Staying human in complex times
Online CPD Workshop for Therapists, Counsellors & Supervisors
A live, 3-hour online CPD workshop for psychotherapists, counsellors, supervisors and trainees who want to think rigorously about burnout—not simply manage it
Saturday 24th October 2026 · 2.00–5.00 pm GMT/ 9.00 am–12.00 pm ET · Online
Standard £75 · Reduced £55 · Supporter £95 · CPD certificate included
Staying Human in Complex Times
Moral Distress, AI and the Changing Ecology of Therapeutic Practice
When the work is not the problem
Saturday 24 October 2026 · 2:00–5:00 pm UK / 9:00 am–12:00 pm ET · Online · CPD certificate provided
A live, three-hour CPD workshop for psychotherapists, counsellors and supervisors who want to think rigorously about burnout, professional visibility and the changing conditions in which therapeutic work takes place.
Many practitioners remain deeply committed to their clients while feeling increasingly thinned by the world around the work.
Documentation, safeguarding demands, digital overload, professional isolation and organisational pressure all shape our capacity to remain present. Alongside these familiar strains, therapists are also being asked to navigate a culture of constant visibility: to communicate complex ideas quickly, maintain an online presence, develop a recognisable professional identity and respond to the growing availability of AI-generated therapeutic language.
These are not merely questions of time management or personal resilience. They raise deeper clinical, ethical and professional questions.
- What happens when the therapist feels pressure to become a product or personal brand?
- How do we distinguish fluent therapeutic language from reflective capacity, when sophisticated psychological language can be generated almost instantly?
- What forms of supervision, peer relationship and professional governance help prevent private practice becoming isolated or self-referential?
- How can we remain visible enough to sustain our work without allowing visibility to determine its meaning?
This workshop offers a reflective, practice-based space in which to examine moral distress in relation to the contemporary ecology of therapeutic work. We will consider not only what practitioners are carrying, but also the cultural, technological, commercial and institutional conditions that shape those demands.
What you will explore
- Burnout and exhaustion in contemporary therapeutic practice, including the pressures that can make them difficult to name, understand or address.
- Moral distress: what happens when therapists know what thoughtful care requires, but feel constrained by time, systems, commercial pressures or professional culture.
- The changing relationship between therapeutic practice, professional visibility and personal branding.
- AI and the widening gap between therapeutic language, reflective capacity and embodied professional formation.
- The pressures for the practitioner to become a product or personal brand, and what this may mean for authority, limitation and professional identity.
- Supervision as an ethical and relational third space: a place in which certainty, self-reference, power and the conditions of practice can be examined.
- The forms of peer relationship, accountability and governance that help practitioners remain open to challenge, learning and repair.
For therapists who would like to grow together. Training, supervision and CPD for psychotherapists and practitioners who want to stay present, responsive and ethically grounded in complex relational fields.
Details
- Live online Saturday 24th October 2026
2:00–5:00 pm UK / 9:00 am–12:00 pm ETStandard rate — £75
For qualified practitioners and supervisors.Supporter rate — £95
For those whose circumstances allow them to contribute towards reduced-price places.I want this conversation to be accessible to practitioners working in very different circumstances, while recognising the care, preparation and facilitation involved.
Reduced rate — £55
For trainees, early-career practitioners, UKAHPP members, and those working within a humanistic approach, community or under-resourced settings
Who is this for?
This workshop is for psychotherapists, counsellors, supervisors, trainees, and practitioners working in demanding organisational or private practice settings who want a more spacious and accurate way of understanding what they are carrying.
No prior knowledge of the language of moral distress is needed. The session is reflective, relational and practice-based.
How we will work
The workshop will combine reflective inquiry, practice examples and small-group conversation.
There will be space to notice how these pressures may be entering your own practice and professional identity, without requiring you to perform certainty, technological confidence or a fully resolved position.
This is not a conventional self-care workshop.
It is an opportunity to develop clearer language for the realities shaping contemporary therapeutic practice, and to consider what supports ethical, relational and sustainable work.
In continuity with my wider work
This workshop stands on its own as a focused CPD event.
For therapists who want an ongoing space in which to deepen embodied presence, relational intelligence and conscious attunement in their work, Embodied Relational Supervision Circle offers a slower and more sustained container for this exploration.
Contemporary practice asks us to attend closely to individual distress while working amid pressures that are often relational, organisational and social. This workshop offers a space to reflect on how these wider conditions affect practitioners and the work itself.
Rather than treating professional strain as simply a matter of individual resilience, we will consider the role of supervision, collegiality, reflection and organisational context in sustaining humane, responsive practice.
Then care can become a way of helping people endure more efficiently what no human being should be asked to digest alone.
The workshop will consider how the wider realities of contemporary life and practice enter the therapeutic space, and how supervision and collegial reflection can help us meet this complexity without losing sight of the person in front of us.
A space to think together
About me
I am a UKCP-registered, UKAHPP-accredited integrative psychotherapist, couples therapist and clinical supervisor based in London. My work is grounded in humanistic, relational and embodied approaches.
For more than 25 years, I have worked with therapists, counsellors and other practitioners in private practice, organisational and community settings, supporting them to remain present, reflective and honest in demanding professional contexts.
A significant part of my work is now supervision and consultation for therapists, particularly around power, consent, burnout and the conditions that shape professional practice.
Colleagues and clients have sometimes described me as “a therapist’s therapist.” My work is concerned with the parallel processes that connect therapy and supervision: how practitioners hold their clients, and how practitioners are themselves held through supervision, professional relationships, organisations, the wider culture and the conditions of their own lives.
I am interested in what becomes possible in therapeutic work when supervision offers a sufficiently reflective, relational and ethically attentive space — and in what may be compromised when those conditions are absent.
By the end of this workshop, you can expect to:
- A clearer distinction between practitioner burnout and moral distress
- A practical map of the cultural, digital and organisational forces currently shaping your work
- A more thoughtful framework for considering AI use in relation to formation, authorship and professional responsibility
- Greater awareness of how visibility, marketing and professional identity may affect therapeutic presence
- A deeper understanding of supervision as part of the ecology and governance of practice
- One concrete change you can take into your practice, supervision or professional relationships
Places are limited to keep the workshop spacious and relational. Please choose the fee that best fits your circumstances.
The reduced fee is offered for humanistic, UKAHPP, Imago and other relational practitioners, trainees, and those on lower incomes.