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SUMMARY:Dreaming the Jungian Analytic craft forward: practice and the mystery of becoming
DESCRIPTION:SAP Annual Lecture \nDreaming the Jungian Analytic craft forward:\npractice and the mystery of becoming \nOnline and at The SAP Library\, 1 Daleham Gardens\, NW3 5BY \n\nThis year\, our Annual Lecture will be a panel discussion featuring analysts whose analytic development is deeply informed by their backgrounds in allied creative disciplines. \nThe event will be held in a hybrid format – both in person at the SAP library and online. As space in the library is limited\, we encourage early booking. \nAs convenor\, I was inspired to build on Warren Colman’s 2019 presentation\, Psychotherapy as a Skilled Practice\, with Jan Wiener as respondent. \nThis year’s lecture offers a chance to “dream forward” the themes they explored\, with each panellist reflecting on how their skilled disciplines inform their lived experience of being a Jungian analyst from the practices of Art\, Dramatherapy\, Music therapy and Couples Therapy. \nPresenters: Ruth Oreschnick\, Kate Palmer\, Kathrine Quiller and Catriona Wrottesley (Biographies)\nRespondents: Warren Colman and Jan Wiener\nChair : Sophie Lopez-Welsch \nAttending in person will be an excellent opportunity to catch up with colleagues. We are planning on this being an SAP community day with the Training Faculty running an Open House Day in the afternoon. This Annual Lecture promises to be a rich and stimulating morning of reflection and dialogue. \nJay Barlow\, Convenor \n\nAnnual Lecture 2025 Programme\n9h30 – 10h00                   Registration and tea/coffee\n10h00 – 11h30                 Annual Lecture panel presentations\n11h30 – 12h00                 tea/coffee break\n12h00 – 13h30                 Responses and Q&A
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/dreaming-the-jungian-analytic-craft-forward-practice-and-the-mystery-of-becoming/
LOCATION:The SAP Library\, 1 Daleham Gardens\, London\, NW3 5BY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251128T100000
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SUMMARY:The intersection of AI and psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:A webinar aiming to explore the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in psychotherapy\, examining its potential benefits and ethical concerns\n\n\nJoin us at our upcoming webinar where we explore the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in psychotherapy. We’ll dive into the potential benefits of AI on psychotherapy practice\, as well as the ethical concerns it poses for those working in the psychotherapy professions. \nAI is reshaping how we see ourselves\, connect with others\, and experience the world\, bringing with it profound challenges to psychotherapy. For many clinicians\, the pace of change feels both exciting and unsettling. Our webinar aims to help you understand how AI technologies are being used in practice and how these can enhance your work while remaining mindful of the ethical considerations that AI presents. \nJoin Dr. Aaron Balick for a grounded look at today’s digital culture and its implications for therapeutic practice\, and Julie Stone as she explores some of the potential ethical implications of AI in psychotherapy. This webinar will delve into the ethical\, emotional and symbolic challenges AI presents. Attendees will gain insights into how AI can complement traditional therapeutic practices while maintaining ethical and professional standards\, and discover how to navigate these with confidence. \nSessions\nAI\, mental health and psychotherapy: what every therapist needs to know \nDr Aaron Balick\, psychotherapist\, applied psychodynamics \nAs AI continues to embed itself into everyday life\, its psychological and relational implications are becoming increasingly urgent. While psychotherapists may be among the most well-placed to respond to these concerns\, many find themselves bewildered and anxious in the face of its rapid development. We are witnessing a profound shift in how people relate to themselves\, others\, and the world – alongside the greatest paradigmatic challenge to the practice and role of psychotherapy in its history. In this talk\, Dr. Balick will discuss the state of play of digital culture today to help participants better prepare for the new clinical realities it represents. Attendees will come away with a clearer understanding of how to think about these technologies and to better navigate the ethical\, emotional and symbolic challenges and opportunities they pose for the profession. \nAI and psychotherapy: some ethical considerations \nJulie Stone\, independent ethics lead and chair of UKCP’s Ethics Committee \nThis session will explore some of the many potential ethical implications of AI for practice. It will explore the ramifications for both individual therapists and the profession as a whole\, assuming that use of generative AI will become ever more prevalent. Asking which ethical principles and theories might be helpful in thinking about AI as novel technology\, topics will include potential benefits and harms\, assessing fears of therapist ‘replacement’ against the distinctiveness of human interactions\, and assessing capacity for ‘working with’ AI as an opportunity to support diagnosis\, practice\, research and supervision. \nLearning objectives\nDuring this event\, you will: \n\nlearn how AI technologies\, including chatbots and machine learning models\, are being utilised in mental health support\nunderstand the ethical considerations surrounding AI in psychotherapy\, including patient privacy\, consent and the limitations of AI-driven therapy\ndiscover how AI can enhance the work of therapists rather than replace human interaction.\n\nFull programme coming soon. \nWho should attend?\nThis webinar is open to all psychotherapists\, counsellors\, mental health practitioners\, AI researchers and students in psychology and AI fields. \nCPD\nAfter this event you will receive a certificate of attendance which you can submit for consideration towards your CPD hours. \nOur sponsor\nhttps://www.balens.co.uk/businesses/cyber-liability-crime/\nEvent terms and conditions\nYou can view UKCP’s terms and conditions for booking and attending events on our website. When you register to attend a UKCP event you are agreeing with the event terms and conditions. \nContact us\nIf you have any queries about this event or you are interested in sponsoring this event\, please contact events@ukcp.org.uk.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/the-intersection-of-ai-and-psychotherapy/
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251122T103000
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SUMMARY:All the Strange Children: Childhood Adversity and the Risk of Later Violence
DESCRIPTION:The Hallam Institute of Psychotherapy are proud to present \nDr Gwen Adshead \n“All the Strange Children: Childhood Adversity and the Risk of Later Violence” \nAn online presentation and discussion. Recordings available. \nINFORMATION AND TICKETS AT HALLAMINSTITUTE.ORG/EVENTS
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/all-the-strange-children-childhood-adversity-and-the-risk-of-later-violence/
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251104T201500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251104T220000
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SUMMARY:The Symbol and the Symbolic Process After the Red Book: The Light That Shines in the Darkness
DESCRIPTION:MONTHLY MEETING \nTuesday 4th November 2025 8.15pm\, £15 \nTHE SYMBOL AND THE SYMBOLIC PROCESS AFTER THE RED BOOK: \nTHE LIGHT THAT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS \nwith Katerina Sarafidou \nThe notion of the symbol is one of the most elusive concepts in Western thought\, and yet its\nmeaning and function has particular significance for analytical psychology and\npsychoanalysis. It plays a central role in therapeutic work\, which seeks to engage with the\nsymbolic process as a means for growth and renewal\, but it is understood and formulated\nvery differently by different analysts and writers. This talk will give a contextual introduction\nto the concept of the symbol within the field of psychotherapy and will revisit and\nreformulate the concept in light of Jung’s Red Book and Black Book material. It will explore\nits implications for clinical work\, its relevance for the analytic attitude and its role in Jung’s\nidea of individuation. \nKaterina Sarafidou is the Jungian Head of Research and former Jungian Director of the MSc\nPsychodynamics of Human Development run by Birkbeck College and the British\nPsychotherapy Foundation. She is an honorary member of the British Jungian Analytic\nAssociation and is carrying out academic research at the Warburg Institute. She runs a Jung\nReading Group for the British Psychotherapy Foundation and is one of the three founders of\nThe Circle of Analytical Psychology\, which offers a 2-year course of study on Jung’s Liber\nNovus.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/the-symbol-and-the-symbolic-process-after-the-red-book-the-light-that-shines-in-the-darkness/
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251025T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251025T190000
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SUMMARY:HOPE / LESS: Exploring Psychoanalytic Uses of Utopia
DESCRIPTION:The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it’s the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.\nErnst Bloch \nUtopia promises us an ideal paradox consisting of a limit and an opening: a limit to our suffering and frustrations and an open road to the unimpeded pursuit of our desires. It embodies an unconscious dialectic—a paradoxical symbol standing both as a boundary and as an opening. Utopia functions as a projection of an ideal state where suffering and frustration are contained within a symbolic limit\, yet simultaneously\, it beckons the subject toward an unbounded horizon of desire’s fulfilment. \nThe Greek etymology — οὐ τόπος\, “no-place”\, coined by Sir Thomas More — offers a Lacanian meditation on the allure and treachery of the unattainable. It hints at an impossible desire for a perfect state beyond language and reality\, a dead end that may serve as a phantasmatic anchor rather than a genuine horizon. And yet\, 500 years after the word was created\, the hope for limitlessness and resolution is still ever present\, we persistently cling to an elusive longing for an unconditioned plenitude — an eternal resolution that perpetually slips just beyond the grasp of symbolization. \nThis collection of dialogues — propelled by thinkers engaged in psychoanalytic\, philosophical\, and critical inquiry — invites us to question the function of hope and utopia within the psychic economy. What revelations can these domains offer about the role of hope in the analytic process? How does utopia manifest in the clinical setting? Are we inclined to relinquish hope\, or does it serve as a vital structuring force? If hope persists\, how can it be harnessed therapeutically? Moreover\, does hope belong solely to the realm of optimal illusions and dangerous fantasies\, akin to Pandora’s box\, or can it be transformed into a sustained\, constructive act within the matrix of the analytic encounter?
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/hope-less-exploring-psychoanalytic-uses-of-utopia/
LOCATION:Goldsmiths University\, New Cross\, London\, SE14 6NW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251008T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251008T210000
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SUMMARY:Adam Phillips: "Psychoanalysis for Beginners"
DESCRIPTION:Site member Adam Phillips will be speaking on “Psychoanalysis for Beginners”\n\n\nBiography: \nAdam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at York University. He was formerly a Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital\, London. He is the General Editor of the Penguin Freud\, and author of a host of books\, essays and studies from On Kissing\, Tickling and Being Bored to Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst and most recently In Writing\, Unforbidden Pleasures\, On Wanting to Change\, On Getting Better and On Giving Up.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/adam-phillips-psychoanalysis-for-beginners/
LOCATION:Swedenborg House\, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way\, London\, England\, WC1A 2TH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250920T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250920T131500
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SUMMARY:Race and Culture in the consulting room: why should we care? Session 1
DESCRIPTION:Join us in person to discuss ‘Why race and culture matters in clinical practice’.\nThis is the first in a series of in person sessions\nRace and Culture in the Clinic organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to bridge the gap between the academic discussions on race and culture in psychotherapy and the practical application in clinical practice. Our speakers will present case material from their consulting rooms and there will be plenty of time for discussion. \nIn this seminar\, Maxine Dennis will be bringing her extensive experience as a Psychoanalyst and Consultant Clinical Psychologist to help us think about the dynamic clinical significance of paying attention to race and culture in the consulting room. We hope to create an explorative space where we can freely discuss this and think together about why should we\, as clinicians and clinicians-to-be\, care? How would this “caring” actually look like in the clinical encounter? In addition to any other questions that may arise from Maxine’s presentation. \nSpeakers’ Biography\nMaxine Dennis is a Psychoanalyst\, Consultant Clinical Psychologist working with individuals\, groups and organisations. She is interested in psychoanalysis across the life span and that obvious point that we are not single issue individuals. In the past she has worked in in-patient\, out-patient and community. She has undertaken a number of Service Head roles and Chaired a Psychotherapy Unit. \nMaxine has ongoing involvement in psychoanalysis within the community and with those who are marginalised and/or economically disadvantaged. In addition to providing “Thinking Spaces”\, reflective settings for people less likely to access psychotherapeutic services. \nMaxine is one of the original founding members of 10 Windsor Walk (a centre providing-psychoanalysis\, psychotherapy and training in South London)\, and Black Psychoanalysts Speak. A speaker and lecturer for various psychology\, counselling\, psychotherapy organisations in the UK and abroad. A Training Analyst for Child Psychotherapy and various Adult Psychotherapy trainings\, and is a therapist for Face-front an inclusive Theatre Company. She has Directed and staffed on numerous Group Relations Conferences in the UK and abroad. Her clinical practice is in South London. \nCertificates of Attendance available on request.\nThese events will not be recorded.\nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapis
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/race-and-culture-in-the-consulting-room-why-should-we-care-session-1/
LOCATION:The Guild of Psychotherapists\, 47 Nelson Square\, London\, England\, SE1 0QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250909T201500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250909T220000
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SUMMARY:Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on BDSM
DESCRIPTION:MONTHLY MEETING \nOnline \nTickets: £15.00 \nJUNGIAN AND ARCHETYPAL PERSPECTIVES ON BDSM \nwith Douglas Thomas\, PhD LCSW \nThe depth psychology of C.G. Jung and James Hillman provide unique perspectives on the\nmeaning and psychological value of BDSM activities and relationships. BDSM practitioners\ncan benefit from Jung and Hillman’s psychological language\, which honours the value of\ntransgression as a necessity for psychological growth. Clinicians can gain fresh insights\nregarding the deeper psychological meaning of participating in the world of BDSM and\nleather by applying Jungian concepts such as the Shadow\, the Syzygy\, and the psychoid. The\npresentation will discuss collective archetypal sources of historical trauma\, which have\nprovided inspiration to some of the more disquieting aspects of BDSM\, and we will consider\nhow the deep psychology of BDSM creates a space in the modern world to ethically engage\nthese primal psychoid forces. \nDouglas Thomas\, PhD\, LCSW\, has a Jungian-based psychotherapy practice in Pasadena\,\nCalifornia\, specializing in LGBTQ+ issues\, alternative sexualities\, and dream therapy. He\nteaches as adjunct faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria\, California\, and he\nhas presented papers at international Jungian conferences. His essays have appeared in the\nInternational Journal of Jungian Studies and the Jungian Journal of Scholarly Studies. His\nlatest book\, The Deep Psychology of BDSM and Kink: Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on\nthe Soul’s Transgressive Necessities\, was published by Routledge in September of 2023 with\nan audiobook version released on August 13\, 2024. For more information\, visit Dr. Thomas’\nwebsite at drdouglasthomas.com.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/jungian-and-archetypal-perspectives-on-bdsm/
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250831
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SUMMARY:Being and Belonging: Explorations in Co-operation and Community
DESCRIPTION:A 3-day experiential workshop using Group Relations approaches\, inspired by therapeutic community principles.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/being-and-belonging-explorations-in-co-operation-and-community/
LOCATION:Tavistock Centre\, 120 Belsize Lane\, London\, NW3 5BA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250712T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250712T000000
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SUMMARY:Annual Summer Conference 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Annual Conference is a day for all the Guild to come together\, listen to each other\, discuss ideas\, and have a party.\n\n\nShould I Stay or Should I Go?\n  \nThis year’s conference features papers and discussions from members\, trainees and students\, some of whom have been working together in Study Groups on their theme through the year. \n  \nProvisional programme\n  \nShould we laugh or should we not?\nHumour and Taboo: Humour Study Group \n  \nResistance/Research/Neuroscience:`\nHilary Dodson \n  \nUKCP report: Should we stay or we should go? \n  \nJoseph Wright of Derby – Painter of Castration: Ben Tunstall \n  \nEurowhiteness and Libidinal Investments:\nAnshu Srivastava with Hans Kundnani \n  \nAND \n  \nA reading of ‘No Exit’ by Jean-Paul Sartre \n  \nThe event will be followed by evening drinks. \nTickets for the Guild annual conference are free. If you’d like to make a voluntary donation to contribute towards the costs of food and drinks\, please select the amount when you get your tickets. We suggest a donation of between £10 and £30.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/annual-conference-2025-3/
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250628T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250628T173000
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SUMMARY:Race as Screen: The Iridescent Allure of the Lacanian Real
DESCRIPTION:Race as Screen: The Iridescent Allure of the Lacanian Real\nSheldon George in discussion with Andrea Fassolas and Anshu Srivastava \nChair: Jonathan Ridley (psychoanalytic psychotherapist) \nSaturday 28th June 2025 \n3:00pm – 5:30pm BST \nOnline seminar £12 – £24 \n \nThis is the next instalment in the series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis\, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating dialogues between academics and psychotherapists\, bringing clinical responses to the academic decolonial work. In this seminar\, Sheldon George continues his celebrated work on the Lacanian analysis of race and racism in the United States. \nAbout this seminar\nThis talk will present the traumatic past of slavery as an upsurge of the Lacanian Real. It will move through Lacan’s definition of the Real by engaging central understandings presented by Lacan in his seminar on the Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Here Lacan presents the Real as a traumatic core\, an excluded center of our being\, an unspeakable impossibility that burns with an alluring iridescence that consumes our subjectivity. Through a reading of Fanon and discussion of race in the US\, the talk will present race as based\, not on visibility or physical difference\, but on an effort psychically to mediate the subject’s relation to this all-consuming Lacanian Real. The talk will read race as a screen to the Real\, a shield that both protects us from and binds us to the illuminated trauma of the racial past. \nSpeakers’ Biographies\nSheldon George is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts\, Boston. His scholarship centres most directly on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and applies cultural and literary theory to analyses of American and African American literature and culture. He is the author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (2016) and co-editor\, with Jean Wyatt\, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race\, Ethics\, Narrative Form (Routledge\, 2020) and Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women’s Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation (Bloomsbury\, 2024). Lacan and Race: Racism\, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory is co-edited with Derek Hook (Routledge\, 2021). \nAndrea Fassolas is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in South London. She is a member of The College of Psychoanalysts and The Guild of Psychotherapists\, where she trained and teaches on its short courses and main training. She has a background in literature and critical theory\, with research focused on mourning and dementia\, and her wider experience includes teaching children\, young people in care\, and philosophy in prisons on behalf of King’s College London and the charity Philosophy in Prisons \nAnshu Srivastava is a member of The Guild of Psychotherapists\, London\, and holds an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies from Goldsmiths College\, University of London.\nHis work as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist includes seeing people privately\, at the Guild of Psychotherapists reduced-fee clinic and as a student counsellor at London Business School. He has also worked as an honorary psychotherapist within NHS Forensic Psychiatry Services. \nAs an active member of the Race & Culture Committee at the Guild\, Anshu is co-organiser of the committee’s seminar programme ‘Decolonising Psychoanalysis’. \nAnshu has also been a practising architect for over 25 years\, founding and running an international creative studio with offices in London and Paris. \nBursary tickets\nA limited number of bursary tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis to people who would not be able to attend the seminar without financial support. To apply for a bursary ticket please email ivan_talks@guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk. \nA recording will be available for ticket buyers for a month after the event. \nOrganised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists.
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/race-as-screen-the-iridescent-allure-of-the-lacanian-real/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250621T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250621T130000
DTSTAMP:20260629T203931
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Eye Movement and Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR)
DESCRIPTION:This will be an introduction to EMDR and a look at how EMDR fits into a psychoanalytical/psychodynamic\nframework. The speakers will also discuss the process of an adjunct referral for EMDR. \nAbout the Speakers: \nNaomi Cotten\nNaomi trained at IPSS and is an accredited EMDR Consultant with the EMDR Association UK. She has also\ncompleted the Advanced Flash Technique Training with Phil Mansfield and Lewis Engles. She is interested\nin new ways of working that help to reduce high levels of anxiety and trauma so that therapy becomes\npossible for clients. She works in private practice with adults. \nIrene Tagg\nIrene trained at the Bowlby Centre and at Terapia and works as an attachment-based psychoanalytical\npsychotherapist in private practice with adults. She is also a UKCP Integrative Child and Adolescent Psy-\nchotherapist. Previously\, she had a long career in social work\, working with child protection\, child mental\nhealth\, adoption and fostering\, and family trauma. She is an accredited EMDR practitioner with the EMDR\nAssociation UK and has recently completed a training with Annabel McGoldrick on IFS informed EMDR.\nIrene is currently one of the Directors of FiP and Chair of FiP Ethics Committee. \nFiP Members – Free (booking through administrator@fip.org.uk)\nNon-FiP Members £35 Early Bird Booking £30 (booked before 20 April 2025)\nOnline via Zoom
URL:https://staging.guildofpsychotherapists.org.uk/event/introduction-to-eye-movement-and-desensitisation-reprocessing-emdr/
CATEGORIES:Events,Member Events,Public Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Forum for Independent Psychotherapists":MAILTO:administrator@fip.org.uk
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