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Live CPD Β· 3.5 hours Β· Clinicians working with adolescents

Know what to do when a teenager gives you nothing.

An integrative, evidence-informed approach for psychologists and counsellors who work with young people, so you stop reaching for the technique you know and start matching the method to the young person in front of you.

Reserve My Seat: 21 January, 9am AEDT See what's included
Walk into your next guarded session knowing your next move.
βœ“ Built for clinicians newer to adolescent work βœ“ Workbook & certificate included βœ“ 3.5 CPD hours
The shift this training makes
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Where most of us start
β€œWhat intervention should I use?”
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Where experienced clinicians work from
β€œWhere is this young person stuck and what do they need next?”
β—† Method follows formulation.
Sound familiar?

Fine with children, fine with adults, and somehow no good with teenagers.

That suspicion is common, and it is rarely about skill. Adolescent work is decided in the first session, often in the first few minutes, and the methods that work with younger children need a different stance with a fifteen-year-old. This training gives you that stance.

They were sent, not referred.

A school, a parent or a court decided there was a problem. The young person didn't.

You default to your one technique.

You reach for what you know best, not necessarily what this young person needs.

They come four times and stop.

Flat, monosyllabic sessions, and no clear thread linking what you do to how young people actually change.

What you'll walk away with

Leave with a repeatable way to decide, not a bag of activities.

βœ“Understand why adolescent work needs a different stance, and the difference between eclectic and integrative.
βœ“Engage the reluctant, the mandated and the sent, from the first four minutes onwards.
βœ“Use Geldard and Geldard’s cycle of change in the room to locate where a young person is stuck.
βœ“Know where sand tray, symbol and metaphor, collage, drawing, writing and CBT fit, and when.
βœ“Use Pearson and Nolan’s emotional release principles safely with teenagers.
βœ“Hold ethics, consent, confidentiality and the mature minor, and the non-negotiables of risk and scope.
The framework

Three trusted bodies of work, woven into one clear map.

Integrative doesn't mean a grab-bag. It means a coherent map of how young people change, onto which specific methods are placed on purpose.

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Geldard & Geldard

The map of change

The proactive approach and the cycle of change: how change unfolds for an adolescent, and the order to support it in.

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Pearson & Nolan

Safe emotional release

How held emotion is expressed, witnessed and brought safely to completion: bottom-up before top-down, and your own window before theirs.

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Expressive and cognitive methods

The bridge into the room

Sand tray, symbol and metaphor, collage, drawing and writing, and CBT made genuinely relevant for teenagers.

Method follows formulation. Understand the young person and the intervention becomes clear.

The one question that changes everything

β€œWhere is this young person stuck?”

Two teenagers can look identical in the waiting room and need completely different next steps. Where they are stuck tells you which.

Stuck before the story

They can't yet say what is going on.

The task isn't insight, it's engagement and safe expression. Give the story a way out that doesn't cost them face.

Sand traySymbol and metaphorCollageDrawing and writing
Stuck before action

They understand it, but nothing changes.

The task is rehearsal and choice. Build the bridge from insight into their actual week.

Motivational interviewingCBTBehavioural experiments
What's included

Everything you need to use on Monday morning.

Your place includes the live training and a complete set of take-home tools, designed so the framework leaves the room with you.

  • 1
    The live 3.5-hour trainingSeven modules, two presenters, composite cases and a live demonstration.
  • 2
    Participant workbookBuilt to be written in, with frameworks and an action plan you complete as you go.
  • 3
    Thirty days of replayWatch it again, or catch up if you can’t attend live.
  • 4
    Referenced PowerPoint slides & reading listThe full framework with an APA-7 reference list to back your practice.
  • 5
    Certificate of completion3.5 CPD hours for your professional development log. Check with your own registration body how these count for you.
  • 6
    Pathway to the CPRC Integrative Therapies for Children and Adolescents certificationThis webinar is Lecture 1 of the adolescent stream, so if you go further it counts rather than sitting outside.
Who it's for

Made for clinicians who are newer to adolescent work.

This is for you if…

  • You're a provisional or early career psychologist, counsellor, social worker or school psychologist working with young people.
  • You're experienced with children or adults, and newer to teenagers.
  • You see young people who were sent by a school, a parent or a court.
  • You want your choices to stand up in supervision.

Good to know

  • It's a teaching day: no breakout rooms and no paired practice. That is what the Coaching Masterclass Series is for.
  • It complements, never replaces, your clinical supervision.
  • No prior training in adolescent therapy is needed.
  • Risk and safety are taught at the level of principle. Your local procedures always come first.
The day

Seven modules, three and a half hours, one short break. Thursday 21 January, 9:00am to 12:30pm AEDT

Β·Welcome and the proactive stance10 min
1Why adolescents need a different approach20 min
2Engagement: the reluctant, the mandated and the sent20 min
3Ethics, consent, confidentiality and the mature minor20 min
4The Proactive Approach and the cycle of change25 min
Β· Break 5 min
5Pearson & Nolan: Emotional Release Counselling20 min
6The strategy toolkit in practice, with a live demonstration30 min
7Sequencing it all: a worked case, ethics and safety25 min
Β·Next steps, your questions and close35 min
Your presenters

Learn from clinicians who've supervised this work for years.

Dr Anna Cohen

Dr Anna Cohen

Senior Clinical Psychologist & Board-Approved Supervisor

Co-founder of Kids & Co Clinical Psychology, with three decades of clinical practice with children, adolescents and families.

Isabel Fraser

Isabel Fraser

Clinical Psychologist & Board-Approved Supervisor

Co-founder of the Clinical Psychology Resource Centre, with many years supervising clinical practice.

Together, Anna and Isabel are co-founders of the Clinical Psychology Resource Centre: board-approved clinical supervisors, clinicians and mothers who have supervised clinical practice for many years.
Grounded in the research

Evidence-informed, and honest about it.

You'll see exactly where the literature is strong and where it's still emerging, so you can practise with confidence and integrity.

49% vs 18%
CBT for youth anxiety

Remission with CBT against no treatment, across 39 randomised trials.

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Sand tray & sandplay

Large effects across children and adolescents, from a smaller, emerging base.

RCTs
Art therapy with adolescents

Reduced PTSD, depression and suicidal ideation severity in randomised trials.

r β‰ˆ .22
Therapeutic alliance

The alliance predicts youth outcome across every model.

Sources include James et al. (2020); Wiersma et al. (2022); Versitano et al. (2025); Shirk, Karver & Brown (2011). The studies differ in design, population and effect-size metric, so read these as orientation rather than a league table. Full APA-7 reference list provided to every participant.

New to adolescent work

Made for the clinician who is fine with everyone but teenagers.

Many capable clinicians quietly avoid adolescent referrals, or take them with a knot in the stomach. Most spend years collecting activities that don't land with a fifteen-year-old. This training gives you the decision framework instead, the thing that usually takes years of supervision to build.

Reserve your place

One morning that changes how you work with teenagers.

You'll sit across from a young person who gives you nothing again this term. The question is whether you'll be guessing or formulating. Registrations close on the day.

Entry pathway to CPRC certification
$695 AUD

Per participant, everything below included.

  • Live 3.5-hour CPD training
  • Participant workbook
  • Thirty days of replay
  • Referenced PowerPoint slides & reading list
  • Certificate of completion (3.5 CPD hrs)
Reserve My Seat

Thursday 21 January · 9:00am AEDT · live online

Optional add-on Β· Go deeper

One morning teaches the thinking.

The masterclass makes it fluent.

Nobody becomes good at a symbol check-in with a guarded fifteen-year-old by watching one. The Coaching Masterclass Series is six live two-hour sessions on Thursdays, 11am to 1pm Sydney time (28 January, 11 February, 4 and 18 March, 1 and 15 April), where every method is demonstrated and then practised with supervision on your own de-identified cases. It runs live and is not recorded, because you can't practise from a replay. Book it at the same time as your webinar and it's $1,795, $200 off the $1,995 standard price.

  • 1
    6 Γ— 2-hour live masterclassesSix Thursdays from 28 January to 15 April, 11am to 1pm Sydney time: twelve hours of hands-on coaching in a small cohort.
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    Live demos + supervised practiceSee each method modelled, then practise it on your own de-identified cases with feedback.
  • 3
    Advanced workbook & certificateYours to keep, with 12 CPD hours for your log.
Book with your webinar

Coaching Masterclass Series

6 Γ— 2-hour live sessions Β· 12 CPD hours
Booked with your webinar
$1,795
Save $200 Β· 12 CPD hours
Standard / added later
$1,995
If booked separately
Book the webinar and masterclass together ($2,490) Prefer instalments? Email us and we'll send the options β†’
The capstone credential Β· Pathway three of three

This training is part of the full CPRC Certification.

Integrative Adolescent Therapy is pathway three of the CPRC Integrative Therapies for Children & Adolescents certification: assessed competence in the integrative model across parents, children and adolescents, signed off by a board-approved supervisor. Take this morning on its own or commit to the whole credential in one go and save $1,852.

What the full certification brings together
  • 1
    Integrative Child TherapyWebinar + Coaching Masterclass: the integrative model with children.
  • 2
    Regulated Parenting Modelβ„’Webinar + Parent Coaching Masterclass: coaching parents as the agent of change.
  • 3
    Integrative Adolescent TherapyWebinar + Coaching Masterclass: the pathway you're looking at today. You're starting here
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    12 months of supervised practiceApply the method on your own caseload in the fortnightly group.
  • β˜…
    Competency assessment & supervisor sign-offAssessed against seven domains, then listed on the CPRC register.
Sign up in one go & save

The full certification

Three pathways Β· 12 months supervision Β· competency assessment
$12,852$11,000AUD
β—† Pay upfront in one go: save $1,852

Prefer to spread the cost? An optional payment plan is available at $12,852 by application. A $1,000 competency assessment fee applies. The credential certifies competence in the CPRC method; it is not a registration or protected title.

Sign up now β†’ Or explore the certification in full first β†’
Questions

Good to know before you book.

The next teenager who gives you nothing is already on your caseload.

The only question is whether you'll meet them with a guess or a plan.

Reserve My Seat: $695