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CPD Credits
13
Event Type
Live Online Event
Location
Zoom & Not Recorded
Time (UK)
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Standard
£585.00
Trainee/NHS
£497.25
Thursday, September 10, 2026 - Thursday, June 17, 2027
Embodied Consultation Group
With Dr Fran Sommer Anderson
The Embodied Consultation Group is an ongoing reflective space meeting monthly for clinicians wishing to deepen and integrate the themes explored in the series Working at the Intersection of Attachment, Trauma, and Chronic Pain. Developed as a follow-on group, it offers participants the opportunity to think collaboratively about the complex relationship between body, mind, attachment, affect, and clinical practice in themselves and in their work with patients.
A key area of focus is neuroplasticity and the ways in which clinically supported “re-processing” may facilitate change in the neural pathways underlying chronic somatic pain. This includes consideration of how psychotherapy is expanding beyond traditional talk-based and trauma based models into more active, embodied interventions. Techniques such as breathwork, visualisation, guided use of the imagination, and sensory exploration will be practiced as clinically informed approaches with an emerging evidence base for supporting change at the level of pain processing and regulation.
Attention will also be given to questions of shame, gender, and power as they emerge in treatment. The consultation group is intended as a space for thoughtful discussion and experiential learning rather than formal teaching. Participants are invited to bring themselves, their clinical material, questions, and reflections. Through shared enquiry, the group aims to support clinicians in developing greater confidence in working with new techniques to support patients whose difficulties are expressed through bodily symptoms and chronic pain conditions.
Programme
Sessions will run from 14.30 - 16.00 (UK)
A monthly consultation group in which participants will experience techniques such as breathwork, visualisation and sensory exploration to support clinical work with pain clients. Participants are welcome to bring clinical reflections, questions, and their own personal experiences for discussion.
Sessions will run from 14.30 - 16.00 (UK)
A monthly consultation group in which participants will experience techniques such as breathwork, visualisation and sensory exploration to support clinical work with pain clients. Participants are welcome to bring clinical reflections, questions, and their own personal experiences for discussion.
Sessions will run from 14.30 - 16.00 (UK)
A monthly consultation group in which participants will experience techniques such as breathwork, visualisation and sensory exploration to support clinical work with pain clients. Participants are welcome to bring clinical reflections, questions, and their own personal experiences for discussion.
Sessions will run from 14.30 - 16.00 (UK)
A monthly consultation group in which participants will experience techniques such as breathwork, visualisation and sensory exploration to support clinical work with pain clients. Participants are welcome to bring clinical reflections, questions, and their own personal experiences for discussion.
Sessions will run from 14.30 - 16.00 (UK)
A monthly consultation group in which participants will experience techniques such as breathwork, visualisation and sensory exploration to support clinical work with pain clients. Participants are welcome to bring clinical reflections, questions, and their own personal experiences for discussion.
Sessions will run from 14.30 - 16.00 (UK)
A monthly consultation group in which participants will experience techniques such as breathwork, visualisation and sensory exploration to support clinical work with pain clients. Participants are welcome to bring clinical reflections, questions, and their own personal experiences for discussion.
Sessions will run from 14.30 - 16.00 (UK)
A monthly consultation group in which participants will experience techniques such as breathwork, visualisation and sensory exploration to support clinical work with pain clients. Participants are welcome to bring clinical reflections, questions, and their own personal experiences for discussion.
Sessions will run from 14.30 - 16.00 (UK)
A monthly consultation group in which participants will experience techniques such as breathwork, visualisation and sensory exploration to support clinical work with pain clients. Participants are welcome to bring clinical reflections, questions, and their own personal experiences for discussion.
Sessions will run from 14.30 - 16.00 (UK)
A monthly consultation group in which participants will experience techniques such as breathwork, visualisation and sensory exploration to support clinical work with pain clients. Participants are welcome to bring clinical reflections, questions, and their own personal experiences for discussion.
Frances Sommer Anderson
Dr. Fran Sommer Anderson, a psychologist and relational psychoanalyst in New York City, is a specialist in treating chronic somatic pain and emotional trauma. She is recognized internationally for her publications and teaching that focus on integrating affect, cognition and bodily experience in psychological treatment.
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To learn new and emerging techniques for re-processing pain pathways
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To integrate breathwork into clinical practice
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To learn how to guide clients into visualisation practices and guided use of the imagination
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To develop confidence in sensory exploration into clinical work
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To integrate psychoanalytic, attachment-based, and trauma-informed perspectives in the formulation of mind–body presentations.
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To increase sensitivity to issues of shame, gender, and power as they emerge in clinical work with embodied distress.
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To support clinicians in developing a more confident and attuned embodied therapeutic stance in their everyday practice.
Those who have completed any of Fran's previous trainings.
Your CPD Certificate will be available to download from your TR Together account within 48 hours of the event.