Two Bodies in the Room: Relational Body Psychotherapy

In-depth clinical learning on a key area of practice, guided by leading experts.

Event overview:

In most therapy trainings, relationship is framed cognitively and emotionally. Yet the relationship is also continuously negotiated through two bodies in a shared space.

Leaning in or away, breath synchrony or mismatch, subtle tension, averted gaze or a sudden impulse to move: all of these are part of the relational field. When we overlook this embodied dimension, we miss crucial information about attachment, power, desire, shame and safety.

This 2‑hour clinical webinar explores relational body psychotherapy: how to work explicitly with the embodied dynamics between therapist and client.

You’ll learn to include your own bodily responses as data, while attending to difference, boundaries and consent.

We will examine:

• How two bodies co‑create the therapeutic field moment‑to‑moment
• Embodied countertransference: using your sensations, impulses and posture as information
• Somatic signs of attunement and mis‑attunement in the relationship
• The impact of social difference (race, gender, disability, class, sexuality) on the body in therapy
• How to negotiate proximity, movement and stillness with explicit consent

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:

• Track embodied relational cues in both yourself and your clients
• Work more consciously with embodied countertransference in session
• Bring the body into relational conversations in a respectful, consent‑led way
• Integrate social, political and identity dynamics into embodied relational work
• Make more intentional use of distance, posture and movement in the therapy room

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.

Pricing and booking options

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).

To only purchase selected events, follow the links below to visit each event page, or click here to go directly to the purchase page.

Dates and times

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

1. Freeing the Breath: Adjustment in Body Psychotherapy – 6th November 2026
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