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 Branch)
Date:
12/13/September 2026 (10am – 4pm)
10/11 October 2026 (10am – 4pm)
07/08 November 2026 ( ONLINE 10am – 4pm)
05/06 December 2026 (10am – 4pm)
09/10 January 2027 (10am – 4pm)
Cost:
Early Bird Place (available until Monday 15th 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.
Certificate in Working with Trauma
Trauma Intensive is a six-day training for qualified therapists who wish to strengthen their ability to support, educate and validate clients who have experienced trauma.
Dates:
The CPD will run over one weekend a month starting in February 2027 and ending in April 2027. The dates are TBC.
Natasha de Meric is an experienced Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Counsellor (BACP registered and UKCP accredited). Alongside her core psychodynamic training, Natasha has undertaken extensive specialist training in trauma, including EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS).
Natasha brings many years of clinical and teaching experience to her work. She spent nine years as a staff counsellor in a mental health hospital and has also taught as an associate lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.
She is committed to bringing openness and humanity into challenging spaces. Natasha’s teaching is known for its warmth, depth and embodied, experiential approach.
Feedback from previous workshops:
“Natasha has a beautiful way of bringing even the most difficult subjects to life.”
“Your lectures and playful way of delivering them has a strong link to my journey. Thank you!”
Future Trainings
Certificate in Intersectional Competence
Working with the Neurodiverse
Certificate in working with Trauma