WNW - Child Protection Guidelines & Integration - Impact on Counselling Practice and the Therapeutic Relationship

Presenters Bio:

Majella Ryan, M.A. MIACP, IAHIP is an experienced child, adolescent and adult psychotherapist and utilises creative and play based activities in her work with children, adolescents and adults. She trained originally in Biodynamic and Integrative Psychotherapy, she has a M.A. in Creative Psychotherapy and a Diploma in Creative Supervision. She is interested in how as therapists we work with clients incorporating the body, movement, play, humour and other creative mediums supporting regulation in both ourselves and our clients.  She specialises in working creatively with trauma in children, adolescents and adults and in how trauma not only affects the individual but how it impacts their families. Majella is interested in how relational trauma and attachment issues impact the therapeutic relationship.

She has worked in a variety of settings including a family therapy service and in CARI for 21 years, where she held various therapeutic roles including Head of Therapy and National Clinical Director before moving into full time private practice in 2013. Majella is a psychotherapist working with adults and adolescents and provides supervision for play therapists, creative arts therapists, child, adolescent, and adult counsellors and psychotherapists. She also provides supervision in social care settings and with others in the caring profession.

Majella is currently in private practice, working as a therapist and supervisor and provides training and lecturing for CTC and PCI College. She has presented in both Ireland and the UK.

Workshop Outline: 

The objective : 

1. Grounding the therapist in working with Child Protection issues. 

2. Exploring the impact of reporting on the therapeutic relationship.

3. Exploring how we can best support the client through this process.

• In this workshop we will explore how we manage our child protection responsibilities while supporting our client, keeping them in central focus while navigating the reporting process, at all times aiming to empower our client rather then disempowering them.
• We will explore developing a contract with our clients that forms the foundation for the therapeutic relationship.
• We will explore the broader implications for our client of reporting retrospective cases, how that report is dealt with and what the longer term implications might be for our client particularly with reporting intrafamilial abuse.
• We will explore the therapists own internal process and the importance of tracking what arises in them so they are able to regulate themselves and co-regulate their client.
• We will look at the systems they have in place that support them to carry out their legal duties in a reflective and responsive manner.  

CPD Certs will be emailed to participants after attendance at the Workshop

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