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The Latest News From TFC
November 2025 - Creating Space for Every Mind...
In the landscape of modern counselling, understanding neurodiversity is essential.
Every person experiences the world differently, and for neurodivergent clients, these
differences can shape how they communicate, process emotion, build relationships
and engage in therapy. To offer effective, inclusive support...
In Conversation with...
Mary Murphy-Diprose
Join us for a 30-minute YouTube conversation with Mary Murphy-Diprose as she shares her journey into psychotherapy and her doctoral research, “Stories of Identity and Becoming.” Mary discusses her exploration of trans and gender diverse middle-aged and older adults in Britain today, her methodological choices...
TFC article in Brainz Magazine August 2025
How to Write a Profile Bio That Connects Instead of Just Lists.
​Ugh. For many therapists, writing a professional profile ranks high on the “least enjoyable” list when setting up in private practice. “Cringy!”, “I hate talking about myself!”, and “I hate that I have to market myself!” These are all things...
TFC article in Brainz Magazine June 2025
7 Tips for Making the Mental and Emotional Shift to Private Practice... by Samantha Crapnell, founder of Training for Counsellors Ltd and practitioner-facilitator of professional qualifications and continuing professional development events to support the training and ongoing development of counsellors...
Reflections on Impact and Collaboration at BACP 2025
Friday 16th May 2025 marked the 31st British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Annual International Research Conference, and our very own Samantha Crapnell headed to Manchester to soak up the learning. Although this was the third BACP Research Conference she has attended.
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Follow Your Calling into a Career in Counselling
Some people just know they’re meant to help others. With a caring nature, a listening ear, and a true passion for supporting others, they’re often the ones people turn to in times of need. If that sounds like you, perhaps you've wondered about becoming a counsellor...
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Neurodiversity in
Children and Young People
Neurodiversity is becoming a crucial concept for anyone working in the counselling or caring professions. As awareness grows, so does the responsibility for counsellors, therapists, and other professionals in the caring sector to develop a deeper understanding of how neurodivergent children...
Welcome to the team Zoe
January 2025
We are thrilled to welcome Zoe Topping as the new Administrator at Training for Counsellors (TfC). Zoe will be at the heart of our operations, taking on the important role of handling all the behind-the-scenes work that ensures everything runs smoothly.
Zoe’s enthusiasm, expertise, and love for organisation...
'Show your workings out' Linkedin 20th October 25
Counsellors-in-Training - Did you know that you can develop your internal supervisor through your assignment writing? In this article, we introduce Argyris and Schon's understanding of learning to show you how you can use your assignments to improve your counselling practice, towards and beyond qualification...
Lancashire Business View
September 2025
Training for Counsellors have announced their new online course, A Counsellor’s Guide to Building an Ethical Private Practice.
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The course supports both qualified counsellors and counsellors in training with practical tools and professional insight, to help them take the...
TFC article in Brainz Magazine July 2025
Letting People Know You Exist As a Private Practice Counsellor.
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Possibly the question I get asked most as a clinical supervisor of counsellors who are either entering into or are in the early days of private practice is: ‘How am I supposed to market myself as a solopreneur private practitioner?’
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Neuro-Affirming Counselling Practices
It is becoming increasingly obvious that helping professionals such as counsellors develop a better understanding of the ways in which those who identify as neurodivergent adjust their functionality to suit expected “societal norms.” However, for the vast majority of counsellors and psychotherapists...
Why Listening Skills Matter
A Blog from TFC
Listening is something everyone does every day, but truly listening, with focus, empathy and care, is a skill that can take time to develop. For therapeutic
counsellors, listening is at the heart of our work. However, good listening isn’t just useful in the therapy room, it’s a powerful skill that can transform the way we communicate...​​
Collaborative Learning...
Birth of the FECit© Model
Before training to be a counsellor, I was a Learning and Development Officer, completing post-graduate training with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. I will be forever indebted to one of my first tutors on that course who taught a module on “How People Learn.”...
Praise for TFC Listening Skills Course
We are thrilled to share that the latest cohort of our Introduction to Counselling: Listening Skills course, delivered for Blackburn with Darwen (BwD) Carers Service is now complete.
This enriching eight-week programme was designed to enhance listening skills, self-awareness, and the ability to support clients effectively.​
A new partnership
January 2025
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Lancashire Business View
October 2025
Blackburn-based Training for Counsellors are helping to shape the next generation of therapists through trauma-informed and neuro-affirming practices.
Among the team is Linsey Bailey-Rowles MNCPS, MBACP, who has become known not only for her professional expertise but also for the...
TFC article in Brainz Magazine September 2025
Sustainability Through Connection and Overcoming Professional Isolation.
​Counselling is built on connection. Still, many practitioners experience profound professional isolation, which can lead to depression, burnout, and stagnation. Conversations with private...
Barnardo’s to Receive Neurodivergent Training
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been appointed by Barnardo’s, one of the
UK’s leading children’s charities, to deliver specialist neurodivergent training to over
70 of their therapists.
This opportunity highlights the counselling profession’s increasing recognition of the
need to understand....
New Podcast -
Counselling Conversations
We’re always looking for meaningful ways to support our community of practitioners.
This is why we are delighted to share something new; a podcast series, Sam and Zara’s Counselling Conversations, that allows us to better understand our work with neurodivergent clients.
The 5 Questions
We Get Asked the Most
Are you thinking about taking the steps into a new career to become a therapeutic counsellor?
We see a lot of people following their calling into a career in counselling, and many of them have the same questions. If you're reading this, chances are you have these same questions ​​
​​Keynote Presentation on Suicidal Risk
Working with clients at risk of suicide is a sensitive and challenging aspect of counselling and psychotherapy. Research has noted, recently, that the best predictor of suicidal risk a comprehensive, person centred assessment (www.bacp.co.uk). This demands professional expertise, personal sensitivity...
Advance your career...
Feburary 2025
Are you a professional counsellor or psychotherapist looking to deepen your
expertise, expand your career opportunities, and provide ethical, effective
supervision? Our Level 6 Advanced Diploma in Clinical Supervision is designed to
support your growth, offering a rich blend of theory...
Lancashire Business View
December 2024
Training for Counsellors, specialists in experiential learning have launched a new CPD course, ‘Working with the Functionality of Neurodivergent Children and Young People’. This CPD training is part of an ongoing effort to address the increasing demand for neuro-affirming practices in counselling.