SDS Thursdays 2025 | Updated
Our hugely popular SDS Thursdays continue to attract large audiences, and we are delighted to confirm new dates for 2025!
These FREE sessions are hosted by Dr Julia Budnik and led by Prof Paul Grantham, widely regarded as one of the UK’s best tutors on the selected topics. We will also continue to invite select guests to take part in our meetings. Join us live on Thursdays at 19.00 on Zoom, bring your questions on the topics and make these sessions into useful mini-tutorials.
By Invitation Only: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
2025 Update: Starting in 2025, we will continue to host Live SDS Thursdays for free, as before. However, the full recorded versions will no longer be uploaded to our free YouTube channel, but will instead be available exclusively to SDS Priority Members. This change aims to encourage more people to participate in the live sessions and will allow Members to receive a CPD certificate for the selected trainings as part of their Priority Membership.
To join SDS Priority Membership - CLICK 'JOIN' TAB VIA THIS LINK.
Save the dates for Live SDS Thursdays 2025:
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10 April 2025 | Clinical Supervision outside the UK: Kazakhstan | With Paul Grantham
Paul has just delivered a two-day course on CBT Clinical Supervision in Kazakhstan. This was his first visit to this vast country—the ninth largest in the world—and he will be sharing his thoughts and reflections on both the place and the people he met. To book on our BPS Approved Training on Clinical Supervision, follow this link: 10 - 11 June 2025
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1 May 2025 | Cognitive Restructuring of Negative Automatic Thoughts | Demonstration with Paul Grantham
Why is our CBT Introductory Course the most popular introductory training in CBT? Join us tonight to find out.
Paul Grantham is renowned for his ability to explain even the most complex ideas in psychology and psychotherapy in clear, accessible terms.
This evening, he will discuss one of the key CBT techniques—Cognitive Restructuring of Negative Automatic Thoughts—and demonstrate its application with a volunteer.
This is a vital free event, so be sure to arrive on time. The room will be locked 10 minutes after the session begins.
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5 June 2025 | How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome | With Paul Grantham
Paul is running this 14-hours Certificate course, approved by the British Psychological Society, in September 2025. It will guide delegates through the How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome™ treatment programme that integrates second and third wave CBT concepts and strategies to explore the origins and maintenance of Impostor Syndrome, providing participants with a step-by-step treatment plan to address it. Tonight you can meet with Paul and ask him everything you wanted to ask about Impostor Syndrome and make up your mind about sighing up to this certificate.
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25 September 2025 | ACT for Working with Eating Disorders and Obesity | With Professor Nuno Ferreira
Meet your tutor. Professor Nuno Ferreira is running a six-hour masterclass for us on the application of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in the treatment of eating disorders and obesity. This masterclass will examine how the ACT approach to eating disorders and obesity differs from other contemporary models and will provide guidance on effectively supporting clients using ACT principles. Tonight is your chance to meet Nuno before the course and ask him your questions.
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9 October 2025 | Unconscious Exposure: A New Evidence Based Treatment For Social Anxiety & Phobias | SDS Texts with Paul Grantham
Now on YouTube @ SDS Psychotherapy Training
Full Versions for Members:
- Can CBT Work with Autistic Clients? | With Paul Grantham
- Psychotherapy Greats: Carl Rogers | With Andrew Reeves and Paul Grantham
- Trauma: Complex Trauma in Adults & Children, Use of CBT with Dr Andrew Beck
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Procrastination and Depression: A Chicken and Egg Dilemma with Paul Grantham
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Professor Nuno Ferreira on what is ACT and how to use it with your clients with Nuno Ferreira
AND many others
Free Access:
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A Complex Trauma Masterclass | With Paul Grantham
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Healing Through Humour Meet Internationally Acclaimed writer/comedian Alison Larkin and Learn about her Approach to Grief and Loss
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Narcissism: What you probably didn't know Presentation and Quiz with Paul Grantham
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Do you have a book in you? | Navigate the treacherous sea of self-publishing with Julia B. Grantham, the author of two recent Amazon best-sellers for children A Mole Like No Other and Moley and the Mysterious Sea Turtles and publish your first book!
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Are you familiar with Mruk's Model of Self Esteem? A presentation and discussion with Paul Grantham
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Cultural Competency and CBT with the Hong Kong Chinese Community A recent article by Paul Grantham's supervisee, Dr Kwun Chang.
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Should trigger warnings be abolished and why? Presentation and Discussion with Paul Grantham
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Psychotherapy Greats: Steve De Shazer’s Anniversary Video illustration & Discussion with Paul Grantham
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Acceptance or Change? Are you focusing on the right thing with your clients? | Q&A with Paul Grantham
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Impostor Syndrome, Safety Behaviours and how to tackle them | Presentation & Large Group Exercise with Paul Grantham
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Therapy in the Spotlight – How do we know if therapy works or whether it damages | New Scientist article with Paul Grantham
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SDS Christmas Special | New Adventures of Moley and What He’s Got to do with Psychotherapy | Interview with Author Julia B. Grantham
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One technique that will reduce procrastination more than any other | Presentation & Large Group Exercise with Paul Grantham
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Want to get more out of your supervisor? Here’s how! | Presentation and Q&A with Dr Andrew Beck
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Clinical Supervision Recent Research Results | Q&As with Alan Smithson and Paul Grantham
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And many MANY others since 2020 - Watch, Learn, Subscribe, Like, Comment
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See you there, these meetings are absolutely free!