Introduction to Male-Friendly Counselling

Course details

"Introduction to Male-Friendly Counselling" is an online professional development course. 

The course is designed for mental health practitioners and students, including counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and other professionals.   

Men are often reluctant clients and counselling treatment can violate their identities as men, leading them to resist or withdraw from treatment. Therapists can feel at a loss to know how to engage and counsel some men. 

Men are not all the same. There is significant diversity between them. However, there are also a range of patterns that are more common in men in comparison to women.  Therapists can benefit by recognising these patterns and adjusting therapy in response to these.

This course will give you a deeper appreciative understanding of men and masculinities, and provide principles on how to become even more effective in engaging and treating male clients.

You will learn:

• How therapeutic interventions can be problematic for men
• Common challenges therapists experience with men
• The major gender theories that relate to counselling men
• Four common rules that men often live by
• The impacts of men's masculinity in their lives and their therapy
• Key strategies for male-friendly counselling including how best you can prepare as a therapist, how you can engage men in therapy, how to incorporate masculinity-informed assessment, and how to assist men to grow and thrive
• Recognise impacts of the sex of the therapist working with men

After completing this course, you will know how to incorporate male-friendly attitudes and skills into your existing counselling approach.