Workshops

Emma Pritchard

Introduction to Integrating Nature into Your Counselling Practice

The power of nature in a world of environmental change is healing and available for all. Emma Pritchard, counsellor and tutor, offers an experiential outside workshop to show how woodland spaces and school gardens can enhance therapeutic interventions in school including self-care for practitioners.

Meet Emma

Emma Pritchard is a BACP accredited counsellor and certified forest therapist. Since 2018 Emma has integrated nature into her counselling practice to support young people, families and teachers. Emma is a tutor on the Ironmill Advanced Integrative Counselling Diploma, and a Nature and Therapy mentor for student forest therapists. Emma would like to offer her experience of supporting clients within woodland spaces and school gardens to enhance your own counselling practices and school therapeutic interventions as well as supporting your own self-care. The workshop offered will be an outside experiential workshop weather dependant.

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Emily Carey Smith

Superpower or Kryptonite? It’s not always what you think, Understanding Neurodivergence

This engaging and interactive workshop offers a personal and practical exploration of neurodiversity, with a focus on ADHD across life stages. Through experiential activities, myth-busting exercises, and therapeutic reflection, we’ll unpack masking, emotional responses, and the shifting presentation of neurodivergence. You’ll explore tailored strategies and holistic approaches to support neurodivergent clients, while considering the challenges and opportunities that arise in practice.

Meet Emily

Emily Carey-Smith is a trainee integrative counsellor with a developing specialism in working with neurodivergent clients. She is currently on placement in a college setting, supporting children and young people.

Alongside her training, she brings lived experience to her work. She has a dual diagnosis of ADHD and Autism (ASD), and she is also a parent to a son with complex Autism and OCD. Through a combination of personal insight and academic learning, she is passionate about raising awareness of the unique therapeutic needs of neurodivergent clients and advocating for approaches that honour their individuality. She believes strongly in the importance of normalising responses that might otherwise be seen as ‘wrong’ or ‘different,’ and she is keen to keep opening these conversations, with clients, peers, and within the profession.

Her aim is to support a more inclusive, attuned, and flexible way of working, one that truly meets clients where they are.

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Sally Dyer - Three voices inside my head

In this workshop, Three Voices In My Head, Sally considers how children and young people might react to trauma. Faced with adverse early life experiences, young people might carry painful messages from events that become entrenched and cause inescapable triggered responses. She shows how to use understanding and strategies from transactional analysis to change unhelpful communication patterns in children, helping them move towards healthier relationships and behaviour.

Meet Sally

Sally Dyer is a counsellor based in Weymouth and Dorchester, with over 15 years’ experience working with individuals, couples, and children. Her background includes both play therapy and counselling with young people, alongside a broader practice supporting adults in a range of emotional and relational issues. Sally has also undertaken advanced training in Psychotherapy within Transactional Analysis.

Sally is a tutor at the Iron Mill College, where she teaches on counselling and psychotherapy programmes. She integrates Transactional Analysis (TA) into her work and training, offering clear, engaging ways to use TA with children in educational and therapeutic settings.

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Delena Ritter

Familiarise yourself with Family Therapy

There is an increasing focus on support for parents who are seeking extra help to support their young people in navigating peer relationships, family troubles, school anxieties and cyber problems. Delena Ritter, counsellor and tutor, will offer invaluable insight into family systems that practitioners can use to help parents in schools.

Meet Delena

Delena’s initial counselling training was integrative and she then specialised in working with children and young people. She also completed the CRUSE bereavement training. Alongside her lecturing role she currently works as a school counsellor in a primary school setting and supervises counselling students on placement.

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Veronica Rosello 

Supervision and the Emotionally Healthy School - Bridging the Gap 

Details coming soon

Meet Veronica

Veronica's background before counselling training 18 years ago was in education and the expressive arts. She has taught in schools and early years settings. Adult education has included drama and dance courses for vulnerable groups as well as more formal training of counsellors, teachers and early years practitioners from Local Authority CPD workshops through to University lecturing on degree level courses, both in the UK and overseas.

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 SWEDA

SWEDA (South West Eating Disorders Association) offers a range of support services for children and young people with an eating disorder or for those who are concerned about someone with an eating disorder, including support and guidance sessions, counselling and support. Hannah McKie will consider aspects of this work, including how eating disorders affect the body image of young people.