A 5‑part CPD package of bitesize webinars for therapists and practitioners, led by Grove Director's Robert Rees and Elliot Davis. The series offers a coherent, clinically grounded way to work with addiction across a therapeutic arc, with each session geared towards filling your toolkit with active interventions.
The Addiction Series is a new five-part CPD pathway under The Grove Series banner – a sequence of focused, practice-based webinars designed to deepen your work with addiction in real clinical settings.
The Addiction Series offers concise, bitesize CPD, with five 2-hour sessions spread across the year. Each event is dedicated to a specific area of addiction – porn and sex, alcohol, social media and screens, drugs and work.
Each webinar can be booked as a standalone event, or you can enrol for the full Addiction Series as a discounted packaged course.
All Wednesdays, 17:30–19:30 (UK time)
Across the full series, you will:
We will also explore how addiction shows up differently across identities and life stages, including how social context and “socially sanctioned” addictions (like work) can mask risk.
Book individual events for £30 (attendence only) if you prefer to only attend selected topics, or purchase the full series as a bundled CPD course for a discounted rate of £120 (includes CPD certificates and recordings).
Across the Addiction Series we will explicitly consider how ADHD and autism shape addiction risk, presentation and recovery.
This seminar explores compulsive sexual behaviours and problematic pornography use through psychological, relational and neurobiological lenses. You will examine shame, secrecy, attachment dynamics and arousal regulation, and how these processes shape intimacy, identity and relationship patterns.
The session will clearly differentiate sex addiction from porn addiction, including implications for assessment, language and treatment planning. You will leave with practical ways to work safely and ethically, including boundaries, risk‑awareness and referral points, plus worksheets to support client psychoeducation and behavioural experiments.
This webinar considers alcohol use on a continuum, from social reliance through to dependency, with an emphasis on self‑medication, affect regulation and trauma. You will look at how alcohol functions within nervous‑system dysregulation, identity and relational systems, and what keeps clients stuck in repetitive patterns.
The session offers practical tools for assessment, formulation and intervention, including mapping drinking cycles and planning for high‑risk situations, alongside guidance on risk, safeguarding and when to refer to specialist services.
Here we will examine compulsive engagement with screens and social media as a contemporary behavioural addiction shaped by attention, reward systems and emotional regulation. You will explore how digital environments amplify comparison, avoidance, dissociation and dysregulation – often in ways that are normalised or minimised by clients and practitioners alike.
This webinar provides frameworks for working with screen‑related difficulties without moralising, including values‑based conversations, boundary‑setting experiments and collaborative planning with clients who may be ambivalent about change.
This session offers a nuanced, non‑reductive exploration of substance use, dependency and recovery. You will consider drug use as an adaptive response to distress, trauma and disconnection, while also working clearly with risk, harm and the realities of clinical responsibility.
Particular attention is given to patterns of relapse and how to handle them with clinical efficiency, integrating this work with other ongoing therapy rather than treating it in isolation. You will also look at how and when to collaborate with specialist services, and how to maintain your own role within a multi‑disciplinary network.
This webinar explores work‑related addiction, burnout and over‑functioning as socially sanctioned but clinically significant patterns. You will examine identity, worth and attachment to productivity, and how these processes impact health, relationships and meaning in life.
The seminar will help you distinguish healthy commitment from compulsive patterns, including perfectionism and chronic over‑responsibility, and support clients in moving toward more sustainable ways of being – without collapsing their sense of purpose or achievement.
Robert and Elliot will co‑facilitate each of the five sessions, offering a grounded, non‑shaming approach to addiction work, with space for clinical questions and reflection.
Dip (Psych, Trauma, Supvn) MUKCP MBACP
Dip (Psych, Trauma, Supvn)
MUKCP, MBACP, IATP
The Addiction Series - Porn and Sex
(Session 1 of 5 in series)
Wed, September 2nd
17:30 PM - 19:30 PM
The Addiction Series - Alcohol
(Session 2 of 5 in series)
Wed, September 30th
17:30 PM - 19:30 PM
The Addiction Series - Social media and screens
(Session 3 of 5 in series)
Wed, October 14th
17:30 PM - 19:30 PM
The Addiction Series - Drugs
(Session 4 of 5 in series)
Wed, November 11th
17:30 PM - 19:30 PM
The Addiction Series - Work
(Session 5 of 5 in series)
Wed, December 9th
17:30 PM - 19:30 PM
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