A Multi Perspective Approach to Working with Couples

£85.00

What will we focus on? How will we use the time?

This is a one day workshop focusing on couple therapy. Couples often come to therapy as a last resort as a make or break event. They often bring rigid stories that appear to drive them further apart, despite often wishing to become closer. It is common for couples to have different ideas about the future of the relationship and different memories of its past.

The workshop will explore systemic and attachment narrative approaches to working with couples in order to explore the multiple stories couples make about their lives together.

This will be achieved by exploring therapeutic material from the presenter’s practice to show the theory in use.

There will be opportunities to bring examples for consultation during the workshop. Participants will be invited to engage in exercises and discussion.

Participants will be encouraged to consider engaging with couples to identify the patterns that appear to lock them in constant struggles and inhibit the emergence of alternative and more hopeful positions.

Who is the presenter? Workshop Facilitator:

Barbara McKay is a qualified social worker and registered systemic psychotherapist. She has experience of practicing in both statutory and voluntary sectors. She has worked as a field social worker and in a Children and Adolescent Mental Health clinic as well as Relate, one of the largest voluntary sector organizations in the counselling context.

She has additional Masters qualifications in psychotherapy and teaching training and supervising systemic psychotherapists from the KCC Foundation.

She was Head of Training for Relate until July 2006 and is currently the Director of the Institute for Family Therapy, an organization with a national and international reputation in therapy training, supervision and related fields. She has presented at conferences both in the UK and abroad on family therapy practice and training.

She continues to lecture on university courses and has a private clinical practice in both client work and the supervisory context.

Relevant publications: Barbara McKay, Couple Counselling in The Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy 2006, Sage publications.

At KCC Foundation, London

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at the KCC Foundation, London

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