🔍 This workshop offers a reflective and practical space to examine how you conduct intake sessions, from information gathering to clinical documentation. Using flexible tools and frameworks, participants will explore how to structure intakes, hold the early therapeutic relationship, and translate sessions into clear, ethical case notes. This session supports thoughtful skill refinement rather than rigid technique.

🎯 Learning Outcomes:

• Apply flexible tools and frameworks to structure intake sessions while remaining responsive to client needs and the therapeutic relationship

• Translate intake sessions into clear, clinically useful, and ethically sound case notes

• Critically reflect on the intake process and documentation to strengthen thinking and support professional development

👥 Who’s it for?

• Early career clinicians & postgrads preparing for placements

• Experienced therapists wanting a refresh

🕒 3 hours total (approx 1 hr didactic | 1.5 hrs practice | 30 mins debrief & Q&A)
💻 Zoom | Max 8 people | Camera + mic required
💸 PhP 3,000 (discounted to PhP2,500 postgraduate students)

Formulation is the bridge between understanding and action.
In this session, we’ll explore:
🔹 The 5P's  model and the biopsychosocial formulation
🔹 Translation of client language into structured formulation
🔹 Writing and using the formulation in practice

🎯 By the end you’ll be able to:

• Create formulations that guide treatment

• Articulate the clinical insights behind your formulation with peers

• Feel more confident linking theory to client work
  
  

🎓 For early career psychologists, postgraduate students in psychology and counselling, and any practitioner feeling stuck with “where do I start?”

👥 Limited to 8-10 (Small Group Session)
🕒 3 hours on Zoom
💻 Camera + mic required
💸 PhP 3,000 (discounted to PhP2,500) 

This session is a highly practical and applied training for clinicians focused on ethical reasoning in real-world psychological practice. You are introduced to a structured ethical decision-making model through a brief lecture, and then use this framework to analyse publicly available scenarios involving psychologists available in both traditional and social media.

You will engage in the material through guided reflection on the ethical principles involved: identifying which principles are being upheld, which may be at risk of being breached, and why. The exercise is focused on the actions of the psychologist, and not on the person that is the psychologist. Participants are supported to clearly articulate their ethical reasoning using the decision-making framework, and to reflect on how they might have approached the situation differently in their own practice.

The scenarios will reflect contemporary challenges in psychological work, specifically the use of social media. The session emphasises thoughtful reflection, ethical clarity, and the ability to justify clinical decisions in a way that aligns with your relevant code of ethics and professional conduct.

🎯  You’ll learn how to:

• • Learn a sound ethical-decision making framework

  • Use structured ethical decision making model and apply it to publicly available scenarios involving psychologists

  • Practice ethical reasoning skills and critically consider professional responsibilities across a range of practice settings

👥 Limited to 8-10
🕒 3 hours on Zoom
💻 Camera + mic required
💸 PhP 3,000 (discounted to PhP2,500) 

How do you go from a formulation to an actual plan of care? In this session, we’ll walk through.:

• Mapping out clear, measurable treatment goals

• Prioritising focus areas

• Collaborating with and making it clinically relevant and realistic for clients

🎯 You’ll learn how to:

• Use information obtained in intake to inform treatment

• Co-create with client flexible but structured plans based on formulation

• Communicate with client clinical rationale behind treatment plan

• Obtain client's informed consent to treatment plan
  
  

🎯  You’ll learn how to:

• Use information obtained in intake to inform treatment

• Co-create flexible but structured plans based on formulation
  
  

👥 Limited to 8-10
🕒 3 hours on Zoom
💻 Camera + mic required
💸 PhP 3,000 (discounted to PhP2,500) 

This session is designed for clinicians who a. have never been given a clear, defensible framework for assessing suicide risk, and who may not realise that simply providing crisis numbers, or assigning a label such as “mild” or “moderate,” does not in itself constitute a suicide risk assessment or meet a clinician’s duty of care; b. would like to practice the skill of suicide risk assessment and management with simulated clients/role play; and c. reflect on the actions they take and build their clinical reasoning related to their clinical work.

Many clinicians are taught what to do (offer a safety plan, give crisis contacts), but not how to think about suicide risk. As a result, risk is often rated in arbitrary ways, without a clear clinical basis, and management decisions are made that are not well matched to the person’s actual level of risk.

This session focuses purely on suicide risk and provides a structured, client-centred way to:

• Assess risk by developing a meaningful understanding of a person’s suicidality, rather than relying on checklists or unsupported risk labels.

• Manage risk by responding proportionately and collaboratively, including co-creating safety plans that are based on the assessed risk and part of a broader care plan.

• Demonstrate responsible practice by clearly showing how risk was assessed and managed in line with professional standards of care. 

The session also addresses how this work feels for clinicians. When there is no clear framework for assessing suicide risk, uncertainty and anxiety are common, even if they go unnoticed.

Relying on familiar actions, such as giving crisis numbers or completing a basic safety plan, can create a false sense of reassurance. This training helps clinicians feel clearer and more confident, because they understand the risk they are working with and why their clinical decisions make sense.

🎯  You’ll learn how to:

• Assess risk using a clear framework

• Co-creating safety plan

• Reflect on your own feelings about working with clients that experience risk of suicide
  
  

👥 Limited to 8-10
🕒 4 hours on Zoom
💻 Camera + mic required
💸 PhP 3,500 (discounted to PhP2,500 for postgraduate students)

💸 Inquire for group booking (info@theppcp.com)

This session is about tuning in, refining, and re-grounding your microskills both for rapport and therapeutic impact. This session is for new to practice and those who would like to review the fundamentals. [Email info@theppcp.com for future announcements]:

🎯  You’ll learn how to:

• Core counselling micro-skills

• Deploying micro-skills intentionally

• Giving and receiving structured feedback
  
  

👥 Limited to 8-10
🕒 3 hours on Zoom
💻 Camera + mic required
💸 PhP 3,000 (discounted to PhP2,500)