CPD Training
Our professional training programmes adapt the Queer Love Letters methodology for therapists, coaches, and group facilitators seeking to integrate creative, embodied tools into their practice. This approach combines psychodynamic depth with humanistic presence, while layering in the transformative potential of structured expressive writing, artistry, narrative therapy, and somatic awareness.
Through a blend of live demonstration, experiential learning, and reflective integration, participants gain confidence in using creative interventions to foster psychological safety, narrative coherence, and emotional processing within diverse client groups. This training is designed for those working with LGBTQIA+ clients but is equally relevant to any setting where identity, belonging, and self-expression are central to the therapeutic process and is a vital addition to your clinical toolkit.
What’s Included?
This immersive 3-hour CPD session offers a blend of movement, writing, artistry and creative integration to deepen your emotional literacy and facilitation skills. Perfect for therapists, educators, artists, and anyone working with embodied emotional expression.
Creative Tools and Resources Provided
CPD Certificate
£100 per participant
London Location (TBC)
The Professional Impact
In these immersive sessions, you’ll explore how to safely and effectively introduce creative interventions into your client work, supported by psychodynamic, person-centred, and trauma-informed principles. Whether you’re working one-to-one, in groups, or within organisational settings, you’ll learn to:
Assess client readiness for creative engagement
Use metaphor, imagery, and somatic expression to unlock deeper therapeutic processes
Incorporate multi-sensory prompts that invite exploration beyond language
Maintain clear therapeutic boundaries while fostering creative freedom
The Practitioner’s Edge
This is more than professional development — it’s a shift in how you hold space. Our approach is grounded in theory, informed by research, and refined through years of practice at the intersection of psychotherapy and the arts. You’ll leave with a library of adaptable tools, practical frameworks for session planning, and an expanded capacity to meet diverse clients where they are.
The Methodology
We combine elements from attachment theory, intersectional feminist frameworks, and trauma-informed practice with an array of creative modalities—poetry, free-writing, visual symbolism, and somatic grounding. This multi-modal approach supports clients in articulating narratives that have been silenced, re-authored, or reframed. You will gain tools to explore identity, memory, and resilience through both verbal and non-verbal channels, deepening your practice and strengthening your capacity for holding complexity in the room.
Professional Outcomes
Participants leave with a robust, evidence-aligned set of interventions adaptable across individual, group, and community therapy settings. You will develop heightened sensitivity to the layered dynamics of queer and marginalised clients’ lived experiences, alongside practical techniques for facilitating creative processes that bypass resistance, foster empowerment, and anchor therapeutic change. Our model supports continuing professional development at the highest standard—enhancing not only your skillset, but the texture and depth of your therapeutic presence.
Dr Nikolaos Souvlakis
“The workshop offered a uniquely transformative space where participants were encouraged to explore and express their identities, emotions, and desires through creative writing, within the supportive context of the queer community. The facilitators demonstrated exceptional professionalism, empathy, and insight, creating an environment where participants felt safe to share vulnerable and authentic narratives. The workshop’s emphasis on self-expression, reflection, and reclamation of personal stories empowered attendees to articulate feelings, process experiences, and celebrate queer love in its diverse forms.”
