Professional clinical training · Level 1
Mastering Tinnitus Clinical Skills - Level 1
Clinical assessment, differential diagnosis and therapeutic communication. Two days, face to face, grounded in real clinical practice.
Presented by Mini Gupta, All Ears Hearing & Tinnitus Clinic, Melbourne. Hosted in the UK with Emily Woodmansey, The Hearing Suite.
About the course
Tinnitus, from the first appointment
Tinnitus is one of the most common reasons patients come to see us, and one of the conditions we are least often trained to manage with confidence. This course sets out to change that. It focuses on how clinicians use auditory system physiology, test findings and clinical reasoning to understand a tinnitus presentation and guide management from the very first appointment.
Rather than treating assessment and communication as separate tasks, the two days bring them together. What we assess, how we interpret it, and how we explain it to a patient all shape the outcome. The teaching reflects the realities of tinnitus work in everyday audiology clinics.
The two days are built around Mini's Systems Framework for Tinnitus, taught in detail. The framework is not a new theory. It takes evidence built by many researchers over decades and joins it into one clinical map you can use with a patient in front of you, mapping each tinnitus across the systems that generate and maintain it, where the dominant driver changes from patient to patient. That is what lets you take it back into your own clinic and use it from day one. Every participant also takes home a copy of Mini's book on the framework.
Every participant takes home a copy of A Systems Framework for Tinnitus: Generation & Maintenance, the book behind the course.
Upcoming courses
Liverpool, United Kingdom
The next delivery of Level 1 comes to the UK, co-hosted with The Hearing Suite. Places are limited so the group stays small and discussion based.
- Dates
- 26th and 27th October 2026, two full days. 9:00 am to 5:00 pm each day. Exact times will be confirmed with the venue.
- Location
- Liverpool, UK. The venue is being finalised and will be confirmed by August 2026. Everyone registered is notified directly once it is set.
- Format
- In person only. Interactive, discussion based, with live demonstrations and a hands-on case workshop.
- Level
- Level 1. No prior tinnitus specialisation is required.
Small group · only 27 places
The fee includes
- Both days of in-person training
- A half-day online case session about two months later
- A copy of Mini's book, A Systems Framework for Tinnitus
- All course materials
- Ready-made forms and patient handouts you can add your own clinic branding to and use from day one
- Lunch and refreshments on each day
- Certificate of attendance for every participant
Payment secures your place.
The program
How the two days work
The course opens with the tinnitus systems framework. From there we take each system involved in tinnitus in turn, looking at how it contributes and how to assess it: the peripheral auditory system, the central auditory system, the somatosensory system, the monitoring system, the limbic system and the cognitive system, and how tinnitus, the byproduct, comes to be perceived through the feedback loop.
By the end you have a clear way to work out what is generating a patient's tinnitus, what is driving it, and what is keeping it in the loop.
The following topics will be covered
- Screening for musculoskeletal contributors to tinnitus
- Advanced anatomy and physiology of the peripheral auditory system relevant to tinnitus
- Assessing patulous Eustachian tube and pulsatile tinnitus
- Central auditory pathways and sensory gating in tinnitus
- Hyperacusis and auditory recruitment as causes of reactive tinnitus
- Tinnitus and the tensor tympani muscle
- Tinnitus questionnaires: selection, administration, interpretation and treatment planning
- The audiology test battery in tinnitus: looking beyond normal
- Therapeutic communication during tinnitus appointments
- Taking a tinnitus case history at the assessment appointment, with live demonstration
- UCL testing and outer ear examination, with live demonstration
- Applying the clinical framework: identifying drivers and building the management plan
- Tinnitus case presentations: interactive workshop
- Explaining results and the tinnitus mechanism to patients, with practice
- Sound enrichment and sound therapy: principles and the tinnitus kit, with live demonstration
- Medications for tinnitus: what does the evidence show?
Half-day case clinic
A four-hour online session held about two months after the course. Bring your own patients from your clinic, and we work through their questions and management together, so what you have learned carries straight into your real caseload.
The topics above may shift a little depending on time on the day. Anything not covered across the two days is picked up in the half-day online session that follows.
What you will take away
Learning outcomes
- 01Confidence in identifying and explaining the likely causes of a patient's tinnitus
- 02Skill in detailed, tinnitus-specific case history taking
- 03A clear understanding of a structured test battery for tinnitus assessment
- 04The ability to interpret audiological and related results meaningfully
- 05Judgement on when further investigation or referral is appropriate
- 06The ability to spot outer and middle ear problems that can cause tinnitus, especially in acute cases, and how to act on them
- 07Use of tinnitus mechanisms and TRT-based principles in educational counselling
- 08A clear way to explain the role of sound therapy and how habituation is achieved
- 09The skills to train patients to use sound as a therapeutic agent for their tinnitus
- 10The practical steps for setting maskers and free-field sound devices so patients get relief
- 11The ability to explain the relationship between hearing loss and tinnitus accurately
Who it is for
Built for the whole clinical team
No prior tinnitus specialisation is required. The course suits anyone in the ear and hearing field who wants greater clarity in tinnitus decision making.
Past courses
Melbourne, Australia
Level 1 ran on 6th and 7th June 2026 at Lawson College in Dandenong, Melbourne, Australia, with 13 clinicians taking part. Here is a look at how it went.
Presenter and host
Your presenter, and your UK host
Mini Gupta
Mini Gupta is a specialist audiologist and the founder of All Ears Hearing & Tinnitus Clinic in Melbourne, where she specialises in tinnitus, hyperacusis, misophonia and auditory processing disorders. She is certified in Tinnitus Retraining Therapy twice over, under Pawel and Margaret Jastreboff, and holds a Fellowship in Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Studies from Salus University. She trains and supervises audiologists across Australia, is a keynote speaker at the British Academy of Audiology conference in 2026, and is the author of A Systems Framework for Tinnitus. This course brings that framework into everyday clinical decisions.
Emily Woodmansey
Emily Woodmansey, BSc (Hons), is the founder and managing director of The Hearing Suite, an independent audiology practice with clinics across Yorkshire. She studied Audiology at the University of Manchester and worked in the NHS before moving into private practice, where she set up a tinnitus clinic built around realistic rehabilitation goals. She founded The Hearing Suite in 2018 to deliver careful, personal hearing care in a welcoming setting, and is hosting and organising the UK course.
CPD
Recording this as CPD
This course has not been formally endorsed or accredited by any professional body. Participants may record it as a non-endorsed CPD activity, in line with the requirements of their own professional organisation. You are responsible for determining how the activity fits your CPD framework and record keeping. The course gives 14 hours of face to face learning over the two days in Liverpool, plus 4 hours online.
Registration
Reserve your place
Registration for the Liverpool course, 26th and 27th October 2026. Payment secures your seat, and the numbers registered guide which venue we confirm in August.
- 1Your details
- 2Payment
- 3Confirmation
Future courses and enquiries
Not this one? Tell us what you need
If Liverpool does not suit, register your interest in future courses, including online ones, and we will let you know when new dates are set. You can also use this to send us a general question.
Questions
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The details
Terms and refund policy
Your place
Your place is confirmed once payment has been received in full. Fees are in GBP.
Cancellations by you
- More than six weeks before the course: full refund, less a £50 administration fee.
- Between six and two weeks before: 50% refund.
- Within two weeks of the course: no refund, though you are welcome to transfer your place to a colleague at no charge.
- Transfers to another clinician can be arranged up to three days before the course.
If we change or cancel
If we cancel the course, you receive a full refund. In the rare event the dates change, you will be offered a transfer or a full refund. The Liverpool venue is confirmed by August 2026, so we suggest holding off on non-refundable travel or accommodation until it is announced.
The online session
The half-day online session runs about two months after the two days, on a date set with the group. If you cannot attend on the day, let us know and we will do our best to arrange an alternative.
Course materials
The materials, forms and patient handouts are provided for your own clinical use. You are welcome to add your clinic's branding and use them with your patients. They are not to be resold or shared as a training product.
Photography and filming
Photographs and video will be taken during the course. This material may be used on the All Ears Hearing & Tinnitus Clinic and The Hearing Suite websites and social media, including LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, to share and promote our training. By registering, you acknowledge that filming will take place. If you prefer not to appear, email contact@allearshearing.com.au before the course or tell us on the day, and we will keep you out of published material. You can also ask at any time for an image of you to be removed from future use.
CPD
The course is not formally accredited. You may record it as a non-endorsed CPD activity in line with your professional body's requirements. The course gives 14 hours of face to face learning over the two days in Liverpool, plus 4 hours online.