Psychotherapy CPD Events
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Guided imagery and visualisation for therapeutic change
Essential skills for successfully treating a wide range of conditions – such as trauma, addictions, anxiety and depression – as well as making long-lasting behaviour changes and much more… Guided imagery is one of the most powerful psychotherapeutic tools available to us – and one you need in your ‘toolkit’.Date: 2025-06-16
Organiser: Human Givens College
Location: Central London, at the heart of Westminster at Broadway House, SW1H 9NQ
Developing Self-Compassion – in yourself and others
This popular self-compassion online course provides you with all you need to know to bring self-compassion into your practice, your personal life and the lives of others – with plenty of time to try out the techniques for yourself. Enjoy 10% OFF with discount code TOWN10 Accredited CPD Certificate: 6 hours Course notes and recording includedDate: 2025-06-17
Organiser: Human Givens College
Location: Live Online via Zoom
Working with Fragmented and Chaotic States
Adjunctive Techniques for Psychotherapists. With Ruthie Smith, Phil Mollon & Alice Jacobs Waterfall (Facilitator). Clients prone to fragmentation and chaotic states can be extremely challenging to work with. Those who suffered early or developmental trauma and ruptures in relationships may struggle with damaged and scrambled communications. As therapists we work with various chaotic presentations including projection, fragmented ego states, disconnection, dissociation and at the more extreme end, alters, fugue states, depersonalisation, and the blurring of boundaries between fantasy and reality. Trauma also distorts time and memory, and clients may struggle with ‘knowing’ or ‘not knowing’ what has happened to them. Further challenges arise if clients have a pattern of disorganised attachment which may lock the work in unhelpful dynamics, such as unconscious retaliatory defences, the ‘drama triangle’, coercion and punitive control. It is precisely in such situations that energy psychotherapy techniques offer an invaluable adjunct. We move beyond the tools of transference and counter transference, working instead to help the client release the traumatic stress/ PTSD via their bodies, minds and subtle energy systems. These methods, self-applied by the client, are woven within the therapeutic dialogue and they contain, regulate, and alleviate the client’s distress so they can experience a sense of safety, calm and balance. Using these simple methods strengthens the fragmented ego, reaches beneath the deeper defensive layers, and helps to integrate parts, so that clients learn to regulate their extreme moods and in so doing, develop a more coherent narrative of self. By releasing the blocked energy of traumatised states, the client is able to ‘reverse’ their self-sabotaging behaviour, so that more mutual, reciprocal forms of relationship can emerge. Energy psychotherapy reveals complexities and subtleties of factors maintaining psychopathology that cannot easily be accessed and identified within conventional listening and talking psychotherapies. Moreover, a psychoanalytic psychotherapy that is congruent with modern understandings of how trauma smashes the container-contained function, causing an explosion of psychic ‘beta elements’, will benefit from the incorporation of adjunctive trauma-focused modalities. This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2025-06-27
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Couple Therapy Summer School 2025: Creative Coupling
With Andrew Balfour, Alison Bruce, Martha Doniach, Liz Hamlin, Damian McCann, Mary Morgan, Marian O’Connor, Stanley Ruszczynski, Amita Sehgal & Kate Thompson. Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - Friday, July 18, 2025. 10:00 am - 5:00 pm each day. Join us for our annual Summer School exploring creative coupling in psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy. We will examine the concept of the creative couple it’s role in internal psychic development and in relationships, while also considering other psychological thirds that influence couple dynamics. Through theoretical discussions and clinical perspectives, we will uncover the challenges and possibilities of supporting the development of the creative couple in the relationships we work with. The Summer School is for psychodynamic and psychoanalytic couple-trained therapists and we will consider applications from highly experienced psychoanalytically trained therapists working with individuals who have an interest in couples work. This intensive training week provides a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in cutting-edge thinking with a world-leading couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy institute. You will learn and grow as a therapist through theoretical seminars and twice-daily intensive clinical discussion groups, and will study alongside like-minded people from the UK and around the world. Included in the course fee is an evening drink receptions to connect with your colleagues, a theatre ticket to see the highly acclaimed play Till the Stars Come Down, which will be attended as a group on the Wednesday evening with a discussion the following day, and depth learning with experts in the field. 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: 2025-07-15
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: 10 New Street, London, EC2M 4TP
A Self-Care Weekend for Therapists
Saturday, August 16, 2025 - Sunday, August 17, 2025. 10:00 am - 4:00 pm (UK). Energy psychotherapy to self-regulate and minimise stress, burnout and vicarious trauma. With Paul Croal & Ruthie Smith. This in person restorative weekend introduces you to the invaluable resource that energy psychotherapy offers, working with the mind, the heart, and physical/bodily systems and our inherent self-healing capacities. This reflective space allows you to consider your choices and steps towards personal well-being, and explore, identify and treat any inhibitory blockages. Together, we will develop some personalised, effective self-care practices to address dysregulation and introduce you to some stress-relieving practices. Clients frequently present with overwhelming external and internal conflicts; our bodies and nervous systems register this through mirror neurons and co-regulation. When working with transference and countertransference, we can become impacted, feeling drained and depleted—‘tired and wired’—by the challenges of complex and depth work. Online working brings additional stressors, which can cumulatively diminish vitality and creativity. When we become exhausted and suffer brain fog and somatic discomfort, this alerts us to the need for self-care. When the life force, Freud’s libido is ‘in flow’, we feel healthy and balanced, which brings ease and grace to the work. We gain resilience and grounding through regenerative self-care, bringing clarity and better boundaries to our clients’ material. Ruthie Smith and Paul Croal bring a wealth of experience and expertise to this restorative weekend, offering deep insight into the extraordinary power of energy psychotherapy. Ruthie, an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, specialises in trauma work and integrates subtle energy practices into her therapeutic approach. Paul, an integrative transpersonal therapist, blends creative modalities such as dreamwork and imagery with energy psychotherapy. Together, they provide a compassionate, reflective space for participants to self-care and address the challenges of clinical work. Their combined knowledge ensures a rich, supportive environment for some personal exploration and healing. 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: 2025-08-16
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
An Introduction to Therapy with Couples
An Introduction to Therapy with Couples: Explore central theoretical concepts of psychodynamic couple therapy. With Ellen Burridge & Shannon Ashton. Dates: Monday, September 22, 2025 - Monday, December 8, 2025. Mondays 7pm-8.30pm. In this 11-week online seminar series, 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: 2025-09-22
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Polyvagal Theory, Oxytocin, and the Couple Relationship: The Neurobiology of Love and Safety
With Stephen Porges & Sue Carter. In this webinar science meets therapy, Professors Stephen Porges and Sue Carter will present the core principles of Polyvagal Theory and the Oxytocin Hypothesis, focusing on their relevance to intimate couple relationships. Drawing from decades of groundbreaking research, they will illuminate how neurobiological systems that govern safety, bonding, and threat shape emotional availability, connection, and conflict between partners. The sessions will explore how these autonomic and hormonal systems, particularly the role of oxytocin and the vagus nerve, influence behaviors such as emotional withdrawal, shutdown, compulsive protest, and repair. Rather than viewing such responses as purely psychological, Porges and Carter offer a model that understands them as adaptive physiological reactions rooted in our evolutionary biology. Clinicians will be introduced to a neurobiological framework that clarifies how subtle relational cues like tone of voice, facial expression, and presence can regulate nervous system states and foster felt safety. This model offers practical insights into how therapists can support couples and individuals in distress by attending to co-regulation, emotional safety, and the embodied nature of intimacy. The dialogue between Porges and Carter will also explore how disruptions in these systems due to trauma, betrayal, or chronic stress can impair the capacity for connection and intimacy. The webinar concludes with an invitation to view love and relational repair not only as psychological processes, but as biological imperatives grounded in a regulated nervous system. 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: 2025-10-10
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Ageing, Illness, and Death: Exploring Unwelcome Realities through a Psychoanalytic Lens
With Salman Akhtar, Maxine Anderson & Andrew Balfour. 2pm-5pm (UK). Every one of us is ageing. In the psychoanalytic profession, where experience is deeply valued and retirement often delayed or optional, we tend to occupy a unique position in relation to ageing. Yet despite our long training and professional longevity, we have invested surprisingly little in the developmental questions of later life. We have been reluctant to face the psychic realities of ageing, loss, physical decline, dementia, and ultimately, death. This conference invites us to look directly at these issues, both in ourselves and our patients, and to deepen our psychoanalytic understanding of the ageing process. Through a series of talks and discussions, we will examine the evolving nature of psychic life across midlife, early old age, and later years. Salman Akhtar will open with a developmental framework, offering insight into the shifting psychic tasks of later life, from depletion to the potential for transcendence. Andrew Balfour will explore how we meet the challenges of ageing and dementia, and how we might remain alive to ourselves and our relationships. Maxine Anderson offers a moving clinical perspective on working psychoanalytically with patients facing cognitive decline. The conference concludes with a reflective conversation among the speakers and participants, addressing the profound complexities of growing old. Bringing together distinguished psychoanalysts from both sides of the Atlantic, this event offers a rare opportunity to reflect on the psychic tasks of ageing not just theoretically, but also clinically and personally. Each speaker brings a distinct lens — developmental, relational, and experiential — to illuminate how we might better accompany our patients and ourselves through the final stages of life. 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: 2025-11-07
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Avoidant Attachment (In Person Event): Working with emotional neglect, rejection, and criticism
With Linda Cundy. 2pm-5.30pm. Led by psychotherapist and attachment expert Linda Cundy, this in-person workshop will explore how avoidant strategies develop, how they show up in therapy, and how we as therapists can work with the ambivalence, defences, and relational ruptures that often arise. Linda Cundy is an Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and authort. She has twenty-five years’ experience of teaching, providing training and presentations, and is the Attachment Consultant to the Bowlby Centre. Avoidant attachment is a pattern of relating shaped by early relational experiences such as emotional neglect, rejection, or criticism. While individuals with an avoidant style may deeply long for intimacy, they often experience closeness as overwhelming or unsafe, leading to patterns of emotional withdrawal and self-protection. This workshop will include an exploration of the therapist’s own emotional responses, such as frustration or disconnection, and how these can offer insight into the client’s inner world. We’ll identify early signs of avoidance, reflect on its developmental origins, and consider ways to build trust without overwhelming the client. Through discussion and reflection, participants will deepen their understanding of how to remain emotionally present and engaged even when the work feels stuck. An online version of this event is also available for those who cannot attend in person. See TR Together website for details. 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: 2025-11-21
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Freud Museum London, 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SX
Avoidant Attachment (Online Event): Working with emotional neglect, rejection, and criticism
With Linda Cundy. 2pm-5.30pm. Led by psychotherapist and attachment expert Linda Cundy, this in-person workshop will explore how avoidant strategies develop, how they show up in therapy, and how we as therapists can work with the ambivalence, defences, and relational ruptures that often arise. Linda Cundy is an Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and authort. She has twenty-five years’ experience of teaching, providing training and presentations, and is the Attachment Consultant to the Bowlby Centre. Avoidant attachment is a pattern of relating shaped by early relational experiences such as emotional neglect, rejection, or criticism. While individuals with an avoidant style may deeply long for intimacy, they often experience closeness as overwhelming or unsafe, leading to patterns of emotional withdrawal and self-protection. This workshop will include an exploration of the therapist’s own emotional responses, such as frustration or disconnection, and how these can offer insight into the client’s inner world. We’ll identify early signs of avoidance, reflect on its developmental origins, and consider ways to build trust without overwhelming the client. Through discussion and reflection, participants will deepen their understanding of how to remain emotionally present and engaged even when the work feels stuck. An in-person version of this event is also available at Freud Museum London for those who would like to attend in person. See TR Together website for details. 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: 2025-11-21
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
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