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The Power of Birkbeck Counselling
The Birkbeck Counselling Association is the professional body of the Birkbeck College trainings in Psychodynamic Counselling. The first course began more than 30 years ago under the inspiration and guidance of Ellen Noonan.
Birkbeck Training
Together with the application of psychoanalytic theory to the practice of counselling, Birkbeck trainings emphasise the importance of working with and within the institutional setting.
Theoretical foundations
Tavistock human and group relations theory together with psychoanalysis form twin theoretical foundations for the trainings.
Desert Island Footprints – Nick Barwick
Training after Training: What’s the point?
Understanding and exploring the impact of male sexual violation
Recent
Forum Programme 2023-2024
Resources and Human commoditization in relation to colonialism -Frieda Namene Shapopi-Lagrange
Finding a way through the forest: working with students and suicidality – Galit Ferguson
Pandemics and Emergencies: the role of psychotherapists in developing resilience – Jan Baker
Desert Island Footprints – Laurence Spurling
Forum Programme 2023-2024
Resources and Human commoditization in relation to colonialism -Frieda Namene Shapopi-Lagrange
Finding a way through the forest: working with students and suicidality – Galit Ferguson
Pandemics and Emergencies: the role of psychotherapists in developing resilience – Jan Baker
Desert Island Footprints – Laurence Spurling
Book Group Session – Laila Al-Attar The Other Exile: The Story of Fernão Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost by Abdul Rahman Azzam
Islam and Psychoanalysis: Semantics of Resonance and Dissonance, Laila Al Attar
Home is Where We Start From: internal worlds, objects and the facilitating environment, by Rita Odumosu
Forum Programme 2023-2024
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Welcome to BCA
Book Group Session – Laila Al-Attar The Other Exile: The Story of Fernão Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost by Abdul Rahman Azzam
Peer Support
Understanding and exploring the impact of male sexual violation
Offering a ‘therapeutic presence’ in a school for social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH) – Hicham Jabrane and Ruth Wismayer
The GP Practice as a Secure Base
Fears of Death and Dying in the Counter-Transference – Revisited in the time of the Coronavirus – Paul Terry
Children, young people and cancer in the family
My experience of being a bilingual therapist working with bilingual clients – Dominique Cornwall
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