Workplace counselling is operating within an increasingly complex environment. Counsellors are supporting clients experiencing a wide range of personal, psychological and workplace-related challenges, often within services designed to provide focused, time-limited interventions. At the same time, expectations of workplace mental health support continue to evolve, creating both opportunities and challenges for practitioners.

The programme will consider the changing nature of client need and the implications this may have for workplace counselling services. Delegates will explore the realities of working with clients experiencing higher levels of distress, complexity and risk, and reflect on how workplace counsellors can work safely and ethically while recognising the limits of the support they are able to provide.

Alongside these discussions, the event will explore the relationship between counselling, work and wellbeing. While work can be a source of stress and challenge, it can also contribute to purpose, identity, connection and meaning. Presentations will consider how counsellors can support clients to navigate workplace difficulties, develop agency and realistic expectations, and make decisions that promote wellbeing while respecting client autonomy. Attention will also be given to recognising how different lived experiences may affect an individual's relationship with work, workplace opportunities and wellbeing outcomes.

This event will be relevant to counsellors working in workplace settings, employee assistance programmes, occupational health services and private practice. Delegates will leave with a greater understanding of how diversity, identity and workplace context can shape therapeutic work, helping them to provide more inclusive and effective support for a broad range of clients.

Event aims

The main aims of this event are to:

  • explore the evolving challenges facing counsellors working within employee assistance programmes, occupational health settings and other workplace-funded services
  • consider how factors relating to identity, diversity and lived experience can influence both clients' experiences of work and their access to support
  • critically reflect on the changing nature of workplace counselling, strengthen ethical decision-making in complex situations and explore evidence-informed approaches to supporting clients to remain engaged in meaningful and sustainable working lives
  • develop a greater understanding of how diversity, identity and workplace context can shape therapeutic work, helping them to provide more inclusive and effective support for a broad range of clients.

Learning outcomes 

By attending this event, delegates will learn to:

  • identify emerging trends and challenges in workplace counselling practice, including increasing levels of complexity, psychological distress and risk. and the diverse ways in which workplace experiences can be shaped by identity, culture and lived experience
  • recognise the ethical and practical limitations of workplace counselling models and apply sound professional judgement when client needs exceed contracted provision
  • apply ethical decision-making frameworks to support effective practice in time-limited counselling, including the management of endings and onward referral considerations
  • develop strategies for supporting clients experiencing workplace-related challenges, helping them balance competing demands while maintaining agency and autonomy
  • evaluate the role of counselling in promoting sustainable working lives, recognising how work can contribute to meaning, connection, identity and wellbeing alongside its potential challenges.

Programme

This event will begin at 9.30am and finish around 1pm.

 

Key information 

This event will take place online on Wednesday 13 January 2027. 

After booking you'll receive a confirmation email. Full joining instructions will be sent out nearer the event date.

Your booking includes 

  • approximately three hours of CPD presentations 
  • CPD certificate to download 
  • selected presentation slides 
  • access to the on-demand service to catch up on the recordings from Wednesday 13 January 2027 to Tuesday 13 April 2027
  • opportunities to network with other attendees through the chatroom

Accessibility 

The event livestream service is available with AI subtitles.   

The on-demand service will be subtitled and/or transcribed through a reviewed process to ensure accuracy.  

For a full list of events EDI and accessibility commitments please visit our website