WORKSHOP 1: Introduction to Relaxation Based Counselling and Coaching

AREBT WORKSHOP 1

WED 3rd DECEMBER 2025 at 10.00am to 11.00am

(Conference Day 2)

THIS EVENT IS FREE OF CHARGE FOR CURRENT AREBT MEMBERS

Introduction to Relaxation Based Counselling and Coaching

This short workshop will introduce the Relaxation Response. It will cover relevant research and focus on a number of relaxation techniques.

Objective

• To define Relaxation Based Coaching and Relaxation Based Counselling
• To understand the Relaxation Response
• To increase knowledge in the application of relatively ‘simple’ relaxation skills within Relaxation Based Counselling and Coaching in face-to-face work and over virtual platforms
• To have practised a couple of relaxation techniques within group exercises
• To reflect on how relaxation techniques can be integrated within your own practice
• To monitor physiological and psychological measures of your Relaxation Response

Cost: AREBT Members Free (or voluntary contribution). Non-Members: £10.

TRAINERS:

Prof Stephen Palmer PhD FAREBT Accred is a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Coaching Psychologist, Registered Counselling and Health Psychologist. He is a BABCP and AREBT Accredited Therapist and Albert Ellis Institute REBT Certified Supervisor. Stephen’s university posts include being an Honorary Professor of Practice, PhD Director of Studies and supervisor in the Institute of Management and Health at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD). He is an Adjunct Professor of Coaching Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark. Previously he has been a Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit, City University London; Honorary Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, and BABCP London Branch Founding Co-chair.

Stephen is Co-chair and Fellow of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, President and Fellow of the International Society for Coaching Psychology, Vice President and Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Health Promotion and Education, former President and Honorary Fellow of both the the International Stress Management Association (UK) and Association for Coaching. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Royal Society of Biology. He is a member of the International Association of Applied Psychology Division of Environmental Psychology. He is former Co-Editor of International Coaching Psychology Review, former editor and now Consulting Editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion & Education. He has written/edited 60 books including Stress counselling: A rational emotive behaviour approach (with Ellis, Gordon and Neenan), Counselling for Stress Problems (with Dryden), How to Deal with Stress (with Cooper), Coaching Psychology in Practice (with Green), and Handbook of Coaching Psychology (with Whybrow).

Dr Siobhain O’Riordan PhD CSci CPsychol FISCP MAREBT (Acad) is Chartered Scientist and Chartered Coaching Psychologist. She has full divisional membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology (DARTP) and is a member of the BPS Psychobiology Section. She is Course Co-Director on the stress management and coaching programmes and a trainer at the Centre for Coaching. She is an Honorary Member of the Institute for Health Promotion and Education, Fellow of the International Society for Coaching Psychology and Accredited Coaching Psychologist and Supervisor.

From 2013-2015 she was Editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion & Education. Currently, she is Founder Chair of the International Society for Coaching Psychology, Editor of the International Journal of Coaching Psychology, Consulting Editor of The Coaching Psychologist and Editor of Coaching Psychology International. Her other roles include supervising doctorate students at the Institute of Management and Health, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is also a Director of the International Academy for Professional Development Ltd. She has published research and practice papers and her latest book is Introduction to Coaching Psychology (2021, with Palmer).