​Neuroscience for Therapists

Affect Regulation and Early Brain Development

Saturday, 22 March 2014 (10am - 4.30pm) 

Neuroscience is everywhere these days from psychotherapy, to mindfulness, to leadership development so as therapists we might feel we are supposed to know something about it.  But where to start?  It is a wide and complicated field.

Kathrin Stauffer, UKCP registered Body Psychotherapist and Author will lead this one-day workshop focusing on the key research into early brain development for psychotherapists, counsellors and therapists across a range of therapeutic modalities.

The workshop will give some general background on the nervous system (including the brain) but will mostly focus on topics of particular relevance to therapists.

Kathrin will give special attention to:

• How we can envisage early brain development and see its results in the therapy room
• The central role that affect regulation has in the development of our identity
• The importance of attachment relationships and good enough mothering for the acquisition of well-functioning affect regulation
• How the patterns of affect regulation that we learn as infants shape our lives into adulthood
• How we can improve ineffective or dysfunctional patterns of affect regulation in psychotherapy, counselling and other therapeutic approaches.

The workshop will include some experiential exercises.  Participants are invited to bring questions, ideas and client material as well as their own life stories for discussion.

Kathrin has taught anatomy and physiology for psychotherapists for many years and therefore has a good sense of what is digestible and of interest.

Cost: £75.00 / Early Bird - £60 (on payments received by 1 February 2013).

Workshop Leader

Kathrin Stauffer

UKCP registered Body Psychotherapist, Supervisor, Trainer & Author

For more information or 
to apply please contact Hayley Merron on 
01625 614754
or email