The course will be delivered over seven days: six days will be in person and one day will be an online practice and peer supervision (participant led). The training days will be held at the Persona Training Centre, Grove House, 1 Kilmartin Place, Tannochside Business Park, G71 5PH.
Day 1 Sunday January 12th 2025 9.30 – 4.30
Theme: Introduction & Beginnings
- Course Outline
- Introductions to each other
- Understanding the differences and similarities between working with couples and individuals.
- Initial contact with couples, assessment and contracting
- Theory Input: Why do couples come and what do they want
- Group Reflection
Day 2 Sunday February 9th 2025 9.30 – 4.30
Theme: Six Conditions and Boundaries
- Boundaries specific to couple working
- Therapeutic Conditions for couples working and the purpose of the relationship
- Skills Practice
- Group Reflection
Day 3 Sunday March 9th 2025 9.30 – 4.30
Theme: Personality Theory and Couples working
- Structuring, reviewing and tracking sessions
- PC Theory – Personality Theory for Couples working and the actualising tendency
- Therapists’ role as a ‘translator’
- Skills Practice
- Group Reflection
Day 4 Sunday April 13th 2025 9.30 – 4.30
Theme: Working Online
- Working online/telephone
- Working with Difference
- Skills Practice
- Group Reflection
Day 5 Sunday May 11th 2025 9.30 – 4.30
Theme: Practice and Peer Supervision (Self-led) – ONLINE
Day 6 Saturday July 5th 2025 9.30 – 4.30
Theme: Sex & Intimacy
- Transcript and reflective Preparation
- Sex / Sexuality / intimacy /maturity
- Skills practice
- Supervision
- Group Reflection
Day 7 Sunday July 6th 2025 9.30 – 4.30
Theme: Endings
- Ethical Decision Making, Dilemmas, Safeguarding
- Endings
- Statement of Learning
- Group Reflection
Course fees are £950, this includes a deposit of £100 to secure a place on the programme. The remaining course fees can be made as one instalment of £850 or as 6 separate instalments of £142 due monthly from December 31st 2024.
- A 15-minute transcript of a couples session
- A 2000-word essay accompanying the transcript:
- Relate this to your understanding of the theory as taught in this training
- A consideration of and comment around the dynamics in the session
- Reflections on your process
- A 2000-word Statement of Learning and Development which will be informed by:
- your experiences on the course
- your on-going practice and supervision
- Your further reading
- Completion of 12 hours of supervised Couples Work
Timeframe for completion of course requirements: Before October 31st 2025
The course expects participants to be able to draw on their own experience of supervised clinical practice and therefore it is important that individuals feel sufficiently competent and grounded in their orientation as a practitioner in order to gain maximum learning and development from the programme. With this in mind, applicants will have a minimum 3 years of practice. This can include the clinical practice gained during your training to become a practitioner in a helping profession with at least an additional 200 hours of supervised practice gained post qualification. Applicants will also be members of a Professional Association, with relevant indemnity insurance.
If you are interested in the programme, please complete the Application Form and forward it to the Persona office, admin@personacounselling.com along with the name of someone who knows you in a professional capacity (ideally your supervisor) and is willing to provide a reference. There is no formal interview process, however, the course tutors may contact applicants if any questions arise from the application form.
Click here to download the course information leaflet.
Closing date for applications is Tuesday December 16th 2024
Please note there will be a minimum number of participants for the programme to commence. The course will be limited to a maximum of 12 participants
0330 202 0283 
admin@personacounselling.com