In this email there are THREE things:
1) Add another approach to your skillset with our highly rated Creative Writing in The Therapeutic Encounter course.
2) A list of workshops coming up that have savings (i.e. an early booking discount) running out soon, and courses that are happening in the next few weeks, so you can book ahead.
and
3) Juliet's Musing - Holding Your Ground: Bringing the Patterns Into Focus
CREATIVE WRITING IN THE THERAPEUTIC ENCOUNTER
Tuesday 14th & Wednesday 15th April 2026
with Dr Claire Williamson PhD
This experiential 2-day course focuses on creative writing and its use within therapy, therapeutic settings and self-supervision.
Therapists often work with client’s writing, or encourage clients to create within, or between, sessions. Some therapists have trained to be ‘poetry therapists’ and divide sessions between writing and discussion of the text, accelerating the process, or evincing new strands to the therapeutic work.
The workshop will focus on a range of applications, including:
- Supporting client metaphors
- Concrete and abstract images into words – poetry as resource
- Narratives and counter-narratives
- Reflective practice – employing form for clients and self-supervision
- Autobiographical fiction
- Applications and limitations
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW
EARLY BOOKING DISCOUNTS RUNNING OUT SOON: Click blue links to go to website
- Attachment and Oneself: An Experential Group for Caregiving Professionals: Starts Friday 17th April 2026 Discount ends TODAY on 17th February 2026
- Sex Arousal and Ageing: Starts Saturday 18th April 2026 Discount ends 18th February 2026
- Anger, Rage & Relationship: Starts Saturday 25th April 2026 Discount ends 25th February 2026
- Communication & Difference: Starts Monday 4th May 2026 Discount ends 4th March 2026
- Introduction to Attachment Informed Therapy and its Clinical Application: Starts Friday 8th May 20206 Discount ends 8th March 2026
- Advanced Certificate In Neurodiversity-Informed Practice: Starts Sunday 10th May 2026 Discount ends 10th March 2026
- Working Somatically With Dreams- A Relational and Embodied Approach: Starts Friday 15th May 2026 Discount ends 15th March 2026
- Other Loves 1 – Consensual Non-monogamy and Polyamory: Working with multi-partner relationships: Starts Thursday 21st May 2026 Discount ends March 21st 2026
- Other Loves 2 – Exploring Relationship Styles across Cultures and Religions, including Arranged Marriages and Polygamy: Starts Friday 22nd May 2026 Discount ends 22nd March 2026
- Working with Kink: Starts Thursday 4th June 2026 Discount ends 4th April 2026
- Bisexuality And Sexual Fluidity: Exploring The Sexual Spectrum: Starts Friday 5th June 2026 Discount ends 5th April 2026
- Erotic Transference in the Therapy Room: Starts Saturday 6th June 2026 Discount ends 6th April 2026
COURSES IN NEXT FEW WEEKS
- Meeting Partners Needs IN-PERSON, EALING WEST LONDON: Starts Saturday 21st February 2026: Certificate WWC
- Working Alongside Trans, Non-binary & Questioning Clients: Starts Saturday 28th February 2026: Certificate DWCR
- Introduction to Attachment Theory: Starts Sunday 1st March 2026: Certificate CIT
- 31st RESIDENTIAL THERAPY MARATHON Deep Dive Starts Sunday 1st March 2026
- Introduction to Attachment Informed Therapy and its Clinical Application: Starts Sunday 1st March 2026
- Couples in Conflict: Starts Friday 13th March 2026
- Sex Arousal and Ageing: Starts Wednesday 18th March 2026
- Clinical application of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and Mentalisation: Starts Saturday 21st March 2026
- Grief: The Gateway to Transformation: Starts Sunday 22nd March 2026
- Dealing With Affairs: Starts Friday 27th March 2026
- Fundamentals of Working with Couples: Starts Friday 10th April 2026
- Creative Writing In The Therapeutic Encounter: Starts Tuesday 14th April 2026
- Attachment and Oneself: An Experential Group for Caregiving Professionals: Starts Friday 17th April 2026
- Sex Arousal and Ageing IN PERSON: Starts Saturday 18th April 2026
- PBSP Supervision and Live Practice Day: Starts Thursday 23rd April 2026
- Anger, Rage & Relationship: Starts Saturday 25th April 2026
- Communication & Difference: Starts Monday 4th May 2026
- Introduction to Attachment Informed Therapy and its Clinical Application: Starts Friday 8th May 2026
- Advanced Certificate In Neurodiversity-Informed Practice: Starts Sunday 10th May 2026
- Working Somatically With Dreams- A Relational and Embodied Approach: Starts Friday 15th May 2026
CERTIFICATES:
Those workshops that are part of a Certificate Training are noted above.
WWC is the Certificate in Working with Couples.
WWCT is the Certificate in Working With Complexities of Trauma.
DWCR is the Certificate in Diversity Within Contemporary Relationships.
CIT is the Certificate in Attachment
You can take just one module, or click the link to see which other modules make up the Certificate.
For the FULL LIST of all our workshops and ALTERNATIVE DATES go to www.therapyandcounselling.co.uk
JULIET'S MUSINGS
38. Holding Your Ground: Bringing the Patterns Into Focus
The four pieces in this series grew out of one piece of clinical work, but they point to something much wider. Nitpicking, defensiveness, negative sentiment override, and self-abandonment rarely appear in isolation. More often, they weave together into a relational atmosphere that is difficult to name from the inside, yet deeply felt in the body and the nervous system.
What connects these patterns is not malice or intention, but impact. Each one quietly shifts the balance of the relationship away from mutuality and towards vigilance. You become watchful rather than relaxed. Careful rather than spontaneous. Adapted rather than fully present. Over time, it is not just the relationship that changes, but your relationship with yourself.
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