This innovative course offers an integrated approach combining attachment, narrative and systemic perspectives on sex and intimacy in couples’ relationships. It explores the meanings given to sex and offers practical approaches to starting conversations with couples about sexual intimacy.

The relationship between sexual desire and attachment is explored with a range of approaches and techniques described for assisting couples. Opportunities for discussion, clinical formulation and practice of techniques related to participants’ own clinical work are included. A key aim of the course is to assist practitioners to gain confidence in exploring sex and attachment whether the focus of their work is on couples or more broadly with family/ relational systems.

Peter Fowler is a Systemic and Narrative therapist who specialises in couple relationships. He writes ‘I see my role as helping couples discover a deeper sense of compassion for themselves and empathy for each other. Ultimately rewriting their scripts to tell a new story based on connection and transformative change.’

Rudi Dallos is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology and a family therapist. He has developed Attachment Narrative Therapy (ANT) with applications in a range of clinical contexts, including autism, eating disorders, trauma, high conflict in couples and peri-natal work all of which have considered the centrality of couples’ relationships.

Hadil Aloloum is a Family & Systemic Psychotherapist in the UK, originally from Iraq. She is interested in the roles that culture, language, history, family, spirituality, race, play and how these levels of context create the lens which we see the world through and how this then impacts on relationships.

Online via Zoom

Early bird price: £395 (if booked & paid before 5th September 2025)

Price: £450

Early booking is advised as numbers are limited to maximise opportunities for participants’ learning.

For an application form and for further information please contact chipchimera@btinternet.com