Current Courses
The table at the bottom of the page shows all of the training courses we have coming up with various training providers. Highlights and summaries proceed this:
Trauma in Practice is a five-day training course for therapists who want a clear, clinically grounded understanding of trauma and how to work with it safely. It’s designed for counsellors and psychotherapists who have been seeing clients for at least a year and want to deepen their confidence in assessment, formulation and practical intervention—without drifting into myth, jargon or over-complication. The focus is on real-world practice with a robust theoretical and research driven framework. Find out more here
Shame:
Understanding and treating shame in a clinical setting
Shame can be a vague and triggering topic for many of us; and can show up in almost all of our clinical work. Thankfully it is well written and theorised about, and in this one-day training course we will cover ways to spot, understand, and treat shame in our clinical work. We will consider the origins and purpose of shame, and how this can present intrapsychically, relationally, and in the wider society. We will take this understanding and consider how shame can show up in our clinical work and what it would mean to work in a shame-based way. Throughout this day we will consider both TA and non-TA models for working with shame, to consider practically the best ways to support ourselves and our clients.
This will be an online course running from 9:30am until 5pm on the 27th of March. This course is aimed at trainee and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, and costs £90. You can book here
Script:
Practically assessing clinical work with current script models
Script is one of the core models in TA psychotherapy, and has been very well developed since its initial conception by Berne in the 1960s. As it’s been developed it has become both more detailed and more complex to work with at times, often it can feel like there is a never-ending list of script theories, and it can be hard to know how to apply this practically in our work. In this one-day training course we will look to develop a clear narrative of what script means, from formation, to considering many of the ways it can present in clinical work, and practically how we can use some of the ideas of script to help our clients. We will consider some of the main TA models of script, using many of these as assessment frameworks as well as intervention tools to support our clients through the lens of script.
This will be an online course running from 9:30am until 5pm on the 1st of May. This course is aimed at trainee and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, and costs £90. You can book here
Neuroscience and TA
Neuroscience has experienced some rapid advances in the last few decades which has fundamentally reshaped how we understand the brain, the body, and human behaviour. For therapists, neuroscience can be an important lens to consider, at times crystallising and giving language to what we already know works in practice, at other times highlighting limitations, or areas where our models may need refining. In this one-day training course we will explore how some of our TA models can be understood through the lens of neuroscience, and what we can practically learn from neuroscience that can help us be more effective therapists.
This will be an online course running from 9:30am until 5pm on the 29th of May. This course is aimed at trainee and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, and costs £90. You can book here
Unconscious Parenting
The parental task is complicated, regardless of if it’s our child, others, or ourselves that we are seeking to parent. What often ends up happening then is much of the parental task gets pushed into our unconscious process, this can become problematic if our own experience or our clients’ experience within the parental process (usually how they were parented) has any challenges, such as abuse, trauma, unhelpful scripting. In this one-day training course we will explore how these unhelpful patterns can be formed, through societal parenting, unconscious shame, and relational patterns. We will go on to consider how we might spot, and practically engage with these both for ourselves as well as for our clients.
This will be an online course running from 9:30am until 5pm on the 26th of June. This course is aimed at trainee and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, and costs £90. You can book here
TA and Trauma
Trauma can be complex and is common in clinical work, and although it has been well researched in many fields, there isn’t much writing within TA around how we might understand, or engage with our clients who have experienced trauma. This one-day training course will explore some core TA models and how we can use these to effectively spot and develop some understanding of a client’s trauma; as well as practically how to support a client who has experienced trauma using a TA lens.
This will be an online course running from 9:30am until 5pm on the 10th of July. This course is aimed at trainee and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, and costs £90. You can book here
This is a series of ten 2-hour CPD workshops that I have run twice now, these cover some core TA theories in depth considering its origins, implications to practice and popular critique.
These are run in partnership with Physis Scotland, so please book on there.
TA Deep Dives:
A series of ten workshops exploring TA theories in depth
Date | Title | Training Provider |
|---|---|---|
15/01/2026 | TA Deep Dive: Decontamination vs Deconfusion: Decontaminating the confusion | Physis Scotland |
22/01/2026 | TA Deep Dive: Understanding and Treating Shame | Physis Scotland |
29/01/2026 | TA Deep Dive: Script System as a diagnostic tool. | Physis Scotland |
05/02/2026 | TA Deep Dive: Relationship Centered Permission, Protection and Potency. | Physis Scotland |
31/01/2026 | Relational TA | Physis Scotland |
12/02/2026 | TA Deep Dive: Many Chair’s to explore the clients multiplicity of self. | Physis Scotland |
07/02/2026 | Trauma in Practice | Flux |
10/2/2026 | Clinical Complexity: Working with Risk | Northside Training |
19/02/2026 | TA Deep Dive: Feelings Cycle: Discovering and unsticking stuck feelings | Physis Scotland |
26/02/2026 | TA Deep Dive: Undeveloped Self Model, a way of understanding trauma in 3rd order structure. | Physis Scotland |
05/03/2026 | TA Deep Dive: The Drama Triangle Accounting for the Discount. | Physis Scotland |
19/03/2026 | TA Deep Dive: Unsticking Symbiosis | Physis Scotland |
21/03/2026 | Trauma as a social construct | Humber Conference |
26/03/2026 | TA Deep Dive: Relational Needs: A healing Tool | Physis Scotland |
27/03/2026 | Shame: Understanding and treating shame in a clinical setting | Flux |
25/04/2026 | The Art of working with Dissociation | UKATA Conference |
01/05/2026 | Script: Practically assessing clinical work with current script models | Flux |
29/05/2026 | Neuroscience and TA | Flux |
26/06/2026 | Unconscious Parenting | Flux |
10/07/2026 | TA and Trauma | Flux |