Specialised Group Psychotherapy
DPP Group Psychotherapy for Clinicians
Dynamic Psychosocialsomatic Psychotherapy (DPP) is a comprehensive, trauma-informed framework integrating psychodynamic, somatic, and systems science for the treatment of complex PTSD, dissociation, and trauma-related personality organizations. This group offers a 12-month, structured program for clinicians seeking to deepen their understanding of complex trauma and its biopsychosocial dynamics through experiential, relational, and theoretical immersion.
The DPP Group Psychotherapy for Clinicians meets weekly for two hours, available both in person and online. Each session combines experiential process, theoretical reflection, and supervision in an integrative container that bridges science, depth psychology, and embodied relational practice.
Clinical and Theoretical Foundations
Rooted in DPP’s eight interrelated frameworks—including Polyvagal Theory, Affect Regulation Theory (Schore), Cell Danger Response, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Systems Biology, Object Relations, and Lifestyle Medicine—this group applies these principles to the interpersonal and systemic field of group psychotherapy. Participants learn to perceive trauma not merely as individual symptomatology but as a relational and systemic dysregulation manifesting across cognitive, affective, somatic, and social levels.
Exploration of Transference
Central to the group process is the exploration of transference and projective identification as live expressions of maladaptive attractor dynamics. In DPP, transference is viewed as the relational activation of an entrenched psychophysiological pattern—a self-reinforcing state that organizes perception, affect, and interpersonal behavior. By encountering and metabolizing these patterns within a safe, attuned group field, participants learn how old defensive configurations emerge, stabilize, and can be reshaped through relational repair. This experiential process trains clinicians to recognize and regulate transference phenomena in themselves and others, deepening therapeutic presence, tolerance, and attunement.
Program Emphasis
The group develops advanced capacities in self-reflective functioning, right-brain integration, and affective communication. It provides a live laboratory for observing systemic regulation, countertransference, and collective nervous system dynamics—essential for work in clinical, supervisory, and educational settings.
Participants are encouraged to engage from both clinical and personal perspectives, exploring their own attractor landscapes and relational templates within a professionally guided, co-regulated field. The aim is to develop not only intellectual understanding but embodied relational competence.