Seminars & Workshops

Dr. Jan Heney provides seminars, training and workshops to Ottawa mental health professionals in the following areas:

Counselling Issues

  • Counselling Techniques
  • Boundaries
  • Critical Incident Stress
  • Vicarious Trauma
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Self-Care
  • Working With Violent Clients
  • Women’s Violence
  • Transference and Counter-Transference in Counselling
  • Working with Women’s Shame
  • Working with Women who are Victims/Survivors of Sexual Assault
  • Working with Abused Women
  • Suicide Intervention
  • Self-Injurious Behaviour

Working with Survivors of Childhood Abuse

  • Understanding and Working with Survivors of Childhood Abuse
  • Abuse and Victimization
  • Counselling Techniques for Working with Survivors of Childhood Abuse
  • Understanding and Working with Self-Injurious Behaviour
  • Coping Strategies of Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
  • Boundaries and the Problem with Rescuing
  • Manipulation, Attention Seeking, Lying: Character Flaws or Survival Strategies?
  • Suicide Intervention: The Dilemma Traditional Interventions Pose for Survivors of Childhood Abuse

Women in Conflict with the Law

  • Understanding and Working with Women in Conflict with the Law
  • Working with Incarcerated Survivors of Childhood Abuse
  • Routes to Women’s Criminal Behaviour
  • Prison as a Recapitulation of Abuse Dynamics
  • The Impact of Prison on Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse