Adult mental health CPD courses
Our short courses will appeal to a broad range of practitioners in psychiatry, psychology, nursing and social work and focus on working with couples, families and young adults.
September 2017
Development of psychoanalytic theory: lecture series
This lunchtime lecture series will offer you a systematic introduction and overview of the development of psychoanalytic theory from Freud to the...
Families and beyond: an introduction to systemic thinking (online)
We all live our lives in and through our relationships, both past and present, and we are all shaped by the social and cultural contexts in which...
Neuroscience and psychoanalysis
Neuroscience is becoming increasingly important for psychoanalysis and three areas now stand out: Affective neuroscience, as pioneered by Panksepp...
Understanding development – adolescence
Adolescence is a time of life that is central to our sense of who we are in the world. It is a time of intense emotion, of startling changes, of...
Understanding couples
This half-day workshop is designed for counsellors and psychotherapists who are concerned with couples in the course of their work and...
Working with families with physical illness: a systemic approach
The care and support of children and adults affected by serious physical illness, disability and treatment regimes falls largely to their families.
October 2017
Couples and Assisted Conception
Have you come across people in the course of your work who have used, or are thinking of using one of the new technologies, in order to conceive a...
Eight-Week Mindfulness Course
What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is a very effective way of training our attention. In our fast-paced world, we are increasingly reacting...
Families and beyond: an introduction to systemic thinking
In this short course you will learn new ways of thinking about and negotiating personal and work relationships as well as many other applications...
Risk: A relational perspective
This eight week course, delivered in both London and Leeds, offers you an innovative framework for understanding the complex and subtle issues...
Working with Psychotherapy Groups
Whilst group therapy has long been established as a highly effective form of treatment, services are increasingly utilising group work as a means...
Working with refugee people and their families
This is the first module of the oldest and longest running course in this field in the UK and aims to assist those working with asylum seeking...
November 2017
Exploring the Unsaid: Working with people with chronic pain, chronic illness and their significant relationships
A workshop by Barry Mason, former director of the Institute of Family Therapy.
Motivational interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a person-centred counselling style for addressing the common problem of ambivalence about change.
The ‘C’ word – Working with couples affected by cancer
By 2020, almost one in two people (47%) will get cancer at some point in their lives*. With new and vastly improved treatments, this is often no...
December 2017
Advanced motivational interviewing
Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based approach based on a person-centred counselling style for addressing the common problem of...
Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule administration & coding course
The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) is a semi-structured, standardised assessment of communication, social interaction, and play.
January 2018
Couples as parents and parents as couples
Does your work involve contact with children and parents? Do you come across couples who are struggling to parent together? Do you want to...
Introduction to psychodynamic and systemic practice applications in work with young people and adults
This course explores a diverse range of practice applications of both psychodynamic and systemic theoretical models to professional work.
Working with couples
Therapeutic work with couples is an important mode of intervention which is relevant in child, adolescent and adult clinical settings.
April 2018
Relating to self-harm and suicide in adolescents and young adults
This 10-week course will focus on how to understand self-harm and suicidal behaviour in adolescence and early adulthood.
Courses you can join at any time
Working with personality disorder, severely ill and complex patients
This programme presents an opportunity for qualified psychotherapists/analysts to join the Fitzjohn’s unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS...
Bespoke courses
Reflective mental health practice today short course
This is a bespoke 10-week short course for mental health nurses, which develops the capacity to understand, process and thoughtfully respond to...
Coming soon
Psychoanalytic Research Workshops
This fortnightly workshop will be devoted to the content and process of empirical research, with a particular focus on the evidence base for child...
Brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy
This course is divided into two parts which succeed one another.
Introduction to psychodynamic concepts: a workshop for clinical and counselling psychologists
This is a five-day workshop for qualified clinical and counselling psychologists and for clinical and counselling psychologists in their final year...
Nurturing Parents: Mindfulness based well-being for parents
The Nurturing Parents Programme (NP) has been developed at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University. It is an...
