Aspen Psychology Services

10/10/2025

BLOG: Facing Your Dragons

Today is a day of two days. It's , which also happens to be the same day as the (admittedly, perhaps more niche) third International Day . I've posted the links below if you want to find out more about those.

Anyway, with both of those themes in mind, today seems like a fitting day to share a blog article I wrote a couple of weeks ago but haven't got around to sharing yet. It's called 'Facing Your Dragons', which is a metaphor for a psychological and behavioural process that can help us at times of challenge or difficulty, or when experiencing emotional distress (e.g. anxiety).

If you want to, you can read it here:

https://bit.ly/3KOsuwF

The links for the 'days' today are:

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/public-engagement/world-mental-health-day

https://www.isfcp.info/international-coaching-psychology-day/

Hope some of this is of interest or help.

Take care,

Mark

25/09/2025

A statement from the National Neurodivergence Team:

12/09/2025

ONLINE WORKSHOP: Coaching Foundations, 16.10.25, £150.

For anyone who has a role helping others to reflect on their lives/situations and find ways forward, and wants to improve their confidence & proficiency at doing so. Useful as either a starter or refresher.

More details at:

https://www.aspenpsychologyservices.co.uk/coaching-workshops.html

For more info about pursuing accreditation as a coaching psychologist, see our information video at: https://bit.ly/4mQAHyK

11/09/2025

So you want to become an accredited Coaching Psychologist? Find out more about the process, and how Aspen Psychology Services can help, via our short information video here:

https://youtu.be/o_vZFZQtywU

More info at: https://www.aspenpsychologyservices.co.uk/coaching-workshops.html



edpsy.org.uk British Psychological Society

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16/07/2025

The dates for our 25-26 programme of coaching psychology online workshops are now live. We are running six workshops across the year, as follows:

- Coaching Foundations, 16.10.2025
- Solution-Focused Coaching, 04.12.2025
- Coaching for Resilience, 27.01.2026
- Coaching for Change, 10.03.2026
- Coaching for Wellbeing, 07.05.2026
- Coaching Ethics & Supervision, 11.06.2026

Further details available here:

https://bit.ly/3HZ7tKS.

11/07/2025

The edpsy festival is taking place on 19.09.25, with a range of sessions exploring contemporary issues/themes, e.g. reframing attachment as a dynamic process not a fixed trait; making space for everyone in their diverse gender experiences; and adopting a more holistic approach to meeting mental health needs. See you there if you're attending. What is of interest to you?

Get tickets to edpsy Festival of Educational Psychology 2025, taking place 19/09/2025. RingCentral Events is your source for engaging events and experiences.

30/04/2025

See below for updates from edpsy.org

A brief round of up things we’ve seen from the previous week that might be useful to you. 1. Supporting...

27/02/2025

Glad to have provided a satisfying CPD experience for this team of LA Educational Psychologists, supporting them to practise skills for helping others to achieve goals, and then how to use CBC & ACT to deal with psychological blocks to goal achievement. 🌱

26/02/2025

This short article re rethinking our approach to children’s mental health is worth reading every word of. Children's wellbeing and presentation is influenced by a complex interaction of a range of individual, familial, school and systemic factors, and - while there are cases in which it can be helpful - 'diagnosis' is not an exact science, and can, in some cases - as the research shows - be counterproductive. 👏 PsychEdMum & colleagues.

20/01/2025

Some feedback from our recent online training day on 'Coaching Foundations'. Info about other Aspen Psychology CPD opportunities this year can be found at: bit.ly/3HZ7tKS

21/11/2024

Want to develop as part of your CPD, or become an Accredited Coaching Psychologist? Free 20-minute video for , TEPs and AEPs can be found here: https://bit.ly/3AIgubE.

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17/10/2024

I just had a bit of a surprise, if that's not too much of an understatement. I was googling a 2016 paper I wrote on the ENABLE coaching model I'd developed so I could include it as a reference in some training I'm running, and up came this book called 'Coaching Practiced: Coaching Psychology Tools, Techniques, and Evidence-Based Approaches for Coaches' (2022, Tee & Passmore). I can see it's described as a collection of "the best papers over the last 15 years from the journal The Coaching Psychologist", and I was both delighted and humbled to see the article on the ENABLE model included in the section on Solution-Focused Coaching - right next to a chapter by the late and inspirational Professor Anthony Grant, no less. I'm flabbergasted to say the least. The content of the book looks incredibly helpful to any aspiring or practicing coaching psychologist, so I will leave a link to it here.

Coaching Practiced (BPS Textbooks in Psychology)