Psychotherapy Section Annual Conference 2022

26 September 2022 - 27 September 2022London
  • Counselling and psychotherapy
Free to members
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Psychotherapy Section

About the event

The Psychotherapy Section Annual Conference 2022 will be held at the BPS London Office (30 Tabernacle Street London EC2A 4UE).

According to the National Institute for Mental Health in England, Chinese and other minorities from the eastern culture, including recent immigrants, tend not to request support from available psychological services and have been described as an “invisible population”.

There are many barriers for marginalized populations to access NHS psychological services, including therapists offering services that do not meet the clients’ social, cultural and linguistic needs, clients’ language barriers and the need for psychological therapies to be culturally appropriate has been recognised.

This conference aims to address these issues by providing a therapeutic safe space for ethnic communities and psychotherapists to celebrate diversity, share experiences and facilitate mutual learning.

Registration fees (including VAT):

Psychotherapy Section members: free (limited availability)

Concessions/Student Members: free (limited availability)

BPS Members: £42.00

Non-Members: £60.00

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Returning Customers (Members and non-members)

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Joining instructions will be sent one week and 24-hours prior to the event, these will be sent to your BPS registered email address. 

Programme for the event:

Please note: the conference includes lunch, refreshments, Mooncakes. Tea & Coffee. 

Day 1:

Community Festival: The Moon Chasing (追月) – Workshops of Empowerment with arts, music, songs and storytelling and cultural enhanced psycho physiotherapies (CEPP).

Juan Du (DCoP diversity prize winner) and Professor Ho Chung Law, Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society & Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Download the full day 1 programme

 Day 2:

Misogyny in Psychoanalysis - Invited keynote: Michaela Chamberlain, MA, MSc, Attachment Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Supervisor, Training Therapist & Lecturer.

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AGM:

The AGM will be held on Tuesday 27th September at 1pm at the BPS London Office (30 Tabernacle Street London EC2A 4UE) and online in accordance with the new Privy Council approval (subject to available facilities supported by the BPS).

About the presenters:

Ms Juan Du

Juan is an award-winning bilingual psychotherapist, researcher and mindfulness teacher of Chinese origin. She also holds a MA in Cross-Culture Communication, MSc in Experimental Psychology, and is currently completing a doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy at Metanoia Institute.

She comes from a family with a background in Chinese medicine and believes psychotherapy is an integration of art and science.  Juan is passionate about promoting culturally sensitive therapy in the community and race equality in mental healthcare services in the UK.

She developed the Chinese Calligraphy Enhance Therapy (CCET) during her doctorate as a complementary, culturally sensitive psychological approach to bridging the underrepresented Chinese clients in the UK.  Her work and culturally sensitive psychotherapy approach research won her 2020 UKCP members research funding and BPS diversity award in 2022 Division of Counselling psychology.

Professor Ho Chung Law

Professor Ho Chung Law, Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society & Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine - is the Honorary Professor of Research & Psychology at the Colombo International Institute.

He was the first equality advisor to the Assistant Permanent Secretary of State (Director) of the UK Home Office Research Development Statistics Directorate (1999-2000); the first winner of the Best Supervisor Award at the University of East London (2013) and the first Coaching Programme Advisor at University of Cambridge (2015-2016).

The Empsy® Limited founded by Ho has been presented by the GHP News with the Social Care Award 2022 as a leading social care business: the Best Mental Health Coaching Consultancy – East of England.

Michaela Chamberlain

Michaela Chamberlain trained at the Bowlby Centre and also studied in the Psychoanalytic Unit at UCL.

Shortly after qualifying at the Bowlby Centre in 2016, she started teaching Freud and attachment theory and became Chair of the Bowlby Centre.

She worked as an honorary psychotherapist in two NHS Trusts for several years. She has presented clinical papers at public forums and has been published in the journal Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis.

Her new book, Misogyny in Psychoanalysis, was released in June 2022, it explores the historical and current context of misogyny in psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice.

She is currently carrying out a doctoral research project on a psychoanalytic reading of gendered blood in live art and psychoanalytic writing at Roehampton University. She is in private practice in London as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and is a supervisor and training therapist.

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