Welcome to Headstrong Academy
Headstrong Academy offers a free online CPD and training platform for counselling trainees, qualified counsellors, and supervisors, seeking to deliver excellent and inclusive practice.
Free trainings
You will receive a CPD certificate for all completed trainings. Feel free to share these trainings with your peers and colleagues. They are free for everyone. We upload new trainings every month.
Premium CPD
Explore our paid CPD courses, offering more in-depth learning and specialist training to help you deepen your knowledge and develop your clinical practice.
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Working with Neurodivergence: Foundations
CourseExplore key neurodiversity terminology, medical, social and relational models, neurodiversity-affirming practice, Equality Act duties, and how to raise a suspected condition with a client without asserting a diagnosis.
£10
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Working with Neurodivergence: ADHD
CourseDiagnostic framing and its limits. Executive function, emotional regulation and time. Who gets missed and why. Misdiagnosis and overlap with anxiety, depression and trauma. Adapting therapy and session structure. Risk, referral and Right to Choose.
£10
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Working with Neurodivergence: Autism
CourseMonotropism and the double empathy problem as working models. Masking, autistic burnout and minority stress. Late identification and earlier diagnoses. Sensory needs, processing time and alexithymia. Suicide risk, assessment and referral pathways.
£10
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Working with Neurodivergence: Tourette's and Tics
CourseTics, premonitory urge and the cost of suppression. Functional tic-like behaviours. Co-occurring ADHD and OCD. What counselling can and cannot address, managing your own reaction, and contracting without requiring a client to suppress.
£10