In these two days, the training will explore the interface between issues of available time, the need to work through traumatic experience and the use of attachment theory. How can the practitioner offer a healing therapeutic relationship that focuses on dysfunctional patterns of attachment within the inevitable constraints of time available? What is the neurological basis for trauma and how does past experience and social pressures complicate current trauma?

Participants are offered an opportunity to explore current theories regarding attachment through the lens of an existential perspective and to develop the intensity of presence and awareness of context necessary for this work.

Tutor

Dr. Jenifer Elton Wilson has published and presented in a number of contexts, including National Health Trusts, Primary Care Settings, BPS and BACP conferences, Employment Advisory Programmes, Counselling Services and Masters Level Training courses in Psychotherapy and Counselling. She was Head of a Middlesex University Doctoral Programme, a course designed by Jenifer and delivered at the Metanoia Institute, as well as continuing to engage in her own private practice as Supervisor, Trainer, and Psychotherapy Practitioner. A major interest has been her part in the development of the new Ethical Code of Practice for the British Psychological Society. In 1996, Jenifer published “Time-conscious Psychological Therapy: A Life Stage to Go Through” London: Routledge. Since then she has extended and advanced the approach offered in this book through education and training and in chapters included in several edited publications. She has recently co-authored with Gabrielle Syme, “Outcomes and Objectives: Questioning the Practice of Therapy”, a book which is part of the Open University Core Concepts Series (ed .Michael Jacobs) Jenifer is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, UKCP and BACP accredited.