Two Bodies in the Room: Relational Body Psychotherapy

This webinar explores the Relational model, highlighting how two bodies co‑create the therapeutic relationship and how your own embodied responses can become vital clinical information.

The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 3 of 4
Friday 4th December
14:00-16:00 (UK)
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Event overview:

The Relational model treats embodied relating as the ground of all psychotherapy, including talking therapy. It attends closely to how the client’s and therapist’s bodies affect one another: how bodies cue each other into repeating familiar interactional scripts learned early in life, and how shifts in the body can mark genuine relational change.

Many therapists notice how differently they act, feel and even sit with different clients. In this 2‑hour webinar, we will use the Relational model to think more deeply about these differences, and about how our own bodily responses can be used to shape and direct the work. The ruling metaphor might be an improvised dance where neither partner leads, but the pattern is co‑constructed.

We will examine:

  • The Relational model as an embodied ground for all psychotherapy
  • How bodies co‑create and maintain interactional scripts in the consulting room
  • Using your own somatic responses as information, rather than background noise
  • Attending to power, difference and history in the embodied relationship
  • Practical ways to work with distance, posture, timing and micro‑movement in live relational process

Attention will be given to how structural power and marginalisation live in bodies, and how therapists can avoid re‑enacting these dynamics through unexamined embodied habits.

Clinical Takeaway

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

  • Describe the Relational model and why embodied relating is central to psychotherapy
  • Track and use embodied countertransference and co‑regulation as core clinical data
  • Work more intentionally with bodily patterns that repeat across your client relationships
  • Integrate questions of power, identity and history into embodied relational practice

This webinar forms part of The Body Psychotherapy Series

The Body Psychotherapy Series is a four‑part Grove Series CPD pathway with Nick Totton and Robert Rees, exploring adjustment, trauma discharge, relational and process‑oriented models of body psychotherapy.

Dates and times

All on Zoom, 14:00-16:00 (UK time)

  1. Freeing the Breath: Adjustment in Body Psychotherapy – purchase recording
  2. Releasing Held Pain: Trauma Discharge and the Body – 27th November 2026
  3. Two Bodies in the Room: Relational Body Psychotherapy – 4th December 2026
  4. Following the Process: Spontaneity and Wildness in Body Psychotherapy – 8th January 2027

About this event

  • Date:04 December 2026
  • Time:2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (2 CPD hours)
  • Fee:Starting from £30 (VAT included)
  • Location:Live on Zoom, recordings available for purchase
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Meet your hosts

Nick Totton is a pioneering body psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer, known for developing Embodied‑Relational Therapy and for his writing on Wild Therapy, embodied relating and the deconstruction of “normality” in psychotherapy. He is joined by Robert Rees, an experienced psychotherapist and trainer who has previously taught embodied and trauma‑focused approaches with The Grove.

Wildness, embodiment & CPD with Nick Totton

Nick Totton

Therapist, supervisor, author, trainer and workshop leader

A pioneering figure in embodied psychotherapy, and the role of the body in emotional healing.

Robert Rees

Chief Executive & Clinic Director

MUKCP MBACP

Upcoming Body Psychotherapy Series events
Body psychotherapy series with Nick Totton and Robert Rees

Releasing Held Pain: Trauma Discharge and the Body

This session focuses on the Trauma/Discharge model, showing how to recognise and safely support somatic release of stored survival energy without tipping clients into re‑traumatisation.

The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 2 of 4
Friday 27th November
14:00-16:00 (UK)

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Body psychotherapy series with Nick Totton and Robert Rees

Two Bodies in the Room: Relational Body Psychotherapy

This webinar explores the Relational model, highlighting how two bodies co‑create the therapeutic relationship and how your own embodied responses can become vital clinical information.

The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 3 of 4
Friday 4th December
14:00-16:00 (UK)

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Body psychotherapy series with Nick Totton and Robert Rees

Following the Process: Spontaneity and Wildness in Body Psychotherapy

This final session of four sessions looks at the Process‑oriented model, inviting you to follow spontaneous bodily process in the moment and trust the bodymind’s capacity for self‑organisation within a solid therapeutic frame.

The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 4 of 4
Friday 8th January
14:00-16:00 (UK)

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Event details

  • Date:04 December 2026
  • Time:2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (2 CPD hours)
  • Fee:Starting from £30 (VAT included)
  • Location:Live on Zoom, recordings available for purchase
Purchase tickets Do you have a question? Get in touch with a member of the team who will be happy to help

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