Kendal Therapy

23/11/2025

Great weekend at the 6th PCA Europe Symposium. Glasgow always delights. Inspirational speakers and participants. Strathclyde University is a superb venue. Engaging theme - Growing in Difficult and Challenging Places.

400 + participants on site, many more online. 24 countries represented from Europe and the rest of the world.

Workshops, lectures, research and encounter groups. Discussed the latest thinking on working with people experiencing themes such as trauma and grief, and a range of new creative and experimental approaches, as well as deepening core person centred theory such as the actualising tendency.

Reinvigorated hope in people and the future, grounded in the person centred approach to counselling and group work.

Counsellors and Psychotherapists, I highly recommend joining PCA Europe and going to the events in the future.

21/11/2025

First day of the Person Centred Europe Symposium. So much going on in the person centred counselling field, my head's spinning but I'm smiling after a very full day. CPD-tastic!

17/11/2025

For counsellors...

Save the Date!

We’re excited to announce that the tPCA 2026 In-Person Conference will take place on the weekend of 17th–19th July 2026!

This much-loved event brings together our person-centred community for a weekend of connection, learning, and shared experience.

There will be options for both full residential places and day delegates, so you can join in whichever way suits you best.

Our conference team, all unpaid volunteers, are already hard at work securing a venue and making the event as affordable and accessible as possible.

We’ll be sharing more details and opening the payment platform as soon as we can - thank you for your patience and excitement as plans come together.

Save the date: 17th–19th July 2026
More details to follow soon!

27/09/2025

I picked some great CPD this week! Highly recommend the 'How the Light gets in' festival in London. It covers philosophy, politics, science, art, comedy and music. - AND the BACP Supervision Conference in Leeds which focused on politics, trauma and digital technology. Spoilt and head full, inspired to read more from the fantastic speakers.

03/09/2025

Walk, jog or run 90 miles this October for Mind

08/08/2025

Nuts and bolts....Wild Roots Nature Therapy Camp is a two and a half day programme. Fri eve we'll settle in, share a meal and learn some basic bushcraft to develop skills that help you feel comfortable in your weekend woodland home. Saturday night has an optional solo camp away from the main base in the wider wood (we have tarps, groundsheets and also hammock kits to lend if this is something you'd like to do). Whether you choose solo or at camp you will hold an intention that will shape the work we do together on Sunday. Sunday is dedicated to translating your inner work to outer action. So that when you leave you have a stronger sense of what you want to bring to the world and how to do it. (Photo...the beautiful jumble of ancient rafters in our friends' Pyrénées gite)