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Attachment Held in the Body: From Theory to Embodied Practice Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThis workshop ventures beyond conventional thinking, exploring how attachment patterns are not merely psychological constructs but are intricately woven into the fabric of our physical being—embedded within our neurological pathways and fascial
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The Three Phase Trauma Treatment Model: All You Need for Safe Trauma Work Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseAre more and more of your client presenting with trauma and early attachment rupture? Do you fear of retraumatising your clients? Do you sometimes wonder a more trauma-informed framework is needed within your client work?
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Trauma's Grip: Easing Resistance Through Parts Work Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseIn this engaging one-hour workshop, Kate Williams will guide you through the principles of parts work, a cornerstone of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, tailored specifically for the complexities of trauma.
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IFS and Complex Trauma: A Parts Work Healing Approach Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThis session is meticulously designed for counsellors and psychotherapists who are keen to explore and integrate the IFS approach into their practice, offering a unique perspective on healing complex trauma.
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Breath and Movement Practices for Deep Relaxation, Restoration & Letting Go for You and Your Clients Workshops with Kate Williams
CourseIn this workshop you'll be introduced to Scott Lyons, Stress Cycle and understand how restoration is a key component in order for us to respond to life stresses with resilience.
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Breathwork for Chronic Stress and Trauma Recovery Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseIn this popular workshop Kate will lead you on a discovery of the breath where you'll learn about the many unknown benefits that breathwork can bring to promote wellbeing and recovery from trauma.
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Working Creatively with Timelines from an Attachment and Trauma Perspective Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (5 reviews)This workshop will explore working creatively with timelines from a trauma and attachment perspective. We'll explore the 3-phase trauma approach and how timelines can both be a resource and to support integration.
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Working Creatively with Timelines: From A Psychodynamic Perspective
CourseTimelines are often forgotten therapeutic tools. This two hour workshop aims to refresh this tool and blend creativity with theory.
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Releasing Trauma & Chronic Stress Held within the Body Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseUnhelpful behavioural and thinking patterns are held deeply within the tissues of the body and not only do these patterns become ingrained and stuck but our posture, breath and movement become inhibited often leading to pain and ill health.
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How the Body Holds Trauma and Chronic Stress Creating Blocks to Change Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseIn this workshop you'll learn the key structures involved in trauma patterns within the body and why we can end up feelings so stuck in life and unable to change certain thinking and behavioural patterns.
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The Inner Child from Various Perspectives Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThere are various interpretations of the inner child from differing perspectives and this one-hour workshop aims to provide an insight into some of these.
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Attachments and How They Change Across the Lifetime Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseIn this one-hour workshop we'll explore attachments in relationship and how they change throughout life, from the child seeking security in their caregivers all the way to an older person seeking security in their adult children.
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Stages of Development from Cradle to Grave Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThis one-hour workshop will be jam-packed with ideas within the psychodynamic world of how us humans develop throughout our life; we'll be exploring Freud, Erikson, Winnicott and their stages of development model and how we can make use of these idea
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Becoming Whole Again: Skills for Bringing the Body into Your Work Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseWith the increase of trauma trainings available today and the appreciation of the body as a vehicle for healing, more and more practitioners are wishing to help their clients become ore body aware and develop the skills for bringing the body into the
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Ronald Britton: How Relational Patterns Develop and Mentalise Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThe work of Britton, Missing Link Theory, provides such a user-friendly way of understanding how relational patterns become internal working models and how they inform our capacity to mentalise (e.g. see things from another's point of view).
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Donald Winnicott: The Baby within Their Family System Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseA pre-eminent figure in British psychoanalysis, Donald Winnicott (1896-1971), is recognised internationally for his contributions to the understanding of psychological development, from infancy to maturity.
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Melanie Klein: The Baby and Their Internal World Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseIn this one-hour workshop we'll be diving into the world of Melanie Klein to support you to be curious, in maybe a different way, with your clients and understand how their current patterns of relating have their roots (according to Klein).
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Jung’s Archetypes and Shadow in Stories and Fairy Tales Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThis creative 1hr workshop will explore how archetypes and shadow, born out of the collective unconscious reveal themselves all around us, as children in fairy tales and stories and as adults in stories within film, fiction, dramas and most art forms
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The Mystical World of Carl Jung Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseIn this one-hour workshop you'll be transported into the mystical world of Carl Jung and gain a deeper insight into his theories that may already be informing your work, without you even knowing it!
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Actualising Freud’s Theory for Your Practice Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThere is much to gain from the work of Freud, who brought the notion of the unconscious into the therapeutic arena; a part of the psyche that holds all that is repressed, our early relationships and much much more.
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Psychodynamic Theory: The Fundamentals Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseIn this one-hour workshop you'll be introduced to the world of psychodynamic theory. You'll gain an understanding of how it differs from the humanistic approach and how it can over lap in part.
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Planet Teen: Understanding and Working in a Trauma-Informed Way Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseHaving counselled adolescents in further education for over 10 years, I now dedicate a certain amount of my private practice time to clients of this wonderful age group because of how absolutely rewarding it is.
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No Bad Parts: Understanding and Befriending Your Shadow with Parts Theory Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThe philosophy behind parts work theory is crucial when it comes to working with the various aspects that make up the shadow, that resides within the unconscious.
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Child Development: What Enables a Child to Thrive rather than Cling on to Survive Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThere are many child development theories that help professionals understand how a child learns, interacts, relates and play - these theories play an important role for therapists in helping us to understand our child and adult clients
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Parts Work with Complex Trauma: Early Ruptures and Fragmentation Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseWe all have parts and it's a very natural aspect of our development, to develop different sub-personalities to meet the world.
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All Parts are Welcome: The Skills - Dialoguing with Parts Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThere are many different part works theories making their way into the mainstream and are transforming clients relationship to self and how they are in relationships.
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Creative & Somatic Exploration of Parts based on Psychology of Selves Model Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseParts work has rocketed into the therapeutic arena of late with more and more therapists appreciating the parts within their clients and that we aren't a singular self.
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Breathwork for Mental and Physical Wellness Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThis six-week course will take you on a fascinating journey of your breath, where you’ll have the opportunity to develop your somatic awareness, enabling you to understand your nervous system better and break habitual patterns within your body.
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The Wonderful World of Parts Work: The Fundamentals Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseParts work has rocketed into the therapeutic arena of late, with trauma & Internal Family Systems therapy becoming popular.
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Breathwork: The Fundamentals of Theory and Safe Practice Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseBreathwork is fast becoming a respected practice to enhance wellbeing and to support many health-related issues with many practitioners bringing breathwork into their practice with clients to support self-regulation.
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Trauma-Informed Client Assessments for Short and Long-term Work Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThis is a must-do workshop for all those working with trauma. This workshop will support you in carrying out a trauma-informed assessment in both an agency setting and private practice (both short and long term work).
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Transforming Trauma-Shame into Self-Compassion Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseA topic that is commonly raised in supervision is around a clients self-loathing and perpetual destructive patterns, with questions of: how do I help my client to like themselves more?
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Polyvagal Theory: Fundamentals for Effective Trauma Work Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThis 2-hour workshop sets out to provide you with a solid foundation in polyvagal theory and how it translates to practice - empowering both you and your clients.
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Working with Trauma: The Fundamentals Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseThere has been an explosion of trauma training over the last few years with many different methods and modalities for working with trauma coming to the fore. Trauma-informed practice requires specific knowledge and understanding
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The Pleasing to Fawning Continuum when Relationships are Threatening Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (9 reviews)The fawning response is a protective relational 'way of being' to relational trauma & enmeshed patterns of relating. When a person fawns their Self has disappeared and they survive by moulding themselves to those around them.
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Why Love Matters: How to Rewire The Brain for Joy & Connection Workshop Series Part 2 with Kate Williams
CourseMany of our clients have experienced inadequate care in their early years and come to therapy feeling depressed, hopeless and even suicidal at times.
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Why Love Matters: How to Work with Relational Trauma Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseIt's the care givers job to be devoted; for the baby to be the centre of their world and in previous workshops you will have learnt the importance of love for joy and connection.
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Why Love Matters: Appropriate Boundaries & Containment in Trauma Work Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)When a client has experienced 'too much' of a parents attention (whether intentionally good or not) and their relational patterns have become enmeshed it can be really difficult to know where their boundary ends and the others begins.
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The Importance of 'Endings' with Trauma Clients for Lasting Change! Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)In this workshop we'll explore - Phase 3 of the trauma treatment method (phase 1 is safety stabilisation, phase 2 is trauma processing). The importance of endings for your clients ongoing growth and wellbeing particularly in relation to attachment.
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Why Love Matters: The Neuroscience and Theory of Joy and Connection in the Early Years Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)In this workshop we'll be taking a look at how when certain relational conditions are in place, a child can grow up to experience joy and connection: two important states for living a fulfilled, connected and satisfied life.
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Improve your Sleep with Breathwork and Embodiment Practices workshop with Kate Williams
CourseSleep is where we process unconscious material and the stresses of the day. Without it, they pile up affecting functioning and overall wellbeing.
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Breaking Through Repetitive Patterns workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)Based on Native American teachings, the 7 dark arrows are aspects of the personality that can stop us from feeling fulfilled in life, enjoying loving & intimate relationships and generally feeling good about ourselves.
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Breathwork for Anxiety and Trauma Recovery Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (14 reviews)In this popular workshop Kate will lead you on a discovery of the breath where you'll learn about the many unknown benefits that breathwork can bring.
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Identifying Patterns that Lead to Vicarious Trauma & Compassion Fatigue - Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)Kate is running this popular workshop again on this much needed subject. As helpers, we are all vulnerable to vicarious trauma, burnout and compassion fatigue.
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Somatic Resources Part 2: Applying to Practice workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (5 reviews)After a series of popular workshops, lead by Kate, on breathwork and embodiment practices, one question that always gets asked is, how do I apply these to practice and how do I do this in a safe way?
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Embodiment Practices for Anxiety and Trauma Recovery workshop with Kate Williams July 20 2021
Course5.0 average rating (7 reviews)In this 2-workshop you'll learn a range of safe embodiment practices to bring your client's body back into the window of tolerance to support connection, grounding and relationship.
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Somatic Resources Part 1: Self Care for the Therapist workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)This 1.5hr session is for you, the therapist, to support you in your practice, to keep mind, body and spirt well.
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Identifying Patterns that Lead to Vicarious Trauma, Burnout & Compassion Fatigue workshop with Kate Williams
CourseVicarious trauma, burn out and compassion fatigue are very real occupational hazards for those in the helping professions.
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Working Creatively with Timelines Part 1: From A Psychodynamic & Trauma Perspective Workshop with Kate Williams
Course4.8 average rating (4 reviews)Timelines are an important therapeutic tool yet often aren't used to their fullest potential.
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Embodiment Practices for Anxiety and Trauma Recovery workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)Trauma could be viewed as the shadow of embodiment. We are born into the world embodied; living, breathing and feeling our way through those early stages of life.
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Bringing Breath and Movement in your Work with Children and Young People Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (4 reviews)What you'll learn. Specific contra-indications to working with breath and movement with CYP due to their body still developing. Body-oriented skills to use to support a focus on body sensation. Breath practices that are safe for CYP.
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Life After Trauma: Reframing, Rewiring, Renewing Your Nervous System Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (5 reviews)In this workshop you'll gain a deeper understanding into the fixed patterns that the nervous system can take in trauma and how your client can release themselves from these learnt ways of being so they can harness the nervous system...
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Dissociation, Depersonalisation and Derealisation Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (13 reviews)In this workshop you'll learn about the dissociation continuum and depersonalisation & derealisation, ways to help your clients understand this protective nervous system response, techniques to bring aliveness and wellbeing back into your clients
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The Sweet Spot: Where Psychodynamic, Neuroscience, and Person-Centred Meet Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (3 reviews)The sweet spot workshop meets at the blending points of the person-centred relationship, relational depth theory and advances in psychodynamic theory, all underpinned by cutting edge neuroscience to bring together the ideal therapeutic blend.
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All you need to know about Assessments when Working with Trauma Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (5 reviews)In this workshop , within the framework of the 3-phase trauma treatment model you'll learn the assessment skills and criteria for identifying a client's suitability for phase 2 trauma processing and when a client isn't suitable for this work
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Bringing Breath and Movement in your Work with Children and Young People Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (4 reviews)What you'll learn. Specific contra-indications to working with breath and movement with CYP due to their body still developing. Body-oriented skills to use to support a focus on body sensation. Breath practices that are safe for CYP.
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It's all about me!! Understanding and Working with Narcissism Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (5 reviews)In this workshop you'll learn. Kleinian ideas in child development and how narcissism can persist into adulthood. Narcissism - characteristics and behaviours. Narcistic Personal Disorder and the DSM 5. The narcissistic continuum from empath to NPD.
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Healing Childhood Wounds through Relational Depth and the Reparative Relationship Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (3 reviews)In this workshop you'll learn: Reparative theory from Rogers to Object Relations theory, relational depth from a trauma and neuroscience perspective, exercises to support self inquiry and expansion.
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Self-Compassion: Break the Cycle of Destructive & Trauma Patterns - Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (6 reviews)In this workshop you'll learn: The neurobiology of compassion, ideas from Paul Gilbert and Gabor Mate on compassion and it's role in healing, creative tools for exploring all parts of a clients being in a compassionate way, the Cycle of Destruction
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The Power of Breath and Bodywork for Pain and Physical Illness Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)This workshop will be a mix of theory and practice. It is for you and your clients. If you are a therapist struggling with pain then you'll have many resources to take away with you from this workshop.
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Somatic Resources Part 1: Safety, Stabilisation and Self-regulation Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (8 reviews)In this workshop, you will not only discover valuable resources for your trauma clients, but also for you to protect yourself from vicarious trauma. My hope is that you'll leave the workshop knowing your nervous system just that bit better.
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Somatic Resources Part 2: Applying to Practice workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (5 reviews)After a series of popular workshops, lead by Kate, on breathwork and embodiment practices, one question that always gets asked is, how do I apply these to practice and how do I do this in a safe way?
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Understanding Child Development and Relational & Developmental Ruptures Workshop with Kate Williams
Course4.7 average rating (3 reviews)In this workshop Kate will be drawing upon various theoretical ideas to help you gain a deeper insight into your clients earlier years, factors and conditions that shape the psyche, physiology and behaviour of the growing child.
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Embodiment Practices for Relational Trauma and Boundaries Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (3 reviews)How often does the theme of boundaries come up with your clients? A lot huh... Relational ruptures and trauma significantly contribute towards how we respond to others and the world
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Working with Anger with Breathwork and Embodiment Practices Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (4 reviews)In this workshop we'll be explore how the breath and the body can become a resource for anger helping to harness this powerful energy in order to communicate it more effectively.
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Applying Parts Work to Practice: Changing Relational & Behavioural Patterns Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (6 reviews)Based on the work of Hal and Sidra Stone, Voice Dialogue brings the Psychologies of Selves model to life. This unique way of working looks similar to the empty chair work of Gestalt, however, there is a difference.
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Working Creatively with Timelines Part 2: From A Psychodynamic Perspective workshop with Kate Williams
CourseTimelines are often forgotten therapeutic tools. This workshop aims to refresh this tool and blend creativity with theory. This trauma-informed workshop weaves in psychodynamic theory from Freud
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Working with the Inner Critic and Depression with Visualisation, Creative and Embodiment Practices Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (7 reviews)In this workshop we'll take a journey through a range of therapeutic tools to support conversation with the inner critic, to hear its voice to find out more about its role in our lives.
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Parts Work Theory: Understanding Relational & Behavioural Patterns Workshop with Kate Williams
CourseFrom the Psychology of Selves model, developed by Hal and Sidra Stone, Kate will introduce you to the fascinating and easily accessible subject of parts work.
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Self-Compassion: An antidote to Depression and Trauma Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (4 reviews)In this workshop you’ll go on a exploration into compassion where you’ll learn tools and resources to cultivate self-compassion. As Julia Cameron says, “treating yourself like a precious object will make you strong.”
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Breathwork for Calming and a Good Nights Sleep workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)Welcome to the transformative world of breathwork. Did you know that we breathe on average 21,000 times a day? That's right - approximately 15 times a minute, every minute of every day.
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Building Relational Depth with Traumatised Clients Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)In this workshop we'll explore the therapeutic relationship from different theoretical perspectives to gain a deeper understanding of the important role of working at depth with clients who have a trauma history.
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From Anxious to Resilient Using Breathwork and Embodiment Practices Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)In this workshop you'll be introduced to the wonders of the breath and somatic resources for dealing with stress and anxiety. The effects of chronic overexposure to cortisol through stress can have lasting affects on our emotional and physical health
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Help Clients who Dissociate and Feel Unsafe in their Body with Breathwork & Embodiment Practices Workshop with Kate Williams
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)Trauma all to often leaves a person feeling unsafe within their body and unable to be 'with' themselves in the world. Reacting from a survival response of shut down and dissociation further severs their connection with others and themselves.