Helena Green
Training and professional development
At inSync for life, we are committed to furthering our skills through ongoing professional training and development. All practitioners take part in training workshops throughout the year to ensure they maintain and expand their skills to support our clients. All practitioners also take part in Clinical Supervision, either with their peers, or with a more experienced and practiced Clinician.
Healing Attachment Trauma by Rewiring the Brain: Linda Graham
This two day, experiential workshop demonstrated how to harness the brain’s own mechanisms of change to help clients shift their coping strategies from defensive, dysfunctional and inhibiting of growth to adaptive, flexible and resilient. Clinicians learned the latest applications of modern brain science to healing attachment trauma, experimenting with dozens of tools and techniques that safely, efficiently, effectively rewire the brain, helping clients reverse the impacts of stress and trauma, come out of anxiety, depression, loneliness, and shame, into a genuine thriving and flourishing.
Motivational Interviewing: John Forbes
Motivational Interviewing is a technique that is used wherever a person’s behaviours need to change as part of the treatment process. It can be defined as a directive, client-centred approach for eliciting behaviour change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. It is inappropriate to think of motivational interviewing as a technique or set of techniques that are applied to or (worse) "used on" people. Rather, it is an interpersonal style, not at all restricted to formal counselling settings. It is a subtle balance of directive and client-centred components, shaped by an understanding of what triggers change in a person. The Motivational Interviewing workshop covers:
• Motivation
• Motivational Approaches
• Efficacy of Brief Interventions
• Ambivalence
• Principles of Motivational Interviewing
• Applying the Principles
• Building Motivation for Change
• Strengthening Commitment
• Session Content and Management
Intensive in Family and Relationship Therapy: Aldo Gurgone (Director) & Staff, William Street Family Therapy Centre
This Level II course is for practitioners of Family and Relationship Therapy who already have basic training in Systems Theory and its application. The course will focus on how to use ‘Systems’ knowledge to plan Therapeutic Strategies, what to do after the Assessment, implementing different Therapeutic Models, using your Therapeutic Skills and Handicaps, and how you can make better use of personal attributes as a therapist.
This two day, experiential workshop demonstrated how to harness the brain’s own mechanisms of change to help clients shift their coping strategies from defensive, dysfunctional and inhibiting of growth to adaptive, flexible and resilient. Clinicians learned the latest applications of modern brain science to healing attachment trauma, experimenting with dozens of tools and techniques that safely, efficiently, effectively rewire the brain, helping clients reverse the impacts of stress and trauma, come out of anxiety, depression, loneliness, and shame, into a genuine thriving and flourishing.
Motivational Interviewing: John Forbes
Motivational Interviewing is a technique that is used wherever a person’s behaviours need to change as part of the treatment process. It can be defined as a directive, client-centred approach for eliciting behaviour change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. It is inappropriate to think of motivational interviewing as a technique or set of techniques that are applied to or (worse) "used on" people. Rather, it is an interpersonal style, not at all restricted to formal counselling settings. It is a subtle balance of directive and client-centred components, shaped by an understanding of what triggers change in a person. The Motivational Interviewing workshop covers:
• Motivation
• Motivational Approaches
• Efficacy of Brief Interventions
• Ambivalence
• Principles of Motivational Interviewing
• Applying the Principles
• Building Motivation for Change
• Strengthening Commitment
• Session Content and Management
Intensive in Family and Relationship Therapy: Aldo Gurgone (Director) & Staff, William Street Family Therapy Centre
This Level II course is for practitioners of Family and Relationship Therapy who already have basic training in Systems Theory and its application. The course will focus on how to use ‘Systems’ knowledge to plan Therapeutic Strategies, what to do after the Assessment, implementing different Therapeutic Models, using your Therapeutic Skills and Handicaps, and how you can make better use of personal attributes as a therapist.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy: Level 1 Clinical Training
Help couples in your practice manage conflict and deepen intimacy! This is the first step in learning Gottman Method Couples Therapy. A truly inspiring workshop, Level 1 Training will give you new insights into treatment for couples who struggle, using research-based assessments and effective interventions.
Couples Therapy and Trauma: Rosemary Watkins, William Street Family Therapy Centre
Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Survivorship Conference & The Fourth Psycho-Oncology Research Conference
Gottman Method Couples Therapy: Level 2 Clinical Training
Assess a couple’s “Friendship Profile,” “Conflict Profile,” and “Shared Meanings Profile”
Resilience Across the Lifespan: Andrew J Shatte
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from a negative experience with "competent functioning". Resilience is not a rare ability; in reality, it is found in the average individual and it can be learned and developed by virtually anyone. Resilience should be considered a process, rather than a trait to be had. It is a process of individuation through a structured system with gradual discovery of personal and unique abilities. A common misconception is that resilient people are free from negative emotions or thoughts, and remain optimistic in most or all situations. To the contrary, resilient individuals have, through time, developed proper coping techniques that allow them to effectively and relatively easily navigate around or through crises. In other words, people who demonstrate resilience are people with optimistic attitude and positive emotionality and are, by practice, able to effectively balance negative emotions with positive ones.
Help couples in your practice manage conflict and deepen intimacy! This is the first step in learning Gottman Method Couples Therapy. A truly inspiring workshop, Level 1 Training will give you new insights into treatment for couples who struggle, using research-based assessments and effective interventions.
Couples Therapy and Trauma: Rosemary Watkins, William Street Family Therapy Centre
Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Survivorship Conference & The Fourth Psycho-Oncology Research Conference
Gottman Method Couples Therapy: Level 2 Clinical Training
Assess a couple’s “Friendship Profile,” “Conflict Profile,” and “Shared Meanings Profile”
- Develop interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the “Four Horsemen”
- Help couples to soothe physiological flooding
- Apply six modes of changing the “Attack/Defend System” in a couple’s interactions
- Assist couples in establishing dialogue about their grid-locked conflicts
- Select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their “Friendship System” with rituals of connection
- Select and implement interventions to help couples create a shared system of values and meaning
- Identify and implement five different co-morbidities common to couples using Gottman Assessments and Interventions
Resilience Across the Lifespan: Andrew J Shatte
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from a negative experience with "competent functioning". Resilience is not a rare ability; in reality, it is found in the average individual and it can be learned and developed by virtually anyone. Resilience should be considered a process, rather than a trait to be had. It is a process of individuation through a structured system with gradual discovery of personal and unique abilities. A common misconception is that resilient people are free from negative emotions or thoughts, and remain optimistic in most or all situations. To the contrary, resilient individuals have, through time, developed proper coping techniques that allow them to effectively and relatively easily navigate around or through crises. In other words, people who demonstrate resilience are people with optimistic attitude and positive emotionality and are, by practice, able to effectively balance negative emotions with positive ones.