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Membership to Counsellors Victoria (CV)

Membership to Counsellors Victoria (CV) consists of two levels: Full Member and Student Members. Members must hold or be studying a Diploma or Higher in Counselling related studies.

Members are urged to be following an industry Code of Ethics or organisational policies and procedures to guide their work.

Monthly Meetings

Below you will find the Counsellors Victoria Inc meeting calendar with the meetings dates for 2024.

Meetings will be held online via Zoom, with short networking opportunities following the presentations. 

Members will be contacted via email regarding meeting presentation topics for the meeting calendar dates. 

CV Updates

Counsellors Victoria has recently undergone changes which include separating from the Australian Counselling Association as their Victorian Member Association.

Counsellors Victoria is now a professional development and networking provider for those with a diploma and higher in counselling related studies and those who are studying one of these courses.

We encourage our members to be following an industry Code of Ethics or organizational policies and procedures.
Membership gives access to the 10 professional development presentations each year and networking events held.

Members may be from all over Australia, not just Victoria.

Upcoming Presentations

Please note that our presentations are not recorded to protect and respect the intellectual property of our presenters.  Our professional development is a live attended event on the 2nd Saturday of the month – February to November.

SATURDAY 9th March @ 11am sharp! (for a 11am – 12.30pm presentation)

CV Presents:

Suicide prevention continues to be a concerning issue when working with young people. It is often a mystifying and difficult topic. Whilst there has been gains in recent years it remains an area for significant work.

This webinar will address the following –

– Models of suicide causation (brief view)

– Differences between suicidal behaviour and non-suicidal self injury

– Patterns of suicide and suicide risk (young people, Indigenous populations, LGBTI, etc)

– Assessment skills (what to look for / what to ask)

– Risk factors

– Protective factors

– What to say and do

This workshop is a brief view of youth suicide prevention. It is designed to highlight a number of areas that workers with youth need to be vigilant to. The main focus will be on the age group 16 to 26 years.

Presentation:

Garry King has extensive experience with working with young people. This experience is the result of having worked as a teacher, youth worker and counsellor and complimented by degrees in welfare and education as well as masters degrees in counselling and suicidology. He has worked as the youth welfare consultant for the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention. 

He was appointed an adjunct lecturer, youth welfare at the Central Qld University and is the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship to the USA. Garry has written a number of books on youth welfare and is a speaker at national conferences. He is a peer reviewer for the International Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. Garry was an invited presenter at the 2018 World Summit on Positive Psychology, Mindfulness & Psychotherapy. He was a presenter at the 2019 International Society for the Study of Self-Injury conference in the USA. 

His most recent book “School Crisis Prevention & Intervention” has been released in the USA. He was the Clinical Advisor to the Qld Fathering Project. Garry continues to work with young people as a school counsellor and at a homelessness service. Garry is both a father and a grandfather.

 

Garry King will discuss his experience on this topic followed by a Q & A and the option to network with others in industry, in small groups, following the presentation.

CV Membership Application

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To apply for membership to this Association, you must be an Australian resident, hold a minimum of Diploma in Counselling related studies or be studying one of these courses.

Members are urged to be following a relevant industry Code of Ethics or organizational polices and procedures which guide the members work practices.