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2025 CPD Conference

Gain full access to The Grove’s 2025 CPD Conference Recording, a rich resource for therapists, supervisors, and mental health professionals. This package includes the complete recordings of all four keynote talks, the full audience Q&A, and a downloadable brochure with exclusive conference-only offers. You’ll also receive the full slide decks from each presentation to support your learning, plus interactive elements to help you integrate the material into your practice.
Talks include:
Sex is dead, long live the relationship — Sarah Briggs
How full is your trauma toolkit? — Elliot Davis
Supervising trauma – supporting without absorbing — Ruthie Smith
Amber signs – clues to adult ADHD in your clients — Dr James Kustow
On completion, you’ll be awarded a 4-hour CPD certificate, confirming your professional development. Introduced and facilitated by renowned therapist and director Robert Rees.

The Wildness of The Body – Part 1

The Wildness of the Body – with Nick Totton & Robert Rees

Discover the raw, untamed wisdom of the body in this thought-provoking conversation with renowned therapist Nick Totton. Together with Robert Rees, Nick explores how wildness and embodied presence can transform therapeutic practice and healing.

Attendees described the event as “brilliant and thought-provoking,” “deeply affirming,” and “a breath of fresh air.” Over 300 therapists and practitioners from the UK and beyond joined live, with comments from as far afield as Thailand, France, South Africa and Lithuania.
This recording captures the full talk, reflections, and Q&A — offering inspiration and practical insight for anyone drawn to embodied, relational therapy.

The Wildness of The Body – Part 2

This webinar, the second in a series hosted by The Grove Practice, features psychotherapist Nick Totton discussing the wildness of the body in therapeutic practice. Totton defines wildness as spontaneous and embodied, and urges therapists to embody it themselves to invite clients into relational presence. The conversation covers neurodivergence, discharge over containment, working outdoors with "other-than-human people," spirituality in embodiment and political activism through therapy.

How green is your mind? With Robin Shohet and Robert Rees

When we think about the environment, we tend to focus on our carbon footprint. But what if the real challenge begins closer to home, within our own minds? This one-hour discussion with Robin Shohet and Robert Rees explores how our inner world affects the outer one. Learn a simple method to clear mental “pollution” and cultivate greater clarity and compassion.

Introduction to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

Join therapist and EFT master trainer Ashley Meyer for an illuminating introduction to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).

EFT, often known as ‘tapping’, has gained international recognition as a gentle, effective approach for working with anxiety, trauma, phobias, pain and self-limiting beliefs. A simple yet powerful method that combines elements of cognitive therapy and acupressure to help clients release emotional distress and restore balance to the nervous system.

ADHD Medication Unpacked: Making Informed Choices

A 60-minute webinar with Dr. James Kustow offering an evidence-based overview of ADHD medication. Learn how different medications work, what to expect from titration, common side effects, and how treatment fits alongside therapy and lifestyle strategies.

Unmasking The Somatic Super Syndrome and its link to neurodevelopmental presentations

In this eye-opening 1-hour talk, Dr. James Kustow—consultant psychiatrist and leading voice in integrative approaches to ADHD—invites you to go beyond the behavioural and neurological models of ADHD. He presents a systemic and somatic framework for understanding the condition in adults, drawing attention to a constellation of comorbidities too often overlooked in mainstream practice.

If you work with ADHD—or live with it—this talk will shift your perspective and expand your clinical toolkit.

Sleep Recovery: How to sleep better and help your clients too

Join Lisa Sanfilippo and Robert Rees for a one-hour training exploring the connection between sleep and mental health. Learn how to apply body-based tools from yoga therapy, breathwork, and polyvagal theory—plus gain a CPD certificate, slides, and an audio version to listen on the go.

Integrating Trauma Informed Embodied Practice

Hosted by Robert Rees & Tamsin Olivier

Most therapists can name the trauma responses — fight, flight, freeze, and fawn — but how often do we help clients feel different in their bodies?

In this recorded webinar, Robert Rees and Tamsin Olivier explore what it truly means to work with the body in trauma therapy. Moving beyond theory, they share grounded insights and practical somatic tools that support clients in building real experiences of safety, connection, and regulation.

Ideal for therapists, coaches, and healing practitioners looking to deepen their trauma-informed, body-based approach. Includes access to the recording and CPD certificate.

How to Thrive with Adult ADHD Webinar

How to Thrive with Adult ADHD is a 90-minute live webinar exploring practical strategies to manage and harness the strengths of ADHD in adulthood. Led by Dr. James Kustow and Robert Rees, this expert-led session delves into Dr James unique conceptualisation of ADHD, providing practical strategies for management and describes possible evidence of associated physical health co-morbidities.

How Therapy Tools Change Your Life

Therapy isn't just something we offer—it's something we live. Over time, the tools we use in the room begin to shape the way we move through the world: how we listen, how we respond, how we pause before reacting, how we hold space for others—and for ourselves.
In this honest and intimate conversation, Robert Rees, Ben Yalom, and Elliot Davis explore how the practices we teach become the quiet foundations of our own growth. From cultivating stillness to navigating triggers, this session is an invitation to reflect on what happens when therapy tools move from theory into everyday life—and change us along the way.

Hour of the Heart: Tools for Therapeutic Intimacy with Ben Yalom and Robert Rees

This moving and intimate session explored the deep terrain of therapeutic presence, vulnerability, and relational depth. Co-led by Ben Yalom, director and co-author of *Hour of the Heart* (written with his father, Dr. Irvin Yalom), and Robert Rees, psychotherapist and Director of The Grove, the conversation held space for honesty, humour, complexity, and connection. Participants joined from across the globe, representing 39 countries.

Discover Energy Psychotherapy: A New Paradigm for Healing

Ruthie Smith and Robert connect for a 90-minute workshop exploring the transformative field of Energy Psychotherapy. Drawing from ideas in Energy, Soul Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm (Karnak 2024), this talk introduces an innovative approach to psychotherapy that integrates body, mind, and energy alongside traditional talking therapy. As our planet undergoes a shift in consciousness, this paradigm offers empowering, self-applied energy psychology methods that clear trauma and dense frequencies, creating space for healing and transformation. Key topics include: The Consciousness Shift: From ego-driven 3D to heart-based 5D quantum consciousness, using higher consciousness to heal our everyday reality. The BodyMindEnergy System: Working with meridians, chakras, and thoughtfields to bring healing through subtle energy. Vibrational Reality: Understanding emotions through energy and frequency, and how raising our vibration leads to greater well-being. Trauma and Emotional Regulation: Using energy psychology methods to clear trauma and promote inner peace. Honoring Innate Goodness: Approaching therapy with the belief in clients’ fundamental wholeness and healing potential. Depth Psychotherapy: Addressing a range of issues including transpersonal trauma and overcoming therapeutic blockages. The workshop includes experiential exercises such as energy balancing and karate chop tapping, offering practical skills to take away for use with clients. Ruthie runs a 2-day Introduction to Energy Psychotherapy at The Grove, taught alongside Paul Croal and Suzie Wood. Join Ruthie for an enlightening session that brings a new dimension to the therapeutic process.