21st – 23rd May 2021
Online Training (via Zoom)
About Chairwork
Chairwork is dedicated to providing high-impact training, supervision, consultancy, and psychotherapy incorporating action-based methods – collectively known as ‘chairwork’. We promote the application, development, and continued research of chairwork, which forms an integral part of evidence-based psychotherapies and coaching approaches.
Upcoming Training
Services we offer
Therapy
Chairwork offers a variety of evidence-based psychotherapies including CBT, Compassion Focused Therapy, and Schema Therapy.
Supervision
Our team has considerable experience in providing ‘action-based’ clinical supervision and consultation, both nationally and internationally.
Coaching
Chairwork provides coaching to individuals and organisations, and is the creator of dialogical coaching – an experiential approach to development.
Why Train with Us?
Chairwork is co-directed by Dr. Matthew Pugh and Tobyn Bell, both of whom are experienced therapists, trainers, and researchers in the field of chairwork. They ensure that students have access to training which is at the cutting-edge of developments in theory and practice.
Testimonials
An absolutely excellent course… Exceptionally well put together and rich in insights, techniques, and experience.
Participant – On-Demand Training Course
I just wanted to say again how helpful the chairwork training was… I felt so excited to use it I did with my first client today. With absolutely no exaggeration it was the “breakthrough” moment we needed in therapy. So incredibly powerful.
Participant – Online Workshop
Thank you with heartfelt gratitude… This was one of the best CPD/training events that I have attended.
Participant – On-Demand Training Course
Chairwork was incredibly helpful… and completely changed my outlook on certain ways of thinking. I honestly don’t think I’d have recovered so quickly had we not used it.
Client – Individual Therapy (Bulimia Nervosa)
One of the best CPD events I’ve ever attended.
Participant – Self-Practice / Self-Reflection Workshop
I’ve devoured your online course over the last couple of days – it’s one of the best trainings I’ve done and I feel able to start using chairwork confidently in my practice immediately… It was broken up perfectly and really easy to digest, and easy to get into a mum of a little one!
Participant – On-Demand Training Course
An amazingly useful experience for unearthing my underlying motivations and desires that I was struggling to understand.
Client – Single Session Chairwork
An incredibly helpful and innovative training on how to use chairwork in the digital therapy world. I was clinically on fire with my clients today, doing the deep work that chairwork evokes and borrowing with pride many of the innovations that were shared.
Participant – Online Workshop
A MASSIVE thank you for your recent introductory chairwork training course… I have found it so unbelievably helpful, as I am only just starting to learn the technique as part of my Schema Therapy training… The training was incredibly well put together and easy to work through.
Participant – On-Demand Training Course
Superb workshop… Highly informative, eminently useful, participatory, and great fun.
Participant – Introductory Chairwork Workshop
The online workshop was excellent. Matt and Tobyn have a command of the material and present it in a welcoming and engaging manner. I would highly recommend learning chairwork, no matter your orientation, from these two dedicated clinicians.
Participant – Online Workshop
I just wanted to say again how helpful the chairwork training was… I felt so excited to use it I did with my first client today. With absolutely no exaggeration it was the “breakthrough” moment we needed in therapy. So incredibly powerful.
Participant – Online Workshop
Helpful, animated, and encouraging… I’ve since tried chairwork with my clients and its transformed our sessions.
Participant – Foundation and Advanced Skills Workshop
An excellent day… One of the best courses I’ve attended in a long while and my first webinar of that length.
Participant – Online Workshop
The training was so helpful. I had flirted with the idea of using chairwork but always been a bit anxious putting it into practice. The training really helped me understand the underlining principles and processes and gave me confidence to use the approach.
Participant – Online Workshop
Dr. Matthew Pugh
Cognitive Behavioural Chairwork
“Jam-packed with insights and thought-provoking learning.”
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Citation: Pugh, M. (2021). Chairwork in action. Reading, UK: Henley Business School.
Pugh, M. (2020). Understanding ‘Ed’: A theoretical and empirical review of the eating disorder voice. BPS Psychotherapy Section Review, 65, 12-23.
Pugh, M., Bell, T., & Dixon, A. (In Press). Delivering tele-chairwork: A qualitative survey of expert therapists. Psychotherapy Research, xx, xx-xx.
Pugh, M., & Bell, T. (2020). Process-based chairwork: Applications and innovations in the time of COVID-19. European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research, and Practice, 4, 1-8.
Pugh, M., & Margetts, A. (2020). The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 13, xx-xx.
Pugh, M., & Broome, N. (2020). Dialogical coaching: An experiential approach to personal and professional development. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 72, 223-241.
Pugh, M. (2019). The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 12, 1-24.
Bell, T., Montague, J., Elander, J., & Gilbert, P. (2020). Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 20, 143-153.
Pugh, M. (2019). Schema Therapy Bulletin, 3, 10-14.
Extract from: Pugh, M. (2019). Cognitive behavioural chairwork: Distinctive features. Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Pugh, M., & Rae, S. (2019). In S. Simpson & E. Smith (Eds.), Schema therapy for eating disorders: Theory and practice for individual and group settings. Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Pugh, M. (2019). In S. Simpson & E. Smith (Eds.), Schema therapy for eating disorders: Theory and practice for individual and group settings (pp. 187-206). Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Pugh, M. (2019). Unpublished manuscript and protocol.
Pugh, M., & Salter, S. (2018). European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research, and Practice, 2, 1-15.
Pugh, M. (2018). International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 11, 100-116.
Pugh (2017). Cognitive Therapy and Research, 41, 16-30.
Bell, T., Dixon, A., & Kolts, R. (2016). Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 24, 632-648.
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