The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

06/03/2026

Looking to specialise in work? Complex Trauma: the Tavistock Model (D19) offers a unique opportunity to train in our award-winning trauma service, combining a clinical placement with a rigorous academic programme.

Learn more at our free, online open event next Wednesday 11 March 👇
https://obi41.nl/4ehvtw29

Book now to find out what to expect from our new training in Complex trauma: the Tavistock model (D19)

25/02/2026

More funding is on the way for Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies Services, bringing real benefits for families and communities. But perinatal mental health experts and the government say it’s crucial for practitioners to get the right training.

We offer a range of robust, bespoke courses to help practitioners meet workforce requirements and community needs.

Find out more: https://obi41.nl/2p9f9wba

Perinatal mental health experts are urging services to prioritise specialist training for their workforce.

19/02/2026

Considering our postgraduate training in , and ? Learn more at our free, online open events next week!

Join our Master's open event 👉 https://obi41.nl/3xz58eyt

Join our Professional Doctorate open event 👉 https://obi41.nl/mryv9sb7

17/02/2026

Join us to explore cutting-edge research, running from from Monday 9 to Thursday 12 March.

Across four days of free, online sessions, you’ll gain practical insights, tools and resources to strengthen your research capabilities, and get to hear from our accomplished alumni and renowned visiting academics.

We have an exciting programme of events scheduled, including:

📌 Skills sessions: Join our workshops covering practical research skills.

📌 Keynote talks: Faculty and guest speakers share their latest research, alongside advice for current and future researchers.

📌 Doctoral conference: A showcase of innovative work from our research students and alumni.

Sign up: https://obi41.nl/3u64p7f7

Join us to explore skills development sessions and cutting-edge research with our free, online events and doctoral conference.

03/02/2026

Running at the Tavistock Centre from 24 to 27 March, our spring Group Relations Conference will explore what helps and hinders interagency working, how roles and authority shape behaviour, and how unconscious dynamics influence teams.

Find out more and register your place: https://obi41.nl/yckz2p3v

Sign up for our four-day Group Relations Conference at the Tavistock Centre in March 2026.

29/01/2026

Publishing and research have continued to thrive at the Tavistock and Portman throughout 2025.

Across mental health and psychological services, our colleagues have made meaningful contributions to research, clinical thinking, and wider professional debate.

Their publications reflect the depth of expertise within the organisation and our ongoing commitment to evidence‑informed practice in mental healthcare.

Read more: https://obi41.nl/2p8a5hr5

Publishing and research have flourished at the Tavistock and Portman in 2025. Here are some of the highlights.

27/01/2026

Featuring keynotes from Professor Harry Ferguson and Dr Arlene Weekes, our doctoral conference will present some of the latest qualitative, practice-based research in the field of and .

We will explore how social systems of power are replicated and can dominate our inner lives, and how liberatory and anti-racist social work practice – and research into what good enough looks like – can free us from systems of oppression and discrimination within maddening organisational cultures.

Running Thursday 12 February from 1 to 5pm at the Tavistock Centre and free to attend.

Register your place: https://obi41.nl/2p896dhf

Join our doctoral conference to explore the latest practice-based research in the field of social work and social care.

15/01/2026

Wondering what it’s like to train with us? Our postgraduate open day is the perfect place to get a real taste of student life at the Tavistock Centre!

You’ll get to hear from our Dean and current students, meet course leads and professional services teams and explore our student spaces.

📅 Saturday 31 January
⏰10am to 2pm

Sign up:
https://obi41.nl/543cm39y

12/12/2025

A graduate from our Child, Community and Educational Psychology professional doctorate, Dr Tiffany Nelson, recently published her doctoral thesis in the most used peer-reviewed journal for educational psychology in the UK.

Her thesis, ‘The lived experiences of masking Black autistic girls in UK education’, explores the lived experiences of Black autistic girls, addressing a significant gap in autism research, educational and psychological practice.

Read more: https://obi41.nl/2p82cb8f

Exploring the lived experiences of Black autistic girls, addressing a significant gap in autism research, educational and psychological practice.

01/12/2025

We’re delighted to announce that applications to many of our postgraduate courses are now open for September 2026 entry 🎉

If you’re interested in applying, we would love for you to join our in-person open day on Saturday 31 January. Taking place at the Tavistock Centre in London, the day will provide you with a taste of student life and an opportunity to meet our course teams.

Register here:

Join us in-person to explore postgraduate training opportunities on Saturday 31 January 2026.

23/09/2025

Supporting children through difficult conversations can be a daunting task, even for the most experienced practitioners.

In our latest article, Adi Steiner introduces our new online self-study course and tactics to make your engagements more effective and therapeutic.

Read more 👇

Do you feel daunted when faced with the task of talking to children about difficult and painful issues? Looking for new ways to improve your communication skills with young people?

18/09/2025

Today marks 92 years since the Portman Clinic saw its first patient on 18 September 1933. The Portman continues to offer specialist long-term help for adults, children and young people with disturbing sexual behaviours, criminality and violence.

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The Portman Clinic, a treatment, research, and teaching clinic, deeply interested in why people behave the way they do…