Includes CaPPP CPD workshop on Stabilisation in Trauma Treatment with Ben Gatty Workshop: Stabilisation in Trauma Treatment This workshop will combine theory and experiential elements to highlight some of the nuances of working to resource someone who has been significantly traumatised. Given the prevalence of psychological trauma for the therapy seeking community, the topic can... Read more »
CaPPP CPD workshop with Micheal Connors and team from the Natural Academy Workshop: Deepening Our Therapeutic Practice through Nature and the Natural Self Description: Members of the teaching team from Natural Academy and developers of The Grenian Ecotherapy hub at Ham Green near Bristol, will draw on the Natural Self Ecotherapy (NSET) model, developed by... Read more »
CaPPP CPD event Saturday 13th September 2025 - 10.00am to 5.00pm Watch a video by Allan: https://youtube.com/shorts/7nhxBVLm6iI?feature=share Join author Allan Frater and learn an image-based approach to psychotherapy Allan is a psychotherapist with a long-term research interest in story and imagination – which came to fruition in his 2021 book, ‘Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy &... Read more »
CaPPP CPD workshop with Katina Noble I will present a model of working short term, which explores and combines different ways to work in depth with our clients. We will look at the influence of David Malan, Jennifer Elton-Wilson and Gertrude Mander among others. I will present their different approaches, and we will also work... Read more »
CaPPP CPD - Beyond self-care: a workshop for all counsellors who wish to consider work / life balanceWe are excited to be offering this unique CPD – the focus is on our capacity as therapists and the direct effect of this on our clients. We are offering an experiential, insightful day exploring the concept of... Read more »
A Counselling & Psychotherapy Perspective on Intersections of Privilege & OthernessSince 2020, when the world moved into Lockdown because of the Corona Virus, it seems that there has been a massive shift in our awareness and our approaches to issues of equality, diversity, privilege, and otherness. The deaths of George Floyd and Sarah Everard, together... Read more »
CaPPP CPD Event Susie Orbach discusses her life in therapy and Brett Kahr's new book in honour of Susie's pioneering work: "Expanding Psychoanalysis The Contributions of Susie Orbach" Programme 10.00am Registration and refreshments, and an opportunity for members to network 11.00am Prompt start. Susie speaks about her life and career as a therapist and Brett... Read more »
Includes CaPPP CPD workshop with Natasha WilsonWorkshop: Integrating or Transitioning to Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Natasha WilsonDescription: This experiential workshop aims to appeal to practitioners new to Internal Family Systems (IFS) and those who are beginning to integrate IFS into their practice as well as experienced practitioners who wish to further develop their work.... Read more »
Learning about Trans livesA full day of learning about trans lives, featuring people who are trans and shared experiences of trans individuals.ObjectivesTo give attendees insight into the delights and difficulties trans people experience in trying to live their authentic lives.To promote understanding of trans identities and how to support trans people.To explore the common misconceptions... Read more »
Creating a neuro-affirming practiceNeurodiversity. More and more people are using the word. Some with a depth of knowledge and lived experience. But for many, it’s still relatively new and comes with snippets of understanding pieced together from a wide range of sources that vary in reliability and helpfulness.This day-long training will provide a coherent and... Read more »
CaPPP CPD event Saturday 17th February 2024‘It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self’.D.W. Winnicott ‘Playing & Reality’, 1971,The play theorist Brian Sutton Smith asks,... Read more »
CaPPP Online eventComplaints: Therapists supporting TherapistsA question and answer session and discussion on complaints and the member support work of the PCU after a brief introduction. With Sasha Kaplin, PCU Member Support Coordinator, and Ruth Jones, Regional Rep for South West and Wales Branch.We are delighted to be hosting this online introduction to the work... Read more »
Includes CaPPP CPD event with Nicola JonesWorkshop: How an Attachment-Informed Approach Can Make Our Inner Worlds Visible Description: John Bowlby found that our first and most fundamental need is to connect to our parents (primary caregivers) and that this need, aka the attachment or careseeking system, exists from “cradle to grave.’ The corollary of this... Read more »
Dialoguing with sub-personalities to heal the childhood woundsThis workshop introduces Internal Family Systems (IFS) - a radical new style of individual psychotherapy which is rapidly growing in popularity around the world. Internationally renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk (author of ‘The Body Keeps the Score’) has described it as ‘the treatment method which all... Read more »
CaPPP CPD event in-person Saturday 18th March 2023 Weight stigma, fatphobia and diet culture in the therapy room: how to work respectfully with clients of every size with Cat Chappell and Jo Reader A safe, nourishing, interactive and empowering space to help you reflect on how you feel about your own body and how to... Read more »
CaPPP CPD event in-person Saturday 19th November 2022 from 10.00 to 16.30 Gender reassignment involves a fundamental lifestyle change. While many clients seeking gender reassignment have a clear understanding of when they first felt uncomfortable in their birth gender, and have a clear expectation what life will be like for them after gender reassignment surgery... Read more »
CaPPP CPD event Saturday 15th October 2022 at Engineer's House This experiential workshop is an invitation to CaPPP members to take time out of their busy lives supporting others to experience creative and expressive writing as a source of care and nourishment for themselves. Led by therapeutic writing facilitator and counsellor Rachel Hawkins-Crockford, the day... Read more »
CaPPP Member's Free Annual Gathering and 20th Anniversary Celebration Yes! CaPPP is 20 years old, to mark our anniversary this year’s annual gathering is going to be a good one - a day of free, high quality CPD, networking and a celebration lunch for members – and yes, there will be cake! We are lucky... Read more »
CaPPP CPD in-person & online What racial differences impose on our minds and bodies as individuals and collectively as a society is demanding and complex. Social change begins with a conversation, but the challenge is often simply to remain coherent in our thinking, and often there is a feeling of being under-resourced to stay with... Read more »
CaPPP CPD event Saturday 23rd April 2022 at St Michael's CentreA one-day workshop for therapists offering practical know how. We will look at basic techniques as well as exploring some theoretical ideas about working with dreams. Among other things we will:• Explore the different kinds of dreams and pay attention to how we notice that.•... Read more »
CaPPP Online CPDThis is an introductory workshop exploring gender diversity, which aims to increase awareness of gender diversity and the roles we can take in supporting people who are trans, gender diverse and/or gender non-conforming. Who is this workshop for? This workshop is for anyone who wants to understand more about gender diversity and how... Read more »
CaPPP Online CPD The therapeutic dyad is, among other things, a space where two people struggle over narratives about what is happening now, what has happened in the past, and what may happen in the future. Each person inherently has one vote; so each has a natural incentive to try to make their vote count... Read more »
CaPPP Online CPD This event will illustrate how to understand and work with more shut-down states, such as those seen after trauma, neglect and learned helplessness. The talk addresses not only trauma, but emotional flatness and lack of energy, the variety of forms this can take, and how to come back to life after it.... Read more »
CaPPP CPD Event This is a fast-paced active relational model, mainly informed by the work of David Malan, Gertrude Mander and Angela Molnos, among others. In the present economic climate, with new clients able to afford fewer sessions and with less funding for organisations who offer free or low-cost counselling, counselling sessions are often limited... Read more »
CaPPP CPD Event A rare opportunity to spend the day with one of the leading figures in the world of psychotherapy, Susie Orbach. Susie is one of the most well-known psychoanalysts of our time. Her eloquent and yet continually pressing thoughts and insights on women, feminism, bodies, food, relationships and the climate crisis have entered... Read more »