Psychotherapists practise within social, cultural, political, and ecological contexts - whether these are named or not. At the same time, many of us work with depth, symbolic meaning, and transpersonal dimensions of experience that extend beyond the individual and the purely personal.
This reflective practice group offers a contained space to explore how these domains meet in therapeutic work and where tensions, contradictions, and ethical questions emerge.
The group invites thoughtful reflection on how power, difference, social justice, and the more-than-human world live within the therapy room, and within us as practitioners.
This group is for psychotherapists who:
Are interested in social justice, systemic thinking, and their place in therapeutic practice;
Are curious about how positionality, power, and difference shape the therapeutic relationship;
Work with depth, symbolic or transpersonal perspectives and wish to critically reflect on spiritual meaning without bypassing psychological or social realities;
Value nuance, complexity, and reflective dialogue.
Themes may include:
Therapist positionality: identity, culture, privilege, marginalisation, and invisibility;
Power and authority in the therapeutic relationship, particularly across difference;
Systemic oppression and its psychological and relational impacts;
Gendered violence and the systemic silencing of women and LGBTQ+ people;
Ecological collapse, climate grief and meaning, including work with more-than-human perspectives;
Recognising and reflecting on spiritual bypass in therapeutic work;
Where transpersonal and spiritual frameworks can support liberation and care VS where they risk obscuring harm, inequality, or material reality.
Clinical work may be explored where appropriate, within a confidential, ethical frame.
This group is an invitation to think carefully, critically and compassionately about what it means to practise psychotherapy in complex social and ecological times.
The group will run online, on the second Friday of each month between September 2026 to February 2027, from 2pm to 3:30pm.
A breakdown of dates can be found below:
11 September 2026 | 9 October 2026 | 13 November 2026 | 11 December 2026 | 8 January 2027 | 12 February 2027
Get in touch to reserve your spot. Places are limited to 6.