Masterclass in Psychotherapy Research: Theory and Practice

A online workshop designed and facilitated by Dr Adrian Hayes

What is it about? This Masterclass is designed to equip participants with essential knowledge and understanding of fundamental research methods, their application in investigating and evaluating psychotherapeutic counselling processes, and the outcomes associated with these interventions.

Is it for me? This course is tailored for individuals with a keen interest in advancing their understanding of psychotherapy research. All are welcome, and attendance is not limited to members of the Bowlby Centre, ensuring inclusivity and accessibility to explore the intricacies of evidence-based practices.

What will I learn? The session aims are to :

• To provide knowledge and understanding of basic research approaches and techniques, and their application to the investigation and evaluation of psychotherapeutic counselling process and outcomes
• To summarise the breadth of literature on psychotherapy research and the challenges for working in this area
• To practice critical appraisal of research in attachment-based psychotherapy

The Masterclass will consist of three hour-long sessions with two fifteen minute breaks:

• Hour 1: A didactic but interactive session on research methodology, including interventional studies, observational studies, and qualitative studies
• Hour 2: A discussion of challenges of research in psychotherapy practice and methodology with examples of recent completed and ongoing studies
• Hour 3: An interactive critical appraisal of a paper relevant to attachment-based psychotherapy (to be agreed). Discussion of research ideas and potential projects

How is it delivered? This is currently via Zoom, with information sharing, whole group discussion, and opportunities for questions.

About Adrian: I’m Dr Adrian Hayes, Consultant Medical Psychotherapist at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. I’m trained in medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapies including psychodynamic therapy, group analysis, MBT, CAT and therapeutic communities amongst others, and work mostly with people who identify with Complex Emotional Needs in the NHS. Before clinical training I worked in research at Manchester University, mostly in prison health looking at suicide, management of mental illness, and the needs of elderly people in prison. I now combine clinical and research work always with the aim of improving services for our patients. I hope to bring enthusiasm and energy to research training, and support clinicians in believing they can understand and be a part of research in their professional lives.

Date: Saturday 10th February 2024

Time: 10:00 – 13:30pm

Cost: £45 non-Bowlby Centre members (£25 Bowlby Centre members)

Free to Bowlby Centre students

CPD: 3 Hours (CPD certificate provided)

Attachment within a couple relationship 2024

via Zoom

COURSE FULL

10 hours over 5 Saturdays

With Anne Power

Dates: Saturday, 6 January 2024

Saturday, 20 January 2024

Saturday, 3 February 2024

Saturday, 17 February 2024

Saturday, 2 March 2024

Time: 10 am – 12 noon

Fee: £300

CPD: 10 hours

Outline
This course is offered both for couple therapists and for practitioners who work with individual clients but would like a fuller understanding of how attachment strategies play out in a relationship. The modules will map attachment dynamics in different areas of a couple’s life. We will explore working with the ‘couple in mind’, with a shift in the final session to look at working directly with a couple. This might be particularly useful for individual therapists who are considering a move into couple work.

The approach I take is based on my own training at The Bowlby Centre, my systemic training with Relate and in recent years, my training and experience as an EFT (emotionally focused couple therapy) therapist. I will suggest points for reflection between meetings as well as a chapter of preparation for each module. A copy of Contented Couples: Magic, logic or luck? will be needed for this.

ABOUT ANNE

Anne Power has qualifications from The Bowlby Centre, Westminster Pastoral Foundation, Tavistock Relationships and Relate. Her clinical work has been in voluntary settings, in the NHS and in private practice in London where she now works online with couples and supervisees. She has taught on a number of therapy trainings in London.  Contented Couples: Magic, logic or luck? was published in 2022 and reflects on interviews with eighteen long-term couples.

Anne’s first book, Forced Endings in Psychotherapy, investigated the process of closing a practice for retirement or other reasons. Her published papers explore attachment meaning in the consulting room and in the supervision relationship.

Safeguarding Awareness Training for Counsellors and Therapists
A two-hour online workshop designed and facilitated by Lynn Findlay

Monday 22nd April 2024 OR Monday 13^th May 2024
Time: 6.15pm- 8.30pm
With Lynn Findlay
Venue: Zoom Online

What is it about? The workshop will increase your knowledge and confidence about making safeguarding decisions about children and adults in the therapeutic context. We focus on joined up thinking across families and networks.

Is it for me?  It is for therapists working with both adults and young people. Many adult clients have contact with children in some capacity, and all children are cared for by adults.  You can be in private practice or employed by an organisation.

What will I learn? The session covers:

• The legislative and statutory framework which promotes and safeguards a child’s welfare, including understanding terminology and comparisons with safeguarding adults (joined up thinking).
• An overview of the types of harm and abuse in child and adult safeguarding
• The role of the therapist within this framework, exploring issues of confidentiality and contracting in the counselling context.
• Making sense of your concerns and threshold dilemmas
• Guidance on recording and reporting concerns
• Signposting – what next.

How is it delivered? This is delivered via Zoom, with information sharing, whole group discussion, and opportunities for questions and personal reflection.

About Lynn:

Lynn is a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist, working with both adults and young people. She is a registered social worker with over 25yrs experience working in safeguarding, with many years’ experience designing and delivering training sessions in social care and therapy.

Booking Information: 

Date: Monday 22nd April 2024 OR Monday 13th May 2024

Time:6.15pm- 8.30pm

Cost:£40 (£30 for Bowlby Centre members and students)

CPD: 2 hours and 15 Minutes  – (CPD certificate provided)

Specialised Safeguarding Training for Counsellors and Therapists
A two-hour online workshop designed and facilitated by Lynn Findlay

Monday 29th April 2024 OR Monday 20th May 2024
Time: 6.15pm- 8.30pm
With Lynn Findlay
Venue: Zoom Online

Specialised safeguarding training for therapists

Working with non-recent abuse and the LADO process AND Domestic abuse, including the DASH risk assessment and the MARAC process

This workshop is designed for counsellors and therapists, who have either completed the Safeguarding Awareness session, or who have a sound knowledge of child and adult safeguarding and are looking to expand their knowledge on working with disclosures of non-recent abuse and working with domestic abuse in therapy. The workshop offers knowledge of tools and procedures which can be used in therapy and opportunities for further discussion around thresholds and safeguarding dilemmas.

This is a two hour session and we spend around one hour on each topic.

Working with non-recent abuse covers:

• What is non-recent abuse?
• Managing a disclosure in therapy – duty of care, confidentiality, and self-care
• Making a referral to the police and/or social care
• Allegations against persons working with children/vulnerable adults: Role of the LADO
• Continuing with therapy alongside an investigation –role of CPS and pre-trial therapy

Working with domestic abuse covers:

• What is domestic abuse?
• How domestic abuse is located within child and adult safeguarding
• Contracting with a client experiencing domestic abuse
• Working with a disclosure of domestic abuse
• The DASH risk assessment tool and how this can be used in therapy
• Understanding the MARAC process

There will be a blend of information sharing and small group work to discuss thresholds and dilemmas.

About Lynn:

Lynn is a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist, working with both adults and young people. She is a registered social worker with over 25yrs experience working in safeguarding, with many years’ experience designing and delivering training sessions in social care and therapy.

Booking Information: 

Date: Monday 29th April 2024 OR Monday 20th May 2024

Time:6.15pm- 8.30pm

Cost:£40 (£30 for Bowlby Centre members and students)

CPD: 2 hours and 15 Minutes  – (CPD certificate provided)

Attachment and Complex Trauma March 2024

Saturday, 23rd March and Sunday 24th March 2024
Time:10 am to 4pm
Cost:£350
Venue:The Bowlby Centre, 1 Highbury Crescent, London, N5 1RN

About the course
The course will be covering key principles of attachment theory as it originated by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth along with its application in clinical practice. In addition, the course will focus on the Disorganised attachment status and its characteristics as is often shown in clients who suffer complex trauma and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. The emphasis on teaching disorganised attachment and complex trauma has arisen based on the demand from practitioners who often find themselves grappling with challenging situations when working with the more traumatised client groups. The course is aimed at therapists, psychologists, counsellors, social workers, GPs and other practitioners in the caring profession who want to expand their understanding of attachment theory with the emphasises on complex trauma, intergenerational transmission and adverse childhood experiences.

Participants will be meeting in person and the number of places are limited

Seminar Leader
Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP registered Attachment-based Psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a training supervisor and a training therapist. She trained at the Bowlby Centre, London where she was the Editor of the journal “Attachment-New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis”. She specialises in attachment theory and trauma and regularly lectures, teaches, writes and presents papers and book chapters on these topics and consults worldwide on attachment theory. She runs a private practice and works relationally with individuals, couples and parents. Orit has a particular interest in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma and have displayed symptoms of dissociation. She is the co-author of the books “Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs” (Badouk Epstein, Wingfield & Schwartz, 2011 Karnac), “Terror within& without” (Yellin, Badouk Epstein, 2013, Karnac), Shame Matters (2021), Routledge and was the co-editor of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) newsletter for 10 years as well as being a regular contributor of articles and film reviews. In her spare time Orit enjoys the cinema, reading philosophy and writing poetry.

Online Workshop – Foundations of Racism

Saturday 9th March 2024
Time: 11am to 4pm
With Mohini Gulati-Olapoju
Venue: Zoom Online

About the course
The aim of this workshop is to develop awareness, foster understanding and facilitate conversations about racism by creating a safe enough group atmosphere. The workshop will cover key principles of the historical context of racism and its various manifestations, including systemic, structural and interpersonal racism. It will provide an overview of the subtle ways that racism is transmitted across generations and lastly explore practical tools to actively work against racism. During the workshop attendees are invited to reflect and share their own experiences, beliefs and privileges related to race.

This workshop empowers trainee practitioners to develop or increase confidence with vocalising issues of racism so they can start to explore their own relationship with different races and how that might impact the therapeutic relationship.

Seminar Leader
Mohini holds a BSc in Mathematics & Psychology with ten years’ experience in the Financial Services and contributes to the Diversity Network to promote equality & inclusion. Mohini is an Advanced Hatha Yoga teacher and Post Taught Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with experience in the NHS, Clinic for Dissociative Studies and private practice. Mohini has facilitated the Race Seminar at The Bowlby Centre and her work is enriched by her diverse professional and personal background.

Booking Information: 

Date: Saturday 9th March 2024

Time: 11.00am – 4.00pm

Cost:£150 (£125 for Bowlby Centre members and students)

CPD: 5 hours – (CPD certificate provided)

Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice – June  2024

Saturday, 15th and Sunday, 16th June 2024, Saturday, 29th and Sunday, 30th June 2024

10.00am – 4.00pm
Cost – £650
Venue – The Bowlby Centre
1 Highbury Crescent
London N5 1RN

About the course

Seminars will include the following themes

• Introductions – our relationship to attachment theory.
• Attachment theory in context
• Separation, loss and mourning
• Patterns of attachment and their internal representation
• Secure • Avoidant • Preoccupied • Unresolved/disorganised • Not classifiable
• Evaluating adult attachment states of mind
• Internal working models
• Reflective functioning
• Intersubjectivity

Clinical work will consider the role of mourning, narrative, mutuality and recognition, affective attunement and cycles of rupture and repair in the therapeutic process.
The objectives of this course are to introduce Attachment theory and deepen your understanding of it. It’s designed to be of practical value with implications for therapy and human relatedness. The course is aimed for Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists
and Social Workers.

“I was surprised how this course touched on all areas of my life… for me it has been the missing piece of the jigsaw I have been looking for and brings together many things…”

Participants will be meeting in person and the numbers of places is limited.

Seminar Leader:
Orit Badouk Epstein is a UKCP-registered Attachment based Psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a training supervisor and a training therapist. She trained at the Bowlby Centre, London where she was the Editor of the journal “Attachment-New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis”. She specialises in attachment theory and trauma and regularly lectures, teaches, writes and present papers and book chapters on these topics and consults worldwide on attachment theory.
She runs a private practice and works relationally with individuals, couples and parents. Orit has a particular interest in working with individuals who have experienced extreme abuse and trauma and have displayed symptoms of dissociation.
She is the co-author of the books “Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs” (Badouk Epstein, Wingfield & Schwartz, 2011 Karnac), “Terror within & without” (Yellin, Badouk Epstein, 2013, Karnac), Shame Matters (2021), Routledge and was the co-editor of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation) newsletter for 10 years as well as being a regular contributor of articles and film reviews. In her spare time Orit enjoys the cinema, reading philosophy and writing poetry.