TA, Gestalt and psychosexual perspectives brought together for couples work. Two days for trainee and qualified therapists. 14 hours CPD.

The Relational Crucible: Integrative Couples Therapy

2 day course 9 & 10 January 2027 at Physis Scotland, Edinburgh

With Lohani Noor, UKCP, MSc

When a couple comes into the room, the client isn't either of them. It's the pattern between them. This two-day course gives trainee and qualified therapists three ways of seeing that pattern: Transactional Analysis for how partners' scripts lock together, Gestalt for tracking contact as it happens, and a biopsychosocial frame for working with sex and intimacy.

Day one: Scripts, contracts and the relational field

Life scripts, interlocking scripts and partner choice

Ego states and life positions in couple transactions

Contracting at initial, therapeutic and process levels

Heteronormative and mono-normative assumptions in the therapy room

Transference and countertransference enactments

The Gestalt infinity process and the cycle of contact

The drama triangle, triangulation and intergenerational patterns

Day two: The body, sexuality and integration

Biopsychosocial assessment and trauma-informed sexual history taking

Low desire, desire discrepancy and erotic deadness as relational patterns

Gendered scripts, infidelity, and power in a couple's sexual life

Integrating script analysis and Gestalt experiments in practice

The therapist's own script, and co-therapy

GSRD, high conflict couples, separation, and ethical practice

Short teaching inputs, experiential work in triads, case vignettes and small group work, with time to bring your own cases. You don't need prior TA or Gestalt training. Everyone receives a full course handbook with assessment tools, formulation templates and a reading list.

Your trainer

Lohani Noor is the founding director of ThIRST, the Institute for Relational and Sexual Therapies. A UKCP registered psychotherapist and accredited member of COSRT, she holds a four-year diploma in TA psychotherapy and an MSc in Psychosexual Therapies. She trains COSRT members regularly and is the author of Rationale for Psychosexual Therapies: 100 Key Points and Techniques (2026).

Details

Physis Scotland, 22 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh

14 hours CPD, certificate provided

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