Continuing Professional Development
We provide a variety of professional development opportunities. Some of these are available only to our members whilst others are available to other qualified psychotherapists and counsellors and we are committed to developing training provision aimed at giving an attachment orientation to other professionals.
Clinical Forums
THE ART OF RE-GIFTING
The Nuts and Bolts of Psychotherapy: looking at Containment and how it works from an attachment-based perspective
Saturday 13th June 2026 | 11 am to 1 pm
Speakers: Tori Settle
Synopsis:
What do we do in our consulting rooms? How does psychotherapy work? In this forum I would like to present another chapter in my Nuts and Bolts series – as part of the process of making explicit the instinctive, implicit, unconscious and often complex processes that swirl around – in this thing that we call the therapeutic encounter.
I would like to explore Bion’s thoughts on containment from an attachment-based perspective and how our care-giving patterns impact on our therapeutic interventions. As therapists we are containers for our clients’ unconscious relational material, but we are also care-givers with individual attachment histories of our own, and this inevitably guides how we respond and interpret. I want to explore the relationship between these two vital roles of container and caregiver.
Bio:
Tori Settle is an attachment-based psychoanalyst and supervisor and is currently the Clinical Lead for The Bowlby Centre. Tori has taught extensively at the centre for over 20 years specialising in infant observation and the application of attachment theory to clinical work.
She frequently runs workshops on attachment for clinicians who are not trained in attachment, but who want to explore their own attachment patterns and those of their clients – to develop a greater understanding of what happens in the psychotherapeutic relationship.
She has been working in private practice for 25 years and is currently a training supervisor, a training therapist and a teacher for The Bowlby Centre and other organisations. She has co-authored a chapter on Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for the Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy with her colleague Mark Linington.
Date: Saturday 13th June 2026
Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm (UK time)
CPD: 2 hours (CPD certificate provided)
Cost: £30 non-Bowlby Centre members | £10 Students from other organisations | Free for Bowlby Centre Members and Students
Location: Online via Zoom (Please note these sessions are not recorded)
Events
Working with Suicidality and Safety planning – A Cross Modality Approach
A two-hour workshop designed and facilitated by Lynn Findlay
Monday 15th June 2026
What is it about? This workshop is part of the specialised safeguarding training courses and is now offered as a stand-alone seminar. We discuss working with suicidality and distress in the therapeutic context, exploring risk assessment and management, and drawing upon techniques from a range of therapeutic modalities to offer a toolkit for understanding and intervention. We locate this within the safeguarding framework and therapeutic contracting.
Is it for me? It is for therapists and allied professionals working with both adults and young people. We continue to focus on joined up thinking across services and networks. You can be in private practice or employed by an organisation.
What will I learn? The SASP session covers:
- The Government Suicide prevention strategy.
- How to work with risk assessment and risk management.
- Techniques from different of therapeutic approaches.
- Understanding risk and protective factors.
- Confidentiality and contracting in this context.
- Space for thoughts and reflections.
How is it delivered? This is currently via Zoom, with information sharing, whole group discussion, and opportunities for questions and personal reflection.
Please read before booking
- Due to the interactive nature of the training, sessions are not recorded and course content is only provided to attendees after the session. Any Case Studies, references, reading or weblinks will be sent in advance of the session.
- Colleagues from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and other countries are welcome, but any safeguarding legislation and practice guidelines referred to applies to England.
About Lynn:
Lynn is a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist, working with both adults and young people. She is a registered social worker with over 25yrs experience working in safeguarding with many years’ experience designing and delivering training in social care and therapy. She is now an independent safeguarding consultant and trainer.
Date: Monday 15th June 2026
Time: 1.15pm – 3.30pm (UK Time)
Cost: £40 non-Bowlby Centre members |£30 Bowlby Centre members
CPD: 2 hours (CPD certificate provided)
Open Days
Psychotherapy Training Open Days
The Open Day provides an opportunity to meet staff from the Bowlby Centre to find out more about our approach and the details of our training programme. The event is a facilitated workshop, with an overview of the curriculum, a clinical vignette and a discussion about our approach and the theoretical influences that have informed our work. It is also an opportunity to meet some of those who may be training alongside you, should you decide to join us.
The Open Days will be held in person at the In-person Training Centre: Highbury Grove School, 8 Highbury Grove, London N5 2EQ
Upcoming Dates:
• Saturday 28th March 2026
• Saturday 9th May 2026