Psychdesk Foundation provides training and capacity-development programmes in counselling and various psychotherapeutic approaches. These programmes aim to strengthen participants’ theoretical understanding, practical counselling competencies, therapeutic communication skills, and ethical practices in supporting individuals experiencing psychological, emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal difficulties.
The training introduces participants to different counselling theories, psychological interventions, and evidence-informed psychotherapeutic approaches. It emphasizes the development of professional skills required to understand clients’ concerns, establish therapeutic relationships, conduct basic psychological assessments, formulate problems, and facilitate positive psychological change.
Major Areas of Training
1. Fundamentals of Counselling: Introduction to counselling principles, approaches, the counselling process, therapeutic relationships, rapport building, and professional ethics.
2. Person-Centred Therapy: Understanding Carl Rogers’ approach, including empathy, unconditional positive regard, genuineness, active listening, and client-centred support.
3. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): Understanding the relationship between thoughts, emotions, and behaviours; identifying cognitive distortions; cognitive restructuring; and behavioural interventions.
4. Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT): Understanding irrational beliefs, the ABC model, disputing unhelpful thoughts, and developing rational thinking patterns.
5. Psychodynamic Therapy: Exploring unconscious processes, childhood experiences, defence mechanisms, interpersonal conflicts, and their influence on present behaviour.
6. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT): Developing goal-oriented interventions through strengths identification, exception questions, scaling questions, and solution-building techniques.
7. Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Introducing mindfulness-based stress reduction, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, meditation, present-moment awareness, and emotional regulation.
8. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Understanding psychological flexibility, acceptance, cognitive defusion, values clarification, and committed action.
9. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT): Developing skills in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness.
10. Family and Couples Therapy: Understanding family systems, communication patterns, relationship dynamics, conflict resolution, and family-based interventions.
11. Trauma-Informed Counselling: Understanding psychological trauma, trauma responses, secondary traumatic stress, psychological safety, stabilization, and trauma-sensitive approaches.
12. Child and Adolescent Counselling: Developing skills to support children and adolescents experiencing emotional, behavioural, developmental, academic, and social difficulties.
13. Grief and Bereavement Counselling: Understanding loss, grief reactions, adjustment, emotional support, and coping strategies.
14. Crisis Counselling and Psychological First Aid: Developing foundational competencies in crisis response, suicide risk recognition, psychological first aid, safety planning, and appropriate referral.
Our Training Methodology
Psychdesk Foundation adopts an interactive and experiential approach to counselling and psychotherapy training. Programmes incorporate theoretical sessions, case studies, demonstrations, role-plays, simulated counselling sessions, group discussions, reflective exercises, and supervised skills practice where appropriate.
Our objective is to bridge psychological theory and therapeutic practice by developing competent, ethical, empathetic, and evidence-informed professionals who can contribute to improved mental health and psychological well-being.
Note: Training participation does not automatically qualify individuals to independently practise psychotherapy. Clinical practice requires appropriate professional education, supervision, and credentials.