NZPsS Centre for Professional Development

Events coming up in 2025

Short Course in Mindful Self-Compassion (SC-MSC)

Friday 4 July to Friday 8 August 2025, 12.00pm-1.15pm, online

Navigating the Nervous System: Polyvagal Theory in Practice

18 July 2025, 9.00am-11.00am, online

Why Sleep Hygiene Doesn’t Work: Evidence-Informed Approaches to Comorbid Insomnias

23 July 2025, 9.00am-1.00pm, online

Enhancing competence in supervision: Essential elements of effective practice, July 2025

2 half-days 29 & 30 July 2025, 9.00am – 1.00pm, online

Te Tiriti o Waitangi informed Psychology in Aotearoa

30 & 31 July 2025, 9.00am - 5.00pm, Auckland

Treating and preventing mood disorders in young people using best practice CBT

1 August 2025, 9.00am-12.00pm, online

The Science behind Mood Food and the Microbiome-Gut-Brain-Axis: how and when to use this knowledge with clients

12 August 2025, 9.30am-12.00pm, online

Pūrakau and Motivational Interviewing

15 August, 9.00am - 4.00pm, online

Community Psychology Symposium 2025

27 August 2025, 9.30am-4.00pm, Hamilton

Decolonial Community Psychology Discourses: Unearthing its Roots and Co/Recreating Routes

28 August 2025, 9.00am -12.30pm, Hamilton Registration on the conference page

AI in Clinical Practice: Safety, Utility, and Accountability Across the Therapeutic Ecosystem

28 August 2025, 9.00am - 5.00pm, Hamilton. Registration on the conference page

Te Whare o Oro: Neurodiversity in the healing space - A Māori approach

28 August 2025, 9.00am-5.00pm, Hamilton, Registration on the conference page

Te Tiriti o Waitangi informed Psychology in Aotearoa

Following conference on 1 & 2 September at the University of Waikato, 9.00am - 5.00pm

Beyond Technique: Advanced Clinical Applications of IFS in Trauma Healing

10 September 2025, 9.00am-11.00am, online

An Introduction to the DBT Prolonged Exposure Protocol for PTSD

22 September 2025, 9.00am-1.00pm online

Foundations of Psychopharmacology I & II

Two half-days: 25 September and 2 October, 8.30am- 11.30am, online

Working in the ‘Here and Now’: Deepening Therapeutic Encounters

16 October 2025, 9.00am-10.30am, online

The link goes to the APS event finder for Professional Development events

Available on demand

E pai ana te mahi: Working well with Māori

on demand

Liberation Psychology: The Future of "Cultural Competence"

90 minutes on demand

90 minutes

Some Past events (no longer available)

Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorder

27 June 2025, 9.30am - 4.00pm, Wellington

Working with the Phobia of Vulnerability in Trauma Treatment

19 June 2025, 9.00am- 10.30am, online

Te Tiriti o Waitangi informed Psychology in Aotearoa

18 & 19 June 2025, 9.00am - 5.00pm, Christchurch

The Long Shadows of Historical Trauma: Unraveling the Intergenerational Impacts of Forced Displacement and Colonialism

10 June, 9.00am - 12.00pm online

Working Hard but Never Doing enough: Help Your Clients to Harness the Power of Perfectionism without Losing themselves!

27 May 2025, 9.00am - 12.00pm, online

The Unified Protocol: A Transdiagnostic Approach to the Treatment of Emotional Disorders

13 May 2025, 9.00am - 1.00pm

Addicted to Drama: Understanding and Healing the Cycle of Chaos and Crisis

9 May 9.00am - 10.30am, online

Integrating Parts Work into Therapy: Getting Creative in Working with Youth, Adults, Couples and Families with Developmental Trauma From a Parts Framework

6 May 2025, 9.00am-10.30am, online

The Cognitive Behavioral Impact of Poverty

3 April 2025, 9.00am - 10.30am, online

Disability and Practice – Understanding Complexity in Context

15 May 2025, 12.30pm-1.30pm, online

Experiential Techniques for Moving Beyond "How Do You Feel?"

27 March 2025, 9.00am-10.30am, 0nline

Treating anxiety in children and adolescents: Clinical strategies within empirically supported procedures

27 February 2025, 9.00am - 12.00pm online

Empowered Pain Relief: Accessible solutions for psychologists and their patients

18 March 2025, 9.00am - 12.00pm, online

Understanding Trauma through an Attachment lens

Two half-day workshops, 24 & 31 March 2025, 9.00am-12.00pm, online

Introduction to radicalisation and (violent) extremism, and P/CVE

26 March 2025, 10.00am - 12.00pm, online

The State of the Science on Accessible, Scalable, and Effective Psychotherapies for PTSD

25 February, 9.00am - 1.00pm, online

Getting Technical: Focusing on client language to influence treatment outcomes in Motivational Interviewing

18 February 2025, 9.00am-10.30am, online

Short Course in Mindful Self-Compassion (SC-MSC)

Lunchtime online training course- weekly for six weeks online, every Friday 21 February to Friday 4 April, 12.00pm-1.15pm

Cognitive Approaches to Trauma Processing: Cognitive Processing Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy for PTSD

20 November 2024, 9.00am -12.00pm, online

Mindful Self-Compassion: An Introduction and Practice and/or Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout

17 December 2024, 9.30am-5.30pm, Auckland

When Guidelines Fail: Fundamental Problems with the AADPA Guideline for ADHD

9 December, 6.00pm - 7.30pm, online

Addressing Unique Mental Health Needs in New Zealand's Chinese Population

17 October 2024, 1.00pm - ~3.00pm

Making the most of Supervision for Trainees and Interns

Two half-days, 29 & 30 January 2025, 9.00am -1.00pm, online

23 September, 7.00pm - 8.00pm, online

Restorative Supervision

2 half-days, 3 & 4 December 2024, 9.00am - 1.00pm, online