An Embodied approach to working with traumatic experience
3rd, 4th and 5th July 2026
A 3-day Programme Online via Zoom
with
Claire Spiller: UKCP Reg, GPsyC, EAGT, ECP, ACTO Professional member
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Dates: Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th July 2026
Times: 10:00am – 4:30pm (allow until 5:00pm) each day UK time (BST)
Location: Online
Trainer: Claire Spiller Scroll down to see more about the trainer
Cost: £199 if booked by 3rd May 2026,
£215 if booked by the 3rd June 2026
£235 Full Price
We now offer insurance against cancellation. This must be purchased within 48 hours of booking the workshop. Click here for more info
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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.
Learning outcomes :
- Explore trauma through an embodied approach to clinical work
- Reflect upon the role of integrating neuroscience in developing embodied interventions
- Consider practical and clinical interventions to work with areas including suicidal ideation, sexual trauma, traumatic flashbacks and relationship rupture;
- Explore and work with the ways that the body participates in trauma using phenomenological inquiry whilst assessing and managing risk
Develop your clinical expertise with our established 3-day online clinical training programme, now entering its successful fourth year. Claire offers a comprehensive, practical approach that harmonizes two powerful learning styles—didactic and experiential—across a rich blend of existential modalities.
The curriculum is meticulously designed to support clinical skills acquisition through:
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- Dedicated Lectures: Foundations and insights from leading authors in the field.
- Case Discussions: Collaborative analysis of clinical scenarios.
- Small Group Work: Interactive, somatic skills development.
- Live Demonstrations: Witness clinical work in action and refine your craft.
This tailored group training is an essential opportunity for both trainee and qualified practitioners aiming to significantly extend their creative possibilities for working somatically within clinical practice. We welcome you to develop and explore somatic approaches to your clinical work and become part of our growing community of successful course graduates.
Trainer: Claire Spiller, UKCP reg., GPsyC, EAGT, ECP., ACTO Professional Member,
Claire is a clinical trainer with the faculty of the ‘Certificate in Working with Complexities of Trauma’ and has a background of teaching inthe public and third sectors. She has particular interest in working with embodied approaches to human experience, has a background of working clinically within major incident crisis management and teaches internationally online and in-person.
Claire is a UKCP, GPsyC and EAGT registered and accredited gestalt psychotherapist, clinical trainer, doctoral researcher and approved clinical supervisor by UKCP, Metanoia Institute, USW and WPI, working creatively in-person and online with groups and individuals.
She is a graduate of the Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy program at the Centre for Somatic Studies, New York City, current Secretary, Executive and Program Committee member at the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy.
Claire is committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and social justice and has also worked with homeless and refugee communities. She holds ACTO (Association of Counsellors and Therapists Online) professional membership and offers clinical supervision, therapy and teaching, remotely and in-person within a GSRD-affirming | Queer | Trans | LGBTQIA+ | Non-binary | inclusive clinical practice.
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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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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 28 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.
Therapists Insurance: By booking on this workshop you confirm that you have sufficient insurance to offer therapy to the public. (We are required by the NCIP, who accredit this workshop, to ask you to confirm this). If there is any discrepancy please let us know by contacting jonstow.cyh@gmail.com
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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