How this workshop will help you?
Safeguarding concerns can arise in any therapeutic setting, with any client, including the sub-clinical case study work you’ll be doing as part of your Diploma. A disclosure doesn’t announce itself as a “safeguarding issue”: it might be a comment that gives you pause, a pattern that builds over several sessions, or something a client says almost in passing about someone else in their life.
This workshop gives you a clear, practical framework for recognising when safeguarding applies, how to respond calmly and appropriately in the moment, and exactly who to go to at the College if you need support, without needing to interrogate, investigate, or resolve the situation yourself.
This is a live pilot session. Your feedback and the material developed here will form the basis of the self-paced digital version of this workshop, to be released later.
Course Trainer
Krissie Ivings
(Author, host)
Dr Krissie Ivings DClin Psych. is a Consultant Chartered Clinical Psychologist regulated by the HCPC and BPS, with over 25 years’ experience in the NHS and independent practice.
She is the former Head of Psychology for a large NHS Trust and has held NHS England Clinical Lead roles across several transformation programmes, including the development of Specialised Community Eating Disorder Services and Crisis Care across Greater Manchester. Krissie is the author of several clinical manuals and treatment pathways, including The SPIRAL Manual (2023) and The REACH-IN Pathway (2018), and is the owner and Clinical Director of Aspire Therapy Services Ltd. She also trains our Risk Assessment & Management Workshop, and is the author of this Safeguarding workshop.
Theresa Brockway
(Co-host)
Theresa Brockway is a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, Creative Psychotherapist and Public Speaking Coach, and a long-standing UKCHH Trainer and Supervisor. She trained in
Hypno-CBT® in 2013 and holds a Masters in Dramatherapy from Roehampton University.
Alongside her private practice, Theresa works as a Mental Health Specialist for the NHS and has over 20 years’ experience facilitating group training and workshops in a range of settings.
Krissie and Theresa are both College safeguarding contacts, and are available for saeguarding and supervision escalations via your coach.
Learning Objectives
- Understand what safeguarding is, and how it applies to you as a trainee hypnotherapist.
- Know the legal definitions of a child and an “adult at risk” and understand that not every vulnerable-seeming client meets the safeguarding threshold.
- Recognise the difference between an amber flag (monitor, explore gently, seek supervision) and a red flag (act, and act promptly).
- Understand what abuse is, in its various forms, and how disclosures — from children or adults — can happen at any time, often without the word “abuse” ever being used.
- Learn how to respond to a disclosure: remain calm, don’t investigate or express shock, and explain the limits of confidentiality clearly.
- Understand your responsibilities as a private practitioner (not a statutory service): your role is to alert the appropriate authority, not to act on the information yourself.
- Know how and when to keep a clear paper trail, and what good case-note documentation looks like in amber and red situations.
- Practise applying this framework through facilitated role play and group discussion.
- Know exactly who to contact at the College, Krissie or Theresa, via your coach, if a concern arises.
Frequently Asked Question
1. Who is this workshop for?
This pilot is for students who have started, or are about to start, their case study work. In
future it will be added to your library once you pay for your assessment, there is no
additional cost for this workshop. It should be completed
2. Will I receive a Certificate?
You will be issues a UKCHH Certificate of attendance.
3. What if I can’t make the live pilot date?
This live session is the pilot for a self-paced digital version of the workshop, which will follow.
If you can’t attend on 24 September, look out for details of the digital course in due course.
4. Is there a cost?
No, this pilot session is free for students.
Enrol:
Live Webcast Pilot
Date: Thursday 24 September
Time: 4.00pm – 8.00pm (UK time)
Hosted by Krissie Ivings