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.
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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.
Save the dates for Live SDS Thursdays 2025:
- 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.
- 16 October 2025 | Rumination, Overthinking, Safety Behaviours, Coping Strategies | Presentation of Two Brand New Courses with Paul Grantham
Join leading clinical psychologist Paul Grantham for the presentation of two brand new training courses designed to sharpen your clinical insight and enhance therapeutic effectiveness.
Explore the nuanced differences between rumination and overthinking, and learn how to work more effectively with clients caught in repetitive “What if” thinking. Then, examine the crucial - but often misunderstood - distinction between safety behaviours and coping strategies, and discover how recognising the difference can transform outcomes and reduce drop-out rates.
Essential for any practitioner wanting practical, evidence-based tools rooted in real clinical challenges.
- 20 November 2025 | Practical Applications of Compassion Focused Therapy | New Course with Professor Nuno Ferreira
This free online event offers an opportunity to hear directly from Consultant Clinical Psychologist Professor Nuno Ferreira about his forthcoming training course on the Practical Applications of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT).
Drawing on his expertise in both Compassion Focused and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Professor Ferreira will outline how CFT can be effectively integrated into clinical practice to support clients struggling with shame, self-criticism, and emotional regulation. Developed by Professor Paul Gilbert, CFT is an evidence-based therapeutic model grounded in evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural theory.
This introductory session will explore the key themes and aims of the course, helping practitioners decide whether it is the right training for them.
NOW ON YOUTUBE AT SDS PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING
- How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome | With Paul Grantham
- 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
- Procrastination and Depression: A Chicken and Egg Dilemma with Paul Grantham
- Professor Nuno Ferreira on what is ACT and how to use it with your clients with Nuno Ferreira
AND many others
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- Healing Through Humour Meet Internationally Acclaimed writer/comedian Alison Larkin and Learn about her Approach to Grief and Loss
- 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!
- Are you familiar with Mruk's Model of Self Esteem? A presentation and discussion with Paul Grantham
- Cultural Competency and CBT with the Hong Kong Chinese Community A recent article by Paul Grantham's supervisee, Dr Kwun Chang.
- Should trigger warnings be abolished and why? Presentation and Discussion with Paul Grantham
- Psychotherapy Greats: Steve De Shazer’s Anniversary Video illustration & Discussion with Paul Grantham
- Acceptance or Change? Are you focusing on the right thing with your clients? | Q&A with Paul Grantham
- Want to get more out of your supervisor? Here’s how! | Presentation and Q&A with Dr Andrew Beck
- Clinical Supervision Recent Research Results | Q&As with Alan Smithson and Paul Grantham
And many MANY others since 2020! - Watch, Learn, Subscribe, Like, Comment
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See you there, these meetings are absolutely free!