Description
Key Information
Interactive webinar with psycho-education, sharing healing stories accompanied by a comprehensive online classroom
21 July @ 6.30pm – 9.30pm QLD/NSW/VIC time
$345 full price, $295 GST incl (Earlybird)
Course Summary
CHCDFV001: Recognise and Respond appropriately to domestic and family violence
This comprehensive program provides participants with the knowledge and skills to identify the signs, dynamics and impacts of domestic and family violence. Explore how to respond safely and respectfully, support people experiencing violence, understand appropriate referral pathways, and contribute to creating safer environments through informed, trauma-aware practice.
Supporting people healing from domestic and family violence with unique counselling skills that are proven to work. This program is a combination of years of experience working with clients emerging from domestic violent relationships, lived experienced and dynamic counselling techniques specific to healing from violence.
Course Content
- Understanding domestic and family violence
- Supporting safely
- Standards, procedures, statutory requirements
- Case studies
- Client’s rights and responsibilities
- Creating connection and confidence
- Sensitivity to client’s Diversity and needs
- Determine risks, threats and priorities
- Case studies
- Identify Counsellor Limitations
- Prioritising physical and emotional safety
- Co-creating strategies for intervention
- Resourcing Clients with information
- Records, reports, referral information
- Case studies
- Getting Out
- Building a Sense of Safety
- Connecting with Self
- Connecting with Community
- Healing the Pain Body
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Revisioning
- Case Studies
Staff
Brenda Sutherland
Brenda Sutherland
B.Soc Sc (Psych) TAE, IICT, AHHCA
Brenda founded The Awakening Group P/L in 1993. Her clear vision was to empower each individual to live their true potential. Since then The Awakening Group has grown from counselling, to counsellor training to offer online webinars and programs for organizations and businesses bringing teams together, effectively communicating to deliver results across the board.
Brenda B.Soc.Sc.(Psych) is a Holistic Counsellor, Trainer and Consultant with her practice grounded in over 30 years experience. She is the founder and Director of The Awakening Group accredited training programs and workshops conducted throughout Australia.
Over the past 20 years Brenda has taught at universities, lectured at conferences, appeared on TV and radio, written for magazines and conducted seminars throughout Australia and NZ. She has facilitated many workshops for private, corporate and governmental organizations on personal growth and professional development.
Brenda is a dynamic counsellor and educator who employs her intuition and professional knowledge to gently guide every individual in living their truth.
Throughout her career Brenda has combined her personal commitment to her own self growth and extensive, yet unique, professional training including Psychology, EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization Reprogramming, Art Therapy, Tantra, Eco-psychology, Soul Centred therapy, Kinesiology, Family & Organizational Constellation with world renowned facilitators (Dr Gunthard Weber, Dr Albrecht Mahr, Dr Guni Baxa, Dr Ursula Franke, Jakob Schneider, Dr Jane Peterson, Ed Lynch, Stephan Hausner etc). Further Brenda has trained with Bessel van de Kolk (one of the worlds leading trauma experts), as well as Pat Odgen; body centred psychotherapy. She has also trained in The Work of Byron Katie and is a Effectiveness (Communication) Training instructor.
Brenda combines the latest neuroscience, attachment styles, arousal regulation, memory reconstruction techniques to return clients to a peaceful sense of self .
Furthermore Brenda is a PACT Level 1 Couples counsellor having trained with Dr Stan Tatkin, the Founder of the Psychobiological Approach for Couple Therapy.
You have the power within to transform and live your hearts desire. Brenda creates an opportunity to take you and your experience in relationships, life, sexuality, career and love a step further in authenticity to be the person you dreamed yourself to be. Discover and live new possibilities within yourself, relationships, career, sexually, health, with money and life.
Individual sessions, couple counselling and workshops are available (also via Zoom online) to support you in moving into the freedom of being. Issues of anxiety, fear, stress, anger, grief, sexuality, illness, relationships and much more are addressed with each session personally tailored to transform issues standing in the way of being the more of you.
Here’s what one client said:
“Thank you for today. I feel Amazing!!!”
Brenda has written for:

She has been quoted in:

and appeared on Channel 9’s Alternatives pilot program facilitating “Unmasking The Wild Woman” with guest Catriona Rowntree (Getaway presenter)
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Brenda Sutherland
Brenda Sutherland
B.Soc Sc (Psych) TAE, IICT, AHHCA
Brenda founded The Awakening Group P/L in 1993. Her clear vision was to empower each individual to live their true potential. Since then The Awakening Group has grown from counselling, to counsellor training to offer online webinars and programs for organizations and businesses bringing teams together, effectively communicating to deliver results across the board.
Brenda B.Soc.Sc.(Psych) is a Holistic Counsellor, Trainer and Consultant with her practice grounded in over 30 years experience. She is the founder and Director of The Awakening Group accredited training programs and workshops conducted throughout Australia.
Over the past 20 years Brenda has taught at universities, lectured at conferences, appeared on TV and radio, written for magazines and conducted seminars throughout Australia and NZ. She has facilitated many workshops for private, corporate and governmental organizations on personal growth and professional development.
Brenda is a dynamic counsellor and educator who employs her intuition and professional knowledge to gently guide every individual in living their truth.
Throughout her career Brenda has combined her personal commitment to her own self growth and extensive, yet unique, professional training including Psychology, EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization Reprogramming, Art Therapy, Tantra, Eco-psychology, Soul Centred therapy, Kinesiology, Family & Organizational Constellation with world renowned facilitators (Dr Gunthard Weber, Dr Albrecht Mahr, Dr Guni Baxa, Dr Ursula Franke, Jakob Schneider, Dr Jane Peterson, Ed Lynch, Stephan Hausner etc). Further Brenda has trained with Bessel van de Kolk (one of the worlds leading trauma experts), as well as Pat Odgen; body centred psychotherapy. She has also trained in The Work of Byron Katie and is a Effectiveness (Communication) Training instructor.
Brenda combines the latest neuroscience, attachment styles, arousal regulation, memory reconstruction techniques to return clients to a peaceful sense of self .
Furthermore Brenda is a PACT Level 1 Couples counsellor having trained with Dr Stan Tatkin, the Founder of the Psychobiological Approach for Couple Therapy.
You have the power within to transform and live your hearts desire. Brenda creates an opportunity to take you and your experience in relationships, life, sexuality, career and love a step further in authenticity to be the person you dreamed yourself to be. Discover and live new possibilities within yourself, relationships, career, sexually, health, with money and life.
Individual sessions, couple counselling and workshops are available (also via Zoom online) to support you in moving into the freedom of being. Issues of anxiety, fear, stress, anger, grief, sexuality, illness, relationships and much more are addressed with each session personally tailored to transform issues standing in the way of being the more of you.
Here’s what one client said:
“Thank you for today. I feel Amazing!!!”
Brenda has written for:
She has been quoted in:
and appeared on Channel 9’s Alternatives pilot program facilitating “Unmasking The Wild Woman” with guest Catriona Rowntree (Getaway presenter)
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Course details
Dates
- 21 July 2026
- Tuesday @ 6.30pm – 9.30pm QLD/NSW/VIC time
Cost
- $345 GST incl., full course cost
- $295 earlybird price if paid before 17 July 2026
Venue
- Online via Zoom Rooms Live Webinars
Learning Activities
- Online quizzes, mock case studies, reflection activities, participation in live webinars and discussions
Accreditation
- International Institute of Complementary Therapists (IICT) PD points
- Australian Holistic Healers and Counsellors Association: (AHHCA) PD points
- Australian Counselling Association professional development credits (ACA) PD points
- International Association of Therapists (IAOTH) – membership worldwide
- This course is part of the Diploma in Holistic Counselling program



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