Psychotherapy CPD Events
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How Can Psychotherapists Treat Chronic Pain?
An online six week series with Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD, SEP, Katy Wakelin, PhD & Alice Jacobs Waterfall (Facilitator). This six-week course combines theoretical lectures with experiential and interactive learning. Participants will engage in embodied exercises, maintain a pain diary, and review clinical and case study literature. Each session begins and ends with experiential exercises, all of which can be completed from the comfort of your own home. Chronic somatic pain is a global health issue that has not yet been fully addressed by medical approaches alone. Between one third and one half of UK adults live with some form of chronic pain. Many clients present to psychotherapy with both emotional and physical challenges. Traditional psychological approaches often implicitly accept a mind/body split, overlooking the importance of embodied experiencing as part of treatment. This course will enable psychotherapists to work confidently with clients suffering from chronic pain once medical assessment has been completed. Fran Sommer Anderson will demonstrate her integration of theory and treatment within a relational/interpersonal psychoanalytic framework. She draws on contemporary research in the neuroscience of attachment, trauma, and somatic pain, as well as her extensive experience in body-focused treatments and 45 years working with chronic pain. Participants will learn that somatic pain is a highly subjective experience encompassing sensory, affective, and cognitive elements. The course equips psychotherapists with practical tools to support clients by attending both to pain conditions and embodied experience. Important note: The content of this seminar is intended for professional development and should not be used by non-medical practitioners to diagnose chronic pain conditions. Techniques demonstrated are intended for use only after a client has received a medical diagnosis. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com . This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2026-04-16
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online, -
Unlocking Transference and Countertransference
Transference sometimes feels like it's just for psychoanalysts - abstract theory that doesn't translate to integrative practice. But working with what shows up in the depths between you and your clients will help you get to core material, faster. When a client's anger lands in your body, when their idealisation makes you uncomfortable, when you notice the pull towards rescue - this is clinical information. This workshop gives you practical experience on how to work with, stay with, unpack and make sense of these dynamics. Small group, experiential learning.Date: 2026-04-24
Organiser: Jared Green Psychotherapy
Location: London
Women’s Hormones, Cycles and Mood - Joining up thinking across the medical and psychological professions for women’s health
With Letticia Banton, Martha Doniach, Sheetal Rajashanker, Sue Mann & Annice Mukherjee. A cartesian split in the profession has led psychotherapists to overlook the role of the hormones, the menstrual cycle and menopause in the female psychological experience. Conversely, medical professionals report women seeking solely medical solutions for their menstrual or menopausal symptoms, without exploration of psychological avenues. This event seeks to bridge this gap in mind and body through adopting more holistic lens on the menstrual cycle and menopause as biopsychosocial phenomena, which require joined up thinking across the medical and psychological professions, to enhance outcomes for clients. We are delighted to have Dr Sue Mann, the National Clinical Director in Women’s Health for NHS England with us to offer a keynote as well as speakers from the disciplines of Endocrinology, Psychiatry, Counselling Psychology and Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy. Thinking about the menstrual cycle and menopause raises important questions for psychotherapists. How can we support clients struggling with menstrual or menopausal symptoms, and how might these difficulties be understood within a broader psychodynamic formulation? The cycle is highly stress-responsive, and trauma can disrupt hormonal rhythms, intensify symptoms, and create cyclical patterns of emotional or bodily distress. For therapists, the cycle can therefore hold valuable clinical information, highlighting points of vulnerability or trauma reactivation. This also raises questions about the limits of psychological support before medical assessment is needed. Our speakers will explore these issues, alongside the impact of misogyny, marginalisation and stigma. The conference is hybrid with tickets available in person and online, for those joining in person lunch and a drinks reception are included. The event will be recorded and you will receive a copy. The conference is aimed at psychotherapists however colleagues from all disciplines are welcome. An online version of this event is also available via https://trtogether.com/events/womens-hormones-cycles-and-mood-online . For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com . This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2026-04-25
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Kings House, 242 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JY
Writing about The Unconscious with Moya Sarner
Writing About The Unconscious In person workshop with Journalist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist Moya Sarner 10.00am - 1.30pm Sunday 10 May 2026 Jackson's Lane Arts Centre, Highgate, North London - opposite Highgate Tube Station. Free on street parking. Cafe selling hot and cold drinks, pastries and light snacks will be open. Tickets £40 for non ACPNL members (£30 for members) Please book through the ACPNL Website: https://www.acpnl.org.uk/book-cpd We are delighted that Moya Sarner is going to be running a face to face workshop for ACPNL in May. Moya is a London-based psychodynamic psychotherapist working within the NHS, as well as a freelance journalist who has written for The Guardian, The Times, New Scientist and other national outlets, developing a keen eye for the ways in which social and economic structures intrude upon private life. Her book, When I Grow Up (2022), is a study of adulthood. Until December last year she was writing a popular fortnightly column for The Guardian called 'How to build a better Life' about what she was learning both from being in psychoanalysis herself and in her work as a psychotherapist. In the first part of the workshop, Moya will share something of the events in her own life which led her to write her Guardian columns, and how they made her a better writer and therapist. She will also talk about why she feels it is increasingly crucial that psychotherapists are able to communicate about this thing, 'The Unconscious' in an ordinary and straightforward way outside of the consulting room. In the second part of the workshop, Moya will facilitate a short creative writing exercise leading on from her talk. We will then discuss some of the writing that emerges, thinking about it in the context of writing for the general public. Please note that non-ACPNL members and clinicians from all therapeutic modalities are very welcome at this workshop and no-one will be forced to share with the rest of the group anything they have written unless they feel comfortable to do so!Date: 2026-05-10
Organiser: ACPNL Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists North London
Location: Jackson's Lane Arts Centre, 269 Archway Road, Highgate, London, N6 5SS
Exploring the Psychology of Money and "The Fee"
Money conversations feel awkward because they matter. The fee isn't just administrative - it's where attachment, worth, and power show up with remarkable clarity. When payments are late, when you feel uncomfortable reviewing - the psyche is communicating something essential. This workshop helps you work with money as clinical material. Last year's workshop sold out, with participants reporting it transformed their relationship with fees both personally and professionally. Small group, experiential learning, real examples.Date: 2026-05-15
Organiser: Jared Green Psychotherapy
Location: London
Learning to Love with Alain de Botton - An inspiring evening talk with drinks reception!
With Alain de Botton & Perrine Moran (Chair). Despite our collective yearning for lasting intimacy, thriving relationships remain elusive for many. This talk explores the psychological foundations that underpin successful romantic bonds, drawing on clinical insight, developmental theory, and emotional realism. At its core is the idea that love is not simply a matter of chance or chemistry, but a learnable skill grounded in a few critical capacities: the ability to tolerate imperfection (in ourselves and others), to be vulnerably known, to extend compassion in moments of conflict, and to understand how childhood experiences shape our relational expectations. The talk will examine key patterns that routinely undermine relationships - such as unprocessed shame, defensiveness, projection, and the repetition of early attachment wounds - while offering a therapeutic framework for how couples can grow, rather than crumble, through intimacy. Drawing on familiar clinical dynamics, the talk offers practical, reparative ways of thinking about need, conflict, desire, and repair in modern love. It is especially aimed at those working in relational contexts -therapists, analysts, counsellors - who seek emotionally attuned language to guide both clients and themselves through the complex terrain of adult intimacy. There will be time for questions at the end of the talk and we encourage you to join in! The event will be offered both in person and online. For those joining in person there will be a drinks reception and time to meet with colleagues old and new before the talk. An online version of this event is also available via https://trtogether.com/events/learning-to-love-with-alain-de-botton-online . For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com . This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2026-05-16
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Kings House, 242 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JY
Working with the Erotic in Depth Psychotherapy
Attraction and erotic charge surface in therapy more often than we acknowledge. When they do, most therapists feel unprepared. But erotic material isn't a boundary threat to be managed away - it's the psyche showing you something about desire, longing, and early relational patterns. This workshop helps you hold the charge ethically, recognise what's emerging, and work with it to deepen therapeutic process. Small group, experiential learning, space for genuine exploration of this complex territory.Date: 2026-05-29
Organiser: Jared Green Psychotherapy
Location: London
Compulsive Eating & GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs
Appetite, control, longing, and desire in the consulting room. With Susie Orbach, Jean Petrucelli & Tom Wooldridge. Working with patients using the new injectable weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Wegovy is new, unchartered territory. Heralded as revolutionary offering effortless answers to appetite, desire, and the unruly hungers that have long troubled so many, these medications raise profound questions for clinical practice. How will such a powerful disruptor alter clinical work with patients who struggle with eating disorders and in particular compulsive eating? As Winnicott might observe, appetite is not merely biological but relational, it speaks of the earliest dialogue between baby and caregiver, between needing and being met. When hunger is silenced, the psyche may lose one of its most vital forms of communication. These drugs risk bypassing that conversation, replacing spontaneous experience with managed control, a “false self” solution to the difficulty of being in one’s own body. For decades, consulting rooms have been filled with people struggling to live within bodies that feel uninhabitable, burdened by cultural demands for thinness and mastery. GLP-1s may perpetuate this estrangement, challenging the task of learning to live from one’s body rather than managing it. Through these talks, we will explore what it means when technology promises to correct the body without engaging the emotional conflicts it expresses. How do we work with patients whose relationships to hunger, pleasure, and need are being reprogrammed at the biochemical level? And what becomes of the therapist’s task? Join Susie Orbach, Jean Petrucelli, and Tom Wooldridge for an engaging and thought-provoking online conference. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com . This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2026-06-12
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online, -
How to lift depression – the practical skills you need
Discover how key new insights into the causes and symptoms of depression, when combined with a range of powerful psychological techniques, can make treatment easier and more consistently effective … https://www.humangivens.com/college/lift-depression-workshop/ Accredited CPD: 6 hours Length: 1 day (9.30am - 4.00pm) Tutor: Jo Baker Price includes course notes, refreshments and lunch. Counts towards Part 1 of the Human Givens DiplomaDate: 2027-03-04
Organiser: Human Givens College
Location: Engineers' House in Bristol , BS8 3NB