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Market Place


The following have confirmed their attendance at this event:

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Inter-Psyche

Inter-Psyche is the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Studies. It currently offers Certificate in Counselling courses as well as a two-year Diploma in Counselling that is accredited by the BACP. There are also opportunities for low cost supervision and CPD programmes such as a 10 weekend Post Graduate Certificate in Couple Counselling and weekend courses in Group Work and Leadership Training.

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Specialist Respiratory Team, Eastern and Coastal Kent NHS Community Services

We are a counselling service based in the Specialist Respiratory team as part of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation service. Our client group all have a respiratory diagnosis often COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) which is an umbrella term for a number of conditions. There is a high incidence of stress and anxiety as well as depression with respiratory conditions. We would like the opportunity to raise awareness of respiratory conditions and common associated psychological and emotional difficulties and promote our service to other professionals seeking referral routes.

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Help! I want to STOP

‘Help! I want to STOP', is a website to help men address their compulsive use of child pornography. The website can be used as a resource for therapists working with their clients' sexually harmful behaviour. (www.helpiwanttostop.org). The author is Chris Willoughby who will be presenting during the 2 minute platform session.

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The Helen Bamber Foundation

The Helen Bamber Foundation was founded by Helen Bamber OBE and Dr Michael Korzinski in 2005. Their extraordinary partnership brings together two very different perspectives and 60 years experience working with survivors of torture. Helen Bamber began her counselling in the camps of Bergen Belsen and she was a co-founder of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Dr Korzinski was a Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Programme Oxford University, worked with Helen from 1990 and has pioneered innovative body and trauma therapies.

HBF provides medical consultation, therapeutic care, human rights advocacy and practical support to survivors of gross human rights violations, including torture, political oppression, contemporary forms of slavery, trafficking for sexual exploitation and other forms of extreme cruelty. HBF provides treatments for trauma using a holistic approach to give the clients coping strategies to assist them in their journey towards leading a ‘normal' life. This includes psychotherapy, body-mind work, clinical medico-legal reports writing support, as well as social support through a creative arts programme as part of the psychotherapeutic recovery effort.

Our Creative Arts and Events Coordinator, Stephanie Chaplin, will be present at the BACP "marketplace" on 22 April and will be looking to liaise with health practitioners interested in the clinical and human rights aspects of treatment of trauma among survivors of cruelty.

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The Forensic Therapists Association

The Forensic Therapists Association [FTA] is a recently formed organisation for those working in the forensic field. The aim of the organisation is to support and inspire good practice and theoretical understanding for therapists who work in the forensic setting. The organisation will be offering networking, useful information, seminars and conferences, support and ongoing research in this field.

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Information Services Department - BACP

Members of the Ethics Helpdesk team from the Information Services department will be available to explore any practice issues that you might like to discuss.

This team has been and continues to be trained in ethical thinking and interpretation based on the Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy by experienced practitioners and we are able to offer perspectives for you to explore further with your supervisor. We are also supported by regular supervision with a very experienced practitioner.

The ethics calls the team has taken for nearly ten years have informed the commissioning of more than 50 information sheets to be read in conjunction with the Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy and which are available free to members from the BACP website

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The Counselling Centre, Tunbridge Wells

We are a non-profit making registered charity and an organisational member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). We are also a Network Centre of the Westminster Pastoral Foundation (WPF). The Counselling Centre was established in Tunbridge Wells in 1989 since when we have seen thousands of clients. Our counsellors are trained (or are in training) to Diploma level and beyond and are experienced in a wide range of issues. All our counsellors have regular supervision not just as a BACP requirement but to ensure the standard of counselling at the centre is maintained at the highest level. We provide quality training at two levels, firstly the WPF Certificate in Counselling Skills, which is a foundation course for further training and which can lead to the two year WPF Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling which designed for those who want to develop their counselling.

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The Link Centre

At the Link Centre we provide the opportunity for people to train as psychotherapists and counsellors as well as short introductory courses and Continued Professional Development workshops.

Our flexible part-time courses can lead to national and international qualifications. We take pride in offering quality training, resulting in professional, ethical, competent practitioners. We offer a relaxed and stimulating learning environment in the Sussex countryside just outside Hayward's Heath.

We offer a variety of services promoting both personal and professional development:

Courses can lead to various forms of qualification including UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) recognition as a psychotherapist.

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Imago groups

Imago groups is an experiential therapy group delivered from the synthesis of two perspectives that of humanistic integrative counselling and group analysis. My experience as a humanistic counsellor and group worker is combined with my co-worker Nick Malik's group analytical knowledge to form a potent setting for group exploration and growth.