CPD for Practitioners

"Supporting the Growth, Resilience & Integrity of Mental Health Professionals"

Philippa Williams is a psychologist, clinical supervisor, naturopath, and educator with over a decade of experience supporting practitioners and organisations across complex therapeutic landscapes. Her work is grounded in ethical leadership, somatic trauma recovery, and immersive experiential learning.

Philippa’s approach integrates evidence-based psychological frameworks with nature-based and equine-assisted methods. She has contributed significantly to the fields of trauma-informed care, reflective practice, and practitioner well-being—both as a supervisor and a published researcher.

She is the lead designer and facilitator of the Chiron Series, an equine-assisted fully accredited supervision and well-being workshop rooted in the principles of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory, BPS supervision standards, and the neurophysiological work of van der Kolk, Levine, Porges, and Kohanov.
 

Who I Support

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- Qualified and trainee psychotherapists, psychologists, and counsellors
- Practitioners working in equine, canine, or nature-assisted settings
- Organisations seeking trauma-informed clinical consultancy
- Professionals seeking reflective space to navigate complexity or renew clarity

 

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My Approach

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- Clinical supervision (individual and group), grounded in systemic, humanistic, somatic and cognitive behavioural modalities through a trauma-informed lense.
- CPD training programs (online and in-person)
- Bespoke consultancy for program and model design (traditional and alternative)
- Integration of somatic, neurophysiological, and nature-based frameworks
- Supervision intensives and retreat-based learning
- Cross-modality supervision for practitioners combining talk therapy with body-based, animal, or ecological models
- Psychotherapy, naturopathy and bespoke programs for wellness (practitioner, dogs & horses)

My focus is on creating a reflective space that supports ethics, clarity, self-reflection, and sustainable practice—so you can serve your clients and yourself with confidence.

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Background at a Glance

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- Director, Psychotherapy Training Hub – delivering accredited diplomas, CPD, and supervision (L3–7)
- Director, Psychotherapy in Nature Ltd – bespoke psychotherapeutic programs in the Caribbean and Europe
- Founder, Equine Enlightenment – equine, canine, and nature-assisted psychological services
- Senior Practitioner & Clinical Supervisor – LEAP Equine
- Clinical Supervisor – Hartpury University MSc in Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy
- Consultant – trauma-informed program development for NHS, charity, and private sectors
- Certified TRE® Provider
- Academic Reviewer for the International Journal of Equine Science. 
- Doctoral education in Counselling Psychology (DPsych), underpinning a scientist–practitioner identity.

- Over 2,000 clinical hours working with complex trauma, dissociative conditions, and personality related presentations

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Publications & Research

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Philippa is a published author and academic contributor in the fields of trauma, nature-based psychotherapy, and equine-assisted mental health. Her work explores integrative frameworks that bridge psychological science, somatic awareness, and the therapeutic bond between humans and animals.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Williams, P. (2024). Exploring an Animalistic, Trauma-Informed Framework to Understand Depression,

and the Need for Effective, Non-traditional Psychotherapeutic Interventions That Attend to Physiological Processes. IntechOpen. doi: 10.5772/intechopen.1003975

Williams, P. (2022). Psychotherapy in Nature: Exploring an Alternative Psychotherapeutic Framework to Address the Limitations of Working in Traditional Settings in Order to Move with the Times. IntechOpen. doi: 10.5772/intechopen.104627

Williams, P. (2018). Working with relational trauma: Limbic restructuring through equine-facilitated psychotherapy.

In Equine-assisted mental health for healing trauma (pp. 69-83). Routledge.

View full research profile on ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philippa-Williams-12
Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippa-williams