Working with the Couple in Mind

24 April, 2012
6.00 - 9.00pm

Programme Manager: Lynsey Hotchkies
Venue: 23 Magdalen Street, London SE1 2EN
Fee: £750

Many clients come to therapy struggling with issus around how they relate intimately, whether in or out of relationships. this short course is for individual or couple therapists who wish to develop their expertise in relationship therapy. This course will consist of a weekly seminar and case discusssion.

• Would you like to develop your understanding of 'couple fit'? Attachment patterns in couple choice? Different patterns in pairings?
• Are your clients struggling with issues around sex and intimacy? When should you refer on to specialist psychosexual work?
• Do your client's have violent or abusive relationships? Why do they stay?
• How do oedipal dynamics come into couple relationships?
• Learn more about couple issues: parenting, fertility, fostering, adoption, pornography, affairs and infidelity.

The course will over the following areas:

• Couple Fit
• Sex and Intimacy
• Internet Pornography
• Assessment and Frame
• Confidentiality in the triangle
• Using Attachment, Psychodynamic and Systemic Thinking in Clinical Work
• Couple Issues in the Therapy

Below are some excerpts from the feedback we received after the end of the May - July 2011 course.

"Thoroughly enjoyable! This was a well thought out, and well held professional development course that generated an environment for safe learning for practitioners from different training backgrounds."

"Stimulating thoughts and ideas to extend thinking about couples, working with individuals or with couples in the room."

"Thought provoking - felt like a safe environment to participate."
"Fascinating - especially because of the differing theoretical backgrounds of the other course members."

Course Tutors
Annie Power qualified at the Centre for Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy following trainings in humanistic counselling and group work. She has training in Supervision at WPF Therapy and in couple work with Relate. She has worked in the NHS and the voluntary sector and has a private practice and also supervises in various settings.

Jenny Riddell is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist working with individuals and couples. She is a registered member of The Bowlby Centre and BSCPC. Her specialist interests are in how a couple grieve, infertility, affairs and working with couples in later life. She has a private practice and supervises, trains, teaches and is academic supervisor for masters dissertations on a variety of psychotherapy trainings. She has worked with Relate, WPF Therapy, TCCR, and is a member of BPC, UKCP, BAPPS, COSRT, BACP.

Target Audience
This course is for individually trained counsellor and psychotherapists who work with clients presenting issues around intimate relationships.

This course is not a qualification in couples therapy. However, it will be useful to those working with individuals who are presenting relationship difficulties. It may also be of interest to therapists who are working with couples already or who have been asked to see a couple in an agency setting.

Application Details
Applicants must be either (1) WPF Therapy Advanced Diploma Graduates or (2) BACP accredited* or (3) registered with UKCP/BPC or (4) a Professional Member of the BPS (proof will be required before a place can be offered - see below). Offers of a place will only be made on receipt of ALL DOCUMENTS, including copies of registration certificates.

* Please note that BACP MEMBERSHIP does not meet the entry criteria.

*Applicants who do not meet these criteria, either because they are not accredited, or are on a recognised training leading to accreditation with one of the aforementioned bodies, are still eligible to apply.

In these cases a Certificate of Attendance will be awarded on successful completion of the course and not the Post-Qualifying Certificate. However, if your accreditation is completed before the end of the course you will be awarded the Post-Qualifying Certificate. Additionally, if you achieve accredited status up to 6 months after the end of the course, on presentation of proof, we will amend your award to the Post-Qualifying Certificate.

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