Our 2024-25 training workshops are below. Some are over a weekend and others are one-day courses. Courses include:
More information about each of these courses is below. If you would like to know more about any of these courses, please email Jonathan.
Please email to register your interest: jonathanchristopherlake@yahoo.com
This is a certificated course. This course is the equivalent of 42 hours of CPD and 20 hours of Mental Health Familiarisation Placement (MHFP). Advance Certificated course includes 52 hours of CPD and 6 hours of MHFP.
Run over three weekends, we will look at different types of loving and relating to understand better how we can function and flourish with a partner or partners in life.
Comparison of different formats of relationship will also help us understand more heteronormative functioning and how people negotiate to live authentic and fulfilling lives, enhanced through relationship.
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What is covered on the course Relationship, couples and sex and sexuality training?
We will think about different ways of expressing sexuality, identity and our uniqueness, facilitated by partnerships. We’ll differentiate between script-induced relating compared to an individuation and expansive process. This will include looking at healthy and unhealthy symbioses as well as Jung’s idea that the more we can learn and experience through difference in our loving, the more we individually grow and move towards autonomy.
Angela, Metanoia Institute 5th year student
Hannah, 3rd year psychotherapy student, Metanoia Institute
Please email to register your interest: jonathanchristopherlake@yahoo.com
Certificated course includes 14 hours of CPD
This weekend will look at the search for the magical other and our quest for the mythical mate to heal (or reinforce) our past traumas.
We will explore how we and our clients can take greater responsibility in personal relationships, how we accept a summons to individual growth rather than seeking rescuing from others, and is a potential partner's role to collude and soothe us - or challenge and disturb us?
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What is covered on the course Single and Ready to Mingle?
We will also explore how our intersectionality impacts this (including what dating/projecting looks like in a tech-driven world). We will ask what is the clients' and our own philosophy on the point of relationships and how this impacts our quest for relating.
We will look at different personality adaptations and character styles and the different life stages we go through with or without the other.
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Please email to register your interest: jonathanchristopherlake@yahoo.com
An Internationally recognised (European Association for Transactional Analysis) TA101 Certificate. This is also a prerequisite for any further formal training in Transactional Analysis. Certificated course allows access to further study including the TA Psychotherapy M.Sc.
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What is the TA101 Course?
This two-day internationally recognised transactional analysis training course is packed full of useful ideas that can be applied in a wide range of personal and professional settings.
Transactional analysis (TA) is used widely throughout the world in organisations, education, counselling, psychotherapy, parenting, coaching and many other areas. It is well known for being accessible and practical in its application in our everyday lives whilst having theoretical depth for those who wish to continue in the study.
You will be invited to reflect upon yourself and others, to integrate the learning, and to bring real examples from your own life and identify alternative options for behaviour and communication that will serve you better.
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River, third year psychotherapy student Connexus Institute
Please email to register your interest: jonathanchristopherlake@yahoo.com
Certificated course including 14 hours of CPD and one hour of MHFP
This five-day online training in trauma informed counselling and psychotherapy will provide practising therapists with a detailed understanding of how to work effectively with the various types of trauma we see in the therapy room and onsite at critical incidents.
We will learn experientially as well as didactically, using the group as a community to gain knowledge and understanding from our experiences with clients, training and our own trauma stories. Theoretical lenses on the subject will include Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Person-Centred, Adlerian, CBT and Jungian perspectives.
You will learn a range of practical CBT-based and other techniques and approaches which will enable you to work effectively with clients who have experienced trauma. The range of traumatic experiences, from single-incident and multiple trauma to severe and prolonged, developmental, external event-based and everyday trauma and will include protocols for working with PTSD and complex PTSD including assessment and diagnosis.
Everyday trauma includes looking at trauma through an intersectional lens and explores power, discrimination, grief, heartbreak and oppression.
The course is based on the New Haven competencies of trauma and will be taught using a range of neuroscience and evidence-based teaching and learning methods.
These competencies were developed by a group of international experts on trauma as a means of identifying best practice and have subsequently been adopted by the American Psychological Association.
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Watch this video to learn more about the approach and content of my trauma informed training courses.
George Teare, 5th year TA student
What is covered on the course Emerging from Emergency: Trauma and critical incident training?
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With more and more people being diagnosed or self-diagnosing with differences/disorders in adulthood than ever before, how does it impact our work as therapists? How do we consider a client possibly having these diagnoses if we do not know what to look out for, and what could be the impact if we miss this or misdiagnose?
Maybe it’s daunting to think about working with these clients. Where does one begin to understand all the different opinions on this subject?
What is covered on the course Working with Neurodiversity?
This course is taught by Jonathan Lake and Crena Watson.
Crena Watson is dyslexic and has ADHD; she runs a full private practice for autistic and ADHD individuals.
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Please email to register your interest: jonathanchristopherlake@yahoo.com
Certificated course including 14 hours of CPD and two hours of MHFP
A weekend looking at our relationships with food.
Jonathan trained at Le Cordon Bleu in the late 2000s and spent ten years reviewing restaurants and running a canapé business whilst working as a psychotherapist. He is in training at Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) and is working up to Sommelier training.
He is interested in poor eating and unaware habits therapists can have and is passionate about supporting clients through their complex relationship with food and vitality.
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What is covered on the course Food and Psychotherapy?
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Trainings take place in my home in East London, one stop from Liverpool Street. Teaching from home offers a relaxed and convivial learning atmosphere for students, providing an intimate group training as well as rooms for breakout discussions and exercises.
Hannah, 3rd year psychotherapy student on couples and relationship training
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