Get Konnected Course
CPD for professionals who supporting Autistic children and teens

The Neuro-affirming approach to social support for professionals working with Autistic kids & teens in a clinical or educational setting

COURSE OVERVIEW

Course dates & times

There are 5 live sessions on this course, each are 2 hours long. There is also approx 25 hours of neurodiversity self-led learning.

For each part of this Autistic-led course you need to allocate approx 5-6 hours for your self-paced learning and then also ensure that you’re available for 5 sessions from dates listed below.

Anyone around the globe is welcome to attend any of the courses if the time suits you.

All sessions take place online on Zoom.

Next dates:

Wednesdays: 25th March, 15th April, 29th April, 13th May and 3rd June from 11am -1pm

GET KONNECTED is the neurodiversity-affirming answer to outdated and harmful social skills programs.

Designed and delivered by award-winning Autistic trainers, this course helps you take a holistic, child-centred, and trauma-informed approach to social support.

You’ll learn how to truly connect with Autistic children and teens — not by trying to change them, but by transforming their social environment.

Course format:

Approx. 25 hours of self-led learning (5 x 5-hour modules)
5 x 2-hour live group sessions with Evaleen
Built around Evaleen’s powerful 6 S Model for neuro-affirming communication

How it works:

Once you sign up, you’ll complete your first 5 hours of self-led content via our platform. Then, you’ll join your live group session — repeat the cycle five times for the full experience.

Spots are strictly limited, so early booking is highly recommended.

Find out more: https://ausometraining.com/get-konnected-neurodiversity-training/

Working with Co-Occurring Mental Health Problems

A 5-day course on Zoom. IACP recognised 30 CPD points
Presented by Eoin Stephens & Grace Harrison
For helping professionals working with Autistic adult clients.

In order to benefit from this workshop, attendees will need to have a foundational understanding of topics such as the neurodiversity paradigm, the nature of autistic neurodivergence, masking & unmasking, the double empathy problem, etc.

Mental health problems/disorders occur at a frighteningly high rate in the autistic community.

This course explores how these issues present in autistic adults, and some of the ways in which we may need to adjust our approaches to helping these clients.

When: 10am to 5pm on the following dates:

Day 1 – Saturday 7th February 2026 – Eoin & Grace
Addictive Behaviours – Alcohol & Other Substances, Gambling, Pornography, Work, etc

Day 2 – Saturday 21st February 2026 – Grace & Eoin
Eating Disorders – Anorexia, ARFID, Bulimia, etc

Day 3 – Saturday 21st March 2026 – Eoin
Anxiety Disorders Part 1 – Minority Stress/Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Generalised Anxiety

Day 4 – Saturday 11th April 2026 – Eoin
Anxiety Disorders Part 2 – Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, PTSD, OCD, Health Anxiety

Day 5 – Saturday 25th April 2026 – Eoin
Depression etc – Burnout, Low Self-Esteem, Suicidality, Self-Harm

Eoin Stephens
BA Psychology, Dip Counselling, MA Cognitive-Behavioural Counselling, MIACP, MACI.

Eoin is a Counsellor/Psychotherapist and Trainer who has worked in the areas of disability, addiction treatment, lecturing/training, and counselling/psychotherapy private practice for over 30 years.

He has a particular interest in working with mental health problems such as addictive disorders and anxiety disorders, using elements of Person-Centred Therapy, CBT, & Motivational Interviewing.

His work is currently focused on understanding the problems faced by autistic adults and their specific therapeutic needs. He is autistic himself, having made the discovery in 2012.

Grace Harrison
BA Psychology & Sociology, MSc Integrative Psychotherapy, Dip Adolescent Psychotherapy, MIACP.

Grace is a Student Counsellor/Integrative Psychotherapist and Trainer in the University of Galway and in her own private practice in Co. Clare. She has a particular interest in youth mental health, eating disorders and neurodivergence hence she co-designed and delivers specialist group counselling programmes for students in each of these areas. Grace provides training on understanding and supporting neurodivergent people (particularly neurodivergent students), both within the university context, and as part of AUsome Training’s ‘Dawn Practitioner Programme’. She is late-diagnosed autistic, since 2023, and has since, been focused on understanding how neurodivergent people can navigate all forms of relationship in a way that is self-affirming and fulfilling.

For further information, please click here>>>

Postgraduate Diploma in Relationship Psychotherapy 2026/2027

Anonymous global survey on Generative AI in mental health (5–7 minutes)

Dear colleague,

Hope you are well.

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools become increasingly visible in mental healthcare, it is vital to understand how they are actually being used — and viewed — by clinicians.

We invite mental health professionals worldwide (psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists) to complete a short, fully anonymous online survey (5–7 minutes) on experiences and opinions regarding generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, as well as ambient voice technologies (e.g. Nuance Dax) in clinical practice.

This study is led by an international research team based at Uppsala University (Sweden), the University of Basel (Switzerland), and Missouri State University (USA), with collaborators across Europe and North America (Sweden, Germany, the USA, Canada, the UK, and Ireland).

The survey is entirely anonymous and collects no identifying information.
It is distributed via professional and academic networks only and is not shared on social media platforms.

Your insights — whether you actively use these tools, are cautiously exploring them, or have reservations — will help inform ethical guidance and professional discussions on the responsible use of generative AI in mental healthcare.

Key details

• ⏱ 5–7 minutes
  Global survey
  English or German
  Completely anonymous
  Closes end of February

https://survey-1.psychologie.unibas.ch/kppt/AIpsychsurvey_EN

We would be grateful if you could also share this invitation with eligible colleagues.

With thanks,
Amanda

On behalf of the Survey Research Team
Uppsala University, Sweden
Contact lead researcher: charlotte.blease@uu.se

ISJA and IAPA are pleased to announce that Heba Zaphiriou-Zarifi , Jungian analytical psychologist, will be our guest speaker on Thursday, 19th February (19:30 to 21:00 Irish time), with her presentation -

"In Place of Words, Incantations."

An event focusing on how the “paltriest and the mightiest” (Jung, 2009) of words and their silencing have shaped both our personal and collective experience of the genocide in Gaza and its associated impact of “un-childing” (Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2020) asking, what does it mean to assault futurity, one of the “essential features of the child motif” (Jung, 1969)?

You'll find further details in the attached flyer, and booking is now open on Eventbrite through the following link;

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/in-place-of-words-incantations-tickets-1980184183197?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Please note, ticket sales end on Wednesday, 18th of February at 18:00 GMT.

If you are unable to attend on the night, the recording is included with registration, and the link will be available for two weeks from the date it is released.

For further information, click here>>>

 ‘Owning the Shadow’ 
A Seven-Day Residential Experiential Workshop with
The Fool’s Dance Gestalt Company – Paul Rebillot Group in Ireland.
Slí an Chroí, Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow 

14^th February– 20^th February 2026

We’re delighted to offer our first residential workshop of 2026 on the theme of The Shadow.

Of this work, Paul Rebillot wrote:

“I have come to recognise in my work that one of the most important and frequently unrecognized or avoided themes in people’s lives and in their work is the ability to own the part of themselves that they don’t like, the part Jung called ‘the Shadow’.

The more we limit ourselves by not experiencing, not owning, whatever we determine to be negative features, the more these energies are suppressed, repressed, and finally go out of consciousness. We become projectors of our own disowned energy

… It seems to me that most of the destruction, racism, and terrorism in the world is the work of the disowned shadow.”

How can we reclaim that part of ourselves we have been busy projecting out onto other people whom we call 'different, 'not one of us', 'evil' or 'enemy'? How can we rediscover the fullness of ourselves and bring into our awareness that denied shadow aspect, that troubling shadow energy, so that it can be dealt with where it belongs - in ourselves and in the here and now?

In this workshop we will work with respect and humour to get to know, and to own our shadow self in a variety of creative ways using drama, movement, music, mask-making, Gestalt process, and ritual.

This workshop, then, has a double purpose.  The first is to help us to own our own Shadow, the negative, dark, and often violent energies within our being.

The second is to learn to talk to those onto whom we have projected these negative aspects of ourselves, to discover how to communicate with them - not as enemies, but as human beings like ourselves - a significant move towards healing the divisions in ourselves and also in society at large.

“We have met the enemy and they is us.” (Walt Kelly, Pogo, 1971)

What participants said the last time we ran this workshop:

“A beautiful week, extremely safe container for doing a deep dive as so well held by the facilitators.  Truly transformative.”

“Expertly run. The workshop was challenging and brought me to a place of real clarity and honouring of myself and a new outlook towards others and the future”

“The work really helped me to connect with my shadow and what I hold there - including my gold - and freed up a lot of blocked energy.”

“What I most felt was the wonderful balance between a lightness of touch and a deep caring which allowed very deep and full experience in a very held and safe way.”

We invite you to meet yourself in a new way and to experience the joy of connection in the beautiful surrounds of Slí an Chroí.

To find out more visit

http://foolsdancegestaltcompany.ie/workshops/owning-the-shadow/

To apply for a place, visit

http://foolsdancegestaltcompany.ie/next-workshop/

Places are limited – book early to avoid disappointment.

Therapy room to share, in Kilkenny; private, quiet and accessible, with plentiful free parking.

For further information, contact therapyroomkilkenny@gmail.com

Do you struggle to help numb, disconnected clients who can’t feel emotion or explore inner experience? Do your clients get ‘stuck’ in over- whelming emotions and self-destructive behaviours rather than resolving their trauma?

Do you believe that the body holds the living legacy of trauma? but that you lack the skills to address the somatic effects of painful past experience?

Our Level 1 trauma training helps therapists make sense of the symptoms and issues experienced by thier clients and teaches them how to work effectively with trauma.

This training will teach you the knowlegde and techniques you need to hep your clients change the engrained physical and psychologial patterns that wreaks havoc on thier lives and find healing.

Dublin , Ireland
Course Start Date 01 May 2026 Tuition €3,300
78 CPD Credits

Apply online today!

Financial Aid, Discounts,& Interest-Free Payment Plans Available 

Contact: info@sensorimotor.org         
Local Organiser: Ruthsteenvoorden@gmail.com

Trauma Training

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1
(Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute)

May 2026, Dublin, Ireland

Do you struggle to help numb, disconnected clients who can’t feel emotion or explore inner experience? Do your clients get ‘stuck’ in overwhelming emotions and self-destructive behaviours rather than resolving their trauma?

Do you believe that the body holds the living legacy of trauma? but that you lack the skills to address the somatic effects of painful past experience?

Traditional psychotherapy addresses the cognitive and emotional elements of trauma but lacks techniques that work directly with the physiological elements, despite the fact that trauma profoundly affects the body, and many symptoms of traumatised individuals are somatically driven.

This 78-hour training equips therapists to make sense of the symptoms and issues of traumatised clients and work with them more effectively. Understanding how trauma is remembered and equipped with interventions that speak directly to how post-traumatic issues are driven by the body, you will discover new and deeper ways of helping clients resolve the traumatic past.

Training Venue
Marino Institute of Education, Griffith Avenue, Dublin, 9, Ireland

Dates
May 01-03, 2026
June 19-21, 2026
Sept 18-20, 2026
Dec 04-06, 2026

Tuition
€3,300

Financial Aid, Discounts, & Interest-Free Payment Plans Available

CPD
78 Credits

Applications
Upcoming Training in Dublin: Click here >>> for more details and registration.

Curriculum
Learn out more about Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and the curriculum, visit >>> Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.

Contact Details
Institute: info@sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org
Local Organiser: Ruthsteenvoorden@gmail.com

Ferney House IFS Training, January course: 

Beginners 1 - Fundamentals of the IFS approach

THE NEXT eight-week ‘Beginners 1: Fundamentals of IFS’ course, delivered online, begins on Friday, January 30. It’s a comprehensive introductory training in the model that will equip you to begin using this transformational approach with clients.
The course covers all main aspects of IFS as well as fascinating case examples, demos, practice opportunities and the chance to get to know some of your own parts.
Sessions are recorded but attendance in person is necessary; and the maximum number of participants is eight.
CPD certificates are issued at the end of the course for 20 hours.
The full dates and course details can be found on www.ferneytherapy.ie
Course fee: €480.

Facilitator: Gayle Williamson (MIACP) has been offering Internal Family Systems trainings and workshops since 2021. She is a fulltime IFS psychotherapist and group supervisor, who runs her own private practice in Dublin. She has also written widely on mental health issues and is co-host of the Purely IFS podcast.

If you would like to apply: email Gayle at enq.ferneytherapy@hotmail.com stating your current role and, briefly, your reasons for wanting to take the course. The course is open to mental health professionals only.

Previous participants' feedback: “Gayle’s course changed my career path.. I cannot recommend it highly enough,” - Sophie, psychotherapist. “The course has transformed my practice… I’m amazed at the effectiveness of the model,” - Michelle, psychotherapist.