2024 training

2024 training programme

Our 2024-25 training workshops are below. Some are over a weekend and others are one-day courses. Courses include:

Relationship, couples and sex and sexuality training
The Official Introduction to Transactional Analysis (TA101)
Single and Ready to Mingle: Project, Idealise and Demonise?
Emerging from Emergency: Trauma and critical incident training
Working with Neurodiversity
Food and psychotherapy

More information about each of these courses is below. If you would like to know more about any of these courses, please email Jonathan.

Contact 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.

Relationship, couples and sex and sexuality training

Name: J Lake Consulting
Address: London

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.

Cost:

£550 for all three weekends in total

Venue:

42 Driffield Road E3 5NF (or a larger East London venue if numbers require).

Dates:

9/10 November, 7/8 December 2024 and 11/12 January 2025
10am-5pm daily apart from the last Sunday (12th Jan) which is 9.30am-12.30pm

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.

The first weekend will focus on theory, format, clinical framework and examples of working with people in relationship. As well as couples this covers individual work, polyamorous relationships, kink-aware relationships and other vehicles for loving and partnering, taking an intersectional viewpoint and learning from different communities including different gender identities. Theoretical schools looked at will include Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, Jungian, specific ‘couples’ models and Integrative theories.
The second weekend will focus on practice. Participants will work in small groups which involve observation and working with different constellations and theories. Usually actors are used for roleplaying clients and students can experiment with different modes of working in a safe and supportive environment.
The third weekend focuses more on working with sex, psychosexual issues and one's sexuality, as well as an individual's sexual relationship with themselves.

“I just want to say that I believe the relationship training you are offering is something I’ve been missing in my training! For me, it’s the gold dust in individual work… because most of the time individuals come to me because they are struggling with their relationships/intimacy on the whole.”

Angela, Metanoia Institute 5th year student

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.

The Official Introduction to Transactional Analysis (TA101)

Dates:

26/27 October 2024

Cost:

240 for the weekend, 10am-5pm

Venue:

42 Driffield Road E3 5NF (or a larger East London venue if numbers require).

Pre course requirements:

None, no therapy training needed. Open to the public. No assessment.

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.

Topics covered include:

Introduction to Transactional Analysis:
The teaching in the introduction to transactional analysis training course is interactive, lively and stimulating and groups are kept small (usually max 14) to enhance your learning. We will use a combination of teaching, discussion, practical exercise and time for reflection.Life script and how we make decisions early in our life that become unconscious and affect us now both professionally and personally
Psychological Games and how we and others unconsciously set up repetitive patterns to keep our world predictable and familiar
Ego States and the different aspects of ourselves and others and how we can operate from each of these
Transactions and the ways with which we communicate with others
Rackets and how we and others can create our own reality and stay wedded to that and much more.

“Many thanks for sharing not just your wisdom and expertise but also your beautiful home over the last few months. It has been a wonderful experience.”

Hannah, 3rd year psychotherapy student, Metanoia Institute

Please email to register your interest: jonathanchristopherlake@yahoo.com

Certificated course includes 14 hours of CPD

Single and Ready to Mingle: Project, Idealise and Demonise?

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?

Dates:

1/2 March 2025

Cost:

£195 for two-day workshop.

Venue:

42 Driffield Road E3 5NF (or a larger East London venue if numbers require).

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.

Topics covered include:

Theoretical concepts will include different TA schools, Jungian Psychology, Adlerian thinking and Object Relations.
Personal experiential and group process will bring the content from the conceptual to the personal and will encourage ourselves and our own clients wider thinking about dating, relating and expanding from ego-driven needs in 'first adulthood' into soulful, meaningful relationships and existence.

“Thank you for your brilliant, witty and insightful teaching. You are a true educator.”

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

Emerging from Emergency: Trauma and critical incident training

This two-day workshop explores working on-site with trauma, covering the different types of on-site interventions including responding to terrorism, natural disasters, murder and suicide.

We will learn about the biology of trauma, including polyvagal theory, bodily and hormonal responses, sympathetic and para-sympathetic reactions and what to do when ‘the body says no’.

Dates:

Date: tbc, please email to register interest

Cost:

£195 for the weekend

Venue:

42 Driffield Road E3 5NF (or a larger East London venue if numbers require).

What is covered on the course Emerging from Emergency: Trauma and critical incident training?

Topics covered include:

Big T and small T trauma, including working with developmental trauma in clients.
How to work with clients with PTS and PTSD, including diagnosis and tools and techniques.
Practice of assessment tools for trauma and stress, including DSM, PDM and others.
Case studies of different client types, organisations and industries with practical application.
Working with Employee Assistance Programs and how the industry works.
CBT tools and techniques and practical application exploring different coping mechanisms.

Working with Neurodiversity

A weekend training to help understand, support and work with neurodiversity

Date: tbc, please email to register interest
Venue: 42 Driffield Road, E3 5NF
Cost: £250 for the weekend
Certificated course including 14 hours of CPD and four hour of MHFP

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.

Topics covered include:

What are our perceived ideas and assumptions and prejudices? It can be scary to ask questions in case one says the wrong thing.
What is the difference when working with an autistic or non-autistic client? How do we work with them optimally?
What happens when we have a client diagnosed with ADHD, but they also have undiagnosed Autism and vice versa, as around 70% have both?
We aim to share our involvements in working with such clients, bringing it alive with case studies, and our own learnings and mistakes.
We will discuss what Autism and ADHD actually is, helping dispel many incorrect stigmatising misconceptions.
We will examine the challenges these neurodivergent individuals have in a society which is mostly neurotypical.
The so called level one/ high functioning autistic person who appears to be coping in society, are one of the biggest cohort of people to die by suicide.
We will look at the many co-morbidities that can accompany these diagnoses.
May be you are neurodivergent yourself and if so we welcome your input.
We will provide a reading list of books and Journals, many written by autistic academics.
Research findings in this area will be key to our conversations

Please email to register your interest: jonathanchristopherlake@yahoo.com

Certificated course including 14 hours of CPD and two hours of MHFP

Food and psychotherapy

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.

Dates:

Date: tbc, please email to register interest

Cost:

£195 for the weekend

Venue:

42 Driffield Road E3 5NF (or a larger East London venue if numbers require).

What is covered on the course Food and Psychotherapy?

Core concepts include:

Jung's idea of different bodily needs.
Berne's different types of hunger.
Developing through autonomy, individuation and self-actualisation with food as the fuel.
Transgenerational trauma and legacies around food and eating.
Psychological as well as physical scarcity and abundance in our individual stories and how this may impact our hungers.

Topics covered include:

working psychodynamically with eating disorders
resources to support those around eating disorders
exploring meaning of food; as nourishment, symbol of love, nurturance and enjoyment
food as addiction, an addiction like no other where you have to imbibe at least three times a day to be healthy
how we were fed from birth and how our complex intersectionality can impact our perception of food
when does eating become a disorder clinically and how is this treated by different modalities
how our appetite for life and living with intensity may influence our relationship with eating
our larger relationship with health, vibrancy and pleasure
ego versus soulful eating

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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.