The Body Psychotherapy Series

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.

Body psychotherapy series with Nick Totton and Robert Rees

Course overview:

The Body Psychotherapy Series is a new four-part CPD pathway under The Grove Series banner – a sequence of focused, practice-based webinars designed to deepen your work in real clinical settings.

Introducing Body Psychotherapy

Given that we are all bodies, what defines body psychotherapy?

One answer is our conscious awareness of being a body, and a sustained attention to what the body is experiencing, especially how our own body is affected by our client’s. Rather than treating the body as background, body psychotherapy brings it to the foreground of clinical attention, as a primary way that relationship, trauma, history and possibility show up.

Over four live 2‑hour webinars, body psychotherapy pioneer and author Nick Totton and psychotherapist and embodied practice trainer Robert Rees will explore how to include the body more confidently in your existing practice. The series is practical and grounded: you’ll hear clear explanations of the four models, see how they work in clinical examples, and be invited to notice your own body in real time as a clinical resource.

What you’ll learn across the series

The focus is on integration rather than allegiance. Whether you identify as psychodynamic, humanistic, integrative, CBT‑informed or relational, you’ll find ways to weave body‑based awareness into what you already do. Each session stands alone, but together they offer a coherent arc: from early “adjustment” approaches, through trauma discharge, into process‑oriented spontaneity and the embodied relational field.

Across the series we’ll study four different but interlocking models of body psychotherapy:

  • Adjustment
  • Trauma/Discharge
  • Relational
  • Process‑oriented

Each model offers a different way of including the body in psychotherapy, and each may be most appropriate with particular clients or at particular points in the work. You can attend individual sessions, or treat all four as a structured pathway into body psychotherapy ideas and skills.

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

About this course

  • Course Duration:4 x 2-hour sessions
  • Next intake:Series in progress
  • CPD Value:8 hours
  • Fee:Starting at £30 per event (VAT included)
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An extremely helpful, concise sharing of wisdom. Thank you so much.

Tricia Psychotherapist

The four webinars in detail

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. Together we will look at breath, posture and movement; the discharge and integration of trauma; how two bodies shape the relational field; and how to follow what arises spontaneously in the moment.

In this first session we’ll explore embodiment as the ground of psychotherapy and sketch out all four models we’ll meet across the series. We then look more closely at the Adjustment model – historically the earliest body psychotherapy approach – which offers clients new ways of holding themselves, moving and breathing to allow greater energy and relaxation. We’ll also consider its pitfalls, including how to avoid slipping into “fixing what’s wrong” with someone’s embodiment, and instead use adjustment to open space for new ways of living.

Details

The Trauma/Discharge model works with a core metaphor: expelling a splinter that has created painful inflammation around itself. Here, the practitioner’s role is to support and encourage a natural healing process through emotional abreaction and the release of feelings locked into rigid musculature and nervous system patterns. We’ll look at how to work with discharge gently and gradually, within a strong therapeutic container – avoiding retraumatisation and focusing on clients’ strength and competence as they manage and integrate traumatic experience rather than simply relive it.

Details

The Relational model treats embodied relating as the ground of all psychotherapy, including talking therapy. We’ll attend closely to how the client’s and therapist’s bodies affect each other, and how bodies can cue each other into familiar interactional scripts learned early in life. Many therapists notice how differently they feel and behave with different clients; this session offers a way to think deeply about those differences and to use the responses you track in your own body to shape and direct the work. The guiding image is an improvised dance in which neither partner leads, but the pattern is co‑constructed.

Details

The final session takes the idea of supporting a natural healing process even further. In its pure form, the Process‑oriented model drops the idea of “healing” altogether, along with the assumption that anything is wrong. Working very much in the present moment, the therapist welcomes whatever occurs as the right thing – allowing the client’s bodymind to act rather than be acted on, and to generate motifs freely and playfully. The ruling metaphor is a river that, once undammed, flows powerfully to the sea. We’ll explore what it means to let go of fixed theory and normality, to assume that trauma and misadjustment will self‑repair given any real opportunity, and to treat even the wildest events in the room as potentially part of that process. We’ll also have time to think about how to integrate all four models in everyday practice.

Details

Nick Totton offers something radical for all practising therapists to consider. He challenges conventional ideas about attachment, containment, holding, safety and boundaries. Wildness is understood not as a cure but as a much-needed corrective to the rigidities of our one-sided civilised and mature selves.

Professor Andrew Samuels, author of The Political Psyche and UKCP former chair Discussing Nick's book 'Wild Therapy'

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.

Robert Rees

Chief Executive & Clinic Director

MUKCP MBACP
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.

More from Nick Totton at The Grove
The Wildness of the body with Nick Totton and Robert Rees - webinar download

The Wildness of the Body - Part 1

In this inspiring conversation, Totton and Rees explore how reconnecting with the body’s innate wildness deepens relational psychotherapy, fosters authentic expression, and supports transformative healing.
The Wildness of the Body Part 2. Embodied psychotherapy with Nick Totton and Robert Rees,

The Wildness of the Body - Part 2

Totton and Rees explore how contacting the body’s spontaneous, “wild” nature transforms relational psychotherapy, helps clients reclaim experiences that have been pathologised or silenced and opens space for more truthful, embodied ways of being.
Nick Totton three body psychotherapy books: Wild Therapy, Different Bodies: Deconstructing normality, Embodied Relating

Frequently Asked Questions

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The Grove Series is our programme of themed CPD pathways. Each series is a set of live, two-hour Zoom webinars that explore one subject in depth across several sessions, led by experienced practitioners. You can follow the whole series for a joined-up learning journey, or dip into the sessions most relevant to your practice.

If you’ve booked the whole series, you don’t need to do anything: you’ll receive the recording for every session, so you can catch up in your own time.

If you’re booking an individual session you can’t attend live, choose an option that includes the recording.

If you’d also like a CPD certificate, choose recording + CPD certificate, and watch the full recording before using the certificate as CPD evidence.

Recording access lasts 12 months.

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If you have purchased a recording and do not attend, you will still receive a link to watch the recording via email.

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  • Book the whole series: our best-value option. It includes live attendance at every session, plus the recording and a CPD certificate for each one.
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Recording access lasts 12 months.

Recordings are for your personal learning only and must not be shared, downloaded, edited or distributed.

You’ll receive a CPD certificate for each session, emailed within 5 working days after that session, as long as you attended live or your booking includes the recording. Each session is worth 2 CPD hours.

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About this course

  • Course Duration:4 x 2-hour sessions
  • Next intake:Series in progress
  • CPD Value:8 hours
  • Fee:Starting at £30 per event (VAT included)
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Body psychotherapy series with Nick Totton and Robert Rees
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