This event has now SOLD OUT and a new date has been added: Thursday December 10th (6.30pm – 9.30pm). This extra workshop is not yet showing up on the website but you can book via this link: https://loumasoncoaching.com/event/gdpr-essentials-for-therapists-dec-10/
I will also be adding another Saturday workshop in the New Year – email lou@loumasoncoaching.com to reserve your place.
Content Summary:
This short workshop will walk you through the essentials of GDPR for therapists and other professionals managing sensitive data within their businesses.
As well as being a tricky topic to get your head around, GDPR can be easy to dismiss or overlook as part of your essential business practice. However, it’s a legal requirement and one you therefore need to get right. This session will give you a really easily understandable overview of your obligations – what you HAVE to have in place – as well as offering up some template paperwork that we will discuss in detail together to help you bring your data protection practice up to date and up to speed.
If you’re not sure if this workshop would be helpful for you, here’s a few questions to ask yourself:
Do I have a separate general privacy policy and a sensitive data policy?
Do I have a complaint handling procedure detailed in both – as now required by law?
Would I know what to do in the event of a complaint coming in?
Do I have a detailed data inventory documenting the flow of all data into my business – as required by law?
Does that inventory explicitly explain the agreements I have with all third parties about how they manage my clients’ data eg Google, Meta, Xero, Stripe, ProtonMail, basically any software company that you use as part of your business practice?
Do I understand the 7 legal bases for being allowed by law to hold different types of personal data?
Am I correctly attributing each piece of data I collect to the right legal basis and have I detailed that in all my documents?
Am I up to date with the other four changes that came in, in June 2026 (the complaint handling procedure being the 5th change)?
If any of this is news to you – or you aren’t already doing it – then this workshop will be a really valuable investment. It includes a template data inventory, a template sensitive data policy and a 3 hour CPD certificate.
The workshop will include breaks and will be delivered in an engaging and accessible way to help what can be a really dry subject come to life. There will be time for questions at the end.
What’s covered:
– The 7 principles of GDPR that everyone must adhere to
– your key obligations (in understandable accessible language!)
– the different legal bases that apply and which you must link to every piece of data you collect
– general privacy versus sensitive data privacy : why you need two separate policies
– the mandatory requirement of a data inventory / ROPA tracking all data flowing into your business
– demonstrating your data protection agreements with third parties eg google, zoom, stripe, Xero etc
– walking through a data inventory template (which you get to keep)
– walking through a sensitive data policy template (which you get to keep)
– the new legal requirement of a complaint handling procedure
– the other four changes (good and bad!) that have come in since the update in June 2026
– useful additional resources
About Lou Mason:
Lou is an accredited senior coach and mentor with the EMCC, as well as a fully qualified and experienced therapist, creative consultant and former TV producer. As part of her coaching provision, she mentors and consults with a lot of therapists at all stages of their career paths and private practice development offering business coaching and useful CPD events and trainings.
She has worked in the Arts for over 30 years, starting with a drama degree from Manchester University followed by a highly successful career as a producer, director and series producer in broadcast television where, amongst many other popular and primetime series, she produced The Apprentice. Deciding to use her creative powers for good (instead of getting people fired on TV), she retrained as an integrative therapist using the creative arts at the same time as founding and running The Sunflower Network, a specialist training and CPD provider in the field of mental health and wellbeing.
She now employs her unique skillset, background and experience within her independent consultancy Lou Mason Coaching https://loumasoncoaching.com/ where she works with a wide range of individual clients and organisations offering specialist services including coaching, mentoring, reflective practice and creative consulting.
CERTIFICATES & RESOURCES
The ticket price includes any handouts the trainer may wish to share with you and a CPD certificate.You will be asked to agree to only use the legal document templates for your own personal use before they are shared with you.
Please note: The decision to share any content either during or after the event always rests with the trainer as the owner of the intellectual property.
ETHICAL CONDUCT AT LMC EVENTS
It is a requirement that all participants adhere to ethical conduct in the context of events including:
Respect for LMC staff, trainers and other attendees
Adherence to policies and procedures
Maintaining confidentiality and privacy
Sensitivity to complex issues being discussed
Anyone in breach of these threshold requirements may be removed from an event and could be unable to attend further events in the future. This is to safeguard the staff and participants as well as to enable quality assurance for the safety and wellbeing of all attendees.In booking an event these criteria are agreed to in principle and committed to in practice.
WAYS TO PAY
It is possible to arrange payments for tickets to this event in advance instalments on the condition that the full balance has been received no later than one month before the chosen event takes place. To discuss setting up a payment plan in this way, please mail lou@loumasoncoaching.com.
RECORDINGS:
Please note – a recording of this event is NOT available for purchase or view at a later date nor do we permit recordings of the event to be made by anyone attending. All our events are ‘as live’. This is to safeguard the nurturing and contained environment we create online in order to maintain our culture of safe, private and supported interactivity and sharing.
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