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Welcome to the Psychotherapy Workshop

Strengthen your Practice

We are excited to be offering The Psychotherapy Workshop. Its development represents a lot of planning, design and execution. The material presented in each seminar has been developed by Dr Paul Gibney through over forty years of practice in consultation with teachers, mentors, colleagues, clients and critical friends. We invite you to be a part of this ongoing dialogue, or rather to bring your multiple dialogues into conversation with the ideas herein: an ongoing conversation – the very heart and soul of psychotherapy.

The Psychotherapy Workshop aims to provide educational material that will strengthen your practice. The project is to supplement and build on what you already know and to extend and deepen your understanding of psychotherapy. Each seminar series is a WORKSHOP and has been designed to maximise REFLECTIVE PRACTICE.

Each Workshop Series has multiple seminars (for instance, Critical Concepts for Effective Therapeutic Practice (Workshop One) has 14 seminars).

Seminar Format

The format for each seminar within a workshop is:

A series of pre-seminar questions where you can record your thoughts about the seminar video
A series of post video questions where you can record your thoughts
The ability to download your reflection thoughts
The opportunity to email questions about the seminar. Members' questions are used to create question and answer seminars that are added to the workshop as additional content for all members to view (e.g. currently we have added four additional Q&A sessions to the Critical Concepts for Effective Therapeutic Practice Workshop Series - each with multiple videos answering members' questions).

You will be able to print your responses to the pre and post-seminar questions (reflections) from each seminar for later reference.

Note: we do not have access to, nor track your reflection notes..

What is unique in The Psychotherapy Workshop?

The Psychotherapy Workshop is designed for practitioners who are keen and committed to increasing their knowledge about psychotherapy and increasing their practical capacities.

It is designed, through the processes of Reflective, Conceptual and Active Learning, to strengthen your practice.

It deals with Everyday Practice and Putting Therapy to Work (two key concepts in this Ecology of Ideas). It is based on the experiences of actually providing therapy to a large variety of clients with many varied presentations. It is not about protocols developed in pristine settings in which practitioners see carefully selected clients.

The theory and practice presented are designed and informed by Everyday Practice. Traditional models of practice and concepts within those models are respected and made practical and applicable to the context in which the practitioner operates.

We will outline and discuss The Other Skill Set that every successful practitioner needs, but typically develops by her or him self through trial and error. The aim will be to make that process more efficient and effective.

We can all but guarantee that on this website, you will see and hear psychotherapy conceptualised and discussed in ways that you have not seen or heard before (and we appreciate that that is an outrageous claim!). The promise of that claim, though is by comparing and contrasting this material with your understandings, you will increase the depth of your perceptions and practices.

In this 10-minute video, Dr Gibney provides an overview of the content and rationale for each of the Workshop Series.

What is unique in The Psychotherapy Workshop?

The Psychotherapy Workshop is designed for practitioners who are keen and committed to increasing their knowledge about psychotherapy and increasing their practical capacities.

It is designed, through the processes of Reflective, Conceptual and Active Learning, to strengthen your practice.

It deals with Everyday Practice and Putting Therapy to Work (two key concepts in this Ecology of Ideas). It is based on the experiences of actually providing therapy to a large variety of clients with many varied presentations. It is not about protocols developed in pristine settings in which practitioners see carefully selected clients.

The theory and practice presented are designed and informed by Everyday Practice. Traditional models of practice and concepts within those models are respected and made practical and applicable to the context in which the practitioner operates.

We will outline and discuss The Other Skill Set that every successful practitioner needs, but typically develops by her or him self through trial and error. The aim will be to make that process more efficient and effective.

We can all but guarantee that on this website, you will see and hear psychotherapy conceptualised and discussed in ways that you have not seen or heard before (and we appreciate that that is an outrageous claim!). The promise of that claim, though is by comparing and contrasting this material with your understandings, you will increase the depth of your perceptions and practices.

In this 10-minute video, Dr Gibney provides an overview of the content and rationale for each of the Workshop Series.