Tina Abbott Counselling & Psychotherapy

08/03/2026

Absolutely wonderful three days Exploring the Dynamics of Attachment in Adult Life at the fabulous Black Mountains Barns venue with amazing food from Grove Farm Kitchen Emily Mason. Deep exploration, sharing and courageous work. Absolute honour to facilitate.

05/03/2026

New free intro workshops dates :
An Introduction to Attachment Groupwork


These shorter sessions provide a chance to dip your toe into exploring your careseeking attachment system, or to deepen your understanding if you’ve already experienced this work. Each session takes place in a supportive group setting.

Online via Zoom
July 1, 12.30pm-2pm
Free of charge

In Person – Abergavenny
May 6, 4-5.30pm
June 3, 4-5.30pm
Venue: St Michael’s Centre, Abergavenny
Cost: free of charge
Email to book: info@tinaabbottcounselling.co.uk

https://www.tinaabbottcounselling.co.uk/workshops/workshops-attachment-herefordshire-monmouthshire

13/02/2026

My next ‘Exploring the Dynamics of Attachment in Adult Life’ three day workshop is nearly here : March 6-8, at the beautiful Black Mountains Barn venue, £300, lunch and snacks by multi award chef Emily, plenty of accommodation nearby.

I still have one reduced fee space available at £150, so if you’ve always been interested but finances have held you back do get in touch.

The workshop:
Discover how your attachment patterns shape your relationships, wellbeing, and vitality.
Understand the dynamics that shape how we connect and care.
Through guided experiential learning, these workshops bring the science of attachment to life — supporting personal growth, vitality, and emotional wellbeing.
These confidential, small-group experientials offer a safe and supportive space for deep reflection and shared learning.

What to Expect
• Brief introduction to each attachment theme
• Experiential groupwork for exploration and insight
Based on the McCluskey Model of Attachment, exploring:
Careseeking & Caregiving ; Sexuality ; Interest Sharing; Self-Defence ;Internal & External Supportive Environments

Who It’s For
Those wishing to reflect on themselves and their relationships -
especially those in caring, health, teaching or therapy professions: social workers, foster carers, teachers, therapists, health care workers, managers.
Enhance wellbeing, creativity, and resilience. Prevent or recover from burnout.
tinaabbottcounselling@gmail.co.uk

01/12/2025

Breathwork sessions with experienced facilitator Matt :

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FuiV6UhKm/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Join me for group breathwork sessions online - book at https://www.mattfreer.info/breathe/group-sessions/online/

14/11/2025

🌼 Exploring the Dynamics of Attachment

Discover how your attachment patterns shape your relationships, wellbeing, and vitality.
Understand the dynamics that shape how we connect and care.
Through guided experiential learning, these workshops bring the science of attachment to life — supporting personal growth, vitality, and emotional wellbeing.
These confidential, small-group experientials offer a safe and supportive space for deep reflection and shared learning.

🔍 What to Expect
• Brief introduction to each attachment theme
• Experiential groupwork for exploration and insight
Based on the McCluskey Model of Attachment, exploring:
🧡 Careseeking & Caregiving 💫 Sexuality 🌱 Exploration & Interest Sharing🛡 Self-Defence 🏠 Internal & External Supportive Environments

🌼 Who It’s For
Those wishing to reflect on themselves and their relationships —
especially those in caring, health, or therapy professions.
Enhance wellbeing, creativity, and resilience. Prevent or recover from burnout.

💫 Introductory Sessions
These shorter sessions offer a chance to dip your toe in by exploring your careseeking and caregiving systems — or to deepen your understanding if you’ve already experienced this work.
Online via Zoom – with Sharan Collins
📅 November 29, 2025 — 9:30am–2:00pm — £35
📅 January 17, 2026 — 9:30am–2:00pm — £35
📧 To book: sharan@psychodynamicpsychotherapyedinburgh.com
In Person – Abergavenny – with Tina Abbott
📅 December 13, 2025 — 9:30am–2:00pm — £35
📅 January 24, 2026 (provisional) — 9:30am–2:00pm — £35
📍 Venue: St Michael’s Centre, Abergavenny
📧 To book: tinaabbottcounselling@gmail.com

Further details of Intro sessions and new 3 day workshop dates attached.

10/09/2025

As the nights draw in and we perhaps enter a more reflective time, how about a residential experiential to set you up for the Autumn and Winter months? With deep supportive reflective work, delicious food by multi award winning chef Emily, cold water swimming and wood fired saunas to follow, all in the beautiful rural setting of Trealy Farm retreat centre near Monmouth. We are offering a £50 discount if booked in September. Please see attached flyer for further info and do not hesitate to email me if you have any questions.

For further details about this powerful and safe groupwork model : https://tinaabbottcounselling.co.uk/therapeutic-groupwork/

14/08/2025

We run a Reflective Practice Group to support our in-house counsellors and psychotherapists, support and provide value to our professional associate members, and to provide a community-based support for counsellors and psychotherapists local to Herefordshire.

The group is held the first Wednesday of the month, 7-8pm in our offices in Hereford. The group is facilitated by Helen Miskin. To find out more or join the group contact helenmiskin@marchescounselling.org or contact admin on admin@marchescounselling.org.

The next session is on 3rd September on "Our dual relationships and roles".

05/07/2025

New for 2025! Residential Three Day Workshop October 31, November 1 & 2, 2025
Three day residential at the wonderful Trealy farm in between Raglan and Monmouth, with its wonderful group space, unusual accommodation options which are warm and comfortable, natural swimming pool with sauna, and cooking by award winning chef Emily Mason.

This workshop will be co-facilitated by my colleague Sharan Collins.

Fee: £535 (workshop and meals) £50 early bird discount if paid by the end of July.
Accommodation Fee: £70-130 (2 nights-extra nights available on request, camping and camper vans welcome, as well as staying off site)

06/12/2024

Zoom experiential workshop :
Exploring the Dynamics of Attachment in Adult life
These powerful experientials offer an opportunity to explore one’s own attachment dynamics in the context of a confidential, closed experiential group. Participants find this method of group work quickly provides a very safe environment to be exploratory.
The experientials use the McCluskey ‘Exploring the Dynamics of Attachment in Adult Life’ model which proposes attachment is a dynamic process and consists of seven goal-corrected systems. These are careseeking, caregiving, sexuality, exploratory interest sharing, self-defence, the internal supportive or unsupportive environments and the personally created external supportive environment (home/lifestyle). The theory suggests that these systems work together as a single process to contribute to and maintain maximum wellbeing. Each session involves a short didactic input on the attachment system to be explored, followed by experiential groupwork.
Using a group setting offers a collaborative learning opportunity, each person’s exploration offers potential reflection and learning for others as we work alongside each other.
They are suitable for anyone with an interest in reflecting on their attachment dynamics - and will be of particular interest for those involved in the caring and therapy professions. The work can help to increase vitality and creativity and may help in the prevention or recovery from burnout which is so prevalent today.
Booking - place secured with £50 non-refundable deposit.
Please email for a registration form: tinaaabbottcounselling@gmail.com
Further details can be found here:
https://tinaabbottcounselling.co.uk/therapeutic

24/11/2024

Just a reminder of the workshop I’m organising next Saturday with the Severnside Institute - it promises to be a lovely informative and engaging workshop!

This workshop will delve into the relationships between clinicians and their patients, particularly in the Care and Mental Health sectors.

13/08/2024

My next experiential group ‘Exploring the Dynamics of Attachment’ runs in October.

I also have space from December in my ongoing monthly group details here: https://tinaabbottcounselling.co.uk/therapeutic-groupwork/

29/03/2024

This promises to be a fantastic workshop for all therapists interested in analytic thinking - Philip Stokoe is a very senior London based analyst and we’ve managed to invite him to come to Abergavenny!

This workshop will delve into the relationships between clinicians and their patients, particularly in the Care and Mental Health sectors.