing around 16:00 (with breaks during the day) – 5 hours of CPD contact time

Zoom Workshop

This workshop will introduce attendees to this often-neglected topic within counselling and psychotherapy. Based on her doctoral research Gill will provide an overview of the emergent advantages and disadvantages of a fundamentalist religious upbringing within the Abrahamic religions. The impact on wellbeing that emerged from the co-researchers’ stories will also be outlined and implications for practice explored. This will be an interactive and experiential workshop that will include working with case studies and discussing key issues such as how the inherent power imbalance might impact the work with a client who has grown up in a strict and controlling religious environment.
 

Facilitator for the Workshop

Dr Gill Harvey has BACP Senior Accreditation and Accreditation with the ACC. Gill is a therapeutic counsellor/ psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer working mainly in private practice. She is also the group supervision lead for the Hummingbird Cancer Centre in Bicester and a Trustee of an affordable counselling service in Bedfordshire.

Gill completed a research doctorate at the Metanoia Institute/Middlesex University, the title of her thesis being: ‘Both sides of the coin: Counsellors’ stories of the influence of a fundamentalist religious upbringing on mental health and wellbeing in adulthood’.

She has presented different aspects of her research findings at conferences both nationally and internationally and has also written several journal articles on this topic. Her particular interests are the relationship between counselling/psychotherapy and spirituality, as well as early developmental religious experiences and adult mental health and wellbeing.

Cost per person

• £90 for counsellors on the CMCS Register
• £100 for non-CMCS counsellors

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Closing date for bookings: midnight on Sunday 8 September, unless all places are filled before this date.

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