Introduction to Couple Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training (accredited by the BPC)

Our Course Director for the couple training, Leezah Hertzmann, will describe the BPF’s two year post graduate training in couple psychodynamic psychotherapy, the first to be accredited by the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). 

This is a high quality, robust training, where suitably qualified psychotherapists can gain BPC registration as a couple psychotherapist. There are no written requirements for the course. 

The course covers both contemporary and classical psychoanalytic theory as it applies to couples, and foregrounds thinking about the diverse range of adult partnerships, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, living together or apart, with or without children, and throughout the life cycle. Central to this is addressing the conscious and unconscious impact of discrimination within relationships e.g. homophobia, racism, ageism, class, disability etc. You will hear about as some fictional clinical case examples that demonstrate how powerful couple psychotherapy is as an intervention and unique treatment of choice for some patient populations

There will be an opportunity to ask questions about the course and discuss the case examples.

About the speaker

Leezah Hertzmann is Course Director of the BPF’s Couple Psychodynamic Psychotherapy training. She is Principal Couple and Individual Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and is also in private practice. Alongside her interest in training the next generation of psychotherapists, she has a career long interest in psychoanalytic theory and technique with LGBTQ+ individuals and Couples. She is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council’s Advisory Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity. Leezah is the recipient of two British Psychoanalytic Council awards: one in 2015 for innovation in relation to developing evidence-based interventions for couple conflict/ violence, and the second in 2019 with Juliet Newbigin, for Psychoanalysis and Diversity. She teaches and publishes widely.

*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 events@bpf-psychotherapy to enquire about a ticket.