2026
Monday 16th March from 7 to 9pm (UK)
Dr. Christine Dunkley - DBT Emotion regulation in action
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is a treatment for problematic behaviours such as suicidality and self-harm, addictions, disordered eating, behaviours associated with adolescence, and offending behaviours. A core conceptualisation in DBT is that of moving away from a focus on cognition, to address the inability of clients their to regulate emotion. In this Webinar Dr Christine Dunkley, consultant DBT trainer will demonstrate how this is done.
Dr CHRISTINE DUNKLEY DClinP began her career as a medical social worker in 1982, specialising in trauma. She spent 30 years in the NHS, having trained in person centred therapy and DBT, and attained a doctorate from The University of Southampton School of Health Sciences. She has written numerous articles, chapters and books and is a popular speaker at conferences and events in America, New Zealand, Eastern and Central Europe, and the Arab states. Her Books 'Regulating Emotion the DBT Way' has been well received in circles much broader that the DBT community. She was the co-founder and first chair of the Society for DBT, and received a fellowship from the Society in 2016.
Monday 15th June from 7 to 9pm (UK)
Christiane Sanderson - How to Become a Wise Neurodiverse Practitioner
Many clients enter therapy without realising their challenges may be linked to ADHD or Autism. Practitioners, often lacking specific neurodiversity training, may focus on obvious symptoms or familiar diagnoses without considering possible neurodivergence. This is further complicated by overlaps with conditions such as PTSD, C-PTSD, OCD, Depression, Anxiety, and Personality Disorders, or where clients experience multiple neurodivergent traits.
In this webinar we will deepen awareness of neurodiversity and the lived experience of neurodivergent adults. We will explore misconceptions and stereotypes, the challenges of undiagnosed or misdiagnosed individuals, and the links between neurodivergence and mental health co-morbidities including trauma symptoms, emotional dysregulation, anxiety, depression, shame, self-medication, and isolation.
Focusing on ADHD and Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) in adults, participants will learn to recognise underlying traits, understand masking behaviours, and identify overlaps with trauma and PTSD/C-PTSD symptoms. Emphasis will be placed on building practitioner confidence when working with clients experiencing both neurodivergence and mental health challenges.
Practitioners will be encouraged to integrate Neurodivergent Affirmative, Trauma-Informed, and Shame-Sensitiveapproaches into their preferred modality to foster self-compassion, reduce shame, and mitigate the effects of stigma and marginalisation.
We will also explore how to create neurodivergent-friendly therapeutic spaces that support sensory, communication, and visual needs. Participants will gain tools to empower clients to understand, accept, and embrace their neurodivergence without judgement or masking. Practitioners will learn to be more attuned, inclusive, and confident in supporting neurodiverse clients.
CHRISTIANE SANDERSON is a former senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton, of London with over 35 years of experience working in the field of childhood sexual abuse, sexual violence and complex trauma. She has delivered advice and training for parents, teachers, social workers, nurses, therapists, counsellors, the police and faith communities. Her research interests span trauma informed therapeutic practice, PTSD, Complex Trauma, CSA, domestic abuse and Narcissism. She is the author of We Are Still Here: What Counsellors and Therapists Can learn from the Lived Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse Survivors; Working with Survivors of Sibling Sexual Abuse: A Guide to Therapeutic Support and Protection for Children and Adults; Counselling Skills for Working with Shame; Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma: Healing from Child Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse; Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 3rd edition; Counselling Survivors of Domestic Abuse; The Seduction of Children: Empowering Parents and Teachers to Protect Children from Child Sexual Abuse, and Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She has also written The Warrior Within: A One in Four Handbook to Aid Recovery from Sexual Violence 4th Edition; The Spirit Within: A One in Four Handbook to Aid Recovery from Religious Sexual Abuse Across All Faiths; Responding to Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: A pocket guide for professionals, partners, families and friends, and Numbing the Pain: A pocket guide for professionals supporting survivors of childhood sexual abuse and addiction for the charity One in Four for whom she is a trustee.
Monday 28th September from 7 top 9pm (UK)
Gaye Donaldson - Systemic Constellation Work - how working with the whole system creates movement, growth and resolution in so many unexpected ways
Join us for an introduction to Systemic Constellation Work, its uses, orientation, and the principles that underpin practice. Systemic or family Constellations was developed by the German philosopher and psychotherapist Bert Hellinger in the 1980. It offers a solution-focused, whole-system approach to addressing personal, societal, ecological, creative and organisational issues. The Centre for Systemic Constellations was established in 2000 as the first constellation school in the UK. Since then the work has developed and evolved into one of the most dynamic and moving methodologies of our time. This talk will focus primarily on using the approach with personal and family issues and will address the impact and influence of trans-generational patterns. These can be seen by gathering phenomenological, field-based data that enables the facilitator to 'find the story that is big enough to make a difference’. Exploring the complete story often unlocks so many seemingly intractable issues for clients in their relational world and wider systems. The talk will include an overview of the development of the work since its inception , and how practice is evolving to meet the client’s needs in our rapidly changing world
GAYE DONALDSON is a systemic constellations facilitator, trainer and consultant. She has worked in the community and the private sector. Gaye has been a student and practitioner of the systemic constellation approach since 1994, training extensively in both family and organisational constellations in the UK and abroad. As well as running workshops, groups and seeing clients, she has used the Constellation approach in conflict resolution in the Middle East, in many film and theatre projects, and she also works with horses and the land. Gaye is Strategy Director and Senior Faculty Member of the Centre for Systemic Constellations, teaching the work at foundation and advanced levels. She is a student of the Diamond Heart approach and is based in the South West of England where she has children, grand-children and a herd of Icelandic horses. She travels both nationally and internationally facilitating her workshops and teaching,
Monday 16th November from 7 to 9pm (UK)
Juliet Greyson - Where Innocence Was Broken: Using Pesso Boyden Psychotherapy to Heal After Trauma
Trauma ruptures more than safety. It fractures attachment, distorts boundaries, and leaves implicit memory carrying what words alone cannot reach. In this clinically grounded and deeply compassionate talk, Juliet Grayson demonstrates how Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor Psychotherapy offers a precise and structured pathway for repairing attachment at its roots.
Rather than relying solely on insight or narrative processing, PBSP works directly with embodied memory, unmet developmental needs, and the absence of protection that should have been there. In a carefully held group setting, structured role-play and Ideal Figures are used to symbolically provide the protection, boundaries and care that were missing. Through sequenced, embodied corrective experiences, new internal reference points can begin to form at a foundational level. Clients may internalise safety, protection and rightful indignation in ways that feel lived rather than merely understood.
This session is for therapists who sense that stabilisation and insight are not always enough. You will be invited to consider the possibilities of structural healing: work that addresses the client’s underlying attachment template and implicit relational blueprint, not just their symptoms. By the end, you will have reflected deeply on how such interventions can be created ethically, precisely and with containment, and how this approach might sit alongside your own clinical practice.
Juliet will use short video clips of client work to bring the model vividly to life. Please note that, due to confidentiality and consent considerations, these clips will not be included in the recorded version of the talk.
JULIET GREYSON is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, couples therapist, supervisor and international trainer with over 30 years of clinical experience. She is known for her depth of work with couples, sexual complexity and attachment trauma, bringing clarity, compassion and clinical precision to the therapy room. Juliet has a particular passion for Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor Psychotherapy (PBSP), leading experiential workshops in the model and integrating it into both individual and couples work as a structured and powerful approach to repairing attachment at its roots.
She is the author of Landscapes of the Heart: The working world of a sex and relationship therapist. Juliet lives in South Wales, where she balances clinical practice, PBSP experiential workshops, teaching, writing, and the restorative rhythms of countryside life. She curates award-winning CPD workshops for therapists across the world.
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