Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy News Autumn 2015

SUSSEX COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY NEWS Autumn 2015 www.sussex-counselling.co.uk

SEXUAL ABUSE

HEADS TOGETHER

Treating survivors

Taking up the challenge of youth mental health

SCAP AGM

Meet the committee

News and views, suicide workshop, hypnotherapy, online therapy, BACP Conference, Diary, Reviews

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WELCOME...

4 SCAP AGM All the news and elected officers

At our AGM in June we said farewell to committee members who have served SCAP so well in recent years, giving their time, energy and passion to promote our service. We celebrate their achievements on page 4, where we also welcome our new committee. Among the new faces are Andrew Faulconbridge, Chair, who outlines his plans for the next year on page 5, and Eileen Palmer, newly-elected Seminar Organiser, who has hit the ground running with a fantastic programme of events already in place for the coming year.

Within weeks of her appointment Eileen had organised a successful workshop on NLP and her new programme includes a forum on integrative arts therapy on 12 September when you will have the opportunity to learn some of the tools and techniques which can be applied in your practice.

In December Eileen has arranged a visit for members only to a child centre near Brighton where children who have been sexually abused or witnessed sexual abuse are interviewed.

And in March I will be helping run a seminar on IT when we will explore in small groups how to get the best from Facebook, Twitter and free web software to promote your practice.

As well as details of all these, this issue is packed with information, features, ideas and news. I hope you enjoy it.

5 Seminar vision and Chair’s welcome Our annual programme plus meet the new SCAP Chair 6 Social media Find SCAP on Facebook and Twitter 7 Working with suicide New workshop 8 Sexual abuse supporting victims 10 The digital therapist Embracing new technology 12 Hypnotherapy 15 Youth mental health Sarah Kenyon from Heads Together at our AGM 17 BACP Report from the annual conference 18 Diary 20 Reviews

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4 Sussex Counselling annual

meeting

New faces join the SCAP committee

Meet the new Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy Committee.

Getting down to work at their first meeting following June’s AGM are Chair, Andrew Faulconbridge; Deputy Chair, Pat Smale; Newsletter Liaison, Pat Smale; Website Manager, Charles Baines; Secretary, Jan Irwin and Eileen Palmer, Seminar Coordinator. Other members elected are Jo Moore, Jeannie Civil, David Mugridge, Margaret Perry and Karin Brauner.

Jane Lynch took on the role of Finance Officer last year, the AGM heard and is to look at the feasibility of direct debit membership.

The meeting said goodbyes and thanks to members who have stepped down after dedicated service to the organistion.

These include Terry Woodhouse, Chair, Adrienne Hirschfeld, Deputy and Web Manager, Biddy Harling,

Membership Secretary and Pat Smale as Seminar Organiser.

Sheila Pope continues to oversee work on the paper directory, which will be reissued in the Autumn.

Biddy Harling said membership had been at an all-time low in 2013, falling after members had to re-enter their details online. As a result it was decided to re-instate a database of members’ details instead of relying solely on the online register, a move which has proved more accessible with Web Manager, Adrienne and Biddy able to share and mutually check information, with the additional advantage of being able to run queries easily on the database.

Biddy has built links with local colleges, distributing newsletters as well as designing new purple publicity cards, which are available for members to distribute.

Seminars and more Treating traumatised clients, mindfulness. sensory processing and working with people with physical disabilities were among the topics tackled by speakers at SCAP seminars, reported retiring Seminar Organiser Pat Smale.

Jan Irwin, Secretary, said the committee had worked on all areas of SCAP’s life – membership issues, the online and paper directories, the website, the newsletter, seminars, and finances.

“It’s been a busy year and I would like to thank all committee members for their dedication and energy,” she told the AGM. Lisa Martucci described her initiative in setting up the newly-qualified counsellor support group, which has met three times with plans to meet after every CPD event in future to continue to offer support and attract more members.

Improving and building on the capacity of the website, including the possibility of introducing online direct debits for membership are on the horizon, explained retiring Deputy Chair and Web Manager Adrienne Hirshfeld. These measures will help with retention of members, while seminars and distributing publicity to colleges are ways of attracting new members, she added “SCAP has a lot to offer as a supportive community,” she said.

SCAP AGM Workshops with education at the core Eileen Palmer on an exciting new programme My vision for the future of SCAP seminars is rooted in a firmly held belief that through education we improve ourselves, developing depth, understanding, wisdom and knowledge.

SCAP seminars will be a place to formalise some of our learning; through pair and group work, through dialogue and debate. The intention is to provide affordable, relevant and interesting training.

Most will have practical components and some will be available only to members due to the sensitive nature of the subject matter.

As always, there will be a reduction in cost for members. In fact, in becoming a member of SCAP, you’ll recoup the cost of joining by attending just four seminars.

On Saturday 12 September please join us for a practical, hands-on seminar entitled, Integrative Arts Therapy where Sally Meyer will teach some useful tools and skills to use in practice as well as talking about creativity and neuroscience.

On Saturday 5 December SCAP members only are invited to a behind-the-scenes visit to a venue near Brighton where young children who have suffered sexual abuse or witnessed a serious sexual crime are interviewed by child professionals. We will have access to the interview rooms and given insight into

the skills and tools needed to communicate with young children in order to gather facts and evidence to be used in court. The visit will be repeated in January if demand is high.

Saturday March 5 features a seminar on IT: how to use Facebook, Twitter and free website software to improve your practice.

June 4, 2016 is the date for a seminar led by Sam Taylor, a school counsellor and play therapist using art as a therapeutic medium. Sam set up Art In Mind for young people with mental health diagnoses, and recently began Art in Mind for adults, with great success. She will teach us useful skills and tools for our practice with clients.

SCAP’s next AGM is 25 June 2016, when I’m planning to invite a speaker on ‘end of life counselling’.

If you have ideas for a seminar, or if you know of someone who can offer a three hour presentation on a relevant subject I’d be delighted to hear from you.

Contact Eileen at seminars@sussexcounselling.co.uk Eileen taught in primary secondary schools and in Further Education, where she wrote courses, led departments and trained counselling students at Portslade Community and Varndean colleges.

Andrew’s vision “This is a time of change: the onset of the internet and social media in the way we communicate is unrecognisable from only a few years ago.

How we adapt to these new means is a challenge for many of us and how our organisation meets these challenges will require a greater understanding of what your needs are. To this end the committee members and I will canvas your opinions over the next month or so, hopefully to gather a consensus of views which will benefit us all.

One of my personal ambitions as chair is to find a means in which we can support counsellors who are new to our profession. Anyone who can give feedback on past experience about what you found useful or perhaps was lacking, please do contact me.

This organisation has a vast amount of experience and I hope I can call on that to develop our plans as we go forward into exciting times.”

Andrew Faulconbridge, SCAP Chair

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Childhood and the brain research New research detailing how childhood experiences influence the development of the brain has been collated in a book by two Chichester authors.

Child Development and the Brain has been written by Reader in Psychology Dr Esther Burkitt and counsellor Rob Abbott after years of study at the University of Chichester.

The book introduces new ideas about neuroscience and how the brain develops from conception through to the end of childhood.

Mr Abbott said: “So much of what is published about

neuroscience is in a high technical language.

“We wanted to produce a book that could be understood by people who do not use specialised language.”

The opening sections of the book describe the differing parts of the brain and details how it grows from just a few cells into most the complex structure on the planet.

It also explores emotional development as well as the importance of childhood where individuals learn about what it is to feel loved and how to return the emotion.

Find out more about the book at http://tinyurl.com/nrtty7d

Keep in touch through social media

We have a thriving Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ SussexCounsellingAndPsych otherapy. Jay Beichman, who manages the site, reported at our AGM that it had received 100 likes!

You can also find us on Twitter at @SussexCAP. We now have more than 240 followers and that is growing fast. It’s an ideal way to find out about work, placements and counselling news between issues of the magazine.

Plus you can visit our website at www.sussexcounselling.co.uk - the place to head for details of events as well as membership, renewing membership online or to place an ad online.

Don’t forget that you can keep up-to-date with news, views, training and work opportunities at Sussex Counselling between issues of this newsletter using our busy social media platforms.

The great outdoors Working Therapeutically Outdoors is the title of a CPD workshop in October.

In outdoor therapeutic practice a living ‘third’ is introduced into the relational dynamic, significantly altering the process of therapy. This additional element offers therapists an enhanced capacity to work with early relational experiences and traumas; as well as an important resource for co regulation and co reflection.

In an introductory workshop to the world of therapy in natural spaces, the course on October 17 and 18 in Newick will explore some of the considerations involved in leaving the more static environment of the therapy room.

Hayley Marshall MSc (TA Psych) PTSTA is an indoor and outdoor psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer based in the Peak District, and Stockport. She is a consultant psychotherapist for the Wilderness Foundation UK, and a trainer at the Centre for Nature Based Psychotherapy.

Details: www.thelinkcentre.co.uk/ 218.html

NEWS & VIEWS

Young people at risk due to funding cuts Funding to help children and young people before their problems spiral out of control has been cut by 55%, leaving children and teenagers at greater risk of suffering longer term difficulties, new research reveals.

An investigation by The Children’s Society and the National Children's Bureau (NCB) in collaboration with Children & Young People Now shows that Government funding for a range of early help services across welfare, social care and children’s services in England fell from £3.2bn in 2010 to £1.4bn in 2015.

This early intervention funding – previously called the Early Intervention Grant –

has enabled local authorities to step in early through children’s centres, and with services for teenage pregnancy, drugs and alcohol misuse, and positive activities for young people. But over

Failure to properly invest will damage young lives the last five years such early help services have been a casualty of Government spending cuts.

The report warns that failure to properly invest in help today will not only damage young lives but risk leading to far greater costs for

taxpayers in the years ahead, with greater demand for criminal justice, health and social services.

The charities’ report, shows that despite the efforts of many councils to cushion the blow by securing resources from elsewhere, spending on children’s centres and young people’s and family support services has still fallen by almost a quarter (24%) over five years, from £3bn in 2010-11 to £2.3bn in 2014-15. cut of more than £700m per year.

See details of the recent SCAP seminar on the crisis in youth mental health with Sarah Kenyon of Heads Together on pages 15.

Working with suicide workshop for counsellors Suicide, a society taboo, is a highly emotive subject which challenges our own attitudes and beliefs and raises alarms around risk and selfprotection from a personal and professional stance.

Counsellors have no way of avoiding this issue and need to feel confident and competent in their approach.

Counselling Plus in St Leonards is running a CPD workshop on October 31 offering practitioners the opportunity to explore thoughts and feelings and consider various strategies and approaches to work with

clients and those affected by suicide.

The South East Coast has the second highest suicide rate in the country and has seen less of a fall in suicide than the rest of the country, says Sussex Partnership NHS Trust with Beachy Head among the top 10 places to commit suicide.

Claire Pooley who will run the workshop is a humanistic therapist in private practise and specialises in trauma, mental, sexual and physical health issues and clinical supervision.

She has concentrated on issues of suicide over several

years, researching on suicide and para-suicide and running a suicide helpline for several years when she worked as a community psychiatric nurse.

She was also the area manager for Survivors of Suicide services in both East Sussex and Brighton.

Claire is one of the clinical supervisors at Counselling Plus and is keen to address issues of suicide which are likely to arise in any form of counselling situation.

Details of the course are available at www.counsellingplus.org/ cp-event/working-withsuicide/

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Supporting victims of sexual abuse In the second of her two part article Joanna Beazley Richards looks at the role of the therapist in helping survivors In the first stage of therapy, themes and dynamics of powerlessness, shame and guilt, distrust and reenacting abusive patterns in current relationships must be addressed when they are obstacles to safety, self-care, and regulating emotions and behaviour. Therapy can help with recognising habitual behaviour patterns, beliefs and motivations that maintain self-defeating and selfdestructive behaviours outside of conscious awareness or reflection.

Increased awareness of these themes and dynamics brings greater understanding, greater ability to take responsibility for them, and greater capacities to choose new, healthier responses and actions.

Mindfulness meditation practices can help cultivate such awareness and freedom.

For some people who have been sexually abused, love itself is associated with trauma, because it was within a ‘loving relationship’ that the abuse occurred; this is going to influence the therapeutic alliance.

The first stage of dealing with and overcoming childhood sexual abuse involves: * Getting a ‘road map’ of the healing process; research shows that psychoeducation is a great help (Herman 1995).

* Establishing safety and stability in the client’s body, relationships, and the rest of life. * Tapping into and developing the client’s inner strengths, and any other potentially available resources for healing. * Learning how to regulate emotions and manage symptoms that cause suffering or make the client feel unsafe. * Developing and strengthening skills for managing painful and unwanted experiences, and minimising unhelpful responses to them.

During this stage, we encourage the client to say how they want to sit, and to control the lighting, space between us etc. We also check out with them that the environment at home and in their social life is as safe as it can be, so that they feel safe enough to do the recovery work.

“Therapists need to have a safe, calming way with them.

It is the reptilian brain which is determining the client’s affect regulation, in response to our demeanour. We regulate each other; our brain tells us about our relationship with other people, based on nonverbal cues; it is not what we are saying, it is how we are saying it, ”(van der Kolk 2014).

Resourcing and stabilisation A major goal of therapy with sexual abuse survivors is to enable clients to regulate their emotions, and be able to live inside themselves. Clients often have a narrow window of tolerance at first, and part of this stage of treatment involves helping them to live within their window and developing skills of selfsoothing can be of enormous importance to clients.

After establishing a solid foundation of understanding, safety, stability and selfregulation skills clients can decide whether or not to

A major goal is to enable clients to regulate their emotions, and be able to live inside themselves. engage in the work of remembering and reprocessing. Once the early stage of recovery has provided such a foundation, some people realise that thinking and talking about painful memories is not necessary to achieve their goals, at least in the short term. Some find that the memories are no longer disrupting their life and no

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longer of much interest to them.

Remembering and breaking silence Many survivors repress all memories of what happened to them. Remembering is the process of getting back memory of what happened and the feelings of what occurred at the time. Telling another human being what happened is a powerful healing force.

This is the stage when clients are most at risk of retraumatisation; the therapist needs to be active in keeping them in the present as they remember and retell their story of their abuse.

The main work of this stage involves retelling

Having a sense of power greater than themselves can be a real asset: this can be through mindfulness, meditation, or a deep connection with nature. memories to lessen their emotional intensity, to revise their meanings for the client’s life and identity.

For those who choose to focus on disturbing memories, including because those memories are still disrupting their lives, several ‘memory processing’ methods can be used during this stage.

In general, these methods involve retelling the memories within a safe and healing therapy setting. They can be very effective at ending the influence of such memories in one’s daily life.

Most importantly, there are very effective therapy methods that have been proven, through years of clinical experience and research, to bring great relief and healing by transforming memories and responses to reminders of harmful childhood experiences.

EMDR in particular has an excellent evidence base, and is recommended by NICE for trauma survivors. This method can rapidly transform traumatic memories into nontraumatic ones – and you don’t have to talk about them in detail, if at all, making it a great option for many survivors.

Again, the main point here is that there are effective and relatively rapid methods for dealing with intensely distressing memories of sexual abuse. People do not have to be tortured by them for years.

Joanna Beazley Richards, the founder and Managing Director of Wealden Psychology Institute, is a chartered psychologist, registered clinical psychologist and a UKCP registered psychotherapist.

A complete version of this article is available on our website at www.sussexcounselling.co.uk

Grieving and mourning Grieving is a way to honour pain in order to let go and move into the present.

During this stage the client grieves in order to be able to live fully in the here and now. They begin to deal with the repressed feelings in relation to what they lost, and working through grief about the abusive experiences and their negative effects on their life.

This involves mourning or working through grief about good experiences that they did not have, but that all children deserve.

It also involves a deeper understanding that it wasn’t their fault.

Final stage

The final stage of recovery focuses on reconnecting with people, meaningful activities, and other aspects of life.

The therapy now shifts to reconnection with people, with meaningful activities, and to taking their place in the world as a human being, not with the self-definition of just a survivor of child sexual abuse.

A precursor to this reconnection, or in some cases primary connection, if the client has never felt connected, is their forgiveness of themselves. In some cases this also leads to forgiveness of the perpetrator, but research is unclear whether this in fact helpful or necessary.

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The digital therapist SCAP’s Eileen Palmer on the rise of online therapy The exponential growth of online therapy shouts a clear message to the psychotherapeutic community: people increasingly expect to access help using their computer instead of, or as well as, visiting a professional therapist. How useful are these newer methods of therapeutic intervention? Can they do the job? And are they set to replace real life, human therapists?

The fact that video therapy is widely used by counselling organisations and private practitioners places it firmly within mainstream psychotherapeutic methods.

BACP recently held an online webinar entitled Beginning, developing and strengthening the way we work online. The guidelines from this informative day are clear: in accepting the use of digital and electronic communication systems practitioners have a responsibility to ensure the way we work fulfils ethical practice. Skype is not considered a confidential service. The BACP encourage us to use encrypted systems such as VSee (https:// vsee.com), which is free, or PlusGuidance, a wellmanaged therapeutic video company (PlusGuidance.com). These two examples satisfy HIPPA compliance, the American Accountability Act of 1996

that sets rules, standards and implementation guides for instant video communications.

The UK has embraced HIPPA standards as the benchmark of good practice. Video therapy is here to stay; standards are improving and growing rapidly.

I-couch online counselling lists copious research studies to show its effectiveness and expansion over the last 10 years. (https://icouch.me/ what-is-online-counselling).

EAP counselling agencies have recently begun to use online telephone counselling as a cheaper alternative to face-to-face counselling.

Talking over the internet without video link is often free or inexpensive. There are many research papers, from as early as the 1990’s right up to 2015 showing telephone counselling to have the same ‘results’ as face-to-face therapy. (www.therapist.ltd.uk/ telephone-therapy-found-tobe-as-effective-as-face-toface-for-most-people) As much regular work for trained therapists is found within the EAP system it seems that telephone counselling is set to be on the increase.

Offering online telephone counselling and supervision in private practice has become a norm. HIPPA compliance remains the same for this type of online therapy.

Email and online instant messaging has proven to be the most effective and requested form of online therapy in recent years according to iesohealth.com, a statement backed up by the BACP webinar 2015. Reasons given for the desirability of ‘written’ therapy range from a sense of safety for the client as the relative anonymity which allows people to get to the heart of the problem faster, to people saying they feel less embarrassed and are more comfortable talking about themselves when nobody is looking at them. Added to this are comments such as typing encourages structure in responses, and there’s time to develop thoughts before sending them.

Caution must be taken by practitioners to discourage clients from revealing too much too soon because of the feelings of safety anonymity brings.

In terms of confidentiality, service providers for emails and instant messaging have varied levels and the responsibility for ensuring this again lies with the therapist.

A survey on online security was conducted by www.cnet.com/uk/news/ how-safe-is-instantmessaging-a-security-andprivacy-survey with rather complex results. It seems that the best confidential service providers are AOL Instant

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Messenger, Google Talk, and IBM’s Sametime.

The BACP ethical department states that should a client tell you they don’t mind using Facebook messaging, or Skype video chat, or any other unsafe service it is not enough for us as professionals to accept that. We must operate a duty of care to our clients and at the very least inform them of the lack of security of the system they wish to use. The sensible answer is to ensure we are already equipped with a secure system to offer our client along with simple instructions for them to download the same system.

The amount and size of online therapy is immeasurable, new options evolve daily, all aimed at enabling people to access help from the comfort of their home, or from where they choose to be. How far professional training courses in counselling and psychotherapy teach these new subjects is an essential question and such formal training must become an absolute necessity. Face-toface therapy is just one method amongst many that are available.

Our younger generations have grown up with online therapy being the norm and if we as therapists wish to engage with clients across the demographics we know what we must do.

Therapeutic websites Cyber space also shows a remarkable increase of interactive virtual websites offering various types of therapy, but predominantly CBT. These sites operate without human involvement. The client converses with the computer program only. Doctors now give out lists of counselling websites alongside their IAPT provisions as a matter of course. Beacon 2.0, (https:// beacon.anu.edu.au/), an Australian e-hub of self help programs, conducted a review of the efficacy of the most popular of these sites.

Results vary from site to site, with the general consensus being that these interactive sites are often a springboard towards other types of personalised therapy.

They are useful for young people, or people who wouldn’t usually consider therapy as an option.

Some of the sites are free to use such as Mood Gym, Mood Juice, The Calm Zone, Action for Happiness, whilst others charge a fee. The Big White Wall is a welldesigned and used site charging a fee as well as offering alternative online therapies. Living Life to the Full is offered free in some UK locations through a doctor or university and is an excellent CBT interactive package totally online, although there are generally links to counselling organisations and practitioners’ contact details.

For clients on the go, Headspace is an interactive mindfulness application for mobile phones with excellent reviews and satisfied clients. This app is free for the first 10 days and then users can pay to increase the service to interactive levels. People can use this as they travel to work, in the bath, wherever they have 10 minutes of quiet. Comments one user: “I now realise my approach to life is not inevitable but I have a choice as to how I react to events and people and my negative inner dialogue no longer dominates my everyday.”

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Turbo charging your practice with hypnosis Joanne Garner on a SCAP seminar on medical hypnosis Paul Atkinson gave a fascinating talk on the subject of medical hypnosis: when it might sensibly be chosen as a referral option by a therapist not specifically trained in its use. And he contrasted the benefits and limitations of hypnosis with other potential options. We learned that hypnosis is not a standalone model; it is best used as an adjunct to a practitioner's core approach.

Why would a therapist want to know about hypnosis, if they didn’t use it?

In Paul's opinion hypnotic phenomena are often encountered by therapists (eg dissociation) and it is helpful to understand that hypnosis could, in turn, enhance the efficacy of other approaches and modalities.

There is still a view in the NHS that the efficacy of hypnosis is unproven but Lang & Rosen 2002 found that the use of hypnosis to enhance eg relaxation, greatly reduces the costs of surgical procedures and aftercare.

I found a real bonus of Paul’s approach was his meticulous referencing from academic clinical research.

Despite his academic credentials and in-depth knowledge his style was relaxed and conversational, liberally interspersed with laconic humour. He was able

to de-mystify the jargon and the often impenetrable terminology of research with clarity and good humour.

It was very encouraging to learn of so much evidence already out there for the efficacy of talking therapies.

What does hypnosis offer?

As a specialist tool it seems to intensify, or turbo-charge, any approach. It can amplify or de-amplify specific elements of memory, strengthen ego and accelerate rapport between therapist and client. It could be viewed as on a spiritual spectrum of experience, but does not require a specific faith, or any faith at all, to be effective as a therapeutic intervention. As Kirsch comments; “hypnosis is placebo without deception.” (Paul explained that placebo became synonymous with ‘there’s nothing there’ because of random control trial research, an unfortunate link, since hypnotic phenomena are definitely ‘there’ and experienced by us all in everyday life eg ‘having a train of thought’ is a type of hypnotic trance where the thought stream runs along a specific ‘track’, often to the

exclusion of other thoughts, while the placebo response is a distinctively different phenomenon.) Illnesses like IBS are very susceptible to placebo apparently, yet PTSD patients are more hypnotisable than susceptible to placebo.

One of the benefits of hypnosis is its transparency regarding the procedures, itself an alliance-building element for clients. Hypnosis isn’t related to either sleep or gullibility (nb gullibility is not the same as suggestibility), it’s about client skills, and those skills can be learned, putting the client firmly in the driving seat at all times. It is an ‘altered state’ over which an individual has complete control. There is also a strict adherence to procedure with hypnosis, which can build confidence for clients because, again, they know what’s coming and are active and essential participants.

Without active participation, hypnosis cannot occur.

Lastly, if the client knows the therapist has confidence in the approach, this too helps build their confidence in it.

As a specialist tool it seems to intensify, or turbocharge, any approach. It can amplify or de-amplify specific elements of memory, strengthen ego and accelerate rapport between therapist and client

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What is hypnosis?

Paul posed another question: what is the baseline of consciousness?

“Hypnotic phenomena are behavioural, cognitive, and experiential alterations that emerge with or are enhanced by an induction. This might include a series of compulsive/enhanced suggestibility, diminution of reflective awareness/ absorption, unusual experiences eg alternations in body image, sense of time, dissociative experiences.” (BPS 2001).

Induction is therefore via a series of therapist’s suggestions – following a strict protocol - to achieve a trance-like state, which includes inter alia enhanced suggestibility. This enables the client to accept new information, or different perspectives, much more readily. Paul pointed out that hypnosis doesn’t enhance recall of memories, but does enhance remembering. It is a myth that hypnosis removes control from a client: control doesn’t occur other than by the client, in the same way that a pilot is in control and in the ‘driving seat’ but has a co-pilot (therapist) as back up. At no point can the therapist take over without the full consent and willing participation of the pilot. .

The idea of brainwashing has been compared to hypnosis, but Paul pointed out brainwashing occurs as a

result of a combination of environment (usually fearfilled and coercive), repetition and duration, and is thus quite distinct from hypnotic trance induced in a therapeutic setting.

Induction is via concentrated focus on X – by definition, this will mean a lessened focus on YWZ, where YWZ are the anxieties or preoccupations currently and normally occupying much brain space for the client and causing distress.

In other words, hypnotic trance enables the client to bypass any previous negative assumptions/beliefs/ fears and focus on something else which is positive. It is in this sense only that hypnosis enhances suggestibility.

Find out more at the British Association of Academic & Clinical Hypnosis www.bsach.com, which has recommended training options.

Paul Atkinson is a BACP Senior Registered Practitioner, qualified Hypnotherapist and EMDR consultant based in Brighton. www.hypnotherapyemdr.com.

Joanne Garner is a Transactional Analyst and EMDR accredited practitioner in private practice in mid Sussex.

Hypnosis comparisons and uses Paul compared medical hypnosis with EMDR (another altered state of consciousness) and with meditative practice, stating that all these approaches encourage a healthy skepticism towards habitual experience, and aim to disrupt automaticity of responses, but they do so by quite different means.

He concluded quoting Kirsch et al that; “hypnosis in general enhances the effectiveness of therapy” and found that metaanalysis of outcomes indicate that; “patients receiving hypnosis as an adjunct to treatment show significantly greater improvement than 70% of patients receiving the same treatment without hypnosis.”

Typical problems treated with hypnosis can include anxiety, phobias, obesity, depression, trauma, psychosomatic disorders, smoking and in medical settings as well as IBS, eczema and other skin disorders.

“As a student at the Link Centre, I have felt welcome, respected, valued and supported.” “ The learning environment is rich, safe and dynamic . . . . explore, learn, ask questions, challenge and be challenged.”

At The Link Centre we take pride in offering quality training, resulting in professional, ethical and competent practitioners. If you are interested in further developing your skills and experience, join us for some of our CPD Workshops and introductory courses.

We run a variety of flexible, part-time workshops and courses throughout the year- here are some that we have coming up: Counselling Skills (30 hours)

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

29th/30th August and 5th/6th September A Multi-Level course (beginners, intermediate or advanced) for those wanting to learn counselling skills for the first time or improving and developing existing skills.

Course Tutors: Leilani Mitchell, Mark Head and Lisa Bedford Cooper

8 week course - 22nd August to 6th October Run on weekends and some Tuesday evenings

Working Therapeutically Outdoors

Course Tutor: Mark Head Bsc (Hons) MSc (Psych), CTA (P) UKCP Reg Psychotherapist, TSTA (P)

Foundation Certificate in TA and Counselling/Psychotherapy Training

17th/18th October An introductory workshop to the world of therapy in natural spaces. For training and qualified practitioners, across all modalities.

Course Tutor: Hayley Marshall MSc (TA Psych), PTSTA

Apply now for part-time courses starting in October 2015 10 weekends from October to July. Termly payment scheme available. Can lead to national and international accreditation / recognition.

Wellbeing / Networking Evenings

January to July 2016 - 6 weekends This course is for those who already have considerable experience as a practitioner who want to further their career and qualify as a supervisor.

Course Tutor: Mark Head BSc (Hons), MSc (Psych) CTA(P), UKCP Reg. Psychotherapist, TSTA(P).

Wednesday 9th September * FREE EVENT* 7pm - 9pm Talk on 'overview of brain and brain injury' and networking.

For further details, please contact Leilani Mitchell or Mark Head on

01892 652 487 www.thelinkcentre.co.uk email: leilani@thelinkcentre.co.uk The Link Centre training rooms are at Newick, Sussex.

Diploma in Supervision

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CRISIS IN YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH

Coping with the crisis in youth mental health Sarah Kenyon from Heads Together was guest speaker at the SCAP AGM in June Sarah declared that increasing evidence is that there is a crisis in young people’s mental health - and she quoted one survey which revealed English children struggle heavily with self esteem issues, particularly girls aged 10-12.

Meanwhile the NSPCC has seen a tripling of numbers seeking mental health help.

And the Young Minds charity says three children in every class will have a mental health problem; one in five will have an eating disorder and one in 12 will self harm.

Childline reports 34,000 phone consultation in 2013-14 on suicide with 6,000 saying they had made an active attempt.

A Government task force this year produced a report Future in Mind with key recommendations to promote resilience, early interventions, access to help and developing the workforce.

Sarah said that on the one hand the government had clear recommendations to improve services but in

practice there was a disconnect with services being cut and she said it was difficult to be confident where this leaves counsellors in future.

Heads Together is part of YMCA East Surrey offering a community based service for 14-25 year olds. But its waiting lists are longer and longer with a rapid rise in numbers, explained Sarah. It saw 250 young people in 2009-10 and this rose to 550 in 2013-14 Sarah said the increase reflected changes to statutory provision with organisations like CAMHS setting higher thresholds so that increasing

Find out more: www.nspcc.org.uk www.youngminds.org.uk www.childline.org.uk www.ymcaeastsurrey.org.uk/heads-together-counselling

numbers were left to find their own way and come to services like theirs.

She said issues for which young people sought help included anxiety, panic attacks, depression family problems and self harm.

The charity was funded by local GPs, local authorities as well as relying on grants and charity support.

But Sarah warned that it needed a commitment to longer term funding.

“If we have a commitment to funding for three to five years we could look to make more investment in the way we work and train counsellors,” she added.

View the Government report Future in Mind at http://tinyurl.com/ lej6pej

Are you interested in Jung?

The Foundations of Analytical Psychology could be for you Carl Jung was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century and a pioneer in the exploration of the processes of the human psyche. He believed that the discovery of meaning and purpose in our lives was central to psychological health. This course will introduce you to key Jungian and post-Jungian concepts including dreams, synchronicity, the Shadow, Self, individuation and spirituality.

Who is the course for?

• People who would like to learn about Jung’s ideas and how these might inform their personal and professional lives.

• Those interested in training in analytical psychology No previous knowledge of Analytical Psychology is required for this course.

The programme consists of 20 weekly meetings over two terms on a Thursday from 18:30 to 21:00, starting on 24 September 2015.

A practising Jungian analyst will talk about the foundations of Analytical Psychology and the development and application of these concepts. After the talks, there will be group discussions to allow time to explore themes in greater depth.

Venue: Chichester University Fee: £600 To apply: Contact Urvi Bhatt, 020 7419 8898 or training@thesap.org.uk Registered Charity No. 238441, Registered in England and Wales as a Company Limited by Guarantee. No. 402695 Illustrations Reprinted from "The Red Book" by C. G. Jung. (c) Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung. Courtesy npr.org, 2009

BACP CONFERENCE

Trauma and the transpersonal SCAP’s Jan Irwin reports from BACP Conference

Therapy by choice

It seemed an ideal opportunity to attend a BACP Conference as a colleague and I were providing some training in Leeds the day before.

The conference was held at a large hotel/conference centre, but there were no plenary meetings at the start or end of the day, so I couldn’t tell you how many delegates there were.

This felt strange – no welcome or farewell - just the seminars, and numerous coffee stations with quite good mini cakes and biscuits, and a sandwich lunch!

There were 28 seminars in four time slots, which I’d had to choose right back at the time of booking.

My first seminar was with John Rowan, speaking on Two Levels of the Transpersonal.

I was glad to encounter someone who has been influential in the counselling world since the 1970s, even though transpersonal is not my modality.

The next seminar alone was worth going to Leeds for: Anne Scoging, Head of the Advisory and Counselling Service for London Fire Brigade, spoke on Working with Complicated Trauma.

The majority of traumatic incidents for staff involve death or injury caused by fires and road traffic accidents.

An extremely clear and engaging speaker, I would

BACP has strongly opposed suggestions that workless people may have to have CBT to avoid losing benefits. The Government plans to base IAPT therapists in some 350 Jobcentres across the UK, offering CBT to unemployed people as part of their return to work support packages.

An article in the journal Medical Humanities has highlighted what is claimed ‘psychocompulsion’ in the Government’s preparation for work programmes for Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance claimants. BACP Chair Andrew Reeves said: “At BACP, we oppose the mandatory use of psychological therapies in the delivery of workfare programmes that link unemployment to psychological deficit.

Benefit claimants shouldn’t be expected to have therapy under the threat of their benefits being stopped – it is unethical and potentially harmful,” he said. www.therapytoday.net/ article/show/4952/thelatest-news-updated-16july/ #sthash.cGq3jLwL.dpuf

recommend getting to hear her if you can.

I liked her emphasis on the uniqueness of each individual and their experience of trauma, and the flexibility her team show in customising their therapy to match, while being clear which therapeutic mode they are in – which could be CBT, DBT, Imagery Rescripting, EMDR, or Compassion Focussed Therapy.

She spoke eloquently of ‘reclaiming life’ beyond PTSD. Nicola Diamond offered a psychoanalyst’s take on the links neuroscience is making between mind and bodily symptoms and especially our skin, and how skin-to-skin contact is the primary attachment process.

Finally I chose a seminar to boost me at the end of a long day and Eve Menezes on Becoming an Embodied Practitioner was just the thing as she got us doing lots of mindfulness, yoga and EFT exercises, which I found energising and refreshing.

Although I initially resented what I had to pay for the BACP conference, I have to admit that the day was good value, and I will consider attending future conferences.

Jan Irwin is a counsellor and supervisor in private practice and in the third sector.

18 SATURDAY AUGUST 22 Life scripts. Wealden Institute. www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk MONDAY AUGUST 24 Animal assisted therapy.

Wealden Institute. www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk SATURDAY 29 AND SUNDAY 30 AUGUST AND SATURDAY 5 AND SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER Multi-level counselling skills course. Four day intensive.

Link Centre. www.thelinkcentre.co.uk AUGUST TO OCTOBER Mindfulness-based stress reduction. www.thelinkcentre.co.uk SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER Mindfulness based cognitive therapy. Eight Thursday evening sessions. Brighton. newroad.eventalpha.com/ mindfulness-basedcognitive-therapythursept-2015 FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4 Understanding resilience and putting it into practice. One day workshop. Brighton.

Details. http://tinyurl.com/ p76udjt SATURDAY 5 AND SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER CBT two day workshop. St Leonards. Details: www.counsellingplus.org/ cp-event/cbt-2-day-5th-6thseptember/

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5 Speaking through the skin: self harm and its meanings.

Brighton. Details www.brightontherapypartn ership.org.uk/events/ speaking-skin-self-harmmeanings/

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12 INTEGRATIVE ARTS THERAPY Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy (SCAP ) Seminar with Sally Meyer.

Community Base Conference Room South Wing.

10am-1pm See back page ad for booking details.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19 Live Webcast: Private Practice Conference Trauma: The Challenge of our Age? Details: www.bacp.co.uk/ events/conference.php? eventiD=118140 SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19 Neuroscience and neurosis: a psychotherapeutic perspective. Brighton.

Details:www.brightonthera pypartnership.org.uk/ events/neuroscienceneurosispsychotherapeuticperspective/

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19 Lesbian, gay, bisexual awareness for therapists.

Brighton. Details www.thewilburyclinic.co.uk /wilbury/CPD.html SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19 and 26 and 27 and 25 October 25th The creative arts approach to life story work. Brighton.

Details: www.emotionaldevelopmen t.co.uk/events/currentevents? task=view_event&event_id =76 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20 Working with transgender.

Brighton. Details: www.thewilburyclinic.co.uk /wilbury/CPD.html MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21 Psychopathy unpacked with Professor Robert Snowden.

5.30-7.30pm Jury’s Inn, Brighton. Details: www.emotionaldevelopmen t.co.uk/events/currentevents? task=view_event&event_id =71 SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26 Living well with dementia?

A person-centred perspective.

Brighton. www.brightonbapca.co.uk SATURDAY OCTOBER 3 Love in the age of the Internet: attachment in the digital era. Brighton. Details: http://tinyurl.com/ntlygy6

DIARY Brighton Person Centred Community Workshop Programme 2015 Saturday 26th September 2015 – 10am – 4pm– Danuta Lipinska Living well with dementia? : A person-centred perspective Dementia may well be one of the main challenges of the twenty-first century. We will explore the main concerns brought into the counselling relationship, the impact on partners and relatives and the particular issues of young onset dementia.

Danuta Lipinska, MA, MBACP (Accred) Author of ‘Person-centred counselling for people with dementia: Making sense of self’ (2009) - has pioneered counselling persons with dementia.

Saturday 28th November 2015 – 10am – 4pm – Sandy Gee Living an Authentic Life This workshop will be a joint exploration of what it means ‘to live an authentic life’. We will experientially engage in the quest to be authentic in the moment with the group as well as look together at what it means to live authentically in our lives beyond.

Sandy Gee is a lapsed Person-Centred ‘Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist’, who paused to take a sabbatical 4 years ago and never went back. She has been grappling since with how to more deeply/ wildly live an authentic, self-attuned life.

Cost: £65/£45 concession To book, please visit www.brightonbapca.co.uk THURSDAY OCTOBER 8 The road to manhood with Steve Biddulph. 7.30-9.30pm Brighthelm Centre, Brighton. Details: www.emotionaldevelopment .co.uk/events/currentevents? task=view_event&event_id= 75 SATURDAY OCTOBER 10 The wounds of history in the consulting room: reflections on working with trans generational trauma.

Brighton. Details: www.brightontherapypartn ership.org.uk/events/thewounds-of-history-in-theconsulting-room-reflectionson-working-with-transgenerational-trauma/

SUNDAY OCTOBER 18 Working with trauma.

Brighton. Details: www.thewilburyclinic.co.uk/ wilbury/CPD.html SATURDAY OCTOBER 31 Working with suicide. St Leonards. Details: www.counsellingplus.org/ cp-event/working-withsuicide/ SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 Raising awareness of Asperger Syndrome.

Brighton. Details: www.brightontherapypartn ership.org.uk/events/ raising-awareness-ofasperger-syndrome/

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 Unlocking the trauma of childhood sexual abuse.

Brighton. Details: www.brightontherapypartn ership.org.uk/events/ unlocking-the-trauma-ofchildhood-sexual-abuse-2/

Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy (SCAP ) New Year Social FRIDAY 29 January 2016.

The Eagle Pub, Brighton.

Details to follow.

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Dismissing the view that PCA is just for the ‘worried well’ Person-Centred Practice at the Difficult Edge - Peter Pearce, Lisbeth Sommerbeck This book presents accounts of the practice of the personcentred approach (PCA) with people suffering from a range of severe and enduring conditions.

Comprehensively refuting the notion that person-centred therapy is suitable only for the ‘worried well’, it backs up contemporary practice with appropriate theory for students, academic and professional audiences.

Contributions include: Person-centred therapy with post-traumatic stress (Stephen Joseph and David Murphy); Tenuous contact - Personcentred therapy with adolescent process (Peter Pearce and Ros Sewell); PreTherapy with psychotic clients (Dion van Werde); Refutation of myths of inappropriateness of personcentered therapy at the difficult edge (Lisbeth Sommerbeck); Difficult processes (Margaret Warner) and several other chapters from leading theorists and practitioners.

- See more at: http:// www.pccs-books.co.uk/ products/diffult-edge/

Thriller that’s close to home Good Shrink, Bad Shrink – Richard P. Kluft Good Shrink/Bad Shrink is a medical mystery thriller that explores the dark but enthralling world of mind control and abusive psychiatric research.

Psychiatric resident Eve Gilchrist encounters a puzzling patient whose flashbacks suggest that the life he thought he remembered was an artefact of brainwashing. Consultant Ben Jordan, experienced with both psychoanalysis and hypnosis, discovers that the man is still being trained and monitored by the Project, a shadowy group that applies officially-condemned mind control technologies for profit in the private sector.

This is a thrilling novel that links action-packed adventure with psychological practice and malpractice in a beautiful and exhilarating way.

Kluft’s expertise in psychological treatments and supervision is obvious, and he seems to have mastered the knowledge required to make his action scenes believable and as close to reality as possible.

The book gripped me from the start: at first making me wonder where they were going with the case presented and character introductions. By the middle it was clearer as to where the plot was going, momentum increasing at every turn of the page. By the end, the intense and thrilling scenes, presented so eloquently by Kluft, kept me engaged and rooting for the good guys and smiling at the cleverness with which they engaged with a variety of physical and mental obstacles.

The psychological content, described therapeutic interventions and the supervisory relationship well and in easyto-understand terms, using this well to engage the reader from the start.

Jack Reacher-style heroes come out of the woodwork from very unexpected places and the hidden dormant skills and past lives of lead characters in the book are very impressive, adding nicely to the development of the plot as the story gains further depth and momentum.

I would recommend this book as fun, light reading and a distraction from more serious counselling or psychology literature, but also as a warning of how unethical practice can lead to harmful consequences (of course, in the book these are taken to extremes, but point made, I think!).

Karin Brauner, MBACP, MBPS is a bilingual counsellor in private practice in Brighton.

REVIEWS

Keeping it in the family

Sex, lies and cinema tickets

The Green Road Anne Enright The Green Road is told through a family, the thirdperson perspective moving between the five living members of the Madigan clan: the matriarch, Rosaleen, and her children, Dan, Emmet, Constance and Hanna.

And just like Enright’s previous novel, Booker prize winner The Gathering, the plot hinges on a reunion – the family coming together for Christmas for the first time in years.

Set on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them.

The children of Rosaleen have left the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various thirdworld towns.

In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds.

Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.

Hear Anne Enright discuss the book at http:// tinyurl.com/p5wobam

Hamlet has all a therapist needs in terms of issues from sex and lies, to gender, mortality, death, family and, of course, madness: in short it is a treat for the senses.

Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy and National Theatre Live will broadcast the production live to cinemas in October.

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart.

Forced to avenge his father’s

death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.

Hamlet is screened live from the Barbican Theatre in London to cinemas across Sussex on Thursday 15 and Friday October 16.

Find out your nearest venue and book tickets at http:// ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.u k/productions/ntlout10hamlet

Wealden Psychology Institute Established in Crowborough, East Sussex since 1986

www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk For 28 years Wealden Institute has been a centre of excellence for specialized and advanced learning for counsellors, psychotherapist and supervisors, offering courses from beginner to post graduate level, accredited by the BACP and recognized by the UKCP, UKATA, EATA and ITAA. The Institute has many years’ experience in providing the highest levels of practice through our Trauma Clinic, Supervision Service, Forensic Psychology Division and Animal Facilitated Therapy at our organic farm in High Hurstwood. We offer popular and acclaimed training in each of these fields through the highly respected Wealden College of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

• • • • • • Counselling and Psychotherapy for children and adults, individuals and couples At a range of prices to suit all needs.

Wealden Trauma Clinic Our clinic offers TA, EMDR, Mindfulness and Animal Facilitated Therapy for child and adult survivors of abuse, violence and trauma.

Supervision of Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists and Supervisors Face to face or by Skype or telephone, for trainees and qualified practitioners.

Foundation Certificate in Transactional Analysis Counselling & Psychotherapy.

Ten weekend modules or 20 fortnightly Monday modules.

Advanced Transactional Analysis Counselling & Psychotherapy (leading to UKCP registration).

Ten weekend modules per year over three years.

Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling 40 days per year for two years – BACP Accredited course Fully recognised EMDR training For accredited Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Psychologists.

Specialist training courses for counsellors and psychotherapists in Trauma Therapy, CBT, Coaching, Working with LGBT Clients, Working with Children and Adolescents, Working with Families, Forensic Counselling and Psychotherapy, Supervision, to name a few. Look at our Short Course Programme for details.

We have a full programme of one and two day short courses and workshops – see our website for details.

If you would like to get further information or arrange to come in for a chat, please contact the head office in Crowborough. You will receive a warm welcome.

• • • • • • Wealden Psychology Institute, 2 Quarry View, Whitehill Road, Crowborough, TN6 1JT

www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk Email: info@wealdeninstitute.co.uk Telephone: 01892 655 195

Love in the Age of the Internet

Attachment Theory in the Digital Era With Linda Cundy, Saturday 3rd October 2015

Autumn Workshop Programme 2015 Saturday 5th September Speaking Through the Skin: Self Harm & Its Meanings Trainer: Anna Motz

Saturday 21st November Unlocking the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse Trainer: Christiane Sanderson

Saturday 19th September Neuroscience and Neurosis Trainer: Dr Kathrin Stauffer

Saturday 5th December Working with Body Storylines Trainer: Dr Maggie Turp

Saturday 3rd October Love in the Age of the Internet: Attachment in the Digital Era Trainer: Linda Cundy

W: BrightonTherapyPartnership.org.uk E: shelley@brightontherapypartnership.org.uk T: Lucy on 07521 651395

Saturday 10th October The Wounds of History in the Consulting Room: Trans-generational Trauma Trainer: Maya Jacobs-Wallfisch Saturday 7th November Raising Awareness of Asperger Syndrome Trainer: Maxine Aston

Astonishingly good training. Just ÂŁ95 including delicious lunch. Training venues: close to transport links in Portslade and Brighton, East Sussex

INTEGRATIVE ARTS THERAPY

SUSSEX COUNSELLING (SCAP) WORKSHOP INTEGRATIVE ARTS THERAPY

12 September 2015 10 – 1pm.

Presenter: Sally Meyer (Integrative Arts Psychotherapist) Venue: Community Base conference room, South Wing (by Brighton station).

Sally Meyer …is an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist working within the NHS, and in private practice. She has over 20 years of experience teaching and working as a psychotherapist with adults and children.

Sally will demonstrate the therapy, provide materials for you to try some techniques and will also discuss neuroscience in reference to IAT. To book contact Eileen M Palmer at: seminars@sussex-counselling.co.uk

£25 non members £15 members Future SCAP workshops: 5 December, members-only visit to child interview rooms for victims of sexual abuse; 5 March, 2016, IT for the fearful - ways to use Facebook, Twitter and free web software to improve your practice; 4 June, 2016, play therapy; 25 June, 2016, end-of-life counselling. www.sussex-counselling.co.uk