An Embodied approach to working with traumatic experience
10th & 11th July 2027
A 2-day Programme Online via Zoom
with
Claire Spiller: UKCP Reg, GPsyC, EAGT, ECP, ACTO Professional member
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Dates: Saturday 10th – Sunday 11th July 2027
Times: 9:15am – 3:00pm (allow until 3:30pm) each day UK time (BST)
Location: Online
Trainer: Claire Spiller Scroll down to see more about the trainer
Cost: £115 if booked by 10th May 2027,
£130 if booked by the 10th June 2027
£150 Full Price
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If your booking is accepted that means there was space for you. If it is full, email sambaker.pa@gmail.com to join the ‘reserve list’. Then, if anyone drops out we will notify you, if there is a ‘last minute’ place for you. We will also let you know when we plan a new date.
Working with Trauma An Embodied approach to working with traumatic experience
Join us for two reflective and engaging days exploring trauma through an existential,
phenomenological, and embodied lens.
Together, we will consider how trauma is lived and expressed through the body, relationships, and meaning-making, creating space for thoughtful clinical dialogue around experiences such as suicidal despair, traumatic loss, traumatic memory, and relationship rupture.
Through presentations, experiential learning and group discussion, you will have the opportunity to deepen your clinical thinking alongside a community of reflective practitioners.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
- Explore trauma through an embodied and existential approach to clinicalpractice.
- Reflect on the lived experience of trauma and the ways it shapes meaning-making, relationship, and contact.
- Consider existential perspectives on experiences including suicidal despair, sexual trauma, traumatic memory, and relationship rupture.
- Deepen their capacity to engage phenomenologically with the embodied dimensions of trauma whilst maintaining awareness of ethical responsibility and risk.
- Develop greater confidence in reflecting on complexity, uncertainty, and
suffering within the therapeutic relationship.
What to Expect
This training combines theoretical exploration with experiential and reflective
learning, including:
- Presentations and lectures exploring existential, phenomenological, and embodied perspectives on trauma.
- Reflective dialogue around the clinical and ethical questions that emerge when working with trauma.
- Clinical case discussions connecting theory with practice.
- Experiential learning activities designed to deepen awareness of embodiment, presence, and relational process.
This programme offers a valuable opportunity to deepen your understanding of trauma, enrich your therapeutic presence, and engage with complex clinical questions in a thoughtful and supportive learning environment.
Trainer: Claire Spiller, UKCP reg., GPsyC, EAGT, ECP., ACTO Professional Member,
Claire is a Gestalt psychotherapist, supervisor, clinical trainer and doctoral researcher with a particular interest in trauma, somatic experience, and existential practice. She has extensive experience teaching therapists and practitioners across a range of settings and creates learning environments that are engaging, reflective, and grounded in clinical practice.
Alongside her private practice, Claire has worked within major incident crisis services and with diverse communities, including homeless and refugee populations. She has a particular interest in suicide prevention and is passionate about understanding how people make sense of difficult and challenging experiences. Her approach combines longstanding clinical experience with curiosity, compassion, and deep respect for each person’s unique way of being in the world.
Claire teaches internationally, both online and in person, and is committed to supporting practitioners in developing greater confidence, presence, and understanding when working with complexity in the therapy room.
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FEEDBACK FROM COURSE ATTENDEES:
“A meaningful experience to enhance perspectives in this approach to therapy”
Colin – Existential Psychotherapist
“An excellent course which felt worthwhile and serious whilst also being extremely enjoyable”
Sue Frankfort – Counsellor
“Having just passed my Diploma in Trauma therapy I wondered if I would be going over old ground yet I learnt so much more and I was able to gain much self insight, all of which has enhanced my practice. Excellent training by a dedicated and skilled trainer”
Sarah Blay – Counsellor, Rainbow Counselling
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Join Us
If working clinically in this way speaks to you, we would love to welcome you. Over two enriching days, you will have the opportunity to explore complex clinical themes, share perspectives with colleagues, and deepen your understanding of embodiment, relationship, and lived experience.
Whether you are in training or have many years of practice behind you, we hope you will leave feeling inspired, refreshed, and connected to new possibilities in your work. We warmly invite you to join us for this meaningful exploration of trauma, embodiment, and therapeutic practice.
One Module, Two Certificate Pathways
This two-day module is shared by two Certificate Training programmes. By completing the module, you can count it towards either of the following certificates:
1. Certificate in the Complexities of Working with Trauma
2. Certificate in Integrative Embodied Psychotherapy
You have the flexibility to choose which certificate pathway you wish your learning to contribute towards. You can also choose to have the module count towards both certificates.
This course is suitable: Qualified Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Therapists in Training, as well as coaches and health workers who want to learn more about trauma. In the course we explore how trauma manifests in the body, and how to work with this clinically.
Maximum numbers: This workshop will have a maximum of 30 participants
Approved for CPD: This course has been approved by NCIP- National Council Of Integrative Psychotherapists.
Our expectation: Is that you will attend this workshop for the full length of the course, have your video on, your mobile off, and fully participate.
- There are some online talks on zoom that allow you to come and go, or to choose not to participate in the exercise and breakout rooms. This culture has started to creep into our workshops. We have even had people say they want to leave to go and pick up children from school or walk their dog! People dropping in and out is very disruptive – especially when there may be group exercises that are planned for the same group to participate in a number of times.
- Because of this, we want to be clear about our expectations. This workshop has been planned with the assumption that you, and everyone else, will attend for the full time. So please be clear, that if you book on this workshop, we expect you to attend for the whole time, to participate in the breakout rooms and exercises and have your video switched on. Please also put your mobile to one side and on silent – checking your phone or texting will mean that you miss material. So we request that you only check your phone during breaks.
CPD form: After you have attended the workshop you will be sent a certificate for 15 hours of continuous professional development, when you fill in the feedback form (the only required fields are your name, email address and date of the workshop).
Equipment you will need: We will use Zoom, so you would need a computer that has good enough internet access to be able to be online, and in a quiet spot where you won’t be disturbed. It would be preferable if there are no people walking around in the background. An Iphone can be used in an emergency, but we recommend planning on using a laptop or computer. Tablets also work, though please be aware that they have less functionality in Zoom.
Cancellations Any request to change (eg defer to alternative dates) or cancel your place at a workshop, that is made at less than 21 days before the course start date will be charged in full. Any cancellation / amendments / requests to defer before 21 days, will be subject to a 12.5% handling charge.
For more info: If you have further questions please email: sambaker.pa@gmail.com or call Juliet Grayson on 01291 638805
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