Our Wellbeing Programme: for Organisations

We offer tailored wellbeing programmes, delivered either face-to-face or live online, for:

  • Trainee counsellors and other trainee therapists such as hypnotherapists, coaches, and yoga therapists

  • Trainee or qualified social workers, nurses, midwives, psychologists, psychiatrists, clergy, paramedics, teachers, and other frontline professionals

 We are also open to collaborating with groups who would like a version of the training shaped specifically for their profession.

Please contact us to arrange a conversation about what we can offer you and your organisation.

Why This Matters

At Counsellors Therapy Pot, we believe it is essential for those who support others to also have a strong foundation of wellbeing. This benefits practitioners, because it helps them to thrive in their work and their wider lives, and it benefits the organisations they work for.

When wellbeing is prioritised, organisations see:

  • lower sickness rates

  • greater staff retention

  • higher levels of engagement and productivity

Ideally, this kind of wellbeing focus would be embedded in the initial training for all helping professions. But we know resources don’t always allow for this. That’s where we come in:  delivering programmes for both training groups and seasoned professionals.

Why Helping Professionals Need Support

There is often an assumption that counsellors, social workers, nurses, teachers, and others ‘should’ know how to look after themselves, since they know how to care for others. But in practice, this isn’t so simple.

Reasons include:

  • Many enter these professions with a strong drive to nurture, which can lead to overstretching themselves.

  • Some are ‘wounded healers,’ whose history equips them to serve others well, but may also leave them vulnerable to triggers from past adversity.

  • Professional boundaries are usually taught in ways that prioritise the client, patient, or student, not always the practitioner’s own wellbeing.

  • Chronic resource shortages make it harder to protect personal wellbeing in the face of ongoing demands.

  • Practitioners are rarely taught how to recognise or manage challenges such as vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, moral injury, or burnout.

What Our Programme Covers

Our wellbeing programme is designed to meet these needs by:

  • Exploring why those in helping roles often struggle to prioritise their own wellbeing. and empowering them to change this.

  • Introducing the Nine Cornerstones of Wellbeing as a practical framework (including Psychoeducation for Helpers and Routines, Rituals, and Boundaries).

  • Providing education around the causes, symptoms, prevention, and recovery from compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, moral injury, and burnout.

  • Identifying common pitfalls such as people-pleasing, rescuing, and imposter syndrome, and offering strategies for building confidence and healthier boundaries.

  • Supporting participants to reflect on their current wellbeing and set realistic steps toward where they’d like to be.

The tools learned in this programme not only benefit the professionals themselves but can also be shared with their clients, patients, service users, or students.

Next Steps

If you’d like to explore how our wellbeing programme could support your training centre, department, or organisation, please contact Niamh and Beth. We’d be glad to talk about tailoring the programme to your needs.