PCE-CfD Event 2025
Wednesday 5 March 2025

Counselling in NHS Talking Therapies: PCE-CfD event 2025

The event is free to attend for BACP members and will take place online. You'll be able to access content on demand if you can't join us live on the day.

NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression are the main way adults in England are able to access counselling through the NHS.

Building on the success of our 2023 CPD event for counsellors working in NHS Talking Therapies, we're again hosting a half-day CPD online workshop tailored for practitioners delivering PCE-CfD.

This event is suitable for members who have completed or are undertaking the PCE-CfD training to work in NHS Talking Therapies services in England.

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9.40am - 10.40am

Neurodivergence is a term used to describe individuals whose brain functions, processes, or structures differ from what is typically expected or considered "neurotypical." 

With growing awareness and increased diagnosis of neurodivergent conditions this workshop aims to explore the ways we can use the PCE CfD approach to support counsellors / therapists work with this client group within our current practice.  

This workshop aims to examine the basic principles of working with neurodivergent clients from a PCE CfD perspective while exploring how process facilitation can support both therapists and clients work in a time limited way. This session will also evaluate use of core principles of PCE CfD theory and how these principles can be mapped onto working with neurodivergent clients as well as identifying how you can expand your current practice in this area based upon the PCE CfD model drawing on your own unique way of being.

There will be a live Q&A session after this presentation.

Presentation slides will be available to download here during the event.

10.50am - 11.50am

Shame and low self-esteem are understood to co-exist and the source of painful incongruence, stuckness and pscyhological distress.  The person-centred approach has a sophisiticated theroretical frame work that helps us to explore how they are correlated. Encountering our own and our client’s embodied experiences of shame and low self esteem with emapthy and acceptance will help us to foster understanding and explore ways of working with shame and low-self esteem in the therapy room.

This workshop aims to describe how Positive Regard and Conditions of Worth explain how shame and low self-esteem are developed, related and mutually reinforcing and help to distinguish between shame and guilt to facilitate experiential specificity and emotion focus.

There will be a live Q&A session after this presentation.

Presentation slides will be available to download here during the event.

12pm - 1pm

This workshop draws on the underlying knowledge and principles counsellors / therapists use in their current PCE CfD practice, to expand scope to work with trauma in a time limited way. Exploring how therapists currently work within this model, mapping with current theorists working in this field so we have the understanding and resources to work with trauma to create the transformative changes possible from this experiential heart centred approach. 

This session aims to both examine the basic principles of working with trauma from a PCE CfD perspective and evaluate use of core principles of PCE CfD theory and how these principles can be mapped onto working with trauma.

There will be a live Q&A session after this presentation.

Presentation slides will be available to download here during the event.