At Talking Therapies UK, we are passionate about equipping professionals with the knowledge, confidence, and compassion to support mental health across diverse settings. With decades of combined experience in clinical practice, public health leadership, and service transformation, our training programmes are rooted in evidence-based approaches and real-world application.
We specialise in delivering high-impact, trauma-informed mental health training tailored to the needs of health, education, social care, and voluntary sector teams. From safeguarding and suicide prevention to emotional resilience and therapeutic communication, our courses are designed to empower practitioners at every level—whether you’re frontline staff, a strategic commissioner, or part of a multi-agency partnership.
Our facilitators bring many years clinical expertise , and a deep understanding of the social determinants of mental health. We prioritise co-production, reflective practice, and inclusive learning environments that foster curiosity, empathy, and professional growth.
Whether you’re looking to upskill your workforce, embed mental health into your organisational culture, or meet statutory training requirements, we offer flexible delivery formats including in-person workshops, webinars, and bespoke consultancy.
Together, we can build psychologically safe, responsive systems that promote wellbeing, reduce inequalities, and improve outcomes for individuals, families, and communities. Let’s shape the future of mental health—one conversation, one training, one transformation at a time..
Give your team our CPD-ready training courses, written by practising clinicians. You buy a set number of places for a year; each person joins with one link, works through the courses at their own pace and earns a certificate for each course they complete.
The cognitive model from first principles: how thoughts, feelings, body and behaviour interact, and how change becomes possible.
A premium, in-depth programme on the Mental Health Act 1983 as it stands in October 2026, the Mental Health Act 2025 and the therapist's role
A premium, in-depth programme on safeguarding law, recognition, response and accountability for therapists, current to October 2026
A premium, in-depth programme on capacity, best interests, planning ahead and liberty for therapists, current to October 2026
A premium, in-depth programme on liberty, the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and the Court of Protection after the Supreme Court's June 2026 judgment
A premium, in-depth programme on the ecological, family-centred approach to serious antisocial behaviour in adolescence, its evidence, adaptations and implementation in UK services
Disorder-specific models, formulation-driven treatment and the craft of making CBT work with real clients.
Comorbidity, rupture, schema-level work and the judgement calls protocols cannot make for you.
Listening that changes things: Rogers' conditions and the foundational skills every helping conversation stands on.
Bordin's alliance, relational depth, difference and diversity, and the skilled use of self.
Relational depth, enactment, the wounded healer and the ethics of power in long relational work.
Formulation, interpretation and the brief dynamic therapies: putting depth to work within real-world limits.
Object relations, projective identification, and dynamic work with personality-organised difficulty.
Psychological flexibility, the hexaflex, and why the struggle with feelings is the problem ACT treats.
Moving around the hexaflex in session: experiential work, metaphor, and functional analysis in the room.
Understanding the Integrated Personality Treatment Framework
Delivering stabilisation, safety, cognitive mapping and schema work
Stage Three, specialist adaptations, and building an IPTF service
RFT under the bonnet, process-based therapy, and ACT with complexity, chronic pain and long shadows.
Science, stigma and the modern dimensional model
Dimensional assessment, risk and shared formulation
The evidence-based treatments and the case for integration
The dialectic of acceptance and change, and the four skills modules that regulate a dysregulated life.
The cognitive behavioural understanding of post-traumatic stress
The trauma narrative, cognitive updating and graded exposure
Developmental trauma, complex presentations and special contexts
Chain analysis, validation under fire, and bringing DBT's structure into ordinary clinical settings.
The biosocial theory, dialectics and the core mindfulness skills
Surviving crises and changing emotions
Relationship skills and running DBT with fidelity
Secondary targets, dialectical dilemmas, the consultation team, and dysregulation beyond borderline presentations.
The adaptive information processing model and the eight phases
