Three Part live Course

Introduction to Integrative Baby Therapy

With Matthew Appleton
Thursdays, 9, 16 and 30 October 2025 at 19h UK time
Thursday, 2 October 2025 at 19h UK time
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Integrative Baby Therapy (IBT) is an emerging healing modality that has been taught to many practitioners, including obstetricians, midwives, psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, osteopaths, craniosacral therapists and others, throughout Europe.

IBT, is a systemic, relational and embodied approach to working with babies and their families. Babies, children and parents are seen as active participants, whose inherent intelligence can reveal ever deeper levels of potential change and healing. Traumatic imprints from prenatal life and birth are given space to unfold and with the support of empathic presence and enquiry, to resolve. As well as relieving present moment distress for both babies and parents, this creates a more stable foundation for future growth and development.

This course is designed to convey the principles underlying Integrative Baby Therapy and how they are applied in the clinical context. 
Matthew Appleton is a registered Body Psychotherapist and Craniosacral Therapist based in the UK. Matthew has been facilitating Prenatal and Birth Workshops for adults for nearly 20 years and he teaches Integrative Baby Therapy to health professionals internationally.

In this course Matthew will provide:

  • An introduction to the principles of Integrative Baby Therapy
  • An embodied approach to developing deeper presence
  • The principle of presence as the essential ground of therapeutic practice
  • An understanding of Potential Space as a gateway to transformation
  • An orientation to babies as experts in their own treatment
  • A concept of how to come alongside parents and shift their focus from distress to curiosity

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COURSE CONTENT

course introduction

Introduction to Integrative Baby Therapy

Thursday, 2 October 2025 at 19h UK time
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module one

Embodied Presence

Thursday, 9 October 2025 at 19h UK time
One of the fundamental principles of Integrative Baby Therapy is we need to be present to what is happening in the moment, rather than impose preconceived reatment protocols. We can only be truly present when we are fully embodied. We will look at and experience a way of orienting to what is happening in the body that both grounds the therapist and opens up the relational
space between therapist and client.
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module two

Potential Space

Thursday, 16 October 2025 at 19h UK time
Giving space for the voices of parents and babies to share their experience, whilst tracking shifts in the embodied states of everyone in the therapy room, enables us to access underlying states of clarity and intelligence, which may otherwise be obscured by premature interventions. Learning to tolerate states of 'not-knowing' and work patiently at the pace of nature, is a skill that we can develop and learn to trust. This creates a potent field in which hidden potential has time to emerge and clarify, with solutions revealing themselves, rather than being imposed.
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module three

Feeling Felt as Medicine

Thursday, 30 October 2025 at 19h UK time
Feeling felt is more than being heard. It is the embodied experience of emotional resonance. When we feel someone is in emotional response with our experience, we feel less alone. This is especially true for babies and their parents in times of distress. By accurately tracking the body language and emotional expressions of babies, we can deepen our capacity for coming into
emotional resonance and relieving babies, children and parents of the burden of aloneness. This, in itself, can be a profound medicine for body and soul.
Why this course?
  • Entry/intermediate level
  • Three 60 minute classes
  • Power Point Presentations
  • Q and A with presenter
  • Life long access to recordings 
  • Certificate of Attendance on request

who can this benefit

  • Therapists working with babies and their families
  • Midwives, doctors and other professionals supporting babies and their families
  • Educators who want to emotionally support children
  • Parents who want to deepen their understanding of their babies

learning outcomes

  • Develop deeper embodied presence
  • Gain a greater capacity to open potential space for healing of prenatal and birth imprints
  • Orientate towards health as a emergent property in the intersubjective field of the therapist, baby and parents
  • Learn about body language and emotional expression of non-linear storytelling

Do you live in a low income country compared to the UK? Contact us for possible scholarships.

join course

£70
One off payment
Includes :
  • Access to live course sessions
  • Life  time access to course content
  • Certificate of Attendance on request

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