This session focuses on “trauma discharge”, how shock and overwhelm are held in the body, and how therapists can safely support release without re‑traumatising. You’ll learn to recognise somatic signs of activation and shutdown, and to work with movement, breath and sequence so that clients can complete unfinished defensive responses.
The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 2 of 4
Friday 27th November
14:00-16:00 (UK)
In-depth clinical learning on a key area of practice, guided by leading experts.
Trauma is often spoken about in terms of narrative, meaning and memory. Yet it is equally, and sometimes primarily, a problem of what the body still cannot complete.
Freezing, bracing, collapse and chronic agitation reveal survival responses that never had room to finish. These patterns can keep clients cycling between overwhelm, shutdown and apparent “stability” that actually rests on dissociation.
This 2‑hour clinical webinar focuses on “trauma discharge” within body psychotherapy – how to support the safe release and integration of stored survival energy, without forcing catharsis or re‑traumatising your client.
You’ll learn to track activation and settling in the body, and to work with movement, breath, sound and micro‑discharges in the context of a stable therapeutic relationship.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
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.
You can book this event on its own for £30 (optional CPD & recording purchase available), choose selected sessions, or purchase the full series as a bundled CPD course for a discounted rate of £120 (includes CPD certificates and recordings).
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All on Zoom, 14:00-16:00 (UK time)
The Body Psychotherapy Series offers concise, bitesize CPD, with four 2-hour sessions spread across the year.
Over four live webinars, Nick Totton and Robert Rees will explore how any therapist, regardless of primary modality, can weave the essence of body psychotherapy into their day‑to‑day practice. Across the series, we will study four distinct but interlocking models of body psychotherapy - adjustment, trauma discharge, relational and process‑oriented ways of working - each of which may be most helpful at different points in the therapeutic journey.
Introducing the “adjustment” model of body psychotherapy, focusing on how breath, posture and movement both reflect and reshape a client’s inner world. You’ll explore practical, trauma‑sensitive ways to work with constriction and holding patterns so that clients can experience more space, flexibility and aliveness in therapy.
The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 1 of 4
Friday 6th November
14:00-16:00 (UK)
This session focuses on “trauma discharge”, how shock and overwhelm are held in the body, and how therapists can safely support release without re‑traumatising. You’ll learn to recognise somatic signs of activation and shutdown, and to work with movement, breath and sequence so that clients can complete unfinished defensive responses.
The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 2 of 4
Friday 27th November
14:00-16:00 (UK)
This webinar explores relational body psychotherapy: how therapy is always happening between two bodies, and how the therapist’s somatic responses can become a vital source of information and intervention. You’ll learn to attend to the embodied relational field, including race, gender, ability and other differences, in ways that deepen connection and support more just practice.
The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 3 of 4
Friday 4th December
14:00-16:00 (UK)
This final webinar focuses on a process‑oriented, “wild” approach to body psychotherapy: following what arises spontaneously in the moment rather than imposing fixed techniques. You’ll explore how to welcome bodily impulses, gestures and movements into the work while maintaining enough structure and safety.
The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 4 of 4
Friday 8th January
14:00-16:00 (UK)
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.
Nick Totton is a pioneering figure in the field of embodied psychotherapy.
Dip (Psych, Trauma, Supvn) MUKCP MBACP
Friday 11 September 2026
12:30–17:30 in person (London) | 13:00–17:00 online
A half-day of live learning, real connection and focused CPD to deepen your clinical practice. If you value thoughtful, clinically grounded CPD in a warm, professional community, this afternoon is for you. This conference is designed for practitioners who want to keep their work sharp, ethical and alive.
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