CPD Events and Workshops at The Practice
Join us for thoughtful, clinically grounded training for counsellors and psychotherapists. Our CPD days offer space to deepen your understanding, reflect on practice, and think together about the emotional complexity of therapeutic work. Come and be part of a warm, reflective learning community where experience, theory and clinical practice can meet.
Certificate in Couples Counselling
This five-month weekend training for qualified counsellors and psychotherapists explores the fundamental principles of couples work through our interactive and experiential course.
Location: The Practice Weybridge
Date:
Cost:
Early Bird Place (available until Monday 22nd June) £1325.00
Full Place £1625.00
The Practice Members Rate £945.00
Deposit (payment in instalments)£125.00
Training Overview
This course explores the fundamental principles of couples' work through our interactive, experiential training. This training comprehensively addresses key principles in couples' work. Topics include the definition of a relationship, the nature of attraction, and the role of idealization. Participants will explore individual contributions to relationships, focusing on the internal couple and recurring patterns in relationship dynamics. The curriculum covers the functions and mechanisms of desire and sex, as well as attachment theory and patterns. Additionally, the program delves into the complexities of separation and divorce, working online and various other relevant topics.
Heidi Renton
Following a career in marketing and media education, Heidi retrained a decade ago for her Masters in Psychodynamic Couple and Individual Psychotherapy at the world-renowned Tavistock Relationships organisation in London. She then further specialised at the same organisation with a Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy and has since worked at Tavistock Relationships in various capacities, including as a Senior Assessor and Clinician, lecturer, and psychosexual tutor. Heidi also trains and supervises NHS Talking Therapies counsellors in the Couple Therapy for Depression time limited model created by Tavistock Relationships for NICE. For the last seven years, Heidi has been seeing couples and individuals online and in her private practice, and is a member of Revive, a UK-wide psychosexual collective of therapists. She is a registered member of the BACP and COSRT, as well as a Graduate Member of the Tavistock Relationships Association of Psychotherapists and Counsellors. Heidi greatly enjoys teaching and encouraging others in their career development, and for the last few years has been running various CPD courses for counsellors across a range of modalities.
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