Psychotherapy CPD Events
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Embodied Consultation Group
Thursday 10 September 2026 - Thursday 17 June 2027. With Dr Fran Sommer Anderson. The Embodied Consultation Group is an ongoing reflective space meeting monthly for clinicians wishing to deepen and integrate the themes explored in the series Working at the Intersection of Attachment, Trauma, and Chronic Pain. Developed as a follow-on group, it offers participants the opportunity to think collaboratively about the complex relationship between body, mind, attachment, affect, and clinical practice in themselves and in their work with patients. A key area of focus is neuroplasticity and the ways in which clinically supported “re-processing” may facilitate change in the neural pathways underlying chronic somatic pain. This includes consideration of how psychotherapy is expanding beyond traditional talk-based and trauma based models into more active, embodied interventions. Techniques such as breathwork, visualisation, guided use of the imagination, and sensory exploration will be practiced as clinically informed approaches with an emerging evidence base for supporting change at the level of pain processing and regulation. Attention will also be given to questions of shame, gender, and power as they emerge in treatment. The consultation group is intended as a space for thoughtful discussion and experiential learning rather than formal teaching. Participants are invited to bring themselves, their clinical material, questions, and reflections. Through shared enquiry, the group aims to support clinicians in developing greater confidence in working with new techniques to support patients whose difficulties are expressed through bodily symptoms and chronic pain conditions. 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: 2026-09-10
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
An Evening of Film & Psychoanalysis at the Freud Museum
With Christopher Clulow, Martha Doniach, Krisztina Glausius, Katalin Lanczi, Perrine Moran, Anne Patterson & Kate Thompson. Come and join us for an evening exploring the relationship between film and psychoanalysis. Like dreams, films can reveal what lies beneath the surface of conscious life: hidden anxieties, conflicts, desires, and defences. Through image, atmosphere, silence, sound, and narrative, cinema gives form to unconscious processes that are often difficult to articulate directly. Psychoanalytic thinking allows us to consider not only what characters say and do, but also what is defended against, disavowed, or left unspoken. Films can vividly portray the defensive structures that shape psychic and relational life. For example, The Zone of Interest confronts us with the operation of denial and psychic splitting, showing the capacity to maintain ordinary domestic life alongside the exclusion of unbearable reality. Other films illuminate dynamics within couples and families, including projection, idealisation, dependency, aggression, and the tension between intimacy and separateness. Observing these processes condensed within a film narrative can deepen our understanding of the complexities we encounter in clinical work. In the consulting room, analytic boundaries protect both therapist and patient from becoming overwhelmed by unconscious material. Watching films, however, allows us to enter emotional and psychic worlds more freely, creating space to reflect on states of mind and relational dynamics from a different perspective. During the evening, we will present reviews and articles from the special issue of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis on “Couples and Families in Film.” Authors who contributed to the issue will give brief presentations and participate in discussion. Clips from The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, Return to Seoul and one other film will be shown and discussed interactively. We warmly invite the audience to share their own reflections on films that have informed their clinical thinking, and to consider together how psychoanalytic ideas can deepen our experience and understanding of cinema. 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: 2026-09-11
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Freud Museum, London, NW3 5SX
Psychoanalysis and Somatic Trauma Treatment Models: Treatment for patients suffering from early developmental trauma and 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: 2026-09-18
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
An Introduction to Therapy with Couples: Explore central theoretical concepts of psychodynamic couple therapy
Monday 21 September 2026 - Monday 7 December 2026. With Cass Vollmer & Catherine Rashid. 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. 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: 2026-09-21
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Theory and Practice with Self-Harm and Suicide
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Suicide and Self-Harm Tuesdays | 29 September, 6 & 13 October | 8.15–9.45pm Hybrid: Attend in person or online Join psychoanalyst William Crouch for a three-part seminar series exploring psychoanalytic approaches to understanding and working with suicide and self-harm. Designed for clinicians and mental health professionals, the series examines suicide as a relational and emotional experience, offering insights that can be applied across psychotherapy, psychiatry, nursing, social work and the voluntary sector. Each seminar combines pre-reading, a short presentation and in-depth clinical discussion, encouraging participants to reflect on the challenges they encounter in their own practice. Sessions will be recorded and available to registered participants for one week after each seminar. Ideal for professionals working with individuals at risk of suicide or self-harm, as well as those seeking to deepen their understanding of psychoanalytic perspectives in contemporary clinical practice.Date: 2026-09-29
Organiser: Institute of Psychoanalysis
Location: Online & The Institute of Psychoanalysis London, W9 2BT
Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Bringing Together Mind and Body
Bringing Together Mind and Body: The Work of the 10 Windsor Walk Psychosomatics Workshop Mondays | 12 October – 7 December | 7.30–9.00pm Hybrid: Attend in person or online Explore the complex relationship between body and mind in this eight-part lecture series inspired by the work of the 10 Windsor Walk Psychosomatics Workshop. Since 2020, the Workshop has brought together psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychotherapists, doctors and other healthcare professionals to examine psychosomatic thinking across disciplines. Drawing on psychoanalytic perspectives - including ideas from the British Psychoanalytic Society and the Paris School of Psychosomatics - this series offers a unique opportunity to engage with contemporary approaches to the interaction between psyche and soma. Each session, chaired by Kate Pugh and Simon Harrison, features a lecture followed by discussion, inviting participants to reflect on the Workshop's clinical experience, insights and ongoing questions. Attend the full series or book individual lectures as standalone events.Date: 2026-10-12
Organiser: Institute of Psychoanalysis
Location: Online and 10 Windsor Walk SE5 8BB
Treating Narcissistic Pathology: Live with Dr Otto Kernberg offering case illustrations
With Dr Otto Kernberg, Dr Diana Diamond, Dr Frank Yeomans & Aner Govrin (Facilitator). Time: 2pm-6pm (UK). This special training brings together three of the field's most distinguished contributors: Otto Kernberg, Frank Yeomans, and Diana Diamond. The programme will open with a review of levels of narcissistic pathology and an understanding of that pathology based on contemporary object relations theory. The second part of the program will summarise transference focused psychotherapy, an evidence-based psychoanalytic psychotherapy for personality disorders, and illustrate how the technique is applied in the therapy of patients with narcissistic personality disorder. Diana Diamond will contribute her expertise on attachment, personality functioning, and the therapeutic process, while Frank Yeomans will then guide participants through the clinical tasks and technical considerations involved in establishing effective treatment with complex patients. In the third segment, Dr. Otto Kernberg will discuss a clinical case, offering participants a unique opportunity to observe the diagnostic and conceptual thinking that has shaped contemporary approaches to personality disorders and psychotherapy. Participants will examine contemporary approaches to understanding personality pathology and personality organisation, while gaining practical skills in conducting comprehensive evaluations, discussing diagnosis with patients, managing risk, and formulating treatment goals. Particular attention will be given to the relationship between assessment and intervention, and how early therapeutic exchanges can shape the trajectory of treatment. Through clinical illustrations, case material, and discussion, participants will explore how clinicians can establish a framework that supports reflection, emotional regulation, therapeutic engagement, and psychological growth. The programme will also consider the ways in which difficult dynamics emerge early in treatment and how these can be addressed productively to strengthen the therapeutic process. While relevant to clinicians from a range of therapeutic backgrounds, the training will focus on demonstrating how these principles are integrated and applied within Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), one of the leading evidence-based treatments for personality disorders. 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: 2026-10-16
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
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, -
Online Clinical Work Discussion Group with Mary Morgan: Suitable for Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapists
Friday 23 October 2026 - Friday 19 March 2027. With Mary Morgan. This six-month series offers monthly clinical discussion groups specifically designed to support Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapists and will be run by Mary Morgan. Mary is a Psychoanalyst, Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, a Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Senior Fellow of Tavistock Relationships. These clinical discussion groups serve as a complement to traditional supervision, offering therapists essential guidance and a reflective space to explore the complex emotional dynamics of their work. Facilitated by senior clinicians from Tavistock Relationships, sessions 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. 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 via Zoom, -
The Contribution of Michael Eigen to Psychoanalysis: Psychic life as an ongoing struggle to survive fragmentation while remaining open to renewal, connection, creativity
With Dr Michael Eigen, Dr Loray Daws & Dr Aner Govrin (Chair). Time: 2pm-5:30pm (UK). This programme offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from Michael Eigen, who will open the event with a one-hour presentation. Now aged 90, Eigen remains one of psychoanalysis’s most original and influential contemporary thinkers, making this a particularly significant occasion for clinicians, psychotherapists, and psychoanalytic practitioners. Many attendees will be drawn by the unique chance to engage with his work firsthand. Should unforeseen circumstances prevent his participation, the programme will be thoughtfully reconfigured to ensure a rich and engaging exploration of his ideas. Michael Eigen’s psychoanalytic explorations of the inviolable or indestructible offer a distinctive pathway through the complexities of psychic becoming. Drawing on his work with severely detached, unwanted, and psychically endangered patients, as well as deeply entrenched states of mind, Eigen illuminates how the self emerges through repeated experiences of rupture and reunion across mind, body, and relationships. Central to his thinking is the dynamic interplay between tendencies toward separateness and connection. These forces may relate in antagonistic, symbiotic, parasitic, dissociative, nullifying, or nourishing ways, shaping both psychological suffering and growth. Eigen also highlights the importance of cultivating a dialectic between catastrophe and faith, grounded within a sustaining rhythm of experience. In this respect, he extends and develops ideas associated with Wilfred Bion, Donald Winnicott, and Henry Elkin. Loray Daws, the co-editor-in-chief of the Michael Eigen Series at Routledge, has contributed significantly to the exploration of Eigen’s work. Daw’s will offer two talks after Eigen which will be chaired by Aner Govrin. There will be time for discussion. 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: 2026-11-06
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
The Thirteenth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival
The Thirteenth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival will bring together a compelling programme of contemporary European cinema exploring the theme of Passion, alongside screenings, psychoanalytic discussion and a special tribute to the festival’s founder, Andrea Sabbadini.Date: 2026-11-13
Organiser: Institute of Psychoanalysis
Location: Royal Society of Medicine, London, W1G 0AE
World Congress on Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Scheduled for November 19–20, 2026, in London, UK, the World Congress on Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2026 will bring together distinguished speakers, researchers, clinicians, therapists, academicians, and healthcare professionals from around the world. The conference will showcase recent developments, innovative research, and best practices aimed at enhancing the lives of individuals with autism and their families.Date: 2026-11-19
Organiser: Vartusgroup
Location: london,uk, 533402
Autism 2026
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how individuals communicate, interact socially, learn, and process information. It is characterized by differences in social communication, repetitive behaviors, restricted interests, and sensory sensitivities. Autism is a spectrum condition, meaning that it affects individuals in different ways and to varying degrees. Early identification, intervention, and supportive services can help individuals with autism develop skills, enhance independence, and improve quality of life. Ongoing research continues to advance understanding, acceptance, and inclusion of autistic individuals across education, healthcare, employment, and community settings.Date: 2026-11-19
Organiser: Vartusgroup
Location: london,uk, 533402
Mental Health 2026
The International Conference on Mental Health & Psychiatry 2026 aims to promote excellence in mental health research, education, and clinical care. Through keynote lectures, panel discussions, and scientific presentations, participants will gain insights into current challenges and future directions in psychiatry and mental health services.Date: 2026-11-19
Organiser: Vartus group
Location: london,uk, SW1A 1AA
Techno - Transference (Piotrowska 2026) | International Day Conference
Techno-Transference: AI, Metaphor, Seduction, and the Future of Psychoanalysis Saturday 21 November 2026 | 9.30am–5.00pm Hybrid: Attend in person or online Join leading psychoanalysts, filmmakers and cultural critics for a one-day interdisciplinary conference exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on psychoanalytic practice, theory and contemporary culture. Through keynote talks and discussion, Techno-Transference examines how AI is reshaping listening, metaphor, creativity, illusion and human relationships, asking the timely question: What happens to the analytic encounter when technology mediates it? The conference features an outstanding panel of speakers, including Professor Alessandra Lemma, Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska, Professor Michael Chanan, Dr Kurt Jacobsen, Dr Bob Hinshelwood, Giuseppe Caruso and David Morgan, bringing together expertise from psychoanalysis, film, philosophy and the social sciences. Ideal for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, clinicians, academics, students and anyone interested in the intersection of AI, technology and the human mind. The conference will be recorded and available to registered participants for one week after the event.Date: 2026-11-21
Organiser: Institute of Psychoanalysis
Location: Institute of Psychoanalysis W9 2BT
Clinical Implications of Personality Organisation with Dr Nancy McWilliams: A four part series
Thursday 28 January 2027 - Thursday 29 April 2027. With Dr Nancy McWilliams. Nancy McWilliams has made a major and distinctive contribution to contemporary psychodynamic thinking by placing personality organisation at the centre of clinical understanding in a way that is unusually clear, clinically usable, and widely influential. In contrast to the primarily descriptive and symptom-focused nature of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, her work develops a structurally informed, inferential approach that resonates strongly with psychoanalytic traditions concerned with meaning, development, and the patient’s subjective world. Rather than treating diagnosis as categorisation, McWilliams foregrounds how personality develops relationally and is organised, how a person experiences self and other, manages affect, defends against anxiety, and maintains or loses reality testing. Her model of structural personality organisation, commonly articulated along neurotic, borderline, and psychotic levels, offers clinicians a way of thinking developmentally and dynamically about psychological functioning. It helps the therapist anticipate the likely transference–countertransference field and adjust technique accordingly, particularly in relation to stability of identity, defensive organisation, and capacity for symbolic reflection. Layered on this structural model, McWilliams’ elaboration of personality styles such as depressive, narcissistic, paranoid, schizoid, and others provides a clinically rich account of enduring patterns of affect regulation, relational expectation, and defensive adaptation. These are not treated as fixed “types,” but as meaningful configurations that reflect both early developmental necessity and ongoing psychic organisation. This series will have direct implications for psychotherapeutic technique. It will sharpen the clinician’s judgement about timing, interpretation, and support, particularly regarding when insight can be metabolised and when it may overwhelm or destabilise the patient. It also places significant emphasis on countertransference as a central instrument of understanding, aligning closely with contemporary relational and intersubjective developments in psychoanalysis. 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: 2027-01-28
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
2nd Annual Women's Mental Health Conference: The impact of physiology, hormones, cycles on mood and states of mind
The inaugural Women’s Mental Health Conference brought together clinicians and researchers from across the psychological and medical professions to explore the complex relationship between hormonal health, emotional life, and women’s mental wellbeing. Responding to a longstanding divide between mind and body approaches, the conference examined the menstrual cycle and menopause as biopsychosocial experiences requiring greater integration between psychotherapy, psychiatry, and medicine. Discussions highlighted how trauma, stress, hormonal change, and social factors such as stigma and misogyny can shape women’s psychological experiences across the lifespan. Speakers explored how menstrual and menopausal difficulties may be understood within broader psychodynamic and relational formulations, while also considering the importance of medical assessment and interdisciplinary collaboration in supporting women’s mental health. Following the success of the first conference, we are currently researching and developing the programme for our second Women’s Mental Health Conference, which will continue to expand these conversations through contemporary clinical, medical, and psychoanalytic perspectives. We are incorporating feedback from attendees into next year’s programme, with particular emphasis on deepening interdisciplinary dialogue, strengthening clinical applicability, and addressing emerging themes identified by participants. The forthcoming conference will continue to create a space for reflective and evidence-informed discussion around women’s mental health, bringing together professionals from psychotherapy, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, and related disciplines. Further details, speakers, and themes will be announced soon. Booking is available to secure your seat! Live attendance of this event may be booked online at https://trtogether.com/events/women-cyclical-states-inperson . Online attendance of this event may be booked online at https://trtogether.com/events/women-cyclical-states-online . For full event, pricing and CPD credit details and other events 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: 2027-04-24
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: TBC