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TAPA COURSES

Real clients. Real skills. Real confidence.

Forget Role Plays.
It's Time to Practice.

TAPA – The ALY'S PLACE Academy - offers hands-on, client-ready training for counselling students, early-career therapists and established practitioners wanting to expand into couples work. Our courses blend contemporary theory with real-world practice, helping you build confidence, clinical skill, and heart-led professionalism. From couples counselling to relational dynamics and supervised placements, TAPA courses are designed to grow the kind of therapist the world truly needs.

COUPLES COUNSELLING IN PRACTICE

HOW: 12-week online
WHEN: March and August intakes

HOW MANY: 6-8 students per intake

HOW MUCH: $3,300. $1,100 deposit required to secure your spot. Installment payment options available.

Our signature couples counselling course. Tried and tested over 800+ client hours. This course brings together evidence-based frameworks, contemporary relational theory, and hands-on learning in a format that’s as human-centred as the work itself.

Across 12 weeks, you’ll explore:

  • the fundamentals of relationship dynamics

  • advanced attachment theory, neurophysiology and systemic thinking in couples therapy

  • balanced alliance and couples engagement skills

  • how to navigate the ethical nuances of working with two clients in one room

  • the process of couples counselling 

  • the impact of trauma in relationships, strategies for managing infidelity, and ruptures

  • high-conflict dynamics, including navigation of family violence

  • couples counsellor's essential skills and go-to interventions

  • introduction to neurodiversity in couples dynamics, sexuality, and parenting

COURSE STRUCTURE:

- 1h content delivery per week (live and recorded)

- 2h of practical skills learning (attendance is necessary for successful course completion)

- fortnightly 1:1 supervision once you have started working with couples (Weeks 5-12)

- TAPA Couples Toolkit—a curated collection of assessments, session templates, formulation guides, and intervention how-tos

COURSE PREREQUISITES:

- completed tertiary qualifications in counselling, psychology, social work or similar

- individual counselling experience (minimum of 6 months/100 client hours)

- professional registration and professional indemnity insurance

- successful interview 

What TAPA Graduates Say

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"This kind of training is rare and much needed. Supporting couples or multi-client systems can be complex, and having a mentor who understands both the art and the science of this work makes a huge difference. I highly recommend this program to any practitioner looking to grow their confidence and competence in relational work."

Carmen Yoong, TAPA 2024 Graduate, Couples Therapist

INTRO TO COUPLES COUNSELLING

HOW: 4-week online
WHEN: March and August intakes

HOW MANY: 6-8 students per intake

HOW MUCH: $1,100. 

Not sure if couples counselling is for you but keen to try? This 4-week online introductory course to couples counselling provides you with a window into th world of a couples counsellor. Regardless of whether you decide to pursue couples counselling further or not, you will complete this course with a better understanding of how relationships work.

Across 4 weeks, you’ll explore:

  • the fundamentals of relationship dynamics

  • advanced attachment theory, neurophysiology and systemic thinking in couples therapy

  • balanced alliance and couples engagement skills

COURSE STRUCTURE:

- 1h content delivery per week (live and recorded)

- 2h of practical skills learning (attendance is necessary for successful course completion)

COURSE PREREQUISITES:

- in-progress or completed tertiary qualifications in counselling, psychology, social work or similar

- individual counselling experience is desired but not necessary

EXPLORING SEXUALITY & INTIMACY WITH COUPLES

HOW: 6-week online
WHEN: March and August intakes

HOW MANY: 6-8 students per intake

HOW MUCH: $2,200. 

This is an advanced course for those who already work with couples and wish to strengthen their skills in navigating intimacy and sexuality. 

Across 6 weeks, you’ll explore:

  • understanding intimacy, sexuality and gender in couples contexts

  • how to approach sexuality and intimacy with couples

  • practical strategies in addressing intimacy concerns with couples

COURSE STRUCTURE:

- 1h content delivery per week (live and recorded)

- 2h of practical skills learning (attendance is necessary for successful course completion)

- TAPA Sex and Coffee Toolkit—an intimacy-focused collection of conversation guides and intervention how-tos

COURSE PREREQUISITES:

- completion of the TAPA Couples Counselling in Practice Course or a minimum of 1 year of practice experience as a couples counsellor

- professional registration and professional indemnity insurance

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...and The Transformation Track (a.k.a The Walking Conference)

6 Days. Small Group. Years of Transformation.

Late November • Early December • Mid January (subject to the group's preferences)

 

This is NOT your average professional development. This is the real - sometimes too real - professional and personal transformation. 

Join a small circle of courageous counselling practitioners on the life-changing journey through Tasmania’s iconic Overland Track — a 6-day wilderness trek where professional insight meets personal growth and connection.


As we cross alpine plains, ancient rainforests, and glacier-carved valleys, we explore the various therapeutic landscapes and learn practice-ready skills under the boundless skies.

 

Group work is mixed with individual supervision and endless reflection about ourselves as professionals and humans.


This is a peer-based experience of shared wisdom, radical honesty, and deep listening — no formal teaching, no hierarchy, just the kind of connection that changes you.

Whether you join us in late November, early December, or mid-January, one thing is certain:
No one returns unchanged.

Register Your Interest

Want to join one of our courses? Enquire via this form.

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