I spent about six months working with Alexandra where she introduced me to EMDR and her workshops. I had been through a health issue, relationship breakdown and had a premature baby within a short space of time, which caused my mind to race to all sorts of places. She helped me work through the trauma, refocus on the now, change my outlook on things that I can and can’t control and look at life with a new perspective. She is extremely talented at what she does and I am forever grateful for discovering her!
Courses, Retreats and Links
Heart Led Psychotherapy workshops and courses
In addition to writing her books, Dr Alexandra Dent has presented her work:
- 'Using Spirituality in EMDR Therapy.’ Online webinar for the EMDR Learning Community, May 2025.
- ‘Embracing Self-Care into Everyday Life.’ Online webinar for the EMDR Learning Community, January 2025.
- 'Using Light Language healing in clinical practice' at the 24th International EUROTAS conference. Oxford, September 2024.
- 'Incorporating spirituality into EMDR using a BioPsychoSocialSpiritual approach to treating trauma.' Online webinar for the UK EMDR Association, April 2024.
- 'A BioPsychoSocialSpiritual approach to clinical practice: Heart Led Psychotherapy' one day workshop for the Mindfulness Reading Group, September 2021.
- 'Using Light Language in Psychotherapy' workshop at the BPS Transpersonal Psychology Conference, September 2021.
- 'Advanced workshop on BioPsychoSocialSpiritual Approach to Treat Trauma' online in January 2021.
- ‘A BioPsychoSocialSpiritual Approach to Treating Trauma’ online workshop in October 2020.
- ‘Mindfulness based EMDR’ free EMDR Association online webinar in September 2020.
- ‘Mindfulness based EMDR’ two day workshop in Istanbul, Turkey in September 2019.
- West Midlands Regional EMDR group in March 2019, entitled ‘EMDR and Mindfulness and EMDR and Spirituality.’
- UK Transpersonal Psychology Conference in September 2018, entitled ‘The new Heart Led Psychotherapy Model for treating psychological distress.’
Dr Alexandra Dent is available to run workshops and courses to trained professionals and therapists/clinicians as well as within organisations. If you would like Alexandra to run a workshop or course on HLP (which will include mindfulness), please contact her with your specific requirements.
Courses, retreats and workshops
There are many different retreats, workshops and courses around the globe which you may be interested in attending. Please make sure that whatever you attend is run by a reputable and authentic practitioner. Some ideas are provided in the Website section below but there are many others not listed which may be more suitable for you and you are also encouraged to do your own research and go on reputation and word of mouth from trusted others.
Websites
Below are some references to websites that you may wish to explore which include a variety of mindfulness meditation and spiritual websites, courses or healing modalities. No responsibility is held by Heart Led Psychotherapy for the websites or information provided below. Please just be guided by what feels right or resonates for you as this is very personal.
www.dharma.org – A website offering information about insight meditation tradition and retreats.
www.drirenesiegel.com – Information about classes, workshops, retreats and online distance learning courses, integrating psychotherapy with shamanic healing.
www.thefourwinds.com – Information on the world’s renowned school of energy medicine, offering retreats, online training, resources etc.
www.franticworld.com – The website that accompanies Mark Williams & Danny Penmans book, with links to further meditations and books, upcoming talks, events and retreats. Also has a forum in which you can discuss experiences and share these with others.
www.gaiahouse.co.uk – Meditation retreat centre offering silent meditation retreats with a Buddhist tradition.
www.headspace.com – Online support on how to learn to meditate with resources for children and adults.
www.heartledpsychotherapy.com – The official HLP website.
www.mindfulnesscic.co.uk – Information on Mindfulness retreats, courses, workshops and teacher training.