Embodied consultation group with Dr Fran Sommer Anderson

The embodied consultation group is an ongoing reflective space meeting monthly for clinicians wishing to deepen and integrate the themes explored in the series Working at the Intersection of Attachment, Trauma, and Chronic Pain.

Developed as a follow-on group, it offers participants the opportunity to think collaboratively about the complex relationship between body, mind, attachment, affect, and clinical practice in themselves and in their work with patients.

A key area of focus is neuroplasticity and the ways in which clinically supported “re-processing” may facilitate change in the neural pathways underlying chronic somatic pain. This includes consideration of how psychotherapy is expanding beyond traditional talk-based and trauma-based models into more active, embodied interventions. Techniques such as breathwork, visualisation, guided use of the imagination, and sensory exploration will be practised as clinically informed approaches with an emerging evidence base for supporting change at the level of pain processing and regulation.

Attention will also be given to questions of shame, gender, and power as they emerge in treatment. The consultation group is intended as a space for thoughtful discussion and experiential learning rather than formal teaching. Participants are invited to bring themselves, their clinical material, questions, and reflections. Through shared enquiry, the group aims to support clinicians in developing greater confidence in working with new techniques to support patients whose difficulties are expressed through bodily symptoms and chronic pain conditions.

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