Our professional development courses
Explore our range of evidence-based courses designed to build skills, confidence, and impact. From short courses to professional development, discover flexible training that supports growth and real-world practice.
Browse our learning and development options today and find the pathway that’s right for you.
Learning and development spotlight
Build a strong foundation in systemic thinking, explore proven approaches, and confidently apply contemporary principles to transform practice across diverse settings.
Learning options: Self-paced online or 4-day Workshop
Explore the principles and practices of family-sensitive practice relevant to a range of health, mental health, and community service settings.
Participants will develop practical skills to recognise and respond to the needs of families, carers, and other significant relationships while maintaining a client-centred approach.
Learning option: 1-day workshop
In this short course you will learn genogram conventions, formats and symbols, and how to incorporate the drawing of a genogram as part of an existing process with your client, such as an intake assessment.
Family therapy and group work skills for building and healing early relational trust in young families.
Learning option: Half-day workshop
LGBTIQ+ Family Matters is about working respectfully with LGBTIQ+ people and their family members to promote and sustain relational health.
Learning option: Self-paced online
Learn about the value of working relationally, mindfully and collaboratively to support clients living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) /complex needs.
Learning option: 1-day Workshop
This comprehensive course supports non-Indigenous practitioners in respectful collaboration and engagement with First Nations families: combining cultural awareness, safety and bridging of family therapy principles into the work.
Learning options: Self-paced online
Develop confidence and skills to respond to the needs of First Nation community members who are experiencing distress and have experienced transgenerational trauma.
Learning option: 2-day workshop
This training is targeted to those who have already completed a minimum of 3 out of 4 days of Bouverie's Clinical Supervision Training within the past 2-3 years. Advanced CST will build on areas previously covered.
Learn how to build, manage and support resilient teams and promote positive team cultures.
Learn about how to provide effective, quality clinical supervision to your staff.
Learning Option: Self-paced online modules and 4-day workshop
This workshop focuses on delivering supervision in groups to promote meaningful and inclusive processes.
Learning options: 2 day -In-Person or online workshop
Our supervision groups are part of Bouverie’s Postgraduate Enrichment Program aimed at building a vibrant learning community for any qualified Family Therapists.
The introduction of ‘Single Session Framework for Carer Lived Experience Workforce’ (SSF-CLEW) training both complements and serves as a valuable framework and tool for direct and effective peer support work. The framework is based on principles and practices of collaboration/partnership and the connections and shared knowledge of lived experience.
Learning option: 1 day workshop + 90 mins follow-up session
Put into practice the skills at the convening, conducting and follow-up stages of SSFC in a supportive small group context. Particular attention is paid to the feedback process so that your learning is maximised.
Learning options: self-paced online learning modules, half-day or full-day workshop
| Descripton | Learning option | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Single Session Family Consultation | Workshop | 1-day |
| Single Session Family Consultation | Self-paced online | 7 hours |
| SSFC in-Practice: Adult Eating Disorders | Workshop | 1-day |
| SSFC in-Practice | Workshop | Half-day |
SSFC: Information Sharing with Families | Self-paced online | 1.5 hours |
SSFC: Collaborative Conversations | Self-paced online | 1.5 hours |
SSFC: Youth Services | Self-paced online | 1.5 hours |
SST involves approaching the first session as if it will be the last. This aims to make the most of every encounter whilst fostering a client-led approach to identifying what is helpful and when further help is no longer needed. This skill-building workshop aims to prepare you to apply SST in your work context.
Learning option: self-paced online learning, half-day or full-day workshop
| Descripton | Learning option | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Single Session Thinking | Workshop | 1-day |
| Single Session Thinking | Self-paced online | 7 hours |
SST in-Practice Child and Youth Eating Disorders | Workshop | 1-day |
| SST in-Practice | Workshop | Half-day |
Single Session Thinking: Families with Children and Youth (SST-FYC) | Self-paced online | 5 hours |
| SST-FYC in-Practice | Workshop | Half-day |
Learn how to apply NBT concepts effectively so you can confidently use them in your professional practice.
Learning option: Half-day workshop
Equip yourself with the knowledge and practical skills to respond effectively to Adolescent Violence in the Home (AVITH). You’ll gain a deep understanding of its determinants and the rationale for a family systems approach, explore strategies that strengthen parent–child connections, and review the latest Australian research.
Learning option: 2-day workshop
Enhance your practical skills in applying systemic, trauma-informed approaches in your therapeutic work. Learn to identify appropriate interventions, foster trust and openness in challenging family conversations, and integrate single-session principles for impactful outcomes.
Learning options: 2 day workshop
This full-day interactive workshop explores current research on ex-couple hatred, its correlates and consequences within separated families.
Improve your skills working with families affected by grief - including disenfranchised grief - and understanding its implications.
Learning option: 1-day Workshop
No Bull Therapy is a conversational, straightforward approach useful with individuals and families who have experienced family violence or other traumatic experiences
Learning options: self-paced online or half-day workshop
This workshop draws on attachment and trauma theories, and narrative and family therapy concepts to explore how shame manifests through the experience of trauma.
Learning option: 1-day workshop
This workshop aims to offer an understanding of why relationship difficulties between family members remain or escalate, despite now being in a safe environment.
Learning option: 1-day Workshop
Learn how to work creatively with children in therapeutic environments through the use of play.
Learning option: 1-day workshop
A two-tier training opportunity in observing early childhood attachment, to facilitate relational health in the face of family challenge.
Learning options: 1-day workshop
Founded on attachment theory, MERTIL is a self-paced, online training program that teaches recognition of early trauma in the parent-child relationship and explores options for effective immediate response by frontline services.
Learning option: Self-paced online (12 hours)
Mini-MERTIL Introduction offers those working in frontline services the perfect introduction to identifying early childhood developmental delay & relational trauma.
Learning option: Self-paced online (2 hours)
MERTIL for Parents is a short, online program that will help parents understand why trust matters so much to their baby or young child's development, plus how to grow it, repair it and keep it, especially when life is challenging.