Specialised Counselling Techniques

Workshop Overview:

Specialised Counselling Techniques workshops are designed to enhance the skills of career practitioners working with both young people and adults, recognising that each group brings unique needs, experiences, and challenges to career development conversations. Through dedicated youth and adult-focused sessions, participants explore how established career development and counselling theories can be translated into practical strategies that support identity development, decision-making, and career planning across different life stages.

The workshops place a strong emphasis on creativity and advanced questioning techniques as tools for increasing client engagement and achieving meaningful outcomes. Practitioners learn how to use storytelling, visual prompts, reflective activities, and purposeful questioning to build rapport, uncover deeper insights, and guide clients toward greater clarity and action. By combining theory with practical application, these sessions equip practitioners with effective approaches to facilitate more engaging, impactful, and efficient career counselling conversations.

Topics Covered (in Young Person or Adult):

• Privacy and Confidentiality
• Building Rapport
• Open and Closed Questioning Techniques
• Which Theories and when to apply them?
• Case Studies and Roleplays
• Upselling, Diverting and Working through difficult conversations
• Building Questions and Creating Templates
• Barriers to Conversations
• Physical Surrounds
• Resources and Tools to assist in creating conversations

Suitable for:

• These workshops are suitable for all Career Practitioners either working with young people or adults

Duration:

• 1 Day Each Workshop

Upcoming Workshop Dates

Please note: New dates for the 2026/ 2027 calendar will be released by early August 2026.

ACCE Members: 

Please ensure that you are logged into the ACCE Member Lounge to receive your Member Price when booking this event

Group Bookings:

Training is conducted nationally to suit you or your industry partners and all training is customised to meet the needs of learners who may have different work experiences, service specialistions, and specific client cohort needs. For groups of 10+ please contact: Kerry Brookes (RTO Manager) on (03) 9433 8076 or email: kerry.brookes@acce.org.au

Booking Queries:

If you would like to be notified about upcoming dates for this workshop or have any questions, please contact our ACCE Training Team on (03) 9433 8016 or support@ceavinstitute.edu.au

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