In-House Mental Health Training

Compass has an impressive selection of topics to inspire and motivate your staff and community. Whether you need a conference keynote, in-house training, pupil-free day or parent evening, you’re sure to find the perfect fit from our selection of mental health topics

Theraplay Australia

Theraplay® - Nurture Your family with Fun 

Compass Seminars AUS is the recognised training provider of Theraplay® Australia.

Theraplay® is an evidenced-based, attachment-focused intervention utilising non-symbolic, interactional play to re-create experiences of secure attachment formation between parent and child. Therapist-guided short-term, dyadic therapy focuses on improving the child’s behavioural and emotional challenges through the parent-child relationship. In a session, the therapist guides the parent and child through playful games, challenging activities, and nurturing interactions. 

  • Duration: Level 1 is 4 days (9-5pm each day).

  • Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia.

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Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy

DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) and PACE, integrate the neurobiology of trauma, intersubjectively, early child development and attachment theory, to produce a therapeutic and parenting approach that assists therapists, educators, residential care workers and parents/caregivers to understand and support children and young people with relational trauma and attachment difficulties.

  • Duration: Level 1 is 4 days 

  • Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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Hey Warrior!

Hey Warrior! Anxiety explained.  Kids empowered!

This dynamic workshop will help participants to recognise anxiety disorders in children and adolescents (5 - 18yr olds). It will delve into the obvious and not so obvious signs of anxiety, discuss where they come from and why they exist, and offer a range of practical, powerful interventions to assist participants to respond effectively within their own professional context. 

  • Duration: 7 Hours (one day). Can also be delivered as a keynote and half day workshop for professionals, parents and young people.
  • Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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Key Skills in Family Therapy

Key Skills in Family Therapy - Systemic Approaches to Working with Individuals, Couples and Families

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This workshop introduces participants to core Family Therapy concepts and broadens practitioners understanding of how to view “the client’s problem”, as well as provide practical skills and interventions for use with the client groups with which they work, built on theoretical constructs from systemic, structural, solution focused and narrative family therapy models to teach core thinking and interviewing skills in family therapy. It makes complex theory easy to grasp and the related techniques easy to implement.

  • Duration: 15 Hours (two days). 
  • Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Solution Focused Brief Therapy - A Two Day Intensive Workshop

Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a user-friendly and evidence-based approach, effective with a range of mental health and well-being issues including anxiety, depression and trauma. Its strength-base and future-focus make it ideal for situations requiring rapid client engagement and cooperation. By concentrating on a preferred future rather than a regretted past and by focusing on resources rather than deficits the solution focused approach has proved an effective model, especially useful where clients are in great difficulty and who urgently need to find a way forward.

  • Duration: 15 Hours (two days) workshop to professionals. Can also be delivered as a keynote.
  • Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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Overcoming School Refusal

Overcoming School Refusal - Answers to questions teachers, counsellors and parents need to know!

This instructive workshop identifies and explores the complex workings of School Refusal and provides a structured best-practice approach to overcoming it. Translating research and jargon into understanding and practical strategies this workshop is suitable for all principals and educators (P-12), health professionals, GPs, paediatricians, family support workers, residential carers, MH day-program staff, and parents/ carers. 

  • Duration: 7 Hours (one day). Can also be delivered as a keynote. 
  • Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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Trust Based Relational Intervention

Trust Based Relational Intervention TBRI® - Caring for Kids from 'Hard Places'

A whole-child, attachment-based, trauma-informed, multi-systemic, evidence-based intervention which has proven to be successful for children who have experienced relational trauma (abuse, neglect, domestic violence or institutionalisation).

  • Duration: 7 Hours (one day). Can also be delivered as a keynote. 
  • Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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Picture This

Picture This - Harnessing the Therapeutic Power of Genograms

This workshop will open up the enormous possibilities and potential of the Genogram, a typically underutilised tool, as a process for both assessment, and intervention. Genograms provide a rich and powerful tool for engagement, enhancing the therapeutic alliance, assessment, treatment planning, and can be used as a therapeutic intervention in itself.  

  • Duration: 7 Hours (one day). Can be delivered as a keynote or full day workshop to professionals.
  • Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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Working Safely with Families & Trauma

Working Safely with Families & Trauma - A Neurobiological Approach to Trauma Stabilisation and Family Therapy

As practitioners, we can easily get so caught up in the roller coaster ride of crises, suicide attempts, hospitalisations, addiction relapses, and self-destructive acting-out that we ourselves start to feel out of control! This workshop integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment within a framework of family therapy.

  • Duration: 15 Hours (two days) workshop to professionals.
  • Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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Stuff That Sucks

Stuff That Sucks: Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy with Young People

ACT is rapidly growing in popularity internationally and is being used successfully with people experiencing a range of life challenges including low mood, worries, difficult behaviour, anger, anxiety, and interpersonal or family conflict. This workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of ACT with a specific focus on its successful application with younger people.  

  • Duration: 7 Hours (one day). Can be delivered as a conference keynote or workshop to professionals, educators, parents and young people
  • Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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Attachment Styles in Practice

Attachment Styles in Practice - Theory, Evidence and Practice

Learn how to work successfully with emotional and behavioural problems rooted in deficient early attachments. It introduces the Attachment Style Interview (ASI), an evidence-based accessible instrument that reveals how attachment disorders may be properly conceptualised, to inform more targeted planing and treatment.

  • Duration: 7 Hours (one day). Can also be delivered as a keynote
  • Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia

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Anxiety in the Classroom

Anxiety in the Classroom - Strengthening Children & Teens Against Anxiety at School

Participants will learn practical strategies to effectively respond to children and teens with anxiety, as well as ways to capture the powerful buffering role school can play in strengthening all young people against anxiety at school and beyond.

  • Duration: 7 Hours (one day). Can be delivered as a keynote or full day workshop to professionals, as well as a parent night.
  • Location: By arrangement at your workplace or nominated venue anywhere in Australia or Asia.

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