Psychotherapy CPD Events
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An Introduction to Therapy with Couples
Explore central theoretical concepts of psychodynamic couple therapy with Ellen Burridge & Shannon Ashton. In this 11-week online seminar series (7pm-8:30pm on Mondays), participants will explore what it is like to work with couples in therapy. This comprehensive series offers both the opportunity to read theory by key figures in the field and to think, through group discussion, about its application in the work with couples. Film clips and relevant case material are also used to help you gain deeper insight and understanding into this fascinating and burgeoning area in the field of psychotherapy. Topics covered include what brings couples together, shared unconscious relationships and couple fit, holding the ‘couple in mind’ in therapy, unconscious phantasy and beliefs, projective processes in couples, sex and sexualities, aggression and violence in couples, couples and parenting, ageing and relationships, depression and psychological issues, attachment styles within couples, and intergenerational aspects in relationships. Time is spent as a group discussing and reflecting on these topics, this type of work and the dynamic of couple relationships in therapy. With three in the room the work becomes quite different. Our seminar leaders are both experienced couple therapists themselves, trained at Tavistock Relationships and immersed in the TR model of understanding and working with couples. This course offers CPD credits for psychotherapists and is a fantastic grounding to pursue any of our clinical trainings, whether you are a beginner looking for a career change or trained to work with individuals and interested to learn more about being with a couple in the room. 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: 2026-01-12
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online, -
The Pull of the Patient - Projective identification, valency, and role responsiveness in clinical work (In-person event)
With Avi Shmueli & Perrine Moran (Chair). Joseph Sandler’s concept of Role Responsiveness is deceptively familiar yet continues to reveal new depth in clinical practice. It describes the therapist’s unconscious, often involuntary tendency to respond to a patient’s projections by inhabiting a role, expressing the patient’s internal world in lived form within the analytic dyad. Sandler (1976, 1983) framed this as a way of understanding countertransference not as error, but as information: the therapist’s feelings and behaviours become a tool for discerning the patient’s unconscious communications. A core focus of the day is role responsiveness in action. Through case material and video illustrations, participants will explore forms of role induction and how therapists navigate the tension between identification and reflective stance. Questions addressed include: How does the therapist recognise being drawn into an unconscious role? How can these experiences be used therapeutically without losing observing capacity? Special attention is given to scenarios where therapists are pulled into multiple, conflicting roles, and to manifestations of role responsiveness beyond the consulting room, including supervision. This seminar also revisits role responsiveness as a living clinical concept, exploring its development in Sandler’s work on role, identity, and internal object relations, and its intersections with projective identification (Klein, 1946), valency (Bion, 1961), and contemporary ideas of enactment and mutual influence. While originating in individual analysis, role responsiveness is particularly relevant in couple therapy, where interlocking projections create complex unconscious fields that the therapist experiences and negotiates. This seminar is designed for individual and couple therapists seeking to understand how their own emotional and behavioural responses emerge in the analytic encounter and how to transform these unconscious enactments into therapeutic insight. 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.org. An online version of this event is also available via https://trtogether.com/events/the-pull-of-the-patient-onlineDate: 2026-01-24
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Kings House, 242 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JY
Free Series: Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis - Couple Relations
With Mary Morgan & Aner Govrin. This free series offers open and reflective dialogues with authors from the Routledge Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis collection. Each session invites participants to explore how contemporary psychoanalytic ideas are evolving across theory and practice. Rather than formal lectures, these conversations create a space for curiosity, exchange, and shared thinking where ideas unfold through dialogue between authors, editors, and participants. Our first session is with Mary Morgan and Aner Govrin, editor of the Routledge series. In this dialogue, Aner invites Mary to reflect on how her book Couple Relations: A Contemporary Introduction both consolidates and extends the field of psychoanalytic couple theory. Building on the rich traditions of British object relations and couple psychoanalysis, Mary re-examines the couple relationship as a dynamic emotional system, rather than merely the interaction of two individuals. Drawing on aspects of Link theory, she illuminates the link itself, the living connection between partners, as the primary site of psychic activity. This perspective opens new ways of understanding how unconscious phantasy, projection, and mutual influence shape intimacy, conflict, and repair. The conversation will explore how this theoretical evolution affects clinical practice: how therapists can attend to the shared psychic field of the couple, the interplay of love and hate, and the creative potential that emerges when partners tolerate difference and otherness. Participants are warmly encouraged to engage throughout via the Q&A function, sharing reflections, asking questions, and contributing to the evolving conversation. This is a space to listen, think aloud, and participate in an active exchange of ideas. For full event 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: 2026-01-29
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
How to Write Case Studies
Two online workshops with feedback opportunity with Aner Govrin. 13 February 2026 and 20 March 2026, 2pm-5pm (UK). This comprehensive workshop addresses a critical gap in psychotherapy training by focusing on how to write case studies. While clinicians spend hundreds of hours in individual and group training devoted to therapeutic work, the writing of case studies is rarely taught systematically. We are offering a structured approach to this essential professional skill including the opportunity between workshops and after the course has concluded to send a piece of writing to course convenor Aner Govrin for personalised feedback. Clinical writing requires both literary elements and clinical reporting to capture the essence of therapeutic encounters. This is a complex task, in this first workshop we will think together how, without compromising the material, we can write about what we do with both rigor and creativity. Through an examination of various writing techniques, guidance on how to structure a case study, the development of characters, the practicalities of handling timeline management the first workshop offers a practical, clear and engaging workshop to get started and map out how you will write your case study. The second workshop builds on the learning of the first alongside the experience between the sessions. We will considers alongside the technical aspects essential challenges such as overcoming writer's anxiety and block, getting started and considering an ending to the writing. We will also look at issues of maintaining patient confidentiality while preserving an aliveness in the material. Finally the workshop examines how different psychoanalytic schools approach case writing, and how this may influence the writer and writing process. Overall the course will offer a combination of theoretical instruction, practical exercises, and examination of exemplar cases, as well as direct feedback on their writing participants will develop the skills necessary to document their clinical work effectively, whether for training requirements, professional presentations, or publication purposes. 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: 2026-02-13
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online, -
Free Series: Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis - W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind
With Annie Reiner & Aner Govrin (Chair). We are delighted to offer an in-depth conversation between Annie Reiner and Aner Govrin, editor of the Routledge Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series, on Annie’s new book W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction. In this dialogue, Aner invites Annie to reflect on how her book both consolidates and extends the field of contemporary psychoanalysis. Dr Reiner’s understanding of Bion’s work derives not only from decades of reading his theories but from having had the opportunity to “read” Bion himself during the years he spent teaching, lecturing, and practicing in Los Angeles. This provided insight into his enigmatic and intriguing, if often perplexing, ideas, and how he presented them. Central to these ideas is Bion’s concept of O, his most mysterious and controversial concept, which he saw as central to psychoanalysis and essential to clinical work. It is inseparable from his ideas about thinking and the mind. "The development of the mind has been a frightful nuisance and has caused an awful lot of trouble. I think we are still frightened of it." (Bion, 1978, p. 53). The confusion and controversy surrounding O may have distracted psychoanalysts from the fact that the real mystery was not just O, but the enigmatic, unknowable, infinite reality it represents, as well as our fears of a human mind that is able to make contact with O. While the mind has always been central to psychoanalytic exploration, Dr. Reiner will examine some of the ways Bion questioned, and ultimately redefined, what we mean by a “mind.” For full event 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: 2026-02-26
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Understanding Fears of Engulfment and Abandonment - The claustro–agoraphobic dilemma in therapy
With Kate Thompson. This conference explores the psychic dilemma of closeness and distance, the contradictory longing for merger and autonomy that shapes intimate human relationships. The psychoanalyst Henry Rey described this dynamic as the claustro–agoraphobic dilemma: the fear of engulfment by the object when too close, in conflict with the fear of abandonment and being alone when the object is out of reach. Kate Thompson, a psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist and author, will offer a seminar where she describes how these forces may be enacted in the transference, the therapeutic frame, and the client’s wider relational life. The seminar will draw on theoretical perspectives from Bion, Winnicott, Britton, Emanuel, and Steiner to explore how patients manage psychic survival when faced with uncertainty, disruption, and compressed living. These authors help illuminate how defensive systems can crystallise around the need for both safety and freedom, and how development may be stalled when oscillations between intimacy and distance cannot be tolerated or contained. Clinical vignettes from couple and individual psychotherapy will illustrate these complex dynamics, offering vivid accounts of how patients may cling, withdraw, or perpetually oscillate in response to external constraints and internal anxieties. From this base, we will reflect on how similar struggles are encountered in individual work, where therapists may be experienced as either intrusive or abandoning, too present or too absent. By integrating theory with clinical material, the seminar aims to provide practitioners of all modalities with a richer understanding of how to work with patients caught up in these profound and often destabilising dynamics. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com . There is also an online version of this event available via https://trtogether.com/events/understanding-fears-of-engulfment-and-abandonment-online . This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2026-03-06
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Freud Museum London, 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SX
The Loneliness of the Psychotherapist - Developmental Roots and Professional Realities
With Aleksandar Dimitrijevic. Loneliness is increasingly recognised as one of the most significant mental health risks of our time, with profound psychological and physiological consequences. For those in the helping professions, particularly psychotherapists, loneliness can carry unique complexities. Therapists spend much of their professional lives in deep emotional engagement with others, yet within the one-directional boundaries of the therapeutic frame. The very skills and attitudes that enable empathy, containment, and professional detachment can, paradoxically, create emotional isolation. This workshop explores how loneliness can manifest in the lives of therapists; what drives it, how it affects professional functioning and personal wellbeing, and what can be done to address it. Drawing on research findings, clinical examples, and participants’ own experiences and reflections, we will examine how the personality traits often associated with the psychotherapeutic vocation may predispose practitioners to chronic loneliness. We will also consider the risks of unacknowledged isolation, such as burnout, dependency on patients, and diminished personal vitality. Through talks, discussion and small-group work the workshop aims to deepen awareness of this neglected aspect of therapeutic life and to promote practical, sustainable ways of nurturing genuine connection with others, with oneself, and with the wider community. This event will run online, it will be recorded and the recording will be available two weeks after the event has taken place in your TR Together account. You will also receive a certificate and any slides and reading materials made available by our speaker. 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: 2026-03-13
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
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, -
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
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
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