TR Together, 10 New Street, London (2025)

25/11/2025

This Friday: The Silent Damage of Boarding School

Abandonment, bereavement, captivity, and dissociation — the ABCD of boarding school syndrome as defined by the late Dr Joy Schaverien.

✨ Deepen understanding of how ex-boarders may present in therapy

✨ Explore how early separation and institutional life shape the psyche

✨ Hear from a panel of experts, all former boarders themselves, including psychotherapists, activists, and filmmakers

Programme Highlights:

• Graham Music - Early Development & Boarding School Trauma
• Short Film - Recent interview with Joy Schaverien from Boarding on Insanity
• Alex Renton - Supporting Survivors of Abuse in Boarding Schools
• Helen Odell-Miller - Being a Therapist and Ex-Boarder
• Facilitator: Zack Eleftheriadou

This event will be recorded, but all Q&A, attendee comments and any clinical material unsuitable for public dissemination will be removed. To fully benefit from the discussion and shared learning, we highly recommend attending live.

🗓️ Friday, 28 November 2025
⏰ 10:00am – 1:30pm (UK)
📍 Online (Hybrid format) via Zoom
🎥 Partially recorded
🔗 Book your place: https://trtogether.com/events/boarding-school-online

21/11/2025

📣 Today! 📣

This focused, practice-oriented workshop will explore how avoidant strategies develop, how they emerge in the therapeutic space, and how we as clinicians can stay present, attuned, and effective when faced with withdrawal, ambivalence, or relational rupture.

Linda Cundy will guide us through:

✔️ Early signs of avoidance and its developmental roots
✔️ Working with defences without overwhelming the client
✔️ Using our own emotional responses including frustration, distance, “de-skilling” as clinical information
✔️ Building trust at a pace that supports safety and genuine contact

We look forward to seeing you there!

🕑 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm (UK)
📍 Online
📚 Ticket includes: Recording, CPD certificate (3.5 credits), & live Q&A opportunities
🎟️ Register here: https://trtogether.com/events/avoidant-attachment-online

14/11/2025

Free CPD Series: Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis

We’re delighted to launch a new free online series offering open, reflective conversations with authors from the Routledge Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis collection.

Each session invites participants to explore how psychoanalytic ideas continue to evolve across theory and practice.

Join Dr Annie Reiner and Aner Govrin for an in-depth conversation on Dr Reiner's book W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction.

Explore Bion’s concept of O, the mind’s unknowable reality, and its implications for psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice

Rather than a formal presentation, this session will be guided by curiosity, spontaneity, and dialogue.

📅 Thursday, February 26, 2026 | 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm (UK)
📍 Online
📚 Recording, CPD certificate (1 credits), & live Q&A opportunities
🎟️ Register here: https://trtogether.com/events/between-sessions

13/11/2025

Free CPD Series: Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis

We’re delighted to launch a new free online series offering open, reflective conversations with authors from the Routledge Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis collection.

Each session invites participants to explore how psychoanalytic ideas continue to evolve across theory and practice.

Our first session is with Mary Morgan and Aner Govrin. Aner invites Mary to reflect on how her book Couple Relations: A Contemporary Introduction both consolidates and extends the field of psychoanalytic couple theory.

Rather than a formal presentation, this session will be guided by curiosity, spontaneity, and dialogue.

📅 Thursday, January 29, 2026 | 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm (UK)
📍 Online
📚 Recording, CPD certificate (1 credits), & live Q&A opportunities
🎟️ Register here: https://trtogether.com/events/between-sessions

12/11/2025

How do early attachment experiences shape a person’s capacity to manage pain and emotional distress?

Join Dr. Frances Sommer Anderson, PhD, SEP, licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst with over 40 years of experience treating mind–body pain disorders, in this online six-week course. Drawing on her training with the late Dr. John Sarno, Dr. Anderson integrates attachment theory, psychoanalytic principles, and neuroscience of pain and trauma and trauma treatment to help therapists understand and support clients with chronic somatic pain.

She’ll be joined by Katy Wakelin, psychotherapist and ex-patient, who recovered from chronic pain herself. Together, they’ll explore the therapeutic process, including how gender, power, and shame impact experiences of pain, and demonstrate techniques to help clients retrain neural networks and feel safe in their bodies.

📅 Thursday, April 16, 2026 - Thursday, May 21, 2026 | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm (UK)
📍 Online
📚 Recording, CPD certificate (12 credits), & live Q&A opportunities
🎟️ Register here: https://trtogether.com/events/chronic-pain

07/11/2025

Today!

Ageing, Illness and Death with Salman Akhtar, Andrew B. and Lorna Robinson (Chair)

This conference takes that spirit of courage as its starting point. To gather and think together about ageing, illness, and death is to engage with the realities most of us would rather not face, yet they are the very conditions of our humanity. In psychoanalytic work, we are constantly invited to sit with what is painful, uncertain, and unavoidable. Ageing brings all of this into sharp relief, confronting us not only with the losses of our patients but with our own.

This event offers a rare space for reflection to consider how, even as time limits us, it can deepen our capacity for understanding, tenderness, and truth. It invites us to think about what it means to live and work with awareness of finitude, and how, as clinicians and human beings, we might face these final tasks with both courage and grace.

Don't miss out! Purchase your ticket here: https://trtogether.com/events/ageing-illness-and-death

04/11/2025

Do you have clients who leave you feeling frustrated, disconnected, or as though the work is futile?

Early experiences of neglect, rejection, or criticism shape avoidant strategies. These patterns manifest in therapy through emotional distance, self-protection, and relational ambivalence.

Exploring the therapist’s own emotional responses, and how these can offer insight into the client’s inner world.

Participants will learn how to:

✔️ Recognise subtle avoidant defences
✔️ Understand countertransference experiences
✔️ Stay emotionally present and engaged when the work is difficult

Through discussion and reflection, participants will discover ways to respect the clients' need for distance while gently inviting curiosity and connection. Therefore, building trust and attunement without overwhelming the client.

📅 Friday, November 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm (UK)
📍 Online
📚 Ticket includes: Recording, CPD certificate (3.5 credits), & live Q&A opportunities
🎟️ Register here: https://trtogether.com/events/avoidant-attachment-online

30/10/2025

Why does love feel so tricky, even when we want it to work?
Why do we repeat the same dynamics?
And how can we grow beyond what shaped us?

Philosopher and author Alain de Botton will guide us through these questions with humour, warmth, and hope reminding us that love isn’t something we just fall into, but something we can learn to do better.

Join us in person for a drinks reception and an evening with Alain de Botton, as we explore what it really means to love despite the patterns and defences we carry from childhood.

Can't make it in person? Join us on Zoom!

🗓️ Saturday 16 May 2026
📍 Kings House, London & Online
🍷 Drinks included | CPD Certificate | Live Q&A opportunities
🎟️ https://trtogether.com/events/learning-to-love-with-alain-de-botton

28/10/2025

Why do some people find intimacy unbearable and separation intolerable?

When early relationships fail to provide reliable containment, the infant learns to survive by defending against both engulfment and abandonment.

These defences include:

🔺 Withdrawal
🔺 Merger
🔺 Idealisation
🔺 Control to protect psychic survival

However they can imprison the person in cycles of anxiety and longing.

Within therapy, the therapist is inevitably drawn into these dynamics, experienced at times as intrusive or abandoning, overbearing or absent.

Join Kate Thompson, psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist and former Tavistock Relationships faculty member, as she explores Henry Rey’s claustro–agoraphobic dilemma and the oscillation between intimacy and distance in therapeutic work.

📅 Friday, March 6, 2026 | 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm (UK)

📍 Freud Museum, London & Online via Zoom

📚 Ticket includes: Recording, CPD certificate (3 credits), & live Q&A opportunities

🎟️ Register here: https://trtogether.com/events/understanding-fears-of-engulfment-and-abandonment

23/10/2025

Avoidant Clients & the Impulse to Disconnect

Join Linda Cundy, as we explore how early experiences of neglect, rejection, and criticism shape avoidant strategies, and how these patterns manifest in therapy through emotional distance, self-protection, and relational ambivalence.

Learn how to recognise subtle defences, work through feelings of frustration or futility, and build trust and attunement without overwhelming the client.
With Dr Zack Eleftheriadou as chair.

📅 Friday, November 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm (UK)
📍 Online
📚 Ticket includes: Recording, CPD certificate (3.5 credits), & live Q&A opportunities
🎟️ Register here: https://trtogether.com/events/avoidant-attachment-online

16/10/2025

Working with patients using injectable weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Wegovy is new clinical territory.

These medications promise rapid appetite suppression and weight control, but what happens to the psychological and relational aspects of hunger, longing, and need?

As Winnicott might observe, appetite is not only biological, it is relational, rooted in the earliest dialogues between needing and being met. When these signals are chemically muted, the psyche may lose a vital form of communication. Such interventions can challenge how patients inhabit their bodies and how clinicians support them in engaging with desire, conflict, and vulnerability.

Join Susie Orbach, Jean Petrucelli, and Tom Wooldridge for an online conference examining the clinical, ethical, and psychoanalytic implications of these powerful new tools, and explore how we can continue to hold space for patients’ emotional and bodily experience in this rapidly changing landscape.

📅 Friday, June 12, 2026 | 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm (GMT)
📍 Online
📚 Ticket includes: Recording, CPD certificate (3.5 credits), & live Q&A opportunities
🎟️ Register here: https://trtogether.com/events/compulsive-eating-weight-loss-drugs

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