Specialised Counselling Techniques

Workshop Overview:

Specialised Counselling Techniques workshops are designed to enhance the skills of career practitioners working with both young people and adults, recognising that each group brings unique needs, experiences, and challenges to career development conversations. Through dedicated youth and adult-focused sessions, participants explore how established career development and counselling theories can be translated into practical strategies that support identity development, decision-making, and career planning across different life stages.

The workshops place a strong emphasis on creativity and advanced questioning techniques as tools for increasing client engagement and achieving meaningful outcomes. Practitioners learn how to use storytelling, visual prompts, reflective activities, and purposeful questioning to build rapport, uncover deeper insights, and guide clients toward greater clarity and action. By combining theory with practical application, these sessions equip practitioners with effective approaches to facilitate more engaging, impactful, and efficient career counselling conversations.

Topics Covered (in Young Person or Adult):

• Privacy and Confidentiality
• Building Rapport
• Open and Closed Questioning Techniques
• Which Theories and when to apply them?
• Case Studies and Roleplays
• Upselling, Diverting and Working through difficult conversations
• Building Questions and Creating Templates
• Barriers to Conversations
• Physical Surrounds
• Resources and Tools to assist in creating conversations

Specialised Counselling Techniques – Young People
Designed for practitioners working with adolescents and young adults, this workshop explores counselling techniques that encourage engagement, trust, self-awareness and career exploration. Participants develop practical strategies for working with young people who may be uncertain, disengaged or reluctant to discuss their future, using age-appropriate questioning, strengths-based conversations, narrative and creative techniques. The workshop focuses on helping young people find their voice, recognise possibilities and build confidence in making education, training and career decisions.

Specialised Counselling Techniques – Adults
Designed for practitioners supporting adults through career decisions, change and transition, this workshop develops advanced conversational and counselling techniques for exploring career identity, values, strengths, barriers and future possibilities. Participants practise purposeful questioning, reflective listening, narrative approaches and strategies for navigating uncertainty, redundancy, career change, return to work and competing life priorities. The focus is on facilitating conversations that move beyond simply identifying a new job towards helping clients develop clarity, agency and meaningful career direction.

Suitable for:

• These workshops are suitable for all Career Practitioners either working with young people or adults

Duration:

• 1 Day Each Workshop

Competency Based Learning:

CICA Core Competencies:

• Career development theory (1a 1b 1c)
• Labour market information (2a 2b 2c 2d)
• Communication and interpersonal skills (3a 3b 3c 3d)
• Ethical practice (4a 4b 4c 4d)
• Diversity and inclusion (5a 5b 5c)
• Digital literacy, Emerging Technologies and Information Management (6b 6c 6d 6e)
• Professional practice application (7a 7b 7d 7e)

CICA Specialised Competencies:

• Career assessment (S1)
• Career counselling (S2)
• Career development program delivery (S3)
• Diverse clients (S4)

Upcoming Workshop Dates

Disclaimer:
To ensure the best possible workshop experience, our workshops require a minimum of 10 participants. If the minimum number is not reached, we’ll be in touch to offer you an alternative date or a full refund.

ACCE Members: 

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Group Bookings:

Training is conducted nationally to suit you or your industry partners and all training is customised to meet the needs of learners who may have different work experiences, service specialistions, and specific client cohort needs. For groups of 10+ please contact: Kerry Brookes (RTO Manager) on (03) 9433 8076 or email: kerry.brookes@acce.org.au

Booking Queries:

If you would like to be notified about upcoming dates for this workshop or have any questions, please contact our ACCE Training Team on (03) 9433 8016 or support@ceavinstitute.edu.au

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