Events

Virtual Workshop: Flexibility, Adaptation and Innovation; Working safely and competently with risk as an REBT practitioner (within new NHS guidelines 2025)

Trainers: Denise Christy & Edelweiss Collings

Time & Date: 14.00 to 16.30 GMT 22nd January, 2026.

Location: Zoom platform

NHS England have published updated guidance on ‘staying safe from suicide’. (4th April 2025) – last updated 11th June 2025. In the light of this important guidance this interactive workshop will include working collaboratively and flexibly in adapting risk assessments. There will also be a brief review of recent research. Group exercises will include REBT cognitive and behavioural approaches in both safety planning and building hope for the future.

Workshop Facilitators

Denise Christy MSc FAREBT Accred is the Accreditation Director/Practice Officer of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (AREBT). She has an MSc in REBT from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BACP Accredited Diploma in Counselling. She has a special interest in working with postnatal depression and with parents suffering from stress. Before moving into private practice, she worked for over 10 years in the NHS, first a as a counsellor in primary care and later as the Joint Clinical Lead of a South London IAPT service. She has experience of joint working with Children’s Centres to help increase access to cognitive behavioural therapy and counselling for parents of young children.

Edelweiss Collings MSc MAREBT Accred is one of the co-chairs of the AREBT and completed her MSc in RECBT at Goldsmiths University. Since completing her degree and dual accreditation with the BABCP and AREBT she has worked in IAPT as a CBT therapist, supervisor and Clinical Lead in a London service. She holds particular interest in Stress and Coping in Adulthood and Emotional Resilience and Positive Psychology. Currently, she is working closely with Kasia Steyn on developing new groups to support clients suffering emotional distress and uncertainty in the current pandemic using a trans-diagnostic blended approach to therapy.

Booking

Cost: AREBT Members Free (or voluntary contribution). Non-Members: £20.

Booking: Eventbrite

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