Human Development Scotland

23/09/2025

If you or someone you know is seeking part-time training designed to prepare practitioners to work with children, young adults and their families, and is taught from a psychodynamic perspective, find out more about our Certificate in Counselling Children, Young People and Families course.

Closing date for applications is 31 October.

Find out more and apply here: https://bit.ly/2H13K3R

21/09/2025

If you’re going through a difficult time for any reason, HDS provides counselling and psychotherapy. We offer two fee options, including an affordable option.

Contact our counsellors here: https://bit.ly/33zH9nu

18/09/2025

‘Through the eyes of the parents: working with parents in child psychotherapy’ is the title of the HDS conference on Saturday 8 November from 9:30am to 4pm in our Training Suite in Glasgow.

In this conference, our speakers will help us to share how a child psychotherapist might think about working with parents, in different clinical contexts. There will be an opportunity for attendees to hear from experienced speakers and from different perspectives on this work, and to benefit from discussions in large and small groups.

This conference is suitable for child psychotherapists, couple therapists, parent-infant psychotherapists, counsellors and people in training in these disciplines. It is also suitable for various professionals working in CAMHS interested in psychoanalytic thinking.

Speakers include Simon Cregeen, Margaret Rustin, Jane Turner, Emily Morgan and Lisa Webb.

Find out more and book tickets here: https://bit.ly/45VcAt7

16/09/2025

Are you an employer seeking counselling support for your staff?

Your staff could benefit from access to counselling and psychotherapy with HDS.

We work with organisations to offer counselling and psychotherapy as part of their EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) at competitive rates. Each completed sessions costs £65.

We can provide your staff with access to HDS counsellors who can assist with a wide range of issues. These could include both difficulties directly related to one’s job as well as issues in one’s personal life, such as anxiety or trauma, which might affect performance at work.

Speak to us to find out more: https://bit.ly/2OCnaMK

14/09/2025

'Through the eyes of the parents: working with parents in child psychotherapy’ is the title of the HDS conference on Saturday 8 November from 9:30am to 4pm in our Training Suite in Glasgow.

In this conference, our speakers will help us to share how a child psychotherapist might think about working with parents, in different clinical contexts. There will be an opportunity for attendees to hear from experienced speakers and from different perspectives on this work, and to benefit from discussions in large and small groups.

Speakers include Simon Cregeen, Margaret Rustin, Jane Turner, Emily Morgan and Lisa Webb.

Find out more and book tickets here: https://bit.ly/45VcAt7

10/09/2025

If you or someone you know is seeking part-time training designed to prepare practitioners to work with children, young adults and their families, and is taught from a psychodynamic perspective, find out more about our Certificate in Counselling Children, Young People and Families course.

Closing date for applications is 31 October.

Find out more and apply here: https://bit.ly/2H13K3R

28/08/2025

Are you an employer seeking counselling support for your staff?

Your staff could benefit from access to counselling and psychotherapy with HDS. We work with organisations to offer counselling and psychotherapy as part of their EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) at competitive rates.

Each completed sessions costs £65. We can provide your staff with access to HDS counsellors who can assist with a wide range of issues. These could include both difficulties directly related to one’s job as well as issues in one’s personal life, such as anxiety or trauma, which might affect performance at work.

Speak to us to find out more: https://bit.ly/2OCnaMK

26/08/2025

NHS Education for Scotland is offering five funded places for our course: Psychoanalytic Observation & Reflective Practice: Therapeutic work with Children & Young People (TWCYP).

The course is targeted at practitioners within specialist services which hold the mental health and wellbeing of infants, children and their families at their core. It is hoped that this would include a combination of NHS and non-NHS practitioners, including those drawn from Paediatric settings, Health Visiting, CAMHS, community parent infant teams, community perinatal teams, inpatient perinatal mother and baby units, Social Care, Education and Third Sector Organisations.

Hurry, closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 8 September.

Find out more and apply.

NHS Education for Scotland is offering five funded places for our course: Psychoanalytic Observation & Reflective Practice: Therapeutic work with Children & Young People (TWCYP). Application deadline is 9am on Monday 8 September.

21/08/2025

In our latest newsletter, register now for our November conference ‘Through the eyes of the parents: working with parents in child psychotherapy’.

Apply now for our COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills / Foundations of Human Relations and Counselling.
‼️Hurry, closing date for applications is end of this month.

Read the full newsletter here: https://bit.ly/4oMiWSo