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Develop specialist skills through live teaching, discussion and practice. CPD training courses for therapists led by expert tutors.
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Choose a self-study online CPD course to work through at your own pace, or explore our library of recorded talks.
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Explore courses, events and resources with Dr James Kustow to understand more about adult ADHD and approaches to everyday life.
Visit our ADHD hubTherapy asks us to keep learning: about our clients, our approaches and ourselves. Our training is shaped by experience in the therapy room, helping you connect what you learn with the work you do.
Learn with tutors who bring clinical experience and specialist knowledge to their teaching.
Explore ideas and practical approaches that can broaden your understanding and support your work with clients.
We value thoughtful, inclusive therapy and a learning environment where different perspectives are heard and respected.
A practical, clinically grounded guide to help you work with trauma skilfully, confidently and humanely. With case material, worksheets, handouts and immediately applicable tools, the book supports you through the full arc of trauma therapy, from assessment, formulation and stabilisation to trauma processing, reconnection and integration.
Our new Certified Adult ADHD+ Practitioner Status recognises therapists who combine specialist training in embodied therapy for ADHD with applied clinical work, endorsed by Dr James Kustow.
This 8-day accredited certificate course, facilitated by Cabby Laffy and her daughter Shana Laffy, is designed for qualified counsellors, psychotherapists or psychologists who would like to become qualified and skilled in working therapeutically with couples and other relationships. Online or in London, 50-60 CPD hours.
This 8-day certificate course is facilitated by Cabby Laffy, Duane Yon, and Polly McAfee. The course is designed for qualified counsellors, psychotherapists or psychologists who would like to become more skilled in working therapeutically with psychosexual issues.
Learn new and exciting ways to conceptualise and make sense of Adult ADHD, for you and your clients, and support you to work with it creatively, holistically and therapeutically. The course also includes a foundational level ADHD coaching skills approach. Regardless of your primary modality, if you want to really understand, and learn to work effectively with individuals with ADHD, this is the course for you. Zoom, in-person and hybrid options available.
The course is designed for counsellors and psychotherapists who are acting as supervisors or who are considering adding supervision to their practice.
Welcoming individuals who have or suspect they have Adult ADHD. This groundbreaking, Zoom-based course is designed to provide inspiration and direction, for individuals who have ADHD (or strongly suspect they have it), in addition to professionals working in (or interested in working in) the fast moving field of adult ADHD. A bringing together of the adult ADHD community, hosted by The Grove.
This CPD course provides in-depth training on trauma, PTSD, and Complex PTSD, using a tri-phasic trauma therapy model. Participants will gain practical skills in trauma stabilization, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Trauma-Focused CBT, and managing intrusive imagery. The course also covers working with specific client groups and collaborating with other professionals for comprehensive treatment and recovery. This course is taught at a level suitable for qualified professionals who are already established in their own mode of practice.
Led by EFT Master Trainer Ashley Meyer, learn EFT across six days of progressive training. Build solid foundations, deepen your therapeutic skills, and learn how to integrate tapping into clinical practice. This course is designed specifically for counsellors and psychotherapists who will benefit from additional training in how to integrate EFT into their practice.
The Body Psychotherapy Series offers concise, bitesize CPD, with four 2-hour sessions spread across the year.
Over four live webinars, Nick Totton and Robert Rees will explore how any therapist, regardless of primary modality, can weave the essence of body psychotherapy into their day‑to‑day practice. Across the series, we will study four distinct but interlocking models of body psychotherapy - adjustment, trauma discharge, relational and process‑oriented ways of working - each of which may be most helpful at different points in the therapeutic journey.
This one-day retreat is designed exclusively for practitioners who want to deepen their understanding of the Solo-Soma method and learn how to integrate it into their clinical or coaching work.
Facilitated by:
Dr James Kustow – Consultant Psychiatrist & ADHD specialist, creator of Solo-Soma
Robert Rees – Psychotherapist, Embodiment Educator and Yoga teacher
A 5‑part CPD package of bitesize webinars for therapists and practitioners, led by Grove Director's Robert Rees and Elliot Davis. The series offers a coherent, clinically grounded way to work with addiction across a therapeutic arc, with each session geared towards filling your toolkit with active interventions.
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This webinar introduces the Adjustment model, exploring how breath, posture and movement shape clients’ emotional lives and how small, consent‑led changes can open more embodied space in therapy.
The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 1 of 4
Friday 6th November
14:00-16:00 (UK)
Drug use often begins as an adaptive response to distress, trauma and disconnection, yet it carries significant risk, harm and clinical responsibility. This 2 hour clinical webinar offers a nuanced, non reductive exploration of substance use through psychological, relational and neurobiological lenses, equipping you to work with clarity, containment and ethical precision.
The Addiction Series - Drugs
(Session 4 of 5 in series)
Wed, November 11th
17:30 PM - 19:30 PM
This session focuses on the Trauma/Discharge model, showing how to recognise and safely support somatic release of stored survival energy without tipping clients into re‑traumatisation.
The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 2 of 4
Friday 27th November
14:00-16:00 (UK)
Date: Tuesday 1st December 2026
Time: 6:30–7:45pm (UK time)
Location: Online via Zoom
Fee: £25 (inclusive of VAT)
A 75-minute live webinar with Dr. James Kustow offering an evidence-based overview of ADHD medication. Learn how different medications work, what to expect from titration, common side effects, and how treatment fits alongside therapy and lifestyle strategies. Ideal for adults considering medication, currently taking it, or supporting someone who is.
Please note this is a paid for event.
This webinar explores the Relational model, highlighting how two bodies co‑create the therapeutic relationship and how your own embodied responses can become vital clinical information.
The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 3 of 4
Friday 4th December
14:00-16:00 (UK)
Work addiction and burnout are often socially rewarded yet clinically significant patterns. The impact on health, relationships and meaning in life can be profound. This 2 hour clinical webinar explores work related addiction through psychological, relational and neurobiological lenses, equipping you to work with clarity, confidence and ethical balance.
The Addiction Series - Work
(Session 5 of 5 in series)
Wed, December 9th
17:30 PM - 19:30 PM
This final session of four sessions looks at the Process‑oriented model, inviting you to follow spontaneous bodily process in the moment and trust the bodymind’s capacity for self‑organisation within a solid therapeutic frame.
The Body Psychotherapy Series
Session 4 of 4
Friday 8th January
14:00-16:00 (UK)
How to Thrive with Adult ADHD: An Expert-Led Seminar
Date: 12th January 2027
Time: 18:30 - 19:30 PM
Hosts: Dr. James Kustow and Robert Rees
The Suicide Crisis Toolkit: A Tenacious Approach
Tuesday 19th January 5pm-6pm UK
Joy Hibbins and Robert Rees
Live on Zoom
Free to attend
Sleep and ADHD have a complex, two-way relationship. For many adults with ADHD, difficulties winding down, restless nights, and irregular sleep patterns are more than side effects - they’re central to how the condition expresses itself. In this 60-minute webinar, Dr James Kustow and Robert Rees unpack how disrupted sleep rhythms affect attention, emotion, and motivation - and what can be done about it.
Date: Tuesday 9th March 2027
Time: 6:30–7:30pm (UK time)
Location: Online via Zoom
Explore how mindset shapes the ADHD experience and learn practical tools to shift unhelpful patterns in this live online workshop.
Date: Tuesday 11th May 2027
Time: 6:30–7:30pm (UK time)
Location: Online via Zoom
Every person with ADHD has a unique ‘signature’, a distinct pattern of strengths, challenges, and ways of processing the world. Understanding and working with this personal ADHD signature can transform self-awareness and deepen therapeutic outcomes.
MUKCP MBACP
Dip (Psych, Trauma, Supvn)
MUKCP, MBACP, IATP
Dr James Kustow is a London-based Consultant Psychiatrist and The Grove’s Medical Director.
A foundational basis for working creatively and holistically with adults who have, or suspect they have, adult ADHD.
This training helps you recognise often‑missed ADHD in adults, especially when it’s masked by anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction or physical health issues, and respond with confidence and compassion utilising a suite of tools and expert knowledge to implement into your practice straight away.
A complete self-study ADHD course for adults, led by Dr James Kustow - consultant psychiatrist, bestselling author of How to Thrive with Adult ADHD, and one of the UK's leading adult ADHD specialists.
Filmed live from The Grove Practice's popular Thrive with Adult ADHD one-day programme, this course goes far beyond the standard ADHD checklist. Drawing on Dr Kustow's integrative, whole-person approach, including his ground-breaking Somatic Super-Syndrome framework, you'll map your unique ADHD Signature, understand how ADHD affects your brain, body and emotions, and build a practical, personalised plan for lasting change.
Whether you're newly diagnosed, exploring whether you have ADHD, or supporting someone you love, this online ADHD course gives you the knowledge, tools and strategies to move from overwhelm to clarity.
**Introductory Offer - use code: THRIVE60 for 60% off purchase price. Solo-Soma is a 20-minute, body-focused meditation practice designed by Dr. James Kustow to support a proactive approach to self-care. Perfect for neurodiverse individuals, those with sensory sensitivities, and anyone managing chronic conditions including those linked to hypermobility. This unique practice integrates elements from ancient practices like yoga and acupressure with elements from modern interventions such as EFT, EMDR, as well as cognitive and physiological interventions. By calming the autonomic nervous system, improving circulation, and fostering mind-body integration, Solo-Soma helps you launch your day with balance and focus. Transform your self-care routine—click through now to access this powerful, life-enhancing practice.
This course brings you the essential knowledge and skills for competence as a supervisor – whether working with supervisees as individuals, groups, or in peer supervision format. Certificate for 6 hours of CPD.
This course brings you knowledge and skills for working with clients who are emotionally overwhelmed, prone to dissociating, or traumatised. By understanding the nature and effects of trauma on the brain and body, this course equips therapists with practical skills for psycho-education and working with trauma. Certificate for 7 hours of CPD.
This course has been designed to meet a growing demand for mental health practitioners within companies and other organisations, equipping participants with enhanced skills to engage with work-related issues.
This is the second in our Essentials of Consulting series. Just getting started is probably the biggest step in the whole process of setting up a consulting practice. From the prospective consultant’s point of view, there are all of ‘them’ – the organisations and businesses with their multiple functions and myriad issues - and there is ‘just’ you... why would you not be daunted?
Consulting Essentials 1 has been designed to meet a growing demand for mental health practitioners within companies and other organisations, equipping participants with enhanced skills to engage with work-related issues.
Gain full access to The Grove’s 2025 CPD Conference Recording, a rich resource for therapists, supervisors, and mental health professionals. This package includes the complete recordings of all four keynote talks, the full audience Q&A, and a downloadable brochure with exclusive conference-only offers. You’ll also receive the full slide decks from each presentation to support your learning, plus interactive elements to help you integrate the material into your practice.
Talks include:
Sex is dead, long live the relationship — Sarah Briggs
How full is your trauma toolkit? — Elliot Davis
Supervising trauma – supporting without absorbing — Ruthie Smith
Amber signs – clues to adult ADHD in your clients — Dr James Kustow
On completion, you’ll be awarded a 4-hour CPD certificate, confirming your professional development. Introduced and facilitated by renowned therapist and director Robert Rees.
The Wildness of the Body – with Nick Totton & Robert Rees
Discover the raw, untamed wisdom of the body in this thought-provoking conversation with renowned therapist Nick Totton. Together with Robert Rees, Nick explores how wildness and embodied presence can transform therapeutic practice and healing.
Attendees described the event as “brilliant and thought-provoking,” “deeply affirming,” and “a breath of fresh air.” Over 300 therapists and practitioners from the UK and beyond joined live, with comments from as far afield as Thailand, France, South Africa and Lithuania.
This recording captures the full talk, reflections, and Q&A — offering inspiration and practical insight for anyone drawn to embodied, relational therapy.
This webinar, the second in a series hosted by The Grove Practice, features psychotherapist Nick Totton discussing the wildness of the body in therapeutic practice. Totton defines wildness as spontaneous and embodied, and urges therapists to embody it themselves to invite clients into relational presence. The conversation covers neurodivergence, discharge over containment, working outdoors with "other-than-human people," spirituality in embodiment and political activism through therapy.
When we think about the environment, we tend to focus on our carbon footprint. But what if the real challenge begins closer to home, within our own minds? This one-hour discussion with Robin Shohet and Robert Rees explores how our inner world affects the outer one. Learn a simple method to clear mental “pollution” and cultivate greater clarity and compassion.
Join therapist and EFT master trainer Ashley Meyer for an illuminating introduction to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).
EFT, often known as ‘tapping’, has gained international recognition as a gentle, effective approach for working with anxiety, trauma, phobias, pain and self-limiting beliefs. A simple yet powerful method that combines elements of cognitive therapy and acupressure to help clients release emotional distress and restore balance to the nervous system.
A 60-minute webinar with Dr. James Kustow offering an evidence-based overview of ADHD medication. Learn how different medications work, what to expect from titration, common side effects, and how treatment fits alongside therapy and lifestyle strategies.
In this eye-opening 1-hour talk, Dr. James Kustow—consultant psychiatrist and leading voice in integrative approaches to ADHD—invites you to go beyond the behavioural and neurological models of ADHD. He presents a systemic and somatic framework for understanding the condition in adults, drawing attention to a constellation of comorbidities too often overlooked in mainstream practice.
If you work with ADHD—or live with it—this talk will shift your perspective and expand your clinical toolkit.
Join Lisa Sanfilippo and Robert Rees for a one-hour training exploring the connection between sleep and mental health. Learn how to apply body-based tools from yoga therapy, breathwork, and polyvagal theory—plus gain a CPD certificate, slides, and an audio version to listen on the go.
Hosted by Robert Rees & Tamsin Olivier
Most therapists can name the trauma responses — fight, flight, freeze, and fawn — but how often do we help clients feel different in their bodies?
In this recorded webinar, Robert Rees and Tamsin Olivier explore what it truly means to work with the body in trauma therapy. Moving beyond theory, they share grounded insights and practical somatic tools that support clients in building real experiences of safety, connection, and regulation.
Ideal for therapists, coaches, and healing practitioners looking to deepen their trauma-informed, body-based approach. Includes access to the recording and CPD certificate.
How to Thrive with Adult ADHD is a 90-minute live webinar exploring practical strategies to manage and harness the strengths of ADHD in adulthood. Led by Dr. James Kustow and Robert Rees, this expert-led session delves into Dr James unique conceptualisation of ADHD, providing practical strategies for management and describes possible evidence of associated physical health co-morbidities.
Therapy isn't just something we offer—it's something we live. Over time, the tools we use in the room begin to shape the way we move through the world: how we listen, how we respond, how we pause before reacting, how we hold space for others—and for ourselves.
In this honest and intimate conversation, Robert Rees, Ben Yalom, and Elliot Davis explore how the practices we teach become the quiet foundations of our own growth. From cultivating stillness to navigating triggers, this session is an invitation to reflect on what happens when therapy tools move from theory into everyday life—and change us along the way.
This moving and intimate session explored the deep terrain of therapeutic presence, vulnerability, and relational depth. Co-led by Ben Yalom, director and co-author of *Hour of the Heart* (written with his father, Dr. Irvin Yalom), and Robert Rees, psychotherapist and Director of The Grove, the conversation held space for honesty, humour, complexity, and connection. Participants joined from across the globe, representing 39 countries.
Ruthie Smith and Robert connect for a 90-minute workshop exploring the transformative field of Energy Psychotherapy. Drawing from ideas in Energy, Soul Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm (Karnak 2024), this talk introduces an innovative approach to psychotherapy that integrates body, mind, and energy alongside traditional talking therapy. As our planet undergoes a shift in consciousness, this paradigm offers empowering, self-applied energy psychology methods that clear trauma and dense frequencies, creating space for healing and transformation. Key topics include: The Consciousness Shift: From ego-driven 3D to heart-based 5D quantum consciousness, using higher consciousness to heal our everyday reality. The BodyMindEnergy System: Working with meridians, chakras, and thoughtfields to bring healing through subtle energy. Vibrational Reality: Understanding emotions through energy and frequency, and how raising our vibration leads to greater well-being. Trauma and Emotional Regulation: Using energy psychology methods to clear trauma and promote inner peace. Honoring Innate Goodness: Approaching therapy with the belief in clients’ fundamental wholeness and healing potential. Depth Psychotherapy: Addressing a range of issues including transpersonal trauma and overcoming therapeutic blockages. The workshop includes experiential exercises such as energy balancing and karate chop tapping, offering practical skills to take away for use with clients. Ruthie runs a 2-day Introduction to Energy Psychotherapy at The Grove, taught alongside Paul Croal and Suzie Wood. Join Ruthie for an enlightening session that brings a new dimension to the therapeutic process.
Tuesday 1st December 2026
6:30-7:45pm (UK time)
Online via Zoom
£25 (inclusive of VAT)
Join us for an accessible, high-quality session that brings clarity to one of the most important, and often confusing, aspects of ADHD treatment. Discover how ADHD medication works, what to expect, and how to make confident, informed choices about treatment.
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