Psychotherapy CPD Events

Welcome to our events listings page, giving you a comprehensive schedule of psychotherapy, counselling and psychology CPD events, which is frequently updated directly by all the top providers. Events are sorted by month and cover a range of topics from depression and eating disorders to PTSD and self-harm. Have a browse, or the use the search function below to find your next CPD event.

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The Rewind Technique: Effective treatment for trauma (PTSD) and phobias

Essential skill for all mental health professionals. The refined version of the Rewind Technique you will learn on this 2-day workshop is an extremely safe and reliably effective psychological intervention for treating trauma and phobias. - Accredited CPD Certificate - Counts towards Part 1 of the Human Givens Diploma - Includes course notes and lunch - Pay in 3 interest free payments with PayPal - Enjoy 10% OFF by booking 5 or more events. If you have any questions, or if you would like to book over the phone please call us on +44(0)1323 811690. We're looking forward to seeing you at this event.

Date: 2024-03-19

Organiser: Human Givens College

Location: live online via Zoom

How to help troubled and troublesome teenagers

The programme is varied and intensive, yet lively with a strong focus on gaining skills. It clarifies what healthy teenage development looks like, why things can go wrong and the best ways to help young people overcome obstacles and begin to create lives for themselves that work well. Accredited CPD Certificate Recording included Pay in 3 interest-free payments with PayPal Live tutor Q&A The Zoom link will be sent to you (technical support is also available) ENJOY 10% OFF with discount code TOWN10

Date: 2024-03-19

Organiser: Human Givens College

Location: live online via Zoom

Guided Imagery II – essential techniques

The guided imagery and visualisation techniques you will learn on this workshop are essential for helping people successfully overcome depression, addictions, anxiety and more…. - Accredited CPD Certificate - Counts towards Part 1 of the Human Givens Diploma - Includes course notes and lunch - Pay in 3 interest free payments with PayPal - Enjoy 10% OFF by booking 5 or more events. If you have any questions, or if you would like to book over the phone please call us on +44(0)1323 811690. We're looking forward to seeing you at this event.

Date: 2024-03-21

Organiser: Human Givens College

Location: Broadway House Tothill Street London SW1H 9NQ

Couples Therapy with Orna Guralnik

4:00 pm - 6:30 pm. Focus: Holding the frame - with Orna and Colleagues. With Orna Guralnik, Nuar Alsadir, Ken Corbett, Kali Cyrus & Eyal Rozmarin. In the acclaimed television series "Couples Therapy," clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, Orna Guralnik, takes viewers on an intimate journey into the complexities of couples' relationships and how to support change through psychotherapy. In this online webinar, Orna will be joined by her peer supervision group to reflect on casework. Orna will present two cases from the show including Sean & Erica and Christine & Nadine, whose backgrounds are outlined below. Both cases offer an opportunity to think about relationship dynamics underpinned by cultural differences, including religion, ethnicity, race and gender, and how these factors intersect. The importance of taking an intersectional and transcultural approach to think about the couples’ presenting problems will be central to the discussion. The impact of the therapist’s and peer supervision group’s own cultural perspectives will be considered. From a technical perspective, we will think about countertransference responses related to intercultural and relational dynamics, and the essential need for depth exploration in supervision to understand what might support development for the couple. Orna will present each couple, the peer supervision group will respond. We will then open up for live discussion with participants. For full event, CPD credit and subscriber discount details, see https://trtogether.com

Date: 2024-03-22

Organiser: TR Together

Location: Online via Zoom

Complex Trauma: how to work effectively with challenging cases

This practical workshop covers the unique challenges of working with complex trauma cases and gives you clear guidance on the most effective ways to help. - Accredited CPD Certificate - Counts towards Part 1 of the Human Givens Diploma - Includes course notes and lunch - Pay in 3 interest free payments with PayPal - Enjoy 10% OFF by booking 5 or more events. If you have any questions, or if you would like to book over the phone please call us on +44(0)1323 811690. We're looking forward to seeing you at this event.

Date: 2024-03-22

Organiser: Human Givens College

Location: Broadway House Tothill Street London SW1H 9NQ

Trauma Awareness Training: Patterns of the past

Recovery is possible – understanding is key Understanding what causes PTSD symptoms, how our brains and bodies react to distressing events and what makes us vulnerable to becoming traumatised, are all key to successful recovery. This knowledge creates a firm foundation on which to build successful coping strategies and clarifies what needs to happen to enable successful self-help and recovery. During the day you will also gain a clear understanding of how to spot the ‘early warning signs’ of trauma, before they go on to affect further areas of someone’s life, which red-flag signs indicate that it is time to seek professional help, and how trauma specialists are able to help people recover, from even the most difficult times, effectively – and lots more. Accredited CPD Certificate Recording included Pay in 3 interest-free payments with PayPal Live tutor Q&A The Zoom link will be sent to you (technical support is also available) ENJOY 10% OFF with discount code TOWN10

Date: 2024-04-16

Organiser: Human Givens College

Location: live online via Zoom

How to Control Chronic Anxiety – the practical skills you need

High levels of anxiety can be very debilitating – this workshop gives you important insights and a wide range of proven techniques to help reduce long-term anxiety, panic attacks, GAD and much more… - Accredited CPD Certificate - Counts towards Part 1 of the Human Givens Diploma - Includes course notes and lunch - Pay in 3 interest free payments with PayPal - Enjoy 10% OFF by booking 5 or more events. If you have any questions, or if you would like to book over the phone please call us on +44(0)1323 811690. We're looking forward to seeing you at this event.

Date: 2024-04-17

Organiser: Human Givens College

Location: Broadway House Tothill Street London SW1H 9NQ

How to lift depression – the practical skills you need

Discover how to combine key new insights into the causes and symptoms of depression with a range of powerful psychological techniques to make treatment easier and more consistently effective… - Accredited CPD Certificate - Counts towards Part 1 of the Human Givens Diploma - Includes course notes and lunch - Pay in 3 interest free payments with PayPal - Enjoy 10% OFF by booking 5 or more events. If you have any questions, or if you would like to book over the phone please call us on +44(0)1323 811690. We're looking forward to seeing you at this event.

Date: 2024-04-17

Organiser: Human Givens College

Location: Broadway House Tothill Street London SW1H 9NQ

The Confusional Link: Exploring Early Relational Trauma, Fusion and Infinity in Psychotherapy

With Judy Eekhof Working with patients who have been traumatized as infants and young children can be confusing for the therapist who is accustomed to working in the symbolic order. In order to cope with traumatic, psychic overwhelm, these patients have retreated from object relations and continue to relate to others concretely as things or functions. Their relations are body relations, consisting of unconscious symbiotic union with others. Since often trauma survivors become adept in the world, often well educated and finding professional jobs, their concreteness and difficulty processing emotion may go unnoticed. There can be a display of pseudo-maturity and pseudo-object relations. For therapists and analysts working the somatic relational process in therapeutic work with this traumatized client group can be confusing and disorienting. Analysts and therapists frequently report confusion by not being able to find meaning in a patient’s words or emotion and in their narratives. This confusion is uncomfortable and frightening, sometimes eliciting in the analyst a need for an immediate answer, an immediate understanding. When that does not appear in the analyst’s confused mind, unmediated affect such as rage or extreme maternal care, intense love or violent hate, can arise inside the analyst. These experiences contribute to the confusion and disturbance, while the violent affects and emotions seemingly create an illusion of certainty. This seminar will offer an opportunity to think about how the therapist or analyst can learn to value this confusion as information. This challenging process can give rise to the containment of previously unrepresented experience which can result in the development of a three-dimensional analytic space and be internalized by the patient for a successful outcome. Through the seminar there will be lectures and time for Q&A with our speaker and colleagues. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com

Date: 2024-04-19

Organiser: TR Together

Location: Online via Zoom

Effective Pain Management (Accredited live online CPD training)

Help with chronic pain – learn the powerful psychological and behavioural techniques that alleviate persistent pain and accelerate healing with pain specialist Dr Grahame Brown. This online workshop – with leading pain and musculoskeletal medicine consultant Dr Grahame Brown – gives you important new information about how we experience pain – derived from the latest neuroscience – and a powerful range of psychological techniques for managing pain naturally, preventing it from escalating and speeding up healing. You will discover how people can be helped out of the vicious cycle of chronic pain and how, by working holistically through the bio-psycho-social model, suffering can be dramatically reduced. Accredited CPD Certificate Recording included Pay in 3 interest-free payments with PayPal Live tutor Q&A The Zoom link will be sent to you (technical support is also available) ENJOY 10% OFF with discount code TOWN10

Date: 2024-04-24

Organiser: Human Givens College

Location: live online via Zoom

British Psychoanalytical Society, Edinburgh Conference The Dynamics of Influence

A day conference organised by the British Psychoanalytical Society, to explore the influence the patient and the analyst have on each other, the understanding of which has implications for both the clinical situation and beyond. Three senior psychoanalysts will give papers followed by discussion with the chair and the audience.

Date: 2024-04-27

Organiser: The Institute of Psychoanalysis

Location: 11 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ

The Therapeutic Power of Language – a psychotherapy skills masterclass

The language we use has a huge impact on others – on this practical, inspiring course you will learn how to combine solution-focused techniques and effective language skills to help relieve distress and improve outcomes, as quickly as possible… - Accredited CPD Certificate - Counts towards Part 1 of the Human Givens Diploma - Includes course notes and lunch - Pay in 3 interest free payments with PayPal - Enjoy 10% OFF by booking 5 or more events. If you have any questions, or if you would like to book over the phone please call us on +44(0)1323 811690. We're looking forward to seeing you at this event.

Date: 2024-04-30

Organiser: Human Givens College

Location: Broadway House Tothill Street London SW1H 9NQ

Sex in the Brain: A Neuropsychosexual Approach to Love and Intimacy

Karnac Author series. With Janice Hiller. This 2 hour workshop will offer an overview of what happens in neural pathways during the development of romantic and sexual relationships. Janice Hiller will describe the brain processes underpinning couple relationships and sexual behaviour, drawing on recent neuroscientific research. Feelings of attachment, desire, and exhilaration at the start of a relationship are common, but pleasure during physical contact, and levels of emotional connectedness, frequently change over time, causing considerable distress. Positive and negative experiences between partners can now be described in terms of hormonal release and brain activation. In this talk Janice will demonstrate how neuroscience can be integrated with psychotherapy, to provide a “neuropsychosexual” perspective, which, in her view, can enhance our current therapy techniques. Advanced imaging procedures and hormone testing methods offer fascinating insights into what happens in the brain during intimate couple interactions. Why is sex often much more enjoyable at the start, and why do endings hurt so much? What brain factors underpin sex outside the committed relationship, and what brain changes occur in parents after childbirth? Is sex an essential part of long-term relationships or can partners stay together contentedly without physical intimacy? Neurobiological research offers some answers to these questions. A neuropsychosexual approach can add valuable insights, and influence clinical work both subtly and directly, when clients are struggling with intimacy. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com

Date: 2024-05-10

Organiser: TR Together

Location: Online via Zoom

The 10 Windsor Walk International Therapeutic Playgroup Conference

This conference will focus on psychoanalytically informed playgroups for babies, toddlers and their parents. Held in collaboration with the Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Austrian Cultural Forum.

Date: 2024-05-18

Organiser: The Institute of Psychoanalysis

Location: 10 Windsor Walk, SE5 8BB

Working with Dissociative Clients

Clinical Insights from Valerie Sinason. Working with dissociation is complex, and an area that requires a trauma-informed approach. In this comprehensive live webinar, Valeria Sinason will help us to grapple with difficult but fundamental questions including ‘what is trauma in the first place?’, ‘how do we respond to it?’ and ‘why do we dissociate?’ to increase confidence in working with dissociative, traumatised states therapeutically. In many cases, dissociation can be a natural response to help us navigate the stresses of daily life, when it does not feel safe to be fully present. For example, we might ‘zone out’ when we are bombarded with devastating news stories on social media. Or we might ‘compartmentalise’ when we are faced with the disappointment of a rejection. But dissociation is also a response to trauma, neglect and abuse, which may often start in childhood and results in neurological changes in the brain. In many cases, it can take on more severe forms, such as depersonalisation and derealisation. In cases of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), people can experience fragmented ego states. Research demonstrates a person’s attachment patterns can impact the severity of the dissociative states they experience. Overall, we can think of dissociative states as a set of related mental phenomena. Understanding the mechanisms of those affected by major states of dissociation, such as DID, can inform us about less severe states of dissociation, and vice versa. While dissociation is an adaptation to protect us in traumatic circumstances, it becomes problematic when it continues to be used after the experience of ‘trauma’ has ended, and a person becomes stuck in a dissociative state. So how do we build therapeutic relationships that can empower clients to revisit their unbearable experiences in a way that is tolerable, and help them to exist more in the ‘present’, without risk of re-experiencing trauma or re-entering severe dissociative states? Valerie will share her wealth of experience and expertise in traumatology, including case examples, to provide strategies and ideas for working with dissociation effectively and compassionately in practice. There will be time for questions and discussion after each session. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com

Date: 2024-06-14

Organiser: TR Together

Location: Online via Zoom

ADHD & ADD in Adult Psychotherapy

ADHD & ADD in Adult Psychotherapy: Hidden neurodivergence that can mislead the clinician and short-change the patient. With Phil Mollon. Most psychotherapists will at some point have clients who have ADHD or related forms of neurodivergence but many will be unaware of the nature of these conditions that are part of the neurobiological template. Although the name directs a focus on a disorder of attention, this is not the main problem. ADHD is condition of deficit in the brain’s regulation of itself resulting in impulsivity, difficulties in affect regulation, outbursts of rage, states of anxiety and panic, and moods of depression. ADHD can be a core condition giving rise to the spectrum that attracts a diagnosis of ‘borderline personality disorder’. There are overlaps and comorbidity with autistic spectrum, addictive personalities, and bipolar. The person with ADHD has an enhanced need for empathic responsiveness from others to assist in regulating their own brain and emotions. The genetically inherited ADHD characteristics of the person’s developing brain interact with the environment, often in ways that result in profound pain for both families and the individual. If that person subsequently sees a psychotherapist who does not understand the nature of the problem, the feelings of shame and despair are intensified. Any attempt to understand the ADHD characteristics purely in terms of psychodynamics will be futile and misleading. Instead, the focus can more usefully be upon helping the person understand their basic temperament, their sensitivities and needs, and how their personality has been shaped by the interplay of neurobiology and the family, school, and peer environment. Shame is often a key feature of the ADHD experience. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com

Date: 2024-06-21

Organiser: TR Together

Location: Online via Zoom

Contented Couples: Magic, Logic or Luck?

Karnac Author series. With Anne Power. This two-hour event will look at the ingredients that contribute to a contented couple. It will comprise a forty-five-minute talk, followed by a discussion and then a workshop using breakout rooms. We will think about the factors operating in partners at the selection stage as well as the behaviours which sustain or undermine the couple during the following years and decades. Anne will be speaking from an attachment theory perspective. We will look at unconscious processes in partner choice as well as thinking about selection in different traditions – arranged marriage and forms of quasi-arrangement through agencies and other channels. The talk will draw on interviews with long term self-proclaimed contented couples drawn from Anne’s book research. These couples include gay and straight pairs as well as those from different faith groups. After outlining the ingredients, we see in successful couples, Anne will look at what makes it hard for some people to form and sustain couple relationships and consider what therapists working with individuals can do to help. How does early attachment impact our readiness for relationship? How come some very insecure people can manage relationships? What can therapy do to prepare people for becoming part of a couple? For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com

Date: 2024-07-05

Organiser: TR Together

Location: Online via Zoom

The Couple through the Life Cycle

The Couple through the Life Cycle: Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy International Summer School 2024. Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - Friday, July 19, 2024, 10am to 5pm each day. The Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Summer School is for 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. In order to join this course, you will need to apply by filling out the application form below. This course will explore the challenges to the couple relationship at key points in the life cycle; the developmental obstacles to the capacity to form and sustain intimate relationships, the difficulties of parenthood, and the move from two to three or more, the capacity to survive challenging life events, including illness, and, later in the life cycle, the difficulties inherent in retirement and old age. 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 the cost of a theatre ticket to a London show, which will be attended as a group on the Wednesday evening, and discussed in a seminar the following day. Seminars and clinical discussion groups will be led by experienced members of Tavistock Relationships. The programme is currently in development and will be available in March. For full event, application, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com

Date: 2024-07-16

Organiser: TR Together

Location: Online via Zoom

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