In this email there are THREE things:
1) A limited number of places remain for our in-person workshops! Sign up today to get face to face CPD on working with couples.
2) A list of workshops coming up that have savings (i.e. an early booking discount) running out soon, and courses that are happening in the next few weeks, so you can book ahead.
and
3) Juliet's Musing - When You Start to Disappear: The Quiet Cost of Self-Abandonment
Tired of Online CPD?
Come Back to the Room: 2 workshops
There is something quietly nourishing about learning together in the same room. Online CPD can be convenient, but it often flattens what matters most: the felt sense of being with others, the conversations over coffee, the unplanned moments where ideas land in the body rather than just the mind. In-person CPD offers texture, warmth, and relational learning.
You notice yourself differently.
You remember why you came into this work.
If you miss that kind of contact, we have two more in-person workshops this year:
21–22 February, Meeting Their Partner’s Needs
and
18–19 April, Sex, Arousal and Ageing.
Both are part of our Working With Couples modular series.
In Ealing, West London.
Only a few places left, book now.
EARLY BOOKING DISCOUNTS RUNNING OUT SOON: Click blue links to go to website
- Fundamentals of Working with Couples: Starts Friday 10th April 2026 Discount ends TODAY 10th February 2026
- Creative Writing In The Therapeutic Encounter: Starts Tuesday 14th April 2026 Discount ends 14th February 2026
- Attachment and Oneself: An Experential Group for Caregiving Professionals: Starts Friday 17th April 2026 Discount ends on 17th February 2026
- Sex Arousal and Ageing: Starts Saturday 18th April 2026 Discount ends 18th February 2026
- Anger, Rage & Relationship: Starts Saturday 25th April 2026 Discount ends 25th February 2026
- Communication & Difference: Starts Monday 4th May 2026 Discount ends 4th March 2026
- Introduction to Attachment Informed Therapy and its Clinical Application: Starts Friday 8th May 20206 Discount ends 8th March 2026
- Advanced Certificate In Neurodiversity-Informed Practice: Starts Sunday 10th May 2026 Discount ends 10th March 2026
- Working Somatically With Dreams- A Relational and Embodied Approach: Starts Friday 15th May 2026 Discount ends 15th March 2026
- Other Loves 1 – Consensual Non-monogamy and Polyamory: Working with multi-partner relationships: Starts Thursday 21st May 2026 Discount ends March 21st 2026
- Other Loves 2 – Exploring Relationship Styles across Cultures and Religions, including Arranged Marriages and Polygamy: Starts Friday 22nd May 2026 Discount ends 22nd March 2026
- Working with Kink: Starts Thursday 4th June 2026 Discount ends 4th April 2026
COURSES IN NEXT FEW WEEKS
- Lives of Quiet Desperation: Therapeutic Work with Men: Starts Thursday 12th February 2026
- Meeting Partners Needs: Starts Saturday 14th February 2026: Certificate WWC
- Meeting Partners Needs IN-PERSON, EALING WEST LONDON: Starts Saturday 21st February 2026: Certificate WWC
- Working Alongside Trans, Non-binary & Questioning Clients: Starts Saturday 28th February 2026: Certificate DWCR
- Introduction to Attachment Theory: Starts Sunday 1st March 2026: Certificate CIT
- 31st RESIDENTIAL THERAPY MARATHON Deep Dive Starts Sunday 1st March 2026
- Introduction to Attachment Informed Therapy and its Clinical Application: Starts Sunday 1st March 2026
- Couples in Conflict: Starts Friday 13th March 2026
- Sex Arousal and Ageing: Starts Wednesday 18th March 2026
- Clinical application of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and Mentalisation: Starts Saturday 21st March 2026
- Grief: The Gateway to Transformation: Starts Sunday 22nd March 2026
- Dealing With Affairs: Starts Friday 27th March 2026
- Fundamentals of Working with Couples: Starts Friday 10th April 2026
- Creative Writing In The Therapeutic Encounter: Starts Tuesday 14th April 2026
- Attachment and Oneself: An Experential Group for Caregiving Professionals: Starts Friday 17th April 2026
- Sex Arousal and Ageing IN PERSON: Starts Saturday 18th April 2026
- PBSP Supervision and Live Practice Day: Starts Thursday 23rd April 2026
- Anger, Rage & Relationship: Starts Saturday 25th April 2026
- Communication & Difference: Starts Monday 4th May 2026
- Introduction to Attachment Informed Therapy and its Clinical Application: Starts Friday 8th May 2026
CERTIFICATES:
Those workshops that are part of a Certificate Training are noted above.
WWC is the Certificate in Working with Couples.
WWCT is the Certificate in Working With Complexities of Trauma.
DWCR is the Certificate in Diversity Within Contemporary Relationships.
CIT is the Certificate in Attachment
You can take just one module, or click the link to see which other modules make up the Certificate.
For the FULL LIST of all our workshops and ALTERNATIVE DATES go to www.therapyandcounselling.co.uk
JULIET'S MUSINGS
37. When You Start to Disappear: The Quiet Cost of Self-Abandonment
This fourth piece also comes from the same clinical work that shaped the earlier reflections. By the time we had named nitpicking, defensiveness, and the fog of negativity that hung over the relationship, something else became painfully clear. One partner was not just coping with these patterns. They were slowly disappearing inside them.
Self-abandonment rarely announces itself loudly. It develops quietly, as a series of small adjustments made in the hope of keeping things steady. You speak less. You ask for less. You smooth your edges, soften your needs, and tell yourself it is not worth the tension. You become very good at accommodating, anticipating, and managing, while losing touch with what you actually feel or want.
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