Person
Centred Counselling Services Training
ABOUT
PCCS TRAINING
Person-Centred Counselling Services
Training is an independent counsellor-training organisation dedicated
to the Person-Centred approach developed by the late Carl Rogers
(1902-1987). We offer Introductory courses, Foundation Certificate and
Professional Level Diploma in Person-CentredCounselling. We also offer
an Advanced Diploma in Play Therapy, Diploma in supervision
and a Professional Development Programme.
PCCS
Facilities
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Owning
our own house creates a stable, safe
and comfortable
environment for our courses, each
course having exclusive use of the house.
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As a
small independent training organisation
we are not only
responsible for delivery of the courses but also the upkeep,
maintenance and
general day to day chores.
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We have a
good collection of Art materials,
such as paint, clay, sand,
pastels and miniatures. These are freely available at any time if you
wish to
use them for any expressive work.
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Our
office is open 10-3pm Monday-Thursday .
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We have a
good reference library of counselling related
books and Journals which
we encourage you to use to supplement your learning.
We have back copies of the now-defunct
journal Person-Centred Review, and we also have issues of the British
Journal
of guidance and Counselling, Self and Society, and Person-Centred
Practice, the journal of the British Association
for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA).
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The
library also holds copies of handouts,
BACP information sheets,
research summaries, pamphlets and codes of practice.
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We have a coffee/tea machine and a small
kitchen for brewing
your own drinks If you want hot food
there is a range of takeaway food close-by and a cafe provides a sit
down
service at lunchtimes. The Toll Gate Inn has good bar food at
lunchtimes and
further down Seymour Grove towards Chorlton, The Throstles Nest is
cheap and
cheerful.
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The house is
a no-smoking area so smokers will have to use the enclosed yard at the
back of
the house.
Car
parking:
There is usually plenty of space for parking on the roads around
PCCS.
We are also easily reached on public transport
(Altrincham Line Metro
Link)
Advantages of
PCCS Training
- Enthusiastic and committed
Person-CentredTrainers
- Forming a learning community by
creating an environment where professional skills and personal growth
are both
facilitated within the group
- Accessibility We welcome
enquiries so if you would like to talk to someone just call. We also
try to make
sure there is a tutor on hand to answer course enquiries. You can
also come and have a look at our premises.
- Instalments - It is possible
to negotiate payment of your fees by instalments.
- Inclusive cost The Foundation
year fee includes; core text book, Certification and non-residential
costs. The Professional year includes: a pack of core textbooks,
an encounter group weekend and
three themed non-residential weekends. Current PCCS students also have
access to our referral directory of counsellors offering negotiable
fees. (These are ex PCCS students who have now qualified).
- Fast Track – Our courses are
designed with both employers and employees needs in mind. See
In-service training, personal and Professional Development.
Innovation
PCCS has a reputation for innovation.
The Professional Development Programme is in its ninth successful year
and
was the first of its kind in the North West. We have offered the first
Advanced Diploma in Play Therapy in
the North West.
Our staff team have worked in
ground-breaking projects including developing employee assistance
programmes, developing telephone helpline services, training mental
health workers in working
with people with enduring mental health problems, developing
supervision
training for mental health workers, and counselling in broadcast media.
Who are
we?
The PCCS Training partners are Frances McDonnell and Tracey
Walshaw. Frances and Tracey are both experienced Person-Centred
practitioners who have a commitment to their own personal and
professional development through attending Person-Centred conferences,
workshops and group experiences within the UK and worldwide. The core
training team at PCCS, which includes part-time trainers, meets termly
to discuss,co-ordinate and work through any and all aspects of the
training work. All tutors are experienced counsellors and
individual members of the British Association for Counselling &
Psychotherapy (BACP) and PCCS is an organisational member of the BACP.
This is not a qualification, but does mean that PCCS as an organisation
and the trainers as individuals are bound by the BACP Codes of Ethics
and Practice and the BACP Complaints procedure.
PCCS is staffed by an experienced group of person-centred
trainers, with many years experience. Their current and previous work
experience
includes general and psychiatric nursing,counselling in GP’s surgeries,
Further Education and private practice, and includes experience in a
variety
of voluntary settings, commerce, industry and the media.
Tracey
Walshaw
Frances
McDonnell
Frances McDonnell BSc
(Psychol), Cert. Sup. Senior Registered Practitioner
Professional Experience With a
background in Psychology, my working experience includes voluntary
sector counselling, television counselling and teaching counselling in
Further and Higher education. I have been working as a therapist
for seventeen years. I work with a broad range of
clients and supervise counsellors in a variety of organizational
settings. As a core trainer and partner of PCCS Training with fifteen
years experience of working in groups, I realize the importance of my
genuineness when entering into a relationship with learners and very
aware of the importance of not playing the role of the expert but of
bringing a genuine and vulnerable part of me into relationships.
My aim is to create a climate of collaborative power where both
personal and professional development can be enhanced through openness,
and cooperation.
So who am I? Personal Experience My formative
years and Methodist upbringing gave me a stoicism, to carry on with
unbending values and rules, to care for others first, but not to let
others close, especially when hurt or upset. As a
female I wasn’t expected to have an education, but to marry young and
raise a family, it being my role to support them at all times. All
these values have been a hard taskmaster and my learning has been
difficult. I have a husband and three grown up children all of
whom have now left home (my children that is), and whom I wouldn’t be
without in my life. Apart from being director of PCCS and
all that brings with it, my life now takes a different path, not
through gaining specialisms or expertise but through widening my
capacity to experience intimacy and the core values of the PCA in a
wider context. To care for the environment and to meet with others
through the creativity of singing, song writing and performing. All of
which is
blissful!
Tracey Walshaw BA (Psychol),
RMN, Dip Couns, Cert. Sup, Cert. Ed, Dip. In Expressive Therapy, MA.
MBACP (Accred)
Being a partner
and trainer in PCCS Training Partnership has enabled me
to bring my passion for the PCA into my training and organizational
work. My background includes 15 years experience working in mental
health, specifically with clients with acute psychological disturbance.
As a therapist I have particular interest in working with clients who
would be labelled as challenging, with respect to age, loss and other
aspects of psychological experiencing .My professional development has
taken me into working with children and young people with expressive
therapy, therapeutic play being central in these relationships.
This has fundamentally challenged me to make links between Person
Centred theory and expressive medium within the therapeutic
relationship in innovative ways. I have just completed a three-year
piece of work as a school counsellor in a primary school setting and
continue to see child clients in a private setting, as well as
supervising therapists working with this client group. I would describe
myself as a classical person centred therapist.