Psychotherapy CPD Events
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How to build a successful private practice
Why take this course: Although word of mouth is one of the best ways to get business, being a good counsellor or therapist isn’t always enough to fill your practice with clients – and that’s where the easy-to-learn, simple but effective business and marketing skills you will learn on this online course come in. Jennifer Broadley has been a qualified and practising psychotherapist for 10 years and has been in business for herself for well over 20 years. She brings her extensive knowledge of the personal and professional ups and downs to life in this practical and motivating day. You will also gain a wealth of time-saving devices and tips that others who have successfully built their thriving practices have used, all of which will allow you to focus more time on your clients. Jennifer built her business, Healthy Chat, from no clients to full practice within 2 years. She has tried-and-tested marketing strategies and will share with you the ones that have worked for her and the ones that haven’t. She is fully transparent with her client numbers, systems and finances so that you will leave the course clear about whether a full-time or part-time therapy practice is for you – and how to go about getting the work/life balance you want. Date: Tues 22nd Oct 2024 Accredited CPD Certificate: 6 hours Length: 1 day (9.30am - 4.00pm GMT) Tutor: Jennifer Broadley Price: £145 per person (GET 10% OFF with discount code TOWN10) Price includes course notes NEARLY FULL!Date: 2024-10-22
Organiser: Human Givens College
Location: Live online via Zoom
Online and phone therapy training
Delivering online therapy, or counselling clients on the phone, requires a particular set of skills and brings with it specific considerations. This live online workshop will help you gain confidence in working safely and ethically, examining the advantages, potential drawbacks and adjustments you need to make to work remotely successfully. There will be plenty of time for questions, and helpful discussions with your peers and experienced tutors. Next dates: Thurs 24th October 2024 Accredited CPD Certificate: 4 hours Length: 9am – 1.15pm (BST) Tutors: Jo Baker, Rosalind Townsend Price: £110 per personDate: 2024-10-24
Organiser: Human Givens College
Location: Live online via Zoom
The Missing Links – Affect Bridge, Molar Memories and Sub-threshold Trauma
Essential CPD to deepen your understanding and develop your skills as a therapist. Why take this course: Whether you are a new HG therapist wanting to develop a clear understanding of how to utilise an affect bridge to determine if a molar memory or sub-threshold trauma is present, and to better understand the protocols for working with these, or whether you are an experienced HG practitioner looking to refresh your knowledge and delve deeper into understanding this valuable skillset, this course will help you gain the skills and understanding you need to do so safely and effectively. In an early article regarding molar memories, Joe Griffin termed them ‘an ancient mechanism that is ruining lives’; and the impact of such driven urges on the lives of our clients cannot be underestimated. Molar memories can, on first encountering the theory, seem complicated and unfathomable, but this course will set them – and sub-threshold traumas and the use of the affect bridge to access both – within a clear framework of understanding, linking back to the way in which our brain perceives things (referencing the APET model) and to RIGAAR (how we structure a good therapy session). During the course, numerous case studies will be shared and used as the basis for exercises, and there will be ample opportunity to link the learning to your own experiences in the therapy room. You will gain a clear understanding of: how to follow the treatment protocols for working with molar memories and sub-threshold traumas – adapting these, of course, to each client’s unique model of reality; how to safely and ethically utilise an affect bridge; and how to avoid the danger of creating any false memories. NEXT Date: Tues 29th Oct 2024 CPD Certificate: 3 hours Length: 9.30am – 1.30pm (GMT) Tutor: Rosalind Townsend Price: £95 per person Price includes handouts and access to a recording LIMITED SPACES REMAINING!Date: 2024-10-29
Organiser: Human Givens College
Location: Live online via Zoom
An Intercultural Perspective on Psychoanalysis - Where do we stand now?
A Two Day Live Webinar. Friday, November 1, 2024 - Saturday, November 2, 2024. With Prof Salman Akhtar. How can a ‘westernised’ psychoanalytic framework be used to think about the psychology of people from across the globe today? Where does psychoanalysis tap into something that might be considered ‘universal’ about the human experience, and where might it misconstrue the subjectivity of people from different cultures and societies? What does a psychoanalytic approach mean when we think about ‘power’ and ‘culture’ in the therapy room, and how do we navigate this complexity as therapists? In this thought-provoking live webinar with Professor Salman Akhtar, we will use these questions to explore the intercultural application of psychoanalysis. We will consider both its impact and limitations across three sessions, focusing on the profession, theory and practice. Salman will draw on his wide-ranging clinical, academic, and personal insight to illuminate key ideas and help you understand the implications for practice. Salman will speak from his experience as both a professional and an Indian-American person. These two sessions over two days offer time for integration and discussion and we look forward to a lively exchange of ideas to support clinical work with an intercultural lens. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.comDate: 2024-11-01
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Online via Zoom
Certificate in Body Psychotherapy: Developing embodied relational resonance
Certificate in Body Psychotherapy: Developing embodied relational resonance with Anne Marie Keary and Kimcha Rajkumar Our bodies are shaped by our experience, and it is how we come to know ourselves, and the world. The practise of Body Psychotherapy offers a route to support us in opening by addressing our embodiment directly. The therapeutic relationship is an embodied relational communication and the more we learn to make more use of our felt experience, the deeper our therapeutic contact can be. This post-qualification certificate course offers you the chance to gain knowledge of the body’s place in psychotherapy and to deepen your embodiment experience in a supportive and nourishing environment. This year long course will offer an opportunity to integrate some of what Body Psychotherapy has to offer with practices that can inform and extend our work with clients. It will cover: 1. Working with breathing and grounding The breath is both voluntary and involuntary. Building an awareness of our own and others’ breathing patterns provides us with another way of supporting and working with emotions. Developing reliable grounding capacities for ourselves that are rooted in an understanding of the Social Engagement System deepens therapeutic contact. 2. Focusing on embodied resonance and the transference matrix Through learning to trust what our bodies are telling us by paying attention to its subtle messages, we will develop an understanding of sensation and feelings. From this awareness, a language of embodiment starts to emerge. 3. Looking at energetic patterns in the body and how to work with them Here we will use traditional Body in Psychotherapy theories on character and segments to develop our energetic understanding. We will include getting to understanding our relationship to charge and aliveness. 4. Embodied power relations and vulnerabilities as we work Here we will be focusing on embodied difference and building our capacity to be with the challenging dynamics that emerge when looking at embodiment and how we other. 5. The nature of touch in Body Psychotherapy Here we will explore our relationship to touch, how to work with embodiment and the contact boundary. 6. Clinical issues and supervision from an embodied perspective Including working clinically with our inner critic and supporting the “self-care system” of both client and therapist. “The importance of working with our own embodiment is that it gives an integrity to the discipline of psychotherapy, taking seriously the fact that it’s an embodied, relating matrix; I am impacted by how I experience you, you are impacted by how you experience me.” – Anne Marie Keary Who should apply: This certificate course is suitable for counsellors who want to gain understanding of how to incorporate working with the body in their therapy practise. It is also suitable to Minster graduates who want to consolidate and expand their learning after completing the 2nd year Body and Psychotherapy module. It is open to practicing psychotherapists, counsellors and finalist students from the Minster Centre, and other institutions. There will be an application form and an introductory meeting with the course facilitators before the course starts. Assessment: There will be an ongoing learning reflection, submitted a week after each teaching day. There will be an embodied reflective piece submitted towards the end of the course. There will be readings and resources available online via Moodle for each day. Course dates: 10am-5pm, 10 days x 6 hours training Friday 8 November 2024; Friday 6 December 2024; Friday 10 January 2025; Friday 7 and Saturday 8 February 2025; Friday 7 March 2025; Friday 4 April 2025; Friday 9 May 2025; Friday 27 and Saturday 28 June 2025. (Total 60 hours) Fees: £1850 (Minster Centre members £1750) How to apply: Applications are online now, on our course page. If you have any queries, contact admissions@minstercentre.ac.uk. Course Facilitators: Anne Marie Keary: A Relational Body Psychotherapist (Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy), she has worked at The Minster Centre since 2010. Anne Marie is currently a tutor on the Body and Intersectionality in Psychotherapy module and Joint course lead of the second year of training. She is also a certified Diamond Approach teacher. Anne Marie has a special interest in working with issues around disability and childhood sexual abuse and facilitates workshops in these areas. She comes from a teaching background and also works in private practice in Old Street. Kimcha Rajkumar: An Embodied Relational Psychotherapist (MA from The Minster Centre & Advanced Diploma in Embodied Relational Therapy), she is a tutor on the Body and Intersectionality in Psychotherapy module at The Minster Centre. Kimcha has a special interest in working with issues around identity and belonging, creativity, disability and illness. Previously a sculptor and jeweller she works in private practice with individuals and relationships in St Albans and London.Date: 2024-11-08
Organiser: The Minster Centre
Location: The Minster Centre, 20 Lonsdale Road, NW6 6RD
The Twelfth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (epff12)
In our contemporary culture ‘journey’ seems to make regular appearances as a shallow cliché but it does evince concepts deeply rooted in human consciousness and human prehistory, ancestral themes now surfacing as currency in popular culture. The 12th European Psychoanalytic Film festival honours the tradition of bringing together film makers and psychoanalysts to discuss the resonance between our different but overlapping journeys. When November 15th, 2024 2:30 PM through November 17th, 2024 4:00 PMDate: 2024-11-15
Organiser: The Institute of Psychoanalysis
Location: In person at The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London , W1G 0AE
The Psychology of Erotic Fantasies and Behaviours: Curing Sexy Couples
(Event time 2pm-5:30pm with recording available for 365 days.) With Professor Brett Kahr. In this seminar, Professor Brett Kahr, one of the world’s leading researchers on the structure and function of sexual fantasies, will offer participants insights as to how we might address the private erotic lives of individual and couple clients in a more honest, more straightforward, and more clinically impactful manner. The confidence to practise in this way will support therapists and counsellors, helping us to discover the often hidden, traumatic, unconscious foundations of sexual symptomatology, which often cause quite complex challenges for clients. Participants will be able to think about how clients might integrate and work through sexual difficulties, regardless of how theses traumata erupt among couples. Kahr will share his clinical insights as Principal Investigator of the British Sexual Fantasy Research Project (2002-2008), in which he studied the private masturbatory and coital fantasies of over 25,000 adult participants, aged eighteen to ninety-plus years of age, in both the United Kingdom and in the United States of America, undertaken in collaboration with the international polling agency YouGov. He will then explore key concepts, including the “intra-marital affair”, the “erotic tumour”, and the “conjugal aneurysm”. He will draw upon his multi-decade experience of treating couples to investigate the deep and often traumatic origins of sexual challenges within the relational context, examining the ways in which sadism enters the adult bedroom. In speaking about these complex and often ignored topics, Professor Kahr will help us all to develop a greater capacity for “sexpertise” within our consulting rooms. 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: 2024-11-15
Organiser: TR Together
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Dr Lori Brotto on Mindfulness for Sexual Problems
Psychosexual Therapy Series. With Dr Lori Brotto. This three-hour workshop with Dr Lori Brotto, a Psychologist and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology based in Vancouver, Canada, will introduce therapists working with couples and individuals to a mindfulness-based approach for treating sexual difficulties and improving desire, arousal, and sexual satisfaction. Participants will leave the session with a greater understanding and confidence in their ability to consider a mindfulness approach in their clinical work. The workshop will be offered in three parts. The first will be a focus on the specifics of using mindfulness with a particular emphasis on low sexual desire. The second will consider the use of a mindfulness-based approach to treating the distressing experience of vulvovaginal pain for women, and the third will discuss how this approach can be adapted to male sexual concerns and their partners in a couples-based format. Dr Brotto will weave mindfulness practice exercises throughout the workshop, and there will be time allocated to discuss how this approach can be adapted to individuals, couples, gender-diverse persons, and other particular contexts. 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 tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2024-12-06
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
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, -