FREE COUNSELLING THERAPIST WORKSHOPS

Who should attend? Counsellors, therapists, counsellors-in-training, students, individuals interested in a counselling career and the general public.

Building A Successful Private Counselling Practice Learn from a panel of Counselling Therapists with over 95 years of combined experience As a Counsellor, how can you find your niche, market your services and build your brand? This workshop will cover everything from finding office space to choosing a name, developing an online presence (including website and social media marketing) and creating compelling digital content. How much should I charge? How can you apply for contracts (government and private) or establish a non-profit organization? How do you become a public speaker? TedX Talk? Bestselling Author? Columnist? Teacher? Learn from experienced professionals who have built their own successful private practices sharing their mistakes, their successes and the lessons they’ve learned along the way.

DR. SAIRA SABZAALI is a Transpersonal Psychotherapist with a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology. She has run her own private practice for over 10 years and offers motivational education and training seminars for corporate and not-for-profit clients, with a special interest in team building, leadership development, and burnout.

DR. SUSANNAH-JOY SCHUILENBERG,

PsyD, RPC, MPCC-S, DAAETS, ACS, is the co-founder and Director of Clinical Services at William & Associates, and offers therapy, locally and globally, to individuals struggling with unresolved trauma. She specializes in complex trauma (C-PTSD) and has extensive experience in providing therapy to soldiers, refugees, and victims of war and/or human rights abuses.

WILLIAM (BILL) SCHUILENBERG, MA, RPC, MPCC, CSAT-C is a former cabinetmaker, who was invalided out of his trade by illness in 2001. After a period of recovery, he went back to school to earn his counselling credentials

Thursday, Aug. 23 7pm-9pm

and worked in private practice in Kelowna until he joined his wife, Dr. Schuilenberg, in Kuwait in 2008. He is currently the Executive Director of William & Associates in Kelowna, BC.

ROSEMARY FROMSON, RPC, MPCC, MPCC-S is a Registered Professional Counsellor (RPC) and the current National President for the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association (CPCA). At age 45, she returned to College to become a Registered Professional Counsellor. She began her private practice, Illuminating Counselling Services in 1998.

GARY THANDI, MSW, RSW has nearly twenty years’ experience in counselling/social work within the mental health, addictions, and domestic violence fields, including direct client therapy, clinical supervision, program development, workshop facilitation, and qualitative research. He is the Executive Director of Moving Forward Family Services, a non-profit organization providing counselling and support to residents of Metro Vancouver.

Vancouver Public Library (Central Branch) Alice MacKay Room 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver