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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, -
An Introduction to Therapy with Couples
Explore central theoretical concepts of psychodynamic couple therapy with Ellen Burridge & Shannon Ashton. (Course runs from Monday 20 April 2026 to Monday 6July 2026). In this 10-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. Please be aware this course does not result in a clinical qualification allowing you to undertake any form of practice in the field of Couple Psychotherapy and Counselling. 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: 2026-04-20
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
Free Series: Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis - Otto Kernberg
With Dr Diana Diamond, Dr Frank Yeomans & Aner Govrin (Chair). We are delighted to offer an in-depth conversation with Diana Diamond, Frank Yeomans, and Aner Govrin, editor of the Routledge Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series, on their volume Otto Kernberg: A Contemporary Introduction. In this dialogue, Aner invites Diana and Frank to reflect on Kernberg’s legacy and the continuing relevance of his work for contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. Over more than 60 years, Otto Kernberg has made major contributions to both psychoanalysis and descriptive psychiatry. He has played a central role in advancing our understanding of psychoanalytic theory and technique, while also developing a conceptualisation of personality disorders that has significantly enhanced our capacity to understand and treat patients suffering from these conditions. At the heart of his work lies a sustained interest in personality development, the description and assessment of personality pathology, and the treatment of personality disorders, with a particular focus on personality as a form of psychological structure. Kernberg’s vision for the future of psychoanalysis emphasises a core grounding in theory and technique as a foundation for analytically trained clinicians one that can be applied across different modalities, including psychoanalysis proper, supportive psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and the specific exploratory approach known as transference-focused psychotherapy. We look forward to discussing Otto Kernberg’s wide-ranging contributions to psychoanalysis, with particular attention to clinical work with personality disorders. This discussion promises to engage clinicians, scholars, and all readers interested in how contemporary psychoanalysis continues to evolve in its understanding of human relationships. 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: 2026-04-30
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online, -
Psychoanalytic Field Theory: From the individual to the shared unconscious
Presented by Dr Giuseppe Civitarese. The post-Bionian theory of the analytic field is today one of the most fertile and innovative developments in contemporary psychoanalysis. It's contribution lies in shifting the focus from the individual unconscious to the shared unconscious process generated within the analytic relationship. The analytic couple is no longer conceived as the sum of two separate minds, but as a dynamic intersubjective field within which affects, images, fantasies, impasses, and transformations emerge. From this perspective, concepts such as reverie, projective identification, alpha function, and dreaming are radically rethought: no longer as functions attributable exclusively to either patient or analyst, but as expressions of the functioning of the field itself. This also leads to a different conception of interpretation. Interpretation no longer primarily coincides with the unveiling of a hidden content, but with an intervention capable of transforming the quality of the shared emotional experience, making it more thinkable, more dreamable, and more open to symbolisation. The more recent developments of field theory also emphasise the centrality of the bond, the constitutively relational nature of subjectivity, and the ethical dimension of the analytic process, understood as an opening towards more evolved forms of mutual recognition. Field psychoanalysis thus presents itself not only as a theory of technique, but as a broader theory of the mind-in-relation, in which cure coincides with the transformation of the “unconscious we” that patient and analyst together, each time, come to embody. The lecture will include clinical material to illustrate the arguments presented. 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: 2026-05-08
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online, -
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
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