Psychotherapy Skills Workshop
Onsite Learning Programme
Strengthen core communication and counselling skills.
This workshop focuses on the fundamental interpersonal skills that underpin effective counselling and helping relationships. Participants practise active listening, empathy and reflective communication within a supportive learning environment. This workshop supports professionals and students in building confidence in their relational and therapeutic skills.
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Programme Type: CPD workshop (certificate of attendance)
CPD: 6 hours
Next Intakes: Saturday, 27 June 2026
NFQ: N/A
ECTS: N/A
Academic Validation: N/A
Professional Accreditation: N/A
Overview
Introduction
This workshop offers a focused return to the foundational skills that underpin effective therapeutic practice, with particular attention to the therapist’s use of self and the creation of relational depth. Designed as a reflective and experiential continuing professional development (CPD) opportunity, it supports practitioners in re-grounding their work in core therapeutic principles while enhancing confidence, intentionality and presence in the room.
Participants will revisit essential skills (attending, observing, reflecting and responding) while deepening their understanding of how therapist authenticity, self-awareness and moment-to-moment responsiveness shape the therapeutic relationship.
Through discussion, demonstration, skills practice and guided self-reflection, therapists will develop a more nuanced, ethical and intentional use of:
- Self
- Therapeutic self-disclosure
- Immediacy
- Meta-therapeutic communication
- Core attending and relational skills
Course details
This one-day interactive workshop offers participants the opportunity to practise core counselling skills, alongside more intermediate and creative skills. It will include a combination of lecture-led input and peer practice sessions. It will appeal to practitioners looking to refresh their skills, as well as those from other disciplines seeking core skills to complement their work.
The workshop will focus on developing skills such as:
- Opening (including setting goals) and closing a session
- Reflection of feelings and content
- Immediacy
- Use of imagery and metaphors
Date
Saturday, 27 June 2026, 9.30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Certification
Certificate of attendance
CPD: 6 hours
Cost
The cost of the workshop is €95.00. (15% discount for IICP College students/alumni and VCS counsellors)
Venue
Onsite in IICP College Campus, Tallaght, Dublin 24
Expert Course Facilitator
Jill Murphy
Jill Murphy is a counselling lecturer with over seven years’ experience teaching in higher education. Alongside her role at the College, she runs a private counselling practice working with a diverse range of clients.
Her teaching integrates clinical experience with counselling theory, with a particular emphasis on the intentional use of self in therapeutic work. Her teaching style is experiential, grounded and focused on fostering relational depth, supporting learners in developing reflective practice, ethical awareness and strong therapeutic skills.
