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Philipa Thornton
Philipa Thornton is a highly respected psychologist, relationship specialist, clinical supervisor, and President of Resource Therapy International, with more than 30 years of experience working across trauma, attachment injury, and relationship distress. Known for her warm, grounded, and practical style, she is recognised for translating complex psychological and neurobiological concepts into clear, structured frameworks that clinicians can apply in real-world practice. Her work bridges deep trauma expertise with practical skills that therapists can take directly into the therapy room.
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Philipa Thornton is a psychologist, relationship specialist, clinical supervisor, and President of Resource Therapy International. With more than 30 years of experience, her career has included senior roles across organisations such as NSW Health, Victims Services, The Langton Centre, Relationships Australia, and the William Booth Institute. She continues to support both individuals and couples through counselling, training, and professional supervision.
At CPD on the Sea, Philipa will present Structured Trauma Intervention: A Diagnostic and Action Based Framework for Parts Work. This workshop is designed to help clinicians move beyond insight alone and into a structured, action-based framework for identifying activated trauma parts and responding in a way that is safe, grounded, and effective.
This training is designed for psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, mental health clinicians, and therapists working with complex trauma and attachment injury. It is especially relevant for practitioners seeking greater clarity, confidence, and precision when trauma is present in the therapy room.
Participants will deepen their understanding of how trauma can be encoded within specific personality parts and learn how to assess which trauma-holding part is activated in session. The workshop explores how to work with fear-based, rejection-based, protective, and conflicted parts, while reducing dissociation and emotional flooding and maintaining therapeutic containment.
Philipa is especially known for helping practitioners move beyond theory into confident, structured intervention that is both trauma-informed and clinically precise. With an emphasis on compassion, containment, and action-based treatment steps, this workshop offers a practical roadmap for therapists seeking to strengthen both intervention confidence and therapeutic precision.
