What topics does the Counsellor CPD Library cover?

At a Glance

The Counsellor CPD Library covers the full breadth of counselling and psychotherapy practice — eleven top-level categories with hundreds of hours of lectures, and new content added every month.

The eleven categories

• Specific Presentations — suicide, self-harm, addictions, eating disorders, anger, shame, life transitions, chronic pain, maternal mental health, couples, and more

• Approaches — emotion-focused therapy, neuroscience in counselling, polyvagal theory, walk-and-talk, single session therapy, pluralistic counselling, ACT, time-limited NHS work

• Loss and Bereavement — grief, ambiguous loss, complicated grief, working with bereaved children

• Children and Young People — ACEs, working with children in therapy, the teenage brain, bereaved children

• Neurodiversity — counselling ADHD, autism, autism masking

• Practice — GDPR, contracts, assessments, note-taking, private practice growth, risk management, claims and complaints, prison counselling, supervision

• Counselling Skills — metaphor, questioning, challenge, silence, immediacy, rapport, paraphrasing

• Online Counselling — effectiveness, e-counselling, contracting, managing risk, working internationally

• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion — gender, LGBTQIA+, race and culture, disability, working with diversity in the therapeutic relationship

• Personal Development — reflective practice, values and beliefs, self-care, compassion fatigue, stress, mindfulness, procrastination

• Counselling Theory — Person-Centred, Integrative, TA, Behavioural/CBT, Psychodynamic, Attachment, Gestalt, Existential, and more

Finding what you need

The library has an AI-powered search built in. Type in the topic you need — "eating disorders," "contracting," "trauma" — and you go straight to relevant lectures. Useful when a client presents with something unfamiliar and you want to learn quickly.

Always growing

New CPD lectures are added every month. The library you join today is not the library you'll have in two years' time — it's a living resource that grows with your practice.

Want to know more?

You can see everything that's included — and current membership options — at the Counsellor CPD Library page.

If you have a specific question we haven't answered here, email us at support@counsellingtutor.com — a real person will reply within 24 hours.