Tavistock Relationships

Tavistock Relationships Tavistock Relationships is an internationally renowned charity for advanced practice, training and r

Specialising in relationship counselling & psychotherapy in London, we've been helping relationships since 1948. If you're looking for help with relationships, please contact us with any questions you may have or book an appointment to come and see us.

What changes when there are three people in the therapy room?Working therapeutically with a couple brings a different se...
21/08/2026

What changes when there are three people in the therapy room?

Working therapeutically with a couple brings a different set of dynamics into the consulting room. Alongside each individual’s inner world, there is the relationship itself – its history, patterns, projections, attachments and shared unconscious life.

An Introduction to Therapy with Couples is our 11-week online course exploring what it means to think about, and work with, the couple relationship.

Through theory, clinical material, film clips and group discussion, you’ll explore topics including:
➡️ What binds a couple together and the idea of ‘couple fit’
➡️ Projective processes within relationships
➡️ Difference, identity, race and sexuality
➡️ Attachment and the couple
➡️ S*x and physical connection
➡️ Parenting, ageing and the couple lifecycle
➡️ Wider family and intergenerational dynamics
➡️ Separation, endings and loss

Led by experienced Tavistock Relationships couple therapists Cass Vollmer and Catherine Rashid, the course is suitable both for qualified clinicians interested in developing their understanding of couple work and those considering a career in counselling or psychotherapy. No previous experience is necessary.

📅 21 September – 7 December 2026
🕖 Monday evenings, 7–8.30pm
💻 Online via Zoom

Find out more here: https://tavistockrelationships.org/training-courses/introduction-foundation/introduction-couples-therapy

20/08/2026

How do we psychologically accommodate the reality of ageing, loss and our own mortality?

Loss is woven throughout life – present in everyday transitions and endings, as well as in the profound aftershocks of bereavement. But as we grow older, the task of bearing loss can take on a different significance, alongside an increasing awareness that more of life has passed and less remains.

What happens when this awareness can be thought about and mentalised? And what happens when it cannot – when experiences that are difficult to contain psychologically begin to find expression through behaviour?

This short clip is taken from Ageing, Illness and Death, a seminar with Salman Akhtar, Andrew Balfour and Lorna Robinson, hosted by our CPD department, TR Together. It offers a glimpse into a wider psychoanalytic exploration of later life – from the psychic task of bearing loss to the importance of feeling accompanied, both internally and externally, as we age and approach the end of life.

The full recording is available to purchase now and throughout August, you can receive 25% off as part of the TR Together Summer Sale. Use code SUMMER2026 at checkout. Offer ends 31 August: https://trtogether.com/events/ageing-illness-and-death

Flexible routes to psychotherapy training 🪧Thinking about training as a psychotherapist, but not quite sure where to sta...
19/08/2026

Flexible routes to psychotherapy training 🪧

Thinking about training as a psychotherapist, but not quite sure where to start – or what your next step should be?

There’s no single route into psychotherapy. You might be completely new to the field, already working with clients, looking to specialise, or wanting to take your existing clinical practice further.

At Tavistock Relationships, we offer a range of training pathways designed for different stages of that journey, including:

➡️ Introduction to Couples Therapy – a great starting point if you’re curious about couple and relationship therapy
➡️ Foundation Certificate – develop your counselling skills and understanding of relational practice
➡️ Psychodynamic Psychotherapy MA/PGDip – professional training combining theory, supervised clinical practice and psychodynamic thinking
➡️ Advanced Standing – further psychodynamic and psychoanalytic training for experienced practitioners
➡️ Certificate in Psychosexual Studies – explore sexual functioning, intimacy and relational dynamics
➡️ MSc in Psychosexual Therapy – specialist clinical training in psychosexual and relationship therapy
➡️ CPD – continue developing your knowledge and clinical practice throughout your career

With a mix of online, in-person and hybrid learning, you can find a route that works for where you are now – and where you’d like to go next.

Wondering which route might be right for you? Our latest blog breaks down the different pathways and where they could take you.

Explore our flexible routes to psychotherapy training: https://ow.ly/QGNx50ZBvSf

What’s missing from your CPD?The questions that arise in clinical practice are constantly evolving – and CPD should evol...
17/08/2026

What’s missing from your CPD?

The questions that arise in clinical practice are constantly evolving – and CPD should evolve with them.

As TR Together, Tavistock Relationships’ CPD department, begins curating its Autumn programme, we want to hear from the people it is designed for.

Are there areas of your clinical work you want to feel more confident in? Topics you think deserve more attention? Speakers whose thinking you’d like to engage with? Or particular challenges you’re encountering in the consulting room that you’d value an opportunity to think about with others?

We’ve put together a short survey to help us understand what psychotherapists, counsellors and mental health professionals want from their CPD right now. Your responses will help TR Together shape a programme that is relevant, thoughtful and responsive to contemporary clinical practice.

So, what’s missing from your CPD?

Take our short survey and help shape what comes next: https://ow.ly/7Se350ZAvBO

16/08/2026

How might our psychoanalytic approach need to change when a patient comes to us wanting to get rid of a skin disorder, rather than seeking psychological help?

Professor Jorge Ulnik explores this in a recent seminar hosted by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships’ CPD programme.

In this short clip, he reflects on his experience of working with people with skin disorders in two very different clinical settings: as a psychoanalyst in his consulting room and within an institution alongside a dermatologist.

The distinction is an important one. While those seeking psychoanalysis may already have some understanding of their inner world, patients arriving at a dermatology service may simply want their skin condition to disappear, with little awareness of the psychological or emotional experiences that might also need attention.

So how do we work psychoanalytically when that awareness isn’t yet there? And what might we need to adapt in our technique?

Professor Ulnik considers these questions in depth in the full Skin and Psychoanalysis recording, available to watch through TR Together. You can purchase the full recording here: https://trtogether.com/events/skin-and-psychoanalysis

And throughout August, all TR Together recordings are 25% off with code SUMMER2026.

Sale ends 31 August and applies to all recordings on their website.

14/08/2026

What can film offer those working with couples and relationships?

This September, TR Together, Tavistock Relationships’ CPD department, is bringing film and psychoanalysis into conversation for a special evening at the Freud Museum.

In this short clip, Christopher Clulow, one of the event’s speakers, reflects on how an Evening of Film & Psychoanalysis connects with the practice of couple therapy.

Christopher considers how film can provide a mirror to our experience, giving us another way to observe relationships, recognise dynamics that may feel familiar from the consulting room, and reflect on our own responses to what we see.

It is this opportunity to look at relationships from a different perspective that makes film such a rich space for psychoanalytic thinking and for thinking more deeply about our work with couples.

Join Christopher alongside Martha Doniach, Krisztina Glausius, Katalin Lanczi, Perrine Moran, Anne Patterson and Kate Thompson for TR Together’s An Evening of Film & Psychoanalysis.

Friday 11 September | 6–8.30pm | Freud Museum, London | 2 CPD credits

Secure your spot here: https://trtogether.com/events/film-psychoanalysis-freud

A wonderful piece of feedback received by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships’ CPD department, following its recent eve...
11/08/2026

A wonderful piece of feedback received by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships’ CPD department, following its recent event Assisted Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective.

Bringing together Dr Rachel Gibbons and CEO of Tavistock Relationships, Dr Andrew, the event created a space to think deeply about one of the most complex and emotionally charged issues facing clinicians and society today.

What stands out in this participant’s reflection is not only the value they found in the speakers’ contributions and the moving clinical stories shared, but the way the day opened up new ways of thinking. They arrived with a clear position and left feeling “humbled by the complexity of the issue” – a powerful reminder of what thoughtful CPD events can do.

This is exactly what our CPD department, TR Together, aims to offer: thoughtful learning experiences that bring clinicians into conversation with leading psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thinkers, explore the difficult questions emerging in contemporary clinical practice, and create space for different perspectives to be heard, considered and thought about together.

Looking ahead to your professional development this autumn? Explore TR Together’s Autumn CPD programme, with events, courses and clinical learning opportunities for psychotherapists, counsellors and mental health professionals: https://trtogether.com/events

Couple Therapy Summer School Join us from 21-24 July 2026, in London for our in person Summer School with Susanna Abse, ...
29/06/2026

Couple Therapy Summer School
Join us from 21-24 July 2026, in London for our in person Summer School with Susanna Abse, Stan Ruszczynski, Martha Doniach, CEO Andrew Balfour and many more. We will be exploring Couple Life and Family Transition and the changing face of intimate relationships and family structures.

This four day, in person event is designed for psychodynamic and psychoanalytic couple-trained therapists already working in the field.

Fill in an application form here:
https://trtogether.com/events/couple-therapy-summer-school-2026

27/06/2026

Is the feeling that you have found your ‘soulmate’ really a just shared sense of vulnerability with your partner? In this short video TR CEO and Couple Psychotherapist, Andrew Balfour explores why we choose the partners we do and the potential consequences.

https://ow.ly/ppcm50VcrSw

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