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.
Our featured courses
Family work skill development
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
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: 1 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
Supporting First Nations families
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
Maintaining Social and Emotional Wellbeing for Ourselves and Our Communities
This workshop explores First Nations ways of understanding relationships and healing processes unique to the cultural places of living and working. It aims to help learners begin to understand the types of trauma reactions in individuals and the ways these affect family relationships and connections, and the impact on the workers.
Learning options: 1-day workshop
Understanding Violence’s Place within the System, Our First Nations Communities and Families, and Individuals
Develop an understanding of the context of violence, making sense of the prevalence and nature of violence; and importantly, to explore ways to keep First Nations communities, families, and individuals safe.
Working with children and young people
Learn how to work creatively with children in therapeutic environments through the use of play.
Learning option: 1-day workshop
Learn about observing infant attachment in clinical and home settings, and interventions to support attachment health.
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 or 2-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.
Trauma and family violence
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
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
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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 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
Clinical supervision and supporting your team
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
Implementation workshops
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 option: Half-day workshop
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.L
Learning option: Half-day workshop
Learn how to apply NBT concepts effectively so you can confidently use them in your professional practice.
Learning option: Half-day workshop
Attend this workshop to gain a clear understanding of Single Session Thinking (SST) and learn how to apply it effectively when working with children aged 5–17 and their families. You’ll also develop practical skills to overcome barriers, integrate SST principles into everyday practice, and confidently use a single-session approach in real-world settings.
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