Free Professional Development
We’re dedicated to equipping mental health professionals with cutting-edge and practical professional development. We offer free recorded training videos and live webinars for mental health clinicians.
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Does Therapist Self-Awareness Really Improve Client Outcomes?
Reflective practice is often talked about as a professional ideal, but what does it actually do for clinical work? In this webinar, Dr Shane Rogers and Belinda Seymour-Wright will explore the evidence and mechanisms by which reflective practice can enhance therapeutic effectiveness, professional growth, and clinician wellbeing.
Technology-assisted formulation can help clinicians refine their clinical reasoning
Complex clients demand complex thinking, yet in busy clinical practice, deep formulation is often the first thing that gets dropped. In this webinar, Dr Chris Ludlow (Swinburne University) explores how technology-assisted formulation can help clinicians refine their clinical reasoning.
Using outcomes data to improve care delivery
How can clinicians use outcomes data to improve care delivery, such as reducing waitlists or optimizing treatment? Jason J Washburn and Dr Hilah Kaufman explore practical challenges in implementing Measurement-Based Care in clinical settings, including training, workflow, and adoption.
Autism | ADHD | Anxiety Disorders | Attachment Issues
This webinar equips clinicians working with young people with practical frameworks for when to screen, what to use, and how to interpret the results in real clinical practice.
Assessing children and adolescents is uniquely challenging. Presenting concerns often overlap, co-occur, or shift across contexts; parent, teacher and self-report accounts frequently diverge; and the landscape of available screening tools is broad but uneven in quality.
How are emerging technologies reshaping psychological practice?
AI can genuinely strengthen clinical work across assessment, treatment, documentation, and ongoing care. At the same time, this session keeps a clear focus on what technology cannot replace: the therapeutic relationship, empathy, formulation, ethical judgement, and the nuanced human skills at the heart of effective practice.
Using NovoNote AI Scribe for the First Time
Product Demonstration and Hands-on Workshop
Thinking about trying NovoNote AI Scribe, but not sure where to start? See exactly how to begin using it in your practice. In this demonstrator-led workshop, you’ll see how to set up NovoNote and use it with your very first client, and generate summary notes and structured documents.
Dissociation in Clinical Practice:
Beyond Dissociative Identity Disorder
In this webinar, Dr Mary-Anne Kate explores dissociation and the dissociative disorders in adults and adolescents, including the prevalence, causes, and diagnostic features. She introduces participants to the updated version of the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation – 60 item version (MID-60) for adults and the adolescent version (MID-60-A).
Maladaptive Schema Scale:
Advancements in Schema Questionnaires
Schemas have long been a staple of psychological therapy, defined as pervasive patterns of thoughts, behaviours and emotions.
The session gives an overview of the scale’s psychometric development, as well as practical strategies for understanding and interpreting MSS results, translating assessment findings into case formulations, and using insights to enhance client self-awareness and therapeutic outcomes within various therapeutic modalities. Suitable for psychologists and mental health clinicians who want to understand more about this contemporary schema assessment tool and its clinical applications.
Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment:
Evidence for What Works
Join internationally recognised researcher and clinician Professor Tracey Wade for a practical and evidence-based webinar focused on the assessment and treatment of eating disorders.
Designed for psychologists, paediatricians, dietitians, psychiatrists, counsellors, and other mental health professionals, this session will explore what the research tells us about effective approaches to both assessment and treatment. Professor Wade will offer guidance on maximising good outcomes by applying evidence-based strategies in clinical settings.
The Maladaptive Schema Scale – An Introduction
The Maladaptive Schema Scale (MSS) is a 108-item tool that assesses maladaptive patterns of thoughts, behaviours and emotions. It measures 27 schemas, integrating traditional early maladaptive schemas described by Jeffery Young and additional schemas based on attachment, trauma and other contemporary research.
In this presentation, Dr David Hegarty introduced the Maladaptive Schema Scale as a contemporary measure with the highest standards of psychometric validation. By the end of the presentation, clinicians will feel confident to use the MSS with their first patient.
Shortcomings of the DSM-5 and an alternative approach to assessment and classification
The DSM-5 has shaped how mental health practitioners think about diagnosis and treatment — but it is not always the most effective approach.
Join Associate Professor Miri Forbes as she explores the limitations of the DSM framework and introduces the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): an evidence-based model that uses empirical patterns of co-occurrence among symptoms and diagnoses to better understand mental health.
Death Anxiety as a Transdiagnostic Target: Innovations in Mental Health Treatment
Fear of death is a near universal human experience — but for many, it quietly drives a wide range of psychological difficulties. Research increasingly suggests that death anxiety may be a transdiagnostic and causal factor underlying anxiety, mood, and related mental health problems.
This webinar will explore when normal death anxiety crosses the line into something more pathological, and why learning to address death anxiety in therapy can be helpful for achieving long-term, stable recovery. Clinicians will learn how to begin integrating these approaches into everyday practice.
Recovering from Trauma
A reconceptualisation of trauma and the journey to wellness
Helping patients move beyond distress reduction. Empowering trauma survivors with self-compassion, agency, and hope.
Join us for a professional development opportunity that reframes trauma recovery as more than just symptom reduction, but as a journey toward validation, liberation, and positive self-regard.
Identifying and Supporting ADHD
Screening, Recognising, and Supporting ADHD in Adults and Adolescents
This webinar is designed for psychologists and mental health clinicians working with older adolescents and adults. It offers a contemporary exploration of ADHD, moving beyond textbook definitions to examine how ADHD presents in real-world clinical practice. The session will provide practical strategies for identifying and supporting clients with ADHD, particularly those who may be undiagnosed or masking their symptoms.
How Technology Will Advance Clinical Practice: AI Scribes and Beyond
The future of mental health care is here and it’s powered by AI. Join Dr Ben Buchanan for a thought-provoking and practical exploration of how emerging AI technologies, including NovoNote AI-Scribe, are transforming the way we deliver care — without compromising the irreplaceable human connection at the heart of therapy.
Adult Attachment and Its Clinical Implications.
Working with Attachment Dysfunction in Practice.
This professional development is ideal for psychologists and mental health clinicians hoping to understand the impact of attachment of adult presentations. The DSM-5-TR criteria for Adult Separation Anxiety Disorder, assessment best practices and typical presentations in mental health settings will be discussed.
Technology for Psychologists in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
AI Enhanced Measurement Based Care
This presentation was given by Dr Ben Buchanan at the 2025 APS Festival of Psychology Conference.
Dr Buchanan emphasised AIs potential to enhance clinical decision-making while maintaining the crucial role of human empathy and judgment in therapy. He painted a future where technology and psychology work in harmony, leveraging AI to improve mental health outcomes while preserving the essential human touch.
Trauma Informed Practice.
Key Assessment Considerations for Mental Health Clinicians.
This webinar is designed for psychologists and mental health clinicians working with clients who have experienced trauma. It will provide an in-depth exploration of trauma-informed care and the role of comprehensive assessments in clinical practice.
AI Note Taking.
Risks and benefits of new technologies and an introduction to NovoNote.
This webinar will explore how mental health practitioners can practically implement AI note-taking into clinical practice.
It is ideal for psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health professionals, clinical directors, and practice managers interested in leveraging innovative tools to improve clinical outcomes and streamline practice operations.
Identifying Autism and ADHD in Adults.
A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach in Clinical Practice
Join us for this empowering, free professional development on integrating Neurodiversity-Affirming principles into assessment and therapy, with prominent clinical psychologist, advocate and trainer, Monique Mitchelson.
Compassion Focused Therapy.
Compassion Motivation and Action in Clinical Practice
Join us for this engaging, free professional development with leading compassion focused therapy research and clinical psychologist, Dr Stan Steindl. We will explore the role of compassion in psychological therapies, as well as tools for tracking progress by monitoring change in compassionate motivation and action over time.
Imposter Syndrome Among Mental Health Clinicians. How to Handle (and Harness) Professional Self Doubt
Imposter syndrome can affect psychologists and other mental health professionals at all stages of our careers.. Left unchecked, imposter syndrome can snowball into anxiety, perfectionism and feelings of inadequacy. But did you know that empirical evidence shows that professional self doubt is related to positive therapeutic alliance?
In this upbeat 1 hour webinar below we’ll explore empirical research related to professional self doubt
Understanding and Identifying Dissociation
and Dissociative Disorders
In this webinar, Dr Mary-Anne Kate explores dissociation and the dissociative disorders in adults and adolescents, including the prevalence, causes, and diagnostic features. She will introduce participants to the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation – 60 item version (MID-60) for adults and the adolescent version (MID-60-A).
Measurement Based Care
in Mental Health Services
A conference presentation by Dr Ben Buchanan for the 2022 Australian Psychological Society’s College of Clinical Psychologists Conference. It provides an introduction to the basics of measurement based care.
Defining Progress In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Join us for this insightful, free professional development on defining and tracking progress in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), with one of Australian’s leading ACT research psychologists, Dr David Smout.
The Bigger Picture as a Mental Health Clinician.
Leveraging Outcome Data for Insightful Practice
This free webinar is ideal for clinicians wanting to systematically monitor patient progress, and use that data to enhance their reflective practice. Practice leaders wanting to create practice-based evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of their service will also benefit.
Mindfulness in Practice:
Keys to Measuring Patient Progress during Mindfulness-Integrated CBT
This webinar will introduce mental health clinicians to two validated measures of mindfulness; the Mindfulness-based Self-Efficacy Scale (MSES-R) and Equanimity Scale 16 (ES-16).
Getting Started with NovoPsych.
How the Platform Works
This 8 minute video introduces the basics of the NovoPsych platform. Learn how to access NovoPsych, administer assessments via email or in person, interpret results and graph progress over time.
Routine Outcome Monitoring made simple
with the DASS-10
Published literature unequivocally shows that psychological therapy is effective, and research shows that augmenting standard therapy with a simple set of techniques can enhance outcomes even further. This webinar outlines a set of protocols to improve clinical outcomes as well as introducing the more challenging skill sets required to genuinely foster excellence in clinical practice.
Data Enhanced Supervision for
Mental Health Clinicians
Supervision is a staple of professional development among psychologists and other mental health clinicians. Unfortunately, research indicates that standard supervision does not improve professional performance or client outcomes.
This webinar recording, facilitated by psychologists Dr Nathan Castle and Dr Ben Buchanan, is designed for supervisors and supervisees . We explore a simple set of innovations that can improve the supervision experience for both parties.
Feedback Informed Treatment for
Mental Health Clinicians
This webinar with Psychologist Dr Nathan Castle focusses on how therapists can integrate a set of simple innovations into practically any form of psychological intervention. We will explore ways to gather feedback from your clients to know what you’re already doing right and areas you can improve upon.
Assessing Attachment-Supportive Parenting.
An introduction to the Composite Caregiving Questionnaire
This webinar will cover the structure and properties of the Composite Caregiving Questionnaire and its application in treatment planning and outcome monitoring of attachment-based interventions. We will provide a practical demonstration of the instrument using a case study.
An Easy Way for Psychologists to Implement
Routine Outcome Monitoring
This webinar aims to reinvigorate your understanding of how we can use psychometric assessments to improve patient outcomes, by
1) Considering why measuring client outcomes can help you and your clients
2) Defining ways to enhance care by decreasing client drop-out and improving client engagement
3) Introducing an easy-to-use model for implementing outcome measures to collect practice-based evidence