IPCAPA MASTERCLASS SERIES

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This series offers a live online space for IPCAPA child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapists to present their clinical work to a senior child psychotherapy clinician, in the presence of a professional audience.

It is an opportunity to observe an Independent approach in practice, and to gain a deeper understanding of how we work with children, adolescents and young adults. 

We are delighted that Dr Janine Sternberg is going to be in the supervisor’s chair for this event.

Dr. Janine Sternberg trained originally as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic and subsequently as an adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the BAP (now bpf). Until a few years ago, she was Clinical Course Director of the IPCAPA (Independent Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Association) doctoral level training offered by the bpf and Anna Freud Centre and accredited by University College London. In that role, as well as managing the day-to-day life of the training and its strategic direction, she was heavily involved in supervision and teaching.

Whilst training, she was based in the Adolescent Department and worked in Kilburn CAMHS on qualification. She followed that by time at the Tavistock Mulberry Bush Day, a small unit for children with complex difficulties, and then worked for many years at the Portman Clinic.

 As well as numerous chapters and briefer publications, she is the author of a book on the contribution of infant observation to the training of child psychotherapists, the co-editor of a book on infant observation as a research methodology, and co-editor of a book about the child work done at the Portman. She has been editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy and Editorial Co-ordinator of the BJP.

She is very involved in training issues and active in the professional body for child psychotherapists, the ACP.

We are very pleased that Anna Darling will be presenting 

Anna Darling is a third year Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy trainee at the British Psychotherapy Foundation (IPCAPA) in collaboration with the Anna Freud Centre and University College London (UCL). She is placed in an inner London CAMHS in a tier three generic team. Anna completed her pre-clinical course at Birkbeck and prior to training, had a 10-year career as a policy adviser in international children’s charities. Anna’s doctoral research is investigating the therapist’s use of the self in clinical practice with their young clients.

The event will allow time for thoughts and questions from the audience and we look forward to seeing you. 

*If you are a psychotherapist or counsellor residing in an active conflict zone, you are eligible to attend this event free of charge (regardless of whether you are a bpf member or not). Please email membership@bpf-psychotherapy to enquire about a ticket.