Resilience and Retention: Responding to Overwhelm in Healthcare.
Healthcare and frontline professionals often work under intense pressure — with limited resources, high demand, and little time to recover. That can lead to stress, overwhelm, and eventually burnout, all of which affect not only wellbeing but also workforce retention.
The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) provides practical, evidence-based training to help you and your colleagues cope effectively, respond with compassion, and maintain resilience even in the toughest circumstances. By supporting staff in this way, organisations strengthen retention and sustain the experienced workforce they need.
We deliver training directly to your organisation for a fixed all-inclusive fee, wherever you are, and some courses are also open to individuals.
Every course is APT-accredited, backed by over 40 years’ experience and trusted by 150,000 professionals.
Preventing and Responding to Burnout.
A 2-hour, specially recorded course
Our "Preventing and Responding to Burnout" course is an intensive, short-format programme designed specifically for health professionals. It delivers practical strategies and insights to help you identify, prevent, and overcome burnout, enabling you to maintain a healthy work life and continue delivering high-quality care to your patients.
Single-Session Therapy: Delivering Maximum Benefit.
A 2-day, specially recorded course
Single-Session Therapy is often assumed to be second-best to longer-term therapy, but research and practice show that a well-structured single session can make a real and lasting difference, and has its own specific advantages over alternatives.
This course shows clinicians how to use a single meeting to maximum effect — setting a clear focus, using evidence-based techniques, and helping patients move forward straight away. It’s a highly practical, skills-based course that restores clinicians’ sense of effectiveness and helps services reach more people, more quickly.
Providing Good Clinical Supervision.
A 2-day course, available live or specially recorded
This course is for professionals working in mental health and related fields who want to provide high-quality clinical supervision that is both effective and ethical.
Clinical supervision is a crucial process, but its purpose is often misunderstood. Should you ensure the supervisee is ‘doing it right,’ act as a sounding board for clinical thinking, or something else entirely? This course clarifies the aims of clinical supervision, introduces an effective model, and provides practical tools for setting up and delivering strong supervision contracts.
By the end of the course, you’ll feel confident in your ability to deliver effective supervision, whether one-to-one or in groups, ensuring it benefits both supervisees and their clients.
Enjoying Good Mental Health in the Workplace: a course for everyone.
A half-day, specially recorded course
How can we create a working environment that actively supports staff mental health? This course explores practical ways of building a positive culture, reducing stigma, and promoting wellbeing — so the workplace becomes a source of strength, not stress.
Driving good mental health in the workplace: a course for managers.
A 2-day course, available live or specially recorded
This course is for managers and directors and focuses on how to manage in a way that generates good mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, and doing so in a realistic way that works well for everybody.
Many people spend more waking hours at work than they spend anywhere else, so it is imperative that we do our best to get matters right in the workplace.
So this course spends only a little time on the mental health difficulties that can beset people, and focuses instead on what you as a manager or director can do to foster good mental health and wellbeing in a way that embeds it into your organisation. So we are not talking about mere ‘add-ons’, we are talking about your style and strategy, and operating a style and strategy that is good for your employees and colleagues and therefore is fundamentally good for your organisation in a realistic, practical, and measurable way.
