Seeing the Unseen - Confident Practice with Clients with Physical and Sensory Disabilities

Duration: 2 hours | CPD certificate: issued on completion

This course equips practitioners with the knowledge and confidence to support clients with physical or sensory disabilities, exploring access needs in a practical framework before, during, and after sessions. This includes consideration of both ongoing therapy and helpline-based work, where access and communication may need to be adapted quickly and responsively.

Participants will take away:

• Increased confidence in responding to access needs
• Practical strategies for adapting sessions and communication
• A reflective understanding of their own assumptions and potential barriers
• Tools to create an inclusive and respectful environment for all clients

Overview:

• Introduction & Context: Trainer background, course goals, and lived experience insights.
• Understanding Disability: Key legal definitions, (England and Wales), physical and sensory considerations, and the disability continuum.
• Inclusive Practice: Practical strategies for accessible sessions before, during, and after therapy.
• Referral & Signposting: Best practice for ethically supporting clients when you cannot work with them.
• Self-Reflection & Practitioner sustainability: Building confidence, planning next steps, and maintaining professional wellbeing.
• Discussion & Q&A: Open space to reflect, ask questions, and share learning.

Aims.

• To increase practitioner confidence in working with clients who have physical and/or sensory disabilities.
• To support more inclusive and accessible counselling practice.
• To reduce unnecessary therapist refusal by strengthening understanding and capability.
• To encourage reflective, ethical decision-making, including appropriate referral where needed. Learning Objectives. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
• Describe key legal and practical definitions of physical and sensory disability, (England and Wales).
• Identify common barriers disabled clients may face in accessing therapy.
• Apply practical strategies to improve accessibility before, during, and after sessions.
• Adapt communication and therapeutic approaches in response to client needs.
• Reflect on personal assumptions, fears, and areas for development.
• Make informed, ethical decisions about when to work with a client and when to refer.
• Signpost appropriately to relevant services, including helplines and specialist organisations.
• Develop a personalised, step-based approach to building inclusive practice.

This course is Quality Checked by the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). This course alone is not a route to the Accredited Register, nor does it fully equip a graduate to practice as a qualified counsellor or refer to themselves as ‘a specialist’ in the subject matter unless they have other qualifications/training to support this.

Please contact Sandra via email to receive payment information and link to attend.
Please mention if you are a tPCA member.

https://inneractioncounselling.co.uk/training-and-talks/