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Offering a ‘therapeutic presence’ in a school for social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH) – Hicham Jabrane and Ruth Wismayer

June 30, 2019

Tuesday 17th September 2019 Hicham Jabrane and Ruth Wismayer, will be sharing their psychoanalytically informed approach in delivering school-based interventions in the challenging context of a special school (SEMH) in a deprived inner city borough. Hicham Jabrane and Ruth Wismayer are graduates of the Birkbeck MSc Psychodynamic counselling and Psychotherapy (Adults and Child & Adolescent […]

Reflections on career transitions within counselling and psychotherapy – Ayan Ali

May 25, 2019

Reflections on career transitions within counselling and psychotherapy – Ayan Ali When do you start introducing yourself to people as a ‘counsellor/psychotherapist’ and leave your former professional identity and career behind? How do counsellors navigate the transition from trainee/honorary and start to make a living from their new profession? Ayan will share her experience of […]

Climate change: a psychoanalytic perspective – Rob Stuart

March 8, 2019

Tuesday 19th March 2019 Climate change: a psychoanalytic perspective – Rob Stuart Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to human civilization, yet our collective response has been far from sufficient. In this discussion, Rob Stuart will delve into psychoanalytic theory, spanning from Freud to contemporary thinkers like Klein, Steiner, Britton, and Weintrobe. He contends that […]

Desert Island Footprints – Anne Marie Reilly

February 19, 2019
Desert Island Footprints

Tuesday 19th February 2019 Desert Island Footprints – Anne Marie Reilly The way we develop as counsellors and therapists can have many influences, sometimes a book, lecture, poem or conversation can have a particular impact. Following in the footsteps of a well-known radio programme, we have invited Anne Marie Reilly to be our ‘castaway’, and […]

Clinical Notes in Counselling

January 15, 2019

Tuesday 15th January 2019 Clinical Notes in Counselling – Dominic McLoughlin Clinical notes are seen as a factual record of a session rather than a commentary on process. But is this distinction always easy to maintain? What different functions do clinical notes serve and for whom? How should the reader–as well as the subject– be […]