THE BOUNDARY TOOLKIT
A CPD Training in tools to support Client Progress and Emotional Health
General Information
For Qualified Counsellors & Trainee Counsellors
Time: 09:30 - 16:00
Duration: 6 CPD Hours
Cost: £65.00​​
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Discounts - Counselling Students:
25% - Promo Code at checkout (student25)*
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Discounts - Low-Income Support:
Email kay@counsellingfirst.com to request a discount code.
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Online Platform: Google Meet (joining link will be provided 7 days before the workshop)
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Facilitators: Counselling First in partnership with Grid Society​
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*Verification may be requested​
The Challenge
Your Clients often enter therapy without a clear understanding of what healthy boundaries look like, or how to maintain them in everyday life.
They may feel resentful, overwhelmed, taken for granted, or unsure how to express what they need. At the same time, they often fear that asserting limits will lead to conflict or disconnection.
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As counsellors, we work to create clarity and containment in the therapeutic relationship but equipping clients to carry that into the rest of their lives requires practical, structured tools that go beyond insight.
This workshop provides those tools.
The Impact
​When clients cannot find or hold healthy boundaries, their well-being, progress in therapy, relationships, and personal lives suffer. They often struggle to see how they can be equal partners in relationships, instead taking on excessive responsibility or allowing others to dominate.
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This workshop trains counsellors to use practical, evidence-informed tools to help clients:
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Identify boundary patterns that undermine relationships, autonomy, and emotional health
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Develop concrete, repeatable skills to assert limits and reduce emotional over-responsibility
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Restore a sense of equal footing in relationships by clarifying needs, roles, and limits
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Practice and maintain boundaries both in session and in everyday life using structured interventions
The result is measurable client gains: improved self-regulation, more balanced interpersonal dynamics, increased personal agency, and better functioning beyond therapy. These outcomes align directly with the BACP and other Ethical Frameworks and its emphasis on client welfare, resilience, and fitness to practise.
What This Training Covers
This workshop introduces a clear framework and practical toolkit for supporting clients who:
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Feel responsible for others’ emotional states or choices
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Struggle to say no or to assert their needs directly
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Experience blurred relational roles with family, partners, colleagues or peers
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Collapse boundaries under pressure due to fear, guilt, or prior trauma
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Need support to build confidence in saying, holding, and living within clear limits
Rather than focusing on abstract concepts, this training offers tools that can be integrated into your counselling sessions immediately.
What you will learn:
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How to guide clients through a structured process of boundary reflection and realignment
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How to identify the beliefs, habits, and emotional blocks that interfere with boundary-setting
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How to use five step-by-step tools to evaluate, build, and reinforce sustainable boundaries
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How to support clients in mapping what they need, where their limits lie, and how to uphold them
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How to handle client resistance, ambiguity, or collapse when boundaries are challenged
You will also:
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Experience tools such as the Boundary Builder to be introduced for client work
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Receive printable templates to use in future sessions
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Learn language and prompts to support in-session conversations around boundaries
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Leave with a process that supports supervision, practical implementation, self-evaluation and reflective practice
Toolkit Overview
You will be introduced to five practical tools, developed by Grid Society, that can be used with clients in a range of presenting contexts. These tools are:
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Simple to introduce
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Structured but flexible
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Designed for use with adults in one-to-one therapeutic settings
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Suitable for both short-term goal-setting and long-term emotional development
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These include:
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A boundary scan to assess current relational patterns
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A step-by-step process for evaluating where and why boundaries are failing
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A practical filtering system to clarify what limits are needed and why
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A framework for scripting and rehearsing boundary conversations
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A reflective tool for maintaining boundaries under pressure
Each counsellor will receive a full toolkit, including client-facing templates, example questions, and adaptable language.
What You Will Receive
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Live, interactive training delivered via Google Meet
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Six CPD hours
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Pre-workshop reflective workbook (sent 7 days before the session)
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Printable post-workshop templates for use with clients
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Language prompts, session ideas, and structured exercises
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Certificate of attendance for CPD records
