IPCAPA MASTERCLASS SERIES

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Welcome to the IPCAPA Masterclass Supervision series.  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 share thoughts and observations about clinical material from different perspectives which enriches all our work. 

We are delighted that Julie Kitchener is going to be in the supervisor’s chair for this event. Julie is a training supervisor for IPCAPA at the bpf, where she was formerly part of the teaching team. She trained as a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist at what was then the British Association of Psychotherapy, following a career in journalism. She has worked in both general and specialist NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. For many years she was lead psychotherapist then head of therapy in a children’s residential therapeutic community, while also maintaining an independent practice with links to local authority and CAMHS services, working with children and families as well as consulting to fostering agencies. As she negotiates the slow process of retirement, she has become increasingly interested in the dynamics of supervision, devising and co-facilitating with Deirdre Dowling IPCAPA’s supervisors’ course, as well as co-editing Supervision in a Changing World: Reflections from Child Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2023) in the Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents series. She also contributed to Winnicott’s Children (Routledge, 2012) in the same series and was a reviewer for the British Journal of Psychotherapy.

We are very pleased that Fembe Nanji-Rowe will be presenting their clinical work with an adolescent boy whom she will be ending psychotherapy with in July this year. Fembe is a fourth year IPCAPA trainee in post across the generic and adolescent crisis teams at Enfield CAMHS. Fembe has a background in medical science and worked in education, third sector and theatre production prior to training. Her research interests include cross cultural phenomena and work on mourning while her current thesis examines child and adolescent psychotherapists perspectives on the role of 'race' in therapeutic work with Black and mixed-race Black CYP. 

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 events@bpf-psychotherapy to enquire about a ticket.