Aspen Psychology Services

28/04/2026

We're excited to share that the Aspen Psychology Services online CPD programme for 2026-27 is now live!

Six full-day workshops, each grounded in evidence-based coaching psychology, running throughout the academic year:

📅 Coaching Foundations — 8 October 2026
📅 Solution-Focused Coaching — 26 November 2026
📅 Coaching for Resilience — 26 January 2027
📅 Coaching for Change — 11 March 2027
📅 Coaching for Wellbeing — 13 May 2027
📅 Coaching Ethics & Supervision — 10 June 2027

All workshops run 9:30am–4:30pm online via Zoom, at £150 each — with discounts for booking more than one (two for £280, three for £400, all six for £775).

Workshops are designed for coaches, psychologists, education professionals, and anyone in a helping role looking to add practical, psychology-informed tools to their practice.

Each workshop is ISCP-Approved and counts towards the ISCP Accreditation pathway (should you be following, or wish to follow that optional route to accreditation).

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

Or, book a place or places:
https://www.aspenpsychologyservices.co.uk/book-a-place-on-an-event.html

COACHING PSYCHOLOGY INTEREST GROUP (CPIG)

We're also running our free Coaching Psychology Interest Group three times in 26-27 to support people with an interest in coaching psychology to connect, share, practice and learn together. CPIG is open to anyone with an interest in coaching psychology, with tasks scaffolded so that no prior attendance, training or experience is required. People at all stages of your coaching/coaching psychology development journey welcome.

Find out more or register your interest here:
https://www.aspenpsychologyservices.co.uk/ep-coachingcoaching-psychology-interest-group.html

29/03/2026

Something I wrote this week seems to be resonating with people.

It started with a moment on a football show that genuinely moved me. Thierry Henry, in front of millions of viewers, told his colleague Micah Richards: “You are in my hero bracket” — not for his achievements, but for how he faced suffering. Micah spoke openly about his battle with depression and alcohol, and what helped him find his way through.

I wrote about that moment — and what it says about masculinity – because I think such positive role models are becoming ever more important, especially at a time when the so-called ‘manosphere’ is reaching young men in enormous numbers with a very different message about life goals, gender roles, and what ‘success’ means.

This article is about what real strength actually looks like. And it’s about what I want for my son.

If this feels relevant to someone in your life — a young man, a parent, a teacher — please do share it.

https://bit.ly/41ylTLV

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

So you want to be an Accredited Coaching Psychologist? Information for Educational Psychologists, Trainee Educational Psychologists and Assistant Psychologi...

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