Psychotherapy CPD Events
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Psychoanalysis and Somatic Trauma Treatment Models: Treatment for patients suffering from early developmental trauma and severe dissociation
With Dr David Levit & Dr Zack Eleftheriadou (Chair). The focus of this webinar will be treatment with patients suffering from early developmental trauma and severe dissociation. Our speaker, Dr David Levit, draws upon his training not only in psychoanalysis but also in Somatic Experiencing®, one of the somatic trauma treatment models that have developed over the past fifty years outside of psychoanalysis. Levit will discuss and illustrate ways of working with patients’ bodily experiences in a more direct and sustained manner than psychoanalysts or psychotherapists are typically accustomed to in psychoanalytic or psychoanalytically informed treatment. In this way of working, the body is not only a port of entry but also a central site of therapeutic action. In presenting extensive clinical process, Levit will invoke Ogden’s notion of looking from multiple theoretical vertices. Levit will illustrate the interweaving of specific interventions from the somatic trauma therapies, but his emphasis will be on discussion of the clinical processes from the vantage points of holding, as variously defined by Winnicott, and containing, as defined by Bion. He is not suggesting that we replace or even supplement our psychoanalytic forms of provision. Rather, he will illustrate how interweaving approaches from somatic trauma therapies into our clinical work can enhance our capacities to offer that which we offer psychoanalytically, namely, being with and bearing what patients cannot bear, and providing much needed holding and containment. All of this within a context of our continuing efforts to help patients develop their capacity for being present with their traumatic past, rather than being continually haunted by the past in the ongoing present. 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: 2026-05-22
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online, -
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, -
Free Series: Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis - Donald Meltzer
With Meg Harris Williams & Aner Govrin (Chair). We are delighted to offer an in-depth conversation with Meg Harris Williams and Aner Govrin, editor of the Routledge Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series, on Meg's book for the series Donald Meltzer: A contemporary Introduction. Aner invites Meg to describe Meltzer’s contribution to the understanding of borderline and psychotic states, focusing in particular on his concept of the Claustrum. This will be seen in the context of his expanded view of the Kleinian model of the mind to incorporate both Bion’s ideas, and the further clinical understanding of the variety of modes of identification, including his own formulation of adhesive identification as an alternative narcissistic mode to projective identification. Meltzer’s view of the vicissitudes of personality development is characterised by both its clinical depth and its wider association with literature and philosophy, particularly the philosophy of symbol-formation. As a result of not only his own experience with children in analysis, but also of intensive work with people doing infant observation, via the method of Esther Bick, he was able to expand our view of primitive personality development and its persistence in the adult mind in both its detrimental and its enriching capacities, and to give clinical substance to many of Bion’s more abstract formulations. The increased complexity of the psychoanalytic model of the mind enables a more flexible approach to clinical practice and the analytic situation, which is associated with Meltzer’s espousal of the Kleinian-based concept of the internal combined object and its central function in thinking and symbol formation, together with the many ways this may be either structurally inadequate, or avoided owing to infantile or destructive aspects of the personality. This discussion promises to engage clinicians, scholars, and readers interested in how contemporary psychoanalysis continues to evolve in its understanding of human relationships. (Please note a recording is not included when signing up). This is a free event. For full 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: 2026-06-18
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online, -
Tavistock Relationships Couple Therapy Summer School 2026: Couple and Family Life in Transition
Tuesday 21 July 2026-Friday 24 July 2026, 10am-5pm, with Andrew Balfour, Liz Hamlin, Stanley Ruszczynski , Perrine Moran, Martha Doniach, Susanna Abse, Amita Sehgal & Leezah Hertzmann. Join us for our annual Summer School exploring Couple and family life and how it has diversified in ways that increasingly challenge heteronormativity as an unexamined gold standard. Same-sex couples, solo parents, blended and step-parent families, assisted conception, and polyamorous constellations are not peripheral variations but part of the contemporary relational landscape. Yet unconscious ideals about exclusivity, complementarity, legitimacy, and generational order often endure within families, institutions, and clinical thinking itself. How do these ideals shape our formulations, our anxieties, and our therapeutic interventions? This summer school offers couple therapists from experienced to recently qualified a space to reflect on how psychoanalytic practice might engage these evolving forms without reverting to inherited hierarchies of value. The Summer School is for psychodynamic and psychoanalytic couple-trained therapists already working in the field, and 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 couple 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 a theatre ticket to see the highly acclaimed play Cyrano de Bergerac, 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: 2026-07-21
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Tavistock Relationships, 10 New Street, EC2M 4TP
Online Clinical Work Discussion Group with Stanley Ruszczynski - Suitable for Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapists
Friday 23 October 2026 - Friday 19 March 2027. This six-month series offers monthly clinical discussion groups specifically designed to support Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapists and will be run by Stanley Ruszczynski. Stanley is a psychoanalyst and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist he has held leadership roles at both the Portman Clinic and Tavistock Relationships. These clinical discussion groups serve as a vital complement to traditional supervision, offering therapists essential guidance, skill-building opportunities, and a reflective space to explore the complex emotional dynamics of their work. Facilitated by senior clinicians from Tavistock Relationships, each session supports therapists in examining the personal and professional impacts of their therapeutic practice. Each two-hour session provides a structured, collaborative setting where each participant will present clinical case material or specific themes from their work for focused group discussion. A core emphasis is placed on the role of countertransference, how therapists are emotionally impacted by clients' dynamics, and on developing ways to process and reflect on these reactions without slipping into collusion. This approach goes beyond conventional case management by encouraging therapists to explore their emotional responses and the influence these have on their practice, promoting both personal and professional growth. 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: 2026-10-23
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