Two Bodies in the Room: Relational Body Psychotherapy

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

Event overview:

The Body Psychotherapy Series

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.

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).

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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