CBPC offers Psychotherapy, Training, Supervision, and Continuing Professional Development Courses.
We are a leading edge centre of excellence for body psychotherapy and have been established since 1989. Body psychotherapy is known as Somatic psychotherapy in the USA.
We are offer in person psychotherapy.
We have a no waiting list policy for individual psychotherapy.
We shall have the next batch of interviews on Friday 19th April 2024 for training for the Diploma in Body Psychotherapy starting in October 2024. The training is an in person training. We have a maximum of 12 places. Currently about half the places have been allocated.
The centre offers:
- Individual Body Psychotherapy
- Diploma in Body Psychotherapy leading to UKCP registration
- Certificate level training in Biodynamic Massage as a complementary therapy
- Continuing Professional Development Training e.g. Somatic Trauma Therapy Training with Babette Rothschild – online training
- Short introductory courses
- Supervision and Consultation
How Can Body Psychotherapy Help?
Any difficulties that you may have will show physically as well as in how you feel and are thinking. Body psychotherapy (Somatic Psychotherapy) includes talking, but with the inclusion of paying attention to what your body is trying to tell you. Most difficulties in relationships and personal problems can be helped by body psychotherapy. This includes stress, which is often experienced as irritability, weepiness, aches and pains, sleeplessness, exhaustion and lack of interest in life. Body psychotherapy can also be helpful for depression, anxiety, panic attacks, trauma, loss (of a loved one, meaning and direction in life, spiritual connection), long term illness, lack of confidence, intimacy issues, unstable relationships, blocks to creativity and fuller enjoyment of life.
Body psychotherapy is an inclusive term and, in recent times, has become associated with working with trauma. There are particular forms of body psychotherapy, which specialise in this, e.g. Somatic Experiencing (Peter Levine), but in the UK working with trauma is part of any body psychotherapy training. However, body psychotherapy is much more than working with trauma. It focusses on being fully alive and feeling joy in life and what is stopping that.
We do not maintain a waiting list and you could expect to start psychotherapy within two weeks of contacting us. This is now in person. There is ample free parking and a spacious garden creating a tranquil environment not far from the centre of Cambridge.
OPEN EVENTS TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT TRAINING IN BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY
The next Open Event is on Friday TBC There are 12 places. Cost: £10.00. Please contact us to book. There will be another Open Event in May 2024. The next batch of interviews for training in 2024 will be on Friday 19th April 2024. We take 12 students each year.
Our main course textbook is “Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Psychotherapy” by Gill Westland (Norton, 2015). Copies are available to purchase at reduced cost at open evenings.
SOMATIC TRAUMA THERAPY TRAINING WITH BABETTE ROTHSCHILD 2024-2025
Babete Rothschild is offering Somatic Trauma Therapy Training again in 2024-2025. The training is online with maximum numbers of 24 participants. Applications are being taken. It is a Continuing Professional Development training. Only 3 places left.
FILM TO PURCHASE
ONE DAY CONFERENCE: BEING IN TOUCH: COMMUNICATING THROUGH TOUCH IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
A film of the day is available to buy from Whole Being Films
https://wholebeingfilms.com/product/being-in-touch-conference-2022/
The conference explored touch in psychotherapy with neuroscientists. Speakers were Professor Francis McGlone, Dr Katerina Fotopoulou, Dr Natalie Bowling, Tom Warnecke, Susan Frazer, Gill Westland, Dr David Tune, Dr Elya Steinberg, sissy lykou
JOURNAL OF BODY, MOVEMENT AND DANCE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
The Journal of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy is the main international peer reviewed academic journal for body psychotherapy. Some articles are free to download and articles written by CBPC staff are consistently in the top 10 most read articles online. Journal BMDP
For more detailed information about the development of CBPC and other articles of interest about body psychotherapy please see the Articles Page
CAMBRIDGE BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY CENTRE IS A FULL MEMBER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM COUNCIL FOR BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY (UKCP)
