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CPD Credits
12
Event Type
Live Online Event
Location
Zoom & Not Recorded
Time (UK)
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Standard
£450.00
Trainee/NHS
£382.50
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Friday, February 28, 2025 - Friday, July 25, 2025

Tavistock Relationships Clinical Discussion Groups

Group Two: Psychodynamic Couple Psychotherapists

With Liz Hamlin

This six-month series offers monthly clinical discussion groups specifically designed to support therapists at varying levels of experience. The groups are limited to ten participants. Group two is for Psychodynamic Couple Psychotherapists. This group will be run by Liz Hamlin a Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Joint Head of Clinical Services at Tavistock Relationships. Liz brings a specialised interest in working with couples and individuals navigating divorce and separation, enriching discussions with her expertise.

Each two-hour session provides a structured, collaborative setting where each participant will have the opportunity to present clinical case material or specific themes from their work for focused group discussion. A core emphasis is placed on the role of countertransference and how therapists are emotionally impacted by clients' unconscious dynamics. Groups will focus on developing ways to process and reflect on these reactions without slipping into collusion. The clinical discussion group approach goes beyond conventional case management by encouraging therapists to explore their emotional responses and the influence these have on their practice, promoting both personal and professional growth.#

These clinical discussion groups are a great compliment to traditional supervision, offering therapists essential guidance, skill-building opportunities, and a reflective space to explore the complex emotional dynamics of their work with a group of colleagues and an experienced facilitator.

We have two other groups running concurrently for Senior Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Couple Psychotherapists led by Stanley Ruszczynski and Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapists led by Alison Bruce.

Programme

14.00 Introductions
14.55 Break
15.05 Case Discussion
16.00 End

14.00 Case Discussion 
14.55 Break
15.05 Case Discussion 
16.00 End

14.00 Case Discussion 
14.55 Break
15.05 Case Discussion 
16.00 End

14.00 Case Discussion 
14.55 Break
15.05 Case Discussion 
16.00 End

14.00 Case Discussion 
14.55 Break
15.05 Case Discussion 
16.00 End

14.00 Case Discussion 
14.55 Break
15.05 Case Discussion 
16.00 End

Liz Hamlin

Liz Hamlin is Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council. She is a member of Tavistock Relationship's Alumni body and Chair of the BPC’s Professional Standards Committee. She has worked with couples since 1990 and qualified as a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist in 2008. Liz was a Visiting Clinician at Tavistock Relationships for many years working with couples, supervising practitioners and delivering training. She has experience of managing an IAPT (NHS Talking Therapies) Service delivering therapy across 15 GP surgeries in the NHS. Liz has a special interest in working with couples and individuals facing divorce and separation and is involved in the Divorce and Separation Consultation Service at TR. She extended her initial training as a Couple Counsellor with East Kent Relate through helping to set up a service called Relateen for adolescents whose parents were going through divorce or separation. Liz has been an IAPT Couple Therapy for Depression Trainer and Supervisor having been involved in TR’s development of the training since its inception in 2010.

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