External Events
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2025 Professional Development Events
Trauma Education presented by Dr Leah Giarratano
Treating PTSD and Complex Trauma (Day 1-4) with Dr Leah Giarratano. Core 30-hour online international training for all mental health professionals working with traumatised populations. The program attracts between 15 and 42 trauma-focused CPD hours.
Self-paced online over three months commencing on delivery of your printed materials, or on 1 February, 1 April, 1 July or 1 October annually. You can complete the program entirely self-paced in your own time without time off work. You can split the Day 1-4 program to complete in different periods during the year (e.g., Day 1-2 commencing in February and Day 3-4 commencing in July). A complimentary extension is available for self-paced learning if required. When you register for our self-paced online program, you have access to a scheduled livestream in the same, or the following year to help consolidate learning.
Join one our highly interactive Day 1-4 livestreams in 2025 offered in March, June, September for NZ or November. You have three months access to the self-paced online program immediately following your livestream to consolidate learning.
The Day 1-4 Fee is $1,290 AUD or $695 AUD for Day 1-2 or Day 3-4 if purchased separately for NZ residents. Please register one month prior and allow 2 weeks for delivery of printed materials. Your program fee includes access to both modes to help consolidate your learning. You can also complete the program in either or both modes (e.g., Day 1-2 in self-paced and Day 3-4 livestream or vice versa).
For all upcoming offerings, click here.
Working with Trauma with MāoriTikanga-Base Models of Practice
Online, May 2
Deisgned to transition contemporary Māori concepts and protocols within Models to work with trauma /sexual abuse and to provide a simplistic, dymystification of Te Ao Māori, found in the strands that it takes to weave a new mat. To present Maori Models of Practice which have the blessing of both Kaumatua and Kuia. By doing this it adds these concepts as a tangible tool to use alongside any mainstream practices
Risk Assessment and Management in Clinical Practice: ONLINE and ONSITE
This two-day course on the 15th and 16th of May 2025 focuses on using structured professional judgment to assess and manage harmful behavior risks in clinical practice. It covers violence, sexually harmful behavior, intimate partner and family violence, fire-setting, and self-harm.
For more information, click here.
2025 Suicide Prevention Summit
A free online conference Mental Health Academy is hosting May 16-18.
Participants of the event will enjoy:
• Free registration – it includes access to 15 hours of learning, CPD Certificates, handouts, discussions, and more.
• Learn directly from 16 suicide prevention experts and thought leaders from Australia, Canada, USA, and Europe.
• Topics include youth suicidality, resilience, relationship breakdown and suicide, suicide prevention in the humanitarian context, social media and suicide, ZSF/CAMHS, suicide assessment, and more.
An Introduction to ISTDP: Treating Depression with ISTDP
Auckland, 17th May 2025 - Torpedo Navy Museum, Auckland: 10am to 4pm NZT
This one-day training provides an overview of the basic theory of Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) with specific application to treating depression. Video of a therapy with a woman with treatment-resistant Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) will be shown to illustrate the use of ISTDP with a focus on the understanding of the intrapsychic conflict underlying depression, the assessment and regulation of anxiety, and the assessment and intervention with defenses.
Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) workshop
Dates: 26th and 27th of May
Location: The Fickling Centre, Three Kings, Auckland
This two-day, skills-based training is designed for psychologists and mental health professionals who want to enhance their ability to deliver brief, effective interventions in primary care, mental health, and other fast-paced settings. Designed for health practitioners with any previous experience in ACT, this workshop will elevate your therapeutic skills and deepen your understanding through interactive sessions, techniques and hands-on activities, so you can support tangata whaiora to achieve meaningful change.
Transference Focused Psychotherapy Introductory Workshop with Dr Eric Fertuck
20 -22 June 2025 ; Adelaide, Australia & Online 9.00am - 5.00pm ACST (Australia/NZ/Asia/Pacific)
The workshop offers didactic training for Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP). TFP is a manualized, evidenced-based treatment for severe personality disorders such as Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders. TFP is a psychodynamic psychotherapy based on object relations model of personality pathology with an emphasis on the transference of significant internalized past relationships onto the therapist and other current relationships.
The Forensic Schema Sessions - Live Training
26 & 27 June, Queenstown
Join renowned experts, Shay Addison and Dr Lars Madsen, the visionary minds behind the acclaimed podcast 'Beyond the Crime' and the transformative online course 'A Hero's Journey: The Forensic Schema Sessions', for an unparalleled live training event in advanced forensic schema therapy. This event is designed to elevate your practice and deepen your understanding of applying schema therapy in challenging forensic settings.
Tickets on sale until 10/06/2025. For more information, click here.
