Counselling Children & Young People Online Workshop
On-demand or Live sessions
Do you work with children and young people in your counselling practice?
Do you want help to engage children and young people more effectively in your counselling practice?
Join Emma Ward an experienced and popular Children’s Counsellor in this course to focus on the counselling and wellbeing of children and young people in sessions.
This course provides practical skills, knowledge, and skills for professionals to help enhance their interactions with children, young people and parents.
This course is designed to help participants increase their awareness of how to engage children and young people in counselling, while providing experience in a range of activities and strategies to assist children and young people in a range of settings.
On-demand or Live options
This 120-minute workshop is available in 2 options:
- An on-demand workshop that you can access immediately
- A live, interactive workshop via Zoom happening on the date listed below
Both options include coaching and practical step-by-step instructions of how to apply principles and practices to generate strong results with children and parents.
After completing this workshop, you will have a greater awareness in helping children and parents in your clinic space. Emma will also demonstrate techniques that can be applied in sessions.
This online course is designed to support counsellors working with children and families by strengthening engagement skills, managing parent expectations, and expanding practical therapeutic tools. Drawing on nine years of experience as a Children’s Counsellor and work with over 1,000 clients, the facilitator provides practice-informed insights into developmentally appropriate counselling approaches.
The activity explores key foundations of effective child engagement, including emotional safety, predictability, rapport, sensory considerations, and play-based strategies. Participants are guided through a practical framework for managing
parent expectations in children’s counselling, with emphasis on ethical boundaries, communication, and balancing the needs of the child and family system.
The session includes demonstrations of child-friendly therapeutic exercises that support emotional expression, regulation, and engagement, with opportunities to reflect on clinical application. A facilitated question and discussion segment allows
participants to explore real-world challenges and consolidate learning for immediate use in practice.
Learning Objectives & Outcomes
- Identify key principles of developmentally appropriate engagement when counselling children and young people, including safety, predictability, rapport, and sensory considerations.
- Apply practical strategies to effectively manage parent expectations while maintaining ethical boundaries and prioritising the child’s therapeutic needs.
- Demonstrate an understanding of counsellor behaviours that enhance engagement with children, as well as those that may contribute to disengagement.
- Implement a range of practical, child-friendly therapeutic exercises to support emotional expression, regulation, and engagement in counselling sessions.
- Reflect on how the concepts and techniques presented can be integrated into their own counselling practice with children and families.
WORKSHOP INCLUDES
- 120 minutes of content with experienced Australian Counselling Association member Emma Ward, who has worked as a Counsellor for 9 years and has used these practices with over 700 clients with 40% of these clients being children.
- Coaching and a practical step-by-step framework on how to use techniques to engage children in counselling. Steps are designed to be easy to use for participants to continue using in the future
- 5 OPD points with the Australian Counselling Association (if applicable, you do not need to be a ACA member to attend)
To learn more about this workshop, feel welcome to email Emma at [email protected]
This event is proudly a ACA Endorsed OPD Activity with total of 5 OPD Points. To learn more visit:
Australian Counselling Association (theaca.net.au)
Enrol in EFT Online Workshop
Two options to choose from
On-Demand
Immediate access
$80
Best for participants who can’t attend the live event or want to learn at their own pace
1 x video session of the Counselling Children & Young People Online Workshop
5 OPD points for ACA members
Tips, guidance and support following the event
What To Expect
After completing payment, you will receive instructions on how to access your customer dashboard and workshop. You will be able to watch the video session as many times as you wish for 90 days.
Live Workshop
9th November 2026, 7:30pm (Adelaide Time)
$80
Best for participants who want interactivity
1 x Live Zoom Event with replay
5 OPD points for ACA members
Opportunity to ask questions during the live event.
Tips, guidance and support following the live event
What To Expect
After completing registration, you will receive instructions on how to join the live workshop. On the date of the workshop, you will join the Zoom event from your computer together with other participants.
About Emma
Emma works as a 1:1 coach, counsellor and speaker helping women and men discover the life they always dreamed of. She utilises a wholistic approach and a combination of techniques, including counselling, EFT, FasterEFT, breathing exercises, meditation, boxing therapy, art therapy, cooking and so much more.