Continuing Professional Development

I offer an open-ended series of Seminars: CPD Theory-based clinical/work discussion groups for qualified psychotherapists, counsellors and NHS personnel who are interested in the therapeutic potential of relationship.

The Seminars operate with all due regard for client/patient confidentiality. Theory is taken from psychoanalytic and psychodynamic authors, and is intended to encourage inspired psychodynamic work, i.e. with full regard to the developing relationship(s) in the room. The format is intended to encourage participants to bring forward therapy vignettes or situations from any setting that are of concern to them.

If you are interested in joining us, please request a flyer for the series which I will send you by email attachment.

Relational psychoanalysts have developed a way of working that gives ear to the subtleties of interpersonal relationship as vehicle for the unconscious. We open out the relational field as a venture in equality between client/patient and therapist, though each has a different part to discover. This is the basis for my supervision and teaching.

Recent teaching and training

City Lit, Keeley St. London, teaching and conducting an experientially based weekend June 9th and 10th 2007 entitled: Working with Group Dynamics.

University West of England Centre for Psycho-Social Studies MSc on February 28th 2007: Trauma and psychodynamic approaches to treatment.

Exeter University MSc Psychodynamic Psychotherapies 13th October 2006: Lacan

Severnside Institute: for several years I taught Classical Freud and Contemporary Freud Courses in the Psychoanalytic Training Programme. I provide Continuing Professional Development seminars for Severnside Institute members, to meet British Psychoanalytic Council criteria.

I am a training therapist and supervisor for Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy, the Guild of Psychotherapists, Westminster Pastoral Foundation, the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Founder Member), BCPC, Wessex Counselling Centre and SCC.

Recent Talks

Taunton Association for Psychodynamics October 2007: A reading of parts of Paul's Journals, a study of journal making, and a cultural evocation of 1960s' psychiatric practices.

University of the West of England June 17th-18th 2006: Relational Thinking: Connecting psychoanalysis, Institutions and Society. Respondent to Susie Orbach: ‘Democratising Psychoanalysis’.

Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy Study Day July 2005: ‘Reconsidering Schreber: Contemporary perspectives’.

Taunton Association for Psychodynamics: Dreamtime.

Royal Society for Medicine: Dreamtime.