Psychotherapy CPD Events
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An Introduction to Therapy with Couples
An Introduction to Therapy with Couples: Explore central theoretical concepts of psychodynamic couple therapy. Monday, 13 January 2025 - Monday, 7 April 2025. With Ellen Burridge & Shannon Ashton. In this 12-week online seminar series, participants will explore what it is like to work with couples in therapy. This comprehensive series offers both the opportunity to read theory by key figures in the field and to think, through group discussion, about its application in the work with couples. Film clips and relevant case material are also used to help you gain deeper insight and understanding into this fascinating and burgeoning area in the field of psychotherapy. Topics covered include what brings couples together, shared unconscious relationships and couple fit, holding the ‘couple in mind’ in therapy, unconscious phantasy and beliefs, projective processes in couples, sex and sexualities, aggression and violence in couples, couples and parenting, ageing and relationships, depression and psychological issues, attachment styles within couples, and intergenerational aspects in relationships. Time is spent as a group discussing and reflecting on these topics, this type of work and the dynamic of couple relationships in therapy. With three in the room the work becomes quite different. Our seminar leaders are both experienced couple therapists themselves, trained at Tavistock Relationships and immersed in the TR model of understanding and working with couples. This course offers CPD credits for psychotherapists and is a fantastic grounding to pursue any of our clinical trainings, whether you are a beginner looking for a career change or trained to work with individuals and interested to learn more about being with a couple in the room. There will be a half term break on Monday February 17, 2025. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see https://tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2025-01-13
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Early Relationships and Mental Health Series
Early Relationships and Mental Health Series: Insights from experts in the field of Psychoanalytic Parent Infant Psychotherapy. Friday, 17 January 2025 - Friday, 29 March 2025. With Tessa Baradon, Dr. Beatrice Beebe, Michela Biseo, Anna Godfrey, Fatima Martinez de Solar, Yvonne Osafo, Inge-Martine Pretorius, Teresa Sarmiento & Dr Arietta Slade. Led by international experts in the field of psychoanalytic parent infant psychotherapy this six week course will make vivid links between our earliest relational experiences and how they profoundly shape our future mental health, emotional well-being and capacity to form fulfilling adult relationships. Whether you're working psychotherapeutically with parents and infants, children, couples, or individuals or are part of England’s Family Hubs and Start for Life program, the principles explored in this series will be relevant and enriching for your work. The series will demonstrate how through embodied, micro communications between parent and infant the infant’s sense of self develops. These experiences are shaped by mother’s internal and external circumstances and their capacity to be ‘with’ the baby. We will begin with Dr Beatrice Beebe’s groundbreaking work, the micro-analysis of parent-infant communication through video and audio recordings slowed down frame by frame to ‘see’ and experience what is really happening in the dyad, you may be surprised! Dr Arietta Slade named by Peter Fonagy as ‘one of the world’s best experts in this field’ will offer the second lecture on developing the capacity for reflective functioning and mentalization and Tessa Baradon follows on the vital processes of rupture and repair between parent and infant. We will consider these micro processes alongside the macro level impact of broader issues such as race, cultural differences, and trauma, particularly in refugee and asylum-seeking populations. This series is developed in collaboration with the National Centre for Supervision of Parent-Infant Relationships (NCSPIR). NCSPIR offers clinical supervision to practitioners and their supervisors working with parents and infants as part of the UK government’s Family Hubs and Start for Life program, which aims to improve early years services for families with children aged 0 to 2. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see https://tavistockrelationships.org For more information about NCSPIR visit https://ncspir.org.ukDate: 2025-01-17
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Microanalysis of Parent-Infant Communication with Dr Beatrice Beebe
Microanalysis of Parent-Infant Communication with Dr Beatrice Beebe. Early Relationships and Mental Health Series: Session One. With Dr. Beatrice Beebe. Dr Beebe’s lecture and discussion is the first in our series of talks designed for a wide range of professionals, including parent-infant psychotherapists, child and adolescent psychotherapists, adult and couple psychotherapists, as well as those working with parents and infants in other settings. Dr Beatrice Beebe is a developmental/clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst doing research on mother-infant communication. Beebe did her dissertation and postdoctoral research fellowship with Dr. Daniel Stern. She is known for her research on the microanalysis of early infant-parent communication and its implications for attachment and cognition. She is a Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, and the director of the Communications Science Lab at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI). Her work has helped establish the importance of nonverbal communication in infant development and along with Lachmann its relevance to therapist-patient communication in adult treatment too, a unique and fundamental contribution to the field. Through the use of video and audio microanalysis of mother-infant face to face communication Beebe directs investigations into the dyadic organisation of mother-infant social communication, the role that maternal distress plays in this communication, the effects of early mother-infant communication patterns on emerging infant attachment styles and cognitive development, and the long-term continuity of communication and attachment styles from infancy to young adulthood. A new focus of the lab is the examination of how prenatal toxic exposures may affect mother-infant communication. If you are interested in attending the entire Early Relationships and Mental Health Series please visit the webpage Early Relationships and Mental Health Series-Courses (trtogether.com). This series is developed in collaboration with the National Centre for Supervision of Parent-Infant Relationships (NCSPIR). NCSPIR offers clinical supervision to practitioners and their supervisors working with parents and infants as part of the UK government’s Family Hubs and Start for Life program, which aims to improve early years services for families with children aged 0 to 2. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see https://tavistockrelationships.org For more information about NCSPIR visit https://ncspir.org.ukDate: 2025-01-17
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Diagnosis and Its Clinical Implications
With Nancy McWilliams, PhD & ABPP. Ever since the 1980 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, descriptive and categorical taxonomies such as the DSM and the ICD (International Classification of Diseases) have aimed at facilitating better research and providing a common language for categories of psychopathology. Every edition of the DSM since DSM-III has warned, however, that descriptive psychiatric diagnosis is insufficient to guide clinical treatment, and that for purposes of psychotherapy, clinicians must develop more nuanced case formulations. Despite such caveats, it has become common for researchers to create manualized treatments for specific DSM-defined disorders, to test them on individuals who meet criteria for the chosen disorder without reported comorbidities, and to argue that such empirically tested treatments constitute the “gold standard” for clinical practice. Dr. McWilliams notes that our current taxonomies reflect the influences of insurance companies particularly in the US, pharmaceutical corporations, governmental cost-cutters, and some academics more than the needs of patients and clinicians to mitigate psychological suffering in the most humane and effective ways. She will put the DSM and ICD taxonomies in historical context, mention several alternative approaches to diagnosis, and emphasize the value, with clinical examples, of a dimensional, inferential, contextual understanding of personality in guiding psychotherapy. This workshop will include three sessions as well as time for discussion after each. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.comDate: 2025-01-24
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Online via Zoom
Reflective Function and Mentalization - Early Relationships and Mental Health: Session Two
With Dr. Arietta Slade. Dr Arietta Slade, named ‘one of the world’s best experts in this field’ by Peter Fonagy, will offer the second talk in our series on early relationships and mental health designed for a wide range of professionals, including parent-infant psychotherapists, child and adolescent psychotherapists, adult and couple psychotherapists, as well as those working with parents and infants in other settings. Dr. Slade works with mothers, babies, and their families to strengthen reflective capacities, focusing on relational disruptions stemming from the mothers' and fathers’ early trauma and attachment histories. This is especially crucial in cases where the parent struggles with Complex Trauma Disorder, linked to chronic caregiving disruptions. Complex Trauma Disorder frequently arises from prolonged relational challenges with primary caregivers, leading to issues like depression, anxiety, self-harm, and difficulties with parenting. Early intervention not only supports the mother but also significantly lowers the baby's risk of developing similar psychopathology later in life. By addressing these patterns in the parents, this therapeutic approach helps break the cycle of intergenerational trauma, fostering healthier outcomes for both parents and child. Dr Slade is Professor Adjunct at the Yale Child Study Center, and Professor Emerita in the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York. An internationally recognised theoretician, clinician, researcher, and teacher, she has published widely on reflective parenting, the clinical implications of attachment theory, the development of parental mentalization, and the relational contexts of early symbolization. She has been co-directing Minding the Baby, an interdisciplinary reflective parenting home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families, for over 20 years. If you are interested in attending the entire Early Relationships and Mental Health Series please visit the webpage Early Relationships and Mental Health Series-Courses (trtogether.com). This series is developed in collaboration with the National Centre for Supervision of Parent-Infant Relationships (NCSPIR). NCSPIR offers clinical supervision to practitioners and their supervisors working with parents and infants as part of the UK government’s Family Hubs and Start for Life program, which aims to improve early years services for families with children aged 0 to 2. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see https://tavistockrelationships.org For more information about NCSPIR visit https://ncspir.org.ukDate: 2025-01-31
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Race, Culture, and Identity - Early Relationships and Mental Health Series: Session Three
With Dr. Yvonne Osafo & Anna Godfrey. Dr. Yvonne Osafo and Anna Godfrey will present the third talk in our series on early relationships and mental health designed for a wide range of professionals, including parent-infant psychotherapists, child and adolescent psychotherapists, adult and couple psychotherapists, as well as those working with parents and infants in other settings. This seminar invites participants to engage critically with the significant influence of unconscious racial bias in their clinical work through the lens of parent infant psychotherapy. By examining how race, culture, and identity impact therapeutic relationships and outcomes, participants will gain a more profound awareness of the implicit biases that can shape their clinical interventions with families from various backgrounds. Concentrating on the field of parent-infant psychotherapy, the seminar will engage with the connections between race, trauma, and early relational dynamics, and the centrality of rupture and repair between parent infant as well as therapist. Attendees will be encouraged to reflect on their own biases and consider how these may impact their capacity to connect with the experiences of parents and children from marginalised communities. Dr Yvonne Osafo is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, working with a wide range of clients at every stage of life, from pregnancy to adulthood: babies, children & adolescents, adults, couples and families and elderly clients. She is a respected Parent-Infant Psychotherapist with experience in different cultural settings. Anna Godfrey adopts a community-based approach that addresses mental health needs while recognising the barriers minority families often face. Her emerging research on intergenerational racialised trauma seeks to cultivate a culturally strengths-based approach, thereby enhancing contributions to the practice of infant-parent psychotherapy. If you are interested in attending the entire Early Relationships and Mental Health Series please visit the webpage Early Relationships and Mental Health Series-Courses (trtogether.com). This series is developed in collaboration with the National Centre for Supervision of Parent-Infant Relationships (NCSPIR). NCSPIR offers clinical supervision to practitioners and their supervisors working with parents and infants as part of the UK government’s Family Hubs and Start for Life program, which aims to improve early years services for families with children aged 0 to 2. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see https://tavistockrelationships.org For more information about NCSPIR visit https://ncspir.org.ukDate: 2025-02-21
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Psychosexual Therapy: A Beginner’s Workshop for Therapists - The Sexual Relationship Keeps the Score
Friday, 7 March 2025 - Saturday 8 March 2025. This introductory workshop is for those not yet trained in psychosexual therapy but interested to include this area into their clinical practice. The sessions will include psychodynamic, attachment and psychosexual theory. The focus of the workshop is to highlight the couple’s sexual relationship as a portal to understanding and making sense of deeper relational concerns. Our facilitators, Andrew Davidson and Bridget Wilkins, are the co-leads for Tavistock Relationship‘s Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy and bring a wealth of experience to support clinicians who would like to be able to work more confidently with issues of sex in individual and couple therapy. It can be common in talk therapy modalities to avoid bringing up and discussing the sexual relationship. Shame, myth and social taboos abound. However, with the skillful and sensitive approach developed over many years at TR, it is possible to work with the sexual relationship and sexual problems as a central factor in well-being and psychic development for individuals and couples. The relationship a couple creates is unique, shaped by their individual experiences with intimacy, touch, and connection throughout their lives. These patterns often stem from early childhood, influencing not only their sexual bond but also their emotional and relational dynamics. By working within the realm of their sexual relationship, therapists can facilitate meaningful changes that resonate across many aspects of their clients' lives, enhancing communication, trust, and overall well-being, far beyond the sexual life. Our course facilitators will create a safe forum where therapists can learn how to address complex sexual challenges. Numbers are limited to create a small, confidential gathering. There will be theory lectures, case discussions and an introduction to various psychosexual methods and techniques proven to support the development of intimacy. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see https://tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2025-03-07
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Tavistock Relationships, 10 New Street, London, EC2M 4TP
Therapeutic Parent, Baby and Toddler Playgroup for Refugees and Asylum Seekers - Early Relationships and Mental Health Series: Session Four
With Inge-Martine Pretorius, Fatima Martinez del Solar & Teresa Sarmiento. The fourth lecture in our series on Early Relationships and Mental Health will focus on a psychoanalytic approach of working with infants, toddlers, and their parents in the context of a playgroup for refugees and asylum seekers. The 10 Windsor Walk Therapeutic Parent, Baby, and Toddler group is facilitated by a multidisciplinary team of specialists in parent-infant psychoanalysis, child psychotherapy, adult psychotherapy and group analysis. This initiative is designed to enhance parent-child relationships during the crucial early years (0-3 years) within the context of trauma in the refugee and asylum-seeking community in South London, UK. The approach is inspired by the therapeutic playgroup model developed by psychoanalyst Anna Freud and her colleagues, based on her experiences in Vienna with homeless children during World War II. This model provides a safe space for families to explore difficult emotions and experiences without feeling pressured or threatened with the emotional support offered by staff and the opportunity for children to engage in play with their peers. Many parents in the group face mental health challenges, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anxiety, which can affect their relationships with their children during this critical developmental phase. They often seek guidance on issues related to weaning, sleeping, socialization, and walking. The team draws on their expertise in child development and psychoanalysis to provide support through both conversation and play at the playgroup. Our speakers will share their observations of significant improvements in the bonding between parents and children who have attended the group. If you are interested in attending the entire Early Relationships and Mental Health Series please visit the webpage Early Relationships and Mental Health Series-Courses (trtogether.com). This series is developed in collaboration with the National Centre for Supervision of Parent-Infant Relationships (NCSPIR). NCSPIR offers clinical supervision to practitioners and their supervisors working with parents and infants as part of the UK government’s Family Hubs and Start for Life program, which aims to improve early years services for families with children aged 0 to 2. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see https://tavistockrelationships.org For more information about NCSPIR visit https://ncspir.org.ukDate: 2025-03-14
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Rupture and Repair - Early Relationships and Mental Health Series: Session Five
With Tessa Baradon. Tessa Baradon is a Consultant Child, Adolescent and Parent-Infant Psychotherapist and co-author of The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy. Tessa will deliver the fifth talk in our Early Relationships and Mental Health Series. Baradon's talk will focus on the concept of rupture and repair in therapist-parent-infant relationships, drawing on research from pioneers including Stern, Trevarthen, Tronick, and Beebe. These researchers highlight how parent-infant relationships are co-constructed in micro-events of interaction that move between matching, mismatching, and repair. Some mismatches create ruptures that may negatively affect the relationship. She will discuss how ruptures, which inevitably occur in infant mental health practice, can be repaired through internal and interactive processes. Using video material, she will demonstrate how the processes that cause ruptures also set the stage for repair, with insights relevant to all participants. Tessa trained in Public Health at Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, where she founded Israel's first Pregnancy Advisory Service. After moving to the UK, she trained in child psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at the Anna Freud Centre, where she pioneered the psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy model, now used globally. She also trains, supervises, and publishes widely on the topic. If you are interested in attending the entire Early Relationships and Mental Health Series please visit the webpage Early Relationships and Mental Health Series-Courses (trtogether.com). This series is developed in collaboration with the National Centre for Supervision of Parent-Infant Relationships (NCSPIR). NCSPIR offers clinical supervision to practitioners and their supervisors working with parents and infants as part of the UK government’s Family Hubs and Start for Life program, which aims to improve early years services for families with children aged 0 to 2. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com . This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see https://tavistockrelationships.org . For more information about NCSPIR visit https://ncspir.org.ukDate: 2025-03-21
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Interrupting Intergenerational Racial Trauma - Early Relationships and Mental Health Series: Session Six
With Michela Biseo. Michela Biseo's talk and discussion is the sixth and final talk in our series on early relationships and mental health, designed for a wide range of professionals, including parent-infant psychotherapists, child and adolescent psychotherapists, adult and couple psychotherapists, as well as those working with parents and infants in other settings. Michela will explore a powerful case from her practice, Mixed Heritage, Mixed Feelings: Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy during the Coronavirus Pandemic, Aiming to Interrupt Intergenerational Racial Trauma. She will offer insight into the complexities of working as a white therapist with a mixed-heritage single mother and her newborn son, focusing on the impact of racial trauma and disrupted attachment. Michela will highlight the challenges and opportunities presented by the pandemic, discussing how the shift to online therapy opened space for exploring racial trauma, colorist abuse, and the societal 'Ghosts' that echo in parent-infant relationships. Through this case, she will emphasize the importance of cultural humility, self-reflection, and the therapist's role in addressing both the 'Ghosts in the nursery' and the 'Ghosts in society.' Michela originally trained as a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist (ACP). She is also a psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapist (BPC) and was formerly the lead of a Parent-Infant Psychotherapy service at the Anna Freud Centre in London. Along with her team, including Tessa Baradon also speaking in this series, Michela co-authored The Principles & Practice of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: "Claiming the Baby" in 2016. If you are interested in attending the entire Early Relationships and Mental Health Series please visit the webpage Early Relationships and Mental Health Series-Courses (trtogether.com). This series is developed in collaboration with the National Centre for Supervision of Parent-Infant Relationships (NCSPIR). NCSPIR offers clinical supervision to practitioners and their supervisors working with parents and infants as part of the UK government’s Family Hubs and Start for Life program, which aims to improve early years services for families with children aged 0 to 2. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com . This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see https://tavistockrelationships.org . For more information about NCSPIR visit https://ncspir.org.ukDate: 2025-03-28
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Transgenerational Transmissions of Trauma
Transgenerational Transmissions of Trauma: Repetitions and Ruptures in our Lives and in the World. With Sue Grand, Jill Salberg & Zack Eleftheriadou (Chair). Over the past few decades psychoanalysis has steadily been theorizing about trauma transmissions affecting multiple generations. These traumas are individual, familial, cultural and political. Unmourned and unknown, these histories remain open wounds passing from one generation to the next in search of recognition and repair. Until they are mourned and repaired, they will continue to occupy every generation in problematic ways. In families, transmissions are absorbed by young children through their early attachment relationships, while racial, sexual/gender, class and historical pain is inflicted on our psyches, our interpersonal relationships, and it is powerfully re-enacted in our politics. This unconscious history can transmit resilience, resourcefulness, and care for the other. But all too often, the here-and-now is inscribed with darker transmissions: hopelessness, terror, despair, hostility towards the Other. In this seminar series, we will examine clinical processes through the lens of history, social critique, psychoanalytic theory, and attachment theory. As clinicians and as citizens, living in a time of chaos and uncertainty, we understand that the violence of trauma fractures our experience of being in the world; it ruptures human bonds and damages the fabric of attachment. Repairing history means knowing, and mourning, our unknown histories, and the histories of others. This seminar series will run for four weeks on Fridays in May, 2025. We have designed the sessions so that there is plenty of time for questions during the session as well as to process and apply what is being taught to your ongoing clinical work each week between sessions. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see https://tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2025-05-02
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Online via Zoom, -