SCoPEd column B top up training
SCoPEd column B top up training
This intensive four-day online training is for ACC registered counsellor members who wish to take one of the top up routes for accreditation. It is also a CPD training for qualified counsellors who have already met column A competencies and who wish to deepen their knowledge and skills. It covers all of the SCoPEd column B competencies, including areas such as:
- advanced mental health
- developing a comprehensive risk assessment strategy
- inter-professional and multi-agency approaches to mental health
- assumptions that underpin the understanding of identity, culture, values, and worldview
- the impact of technology on counselling
- understanding the role of research in counselling
- using routine outcome monitoring tools
- working with issues of power and authority
- working with unconscious and out of awareness processes
- working with rupture and repair, and therapeutic impasses
- complex endings
- enhancing clients’ self-awareness and understanding of self in relationship
Whilst attendees may already have some column B competencies, the training will focus on all of the column B competencies to ensure everything is covered.
Training dates
Friday 5 June, 9.15am - 4.15pm
Saturday 6 June, 9.15am - 4.15pm
Friday 12 June, 9.15am - 4.15pm
Saturday 13 June, 9.15am - 4.15pm
About the trainers
Dr Heather Churchill
DPsych (Middlesex), MTh (Middlesex), BA (Hons) (Brunel)
Registered and Senior Accredited Member and Fellow of the Association of Christians in Counselling and Linked Professions (ACC). Registered Member BACP (Senior Accred, Counsellor/Psychotherapist, aligned competence level C).
Heather is a senior lecturer in counselling and psychotherapy for Waverley Abbey College and has over twenty years’ experience as a trainer, psychotherapist and supervisor. She has co-authored two books and has published a number of articles in the accord journal. Her doctorate was entitled: From pastoral care to professional counselling: the development of higher education counselling training underpinned by a Christian worldview and in dialogue with Christian faith/religion/spirituality.
Dr Janet Penny
Janet is a counselling psychologist who has an interest in the integration of faith and therapy, and particularly in power dynamics in Christian counselling. She has taught in higher education over the last 22 years at Waverley Abbey College and London School of Theology. Janet currently works in private practice and as a research supervisor at the Metanoia Institute. She also enjoys working at the creative edges of therapy using therapeutic photography and creative writing. As well as being involved with prayer ministry at her local church with her husband, she is a keen amateur photographer.
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SCoPEd column B top up training
Friday 5th Jun, 2026, 09:15 - 16:15
Saturday 6th Jun, 2026, 09:15 - 16:15
Friday 12th Jun, 2026, 09:15 - 16:15
Saturday 13th Jun, 2026, 09:15 - 16:15
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Please note that the price specified is for one person. If you are from the same organisation/household, please book separately and use separate devices to join the training.
Please also note we do not offer refunds; in exceptional circumstances, please email office@acc-uk.org (this does not affect your statutory rights).
This training will take place on zoom and will not be recorded.