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Lisa Bruton
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Lisa Bruton helps organisations build psychological safety, resolve conflict, and strengthen workplace relationships. A UKCP-accredited psychotherapist, she draws on 15 years of clinical practice with the Metropolitan Police, the NHS, and beyond.
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Lisa Bruton is a psychotherapist and workplace trainer who helps organisations understand what makes relationships, teams, and leadership genuinely work. She specialises in conflict, communication, and psychological safety.
Lisa is a UKCP and BACP-accredited psychotherapist with over 15 years of clinical experience across the NHS, Metropolitan Police, University of Reading, and private practice. She is a University of Oxford tutor who developed and leads an introductory counselling course, and is trained in EMDR, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, couples therapy, and mindfulness. She is a trusted media voice, featured in The Times, The Guardian, Stylist, and Psychologies, and a frequent podcast guest on relationships and mental health.
Lisa's considerable expertise around couples and relationships gives her a grounded, evidence-based view of how people behave under pressure and how relationships repair after conflict. She translates the same principles that help partners communicate constructively, express problems without escalation, and rebuild trust through gratitude and appreciation into practical tools for teams: building trust, regulating stress under pressure, and negotiating differences without losing psychological safety.
Audiences leave her sessions with a concrete understanding of what drives psychological safety, techniques for managing high-pressure moments using nervous system science, and a clearer sense of how to repair conflict rather than avoid it.
Book Lisa to bring clinical depth and real-world credibility to conversations about culture, resilience, and high-performing teams.
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Drawing on relationship science, Lisa Bruton explores what actually makes workplace relationships and culture resilient: not the absence of conflict, which is inevitable and often healthy, but how well people repair afterwards. She unpacks the behaviours and attitudes that turn a disagreement into either resolution or lingering tension, showing why timely, honest repair matters more than avoidance or escalation. Audiences leave with transferable skills for handling friction, at work and in their personal relationships alike.
Psychological safety is one of the strongest predictors of high-performing teams, yet most organisations lack a concrete way to build it. Lisa Bruton draws on her clinical training to explain what makes someone's nervous system register a room as safe or unsafe, and which specific behaviours shift that in real time. Rather than abstract theory, she offers a practical roadmap leaders can apply immediately to strengthen trust and performance within their teams.
Most talks on performing under pressure focus on mindset alone: stay positive, think clearly. Lisa Bruton goes further, bringing in the physiology behind why intelligent people become reactive, defensive, or freeze when the stakes rise. Using recent developments in neuroscience, including polyvagal theory, she explains what is happening in the nervous system in these moments, and how to shift into a more regulated state. Attendees come away with simple, actionable tools for protecting their judgement, creativity, and communication under pressure.
The skills that make someone a great parent are often the same ones that make them a great team member and leader, yet working parents step back from promotions or leave the workplace, because culture treats home and work as separate categories. Lisa Bruton reframes this, showing how patience under stress, reading non-verbal cues, repairing after conflict, and managing competing demands are leadership capabilities parents are already building at home. Attendees gain a lens for recognising and harnessing that experience.
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Email lisa.bruton@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Lisa's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
Lisa Bruton draws on her clinical background as a psychotherapist — including training in EMDR, polyvagal theory, and couples therapy — to translate relationship science into workplace application. She uses a mechanism-first structure: explaining the physiological or psychological process driving a behaviour before offering a practical tool or framework audiences can apply directly.
Lisa Bruton draws on her clinical background as a psychotherapist — including training in EMDR, polyvagal theory, and couples therapy — to translate relationship science into workplace application. She uses a mechanism-first structure: explaining the physiological or psychological process driving a behaviour before offering a practical tool or framework audiences can apply directly.
Lisa Bruton draws on her clinical background as a psychotherapist — including training in EMDR, polyvagal theory, and couples therapy — to translate relationship science into workplace application. She uses a mechanism-first structure: explaining the physiological or psychological process driving a behaviour before offering a practical tool or framework audiences can apply directly.
Lisa Bruton speaks on conflict repair and workplace relationships, psychological safety and team performance, and nervous system regulation under pressure. She is a UKCP and BACP-accredited psychotherapist with over 15 years of clinical experience spanning the NHS, Metropolitan Police, and University of Reading, and serves as a tutor at the University of Oxford.
Lisa Bruton speaks on conflict repair and workplace relationships, psychological safety and team performance, and nervous system regulation under pressure. She is a UKCP and BACP-accredited psychotherapist with over 15 years of clinical experience spanning the NHS, Metropolitan Police, and University of Reading, and serves as a tutor at the University of Oxford.
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