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CORU’s Counsellors & Psychotherapists Webinar

Recording & Presentation Slides

On December 12^th, 2022, CORU invited all their stakeholders to attend a virtual information session. The invitation was issued to a broad range of stakeholders and bodies, including professional bodies, education providers and representative bodies. This webinar introduced CORU’s legislative framework as well as progress to date on the ongoing work of regulation for the professions of Counsellors and Psychotherapists. This was an opportunity to learn more about the work of the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board and the opening of its register.

Ahead of this event, CORU asked that the stakeholders nominate two representatives from their organisation to virtually attend. ICP Board Director and FTAI accreditant Mary Moriarty was pleased to represent the ICP at the session – several ICP Board Directors also attended on behalf of their individual organisations.

The stakeholders were also encouraged to include any questions which they would like addressed by CORU during this session. ICP asked what operational definitions for Psychotherapy are the Registration Board referencing in their work? ICP recommended the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) definition.

What is Psychotherapy?

The FAQ section on the Counsellors and Psychotherapists webpage on the CORU website has also been updated to incorporate questions submitted before and during the information session.

Please find below the recording links of the session and the presentation slides.

Please note, as there were points during the webinar with audio issues, CORU have included two additional slides detailing the information covered which may have been missed.

Recording Link – CORU Counsellors & Psychotherapists Information Session 12/12/2022

Recording Password: PpCPaq@3

Please find below the link to access the file without a password. However, using this method means the file must be downloaded prior to viewing.

CORU Counsellors & Psychotherapists Information Session – Webinar Recording

CPRB Information Session Presentation Notes

FAQs for Counsellors and Psychotherapists

CORU thanked all of those who took the time to be in attendance and contributed to this Information Session. CORU look forward to further engagement with stakeholders in 2023 and beyond as they progress in their work of regulating the professions of ‘counsellor’ and ‘psychotherapist’.

James Joyce’s Writing and Psychoanalysis

Conference on Lasting Relevance of Joyce’s Writing, Why Joyce’s Writing is Important to Psychoanalysis, and Links to the Contemporary Psyche

Date: 19 November 2022 – in person & by live stream

Time: 9:30am – 5pm

Venue: Museum of Literature Ireland, UCD Newman House 85-86 Saint Stephen’s Green (Access through 85 St. Stephen’s Green Dublin D02 XY43)

Cost: From €64.91

Book tickets via Eventbrite 

The conference is organised by the Freud Lacan institute in conjunction with the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), and with the support of APPI, the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI), and features a special live musical performance of The Seas Between.

Registration via Eventbrite (2 Ticket Types: In-Person and Live Stream)

Registration for in-person attendance will be on a first-come first-serve basis as the conference room accommodates a maximum of 60 people. Lunch and tea/coffee is included in the conference fee and will be served by the Commons Café at MoLI. Those unable to attend in person will have the opportunity to attend the conference via live streaming which will be managed by the MoLI Digital Curator.

Conference Description: The conference marks the centenary of the publication of Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses (1922), described as “the most dangerous book” and the “novel to end all novels.” The conference brings together psychoanalysts, academics, scholars, students, and all interested in the writing of Joyce and contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice to explore the lasting importance of Joyce’s literature, how and why Joyce’s writing is important to psychoanalysis, and why the work of Joyce continues to both reflect and make a deep impression on the contemporary psyche. The conference takes place in the Old Physics Theatre and Saloon at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), the former home of University College Dublin and Joyce’s alma mater, and will offer a range of talks, panel presentations, discussions, debate, and live music performance. The conference will address the following themes:

• Why Read Joyce: The Significance of Joyce’s Writing as Textual and Reading Practice?
• Joyce’s Writing and its Relationship to Language
• Joyce’s Symptom: Creativity, Inventiveness, and the Artist
• The Role of the Senses and Sonority in Joyce and a Psychical Factor
• Exile, the Foreign, and the Domain of the Unconscious

Trauma and the Body: The Theory and Practice of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Discover how the body holds past trauma, and how it also provides inroads into what clients need to recover and move on, even if the trauma occurred decades ago. Find out what to do and where to start with simple relational mindfulness interventions that will help your clients draw upon the intelligence of their bodies.

• Define Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and cite its relevance to work with trauma clients
• Describe procedural learning and its relevance to trauma and attachment-related developmental trauma
• Identify the role of the body in trauma treatment and attachment-related developmental trauma
• Explain how physical action can be used to help patients feel empowered and decrease PTSD symptoms
• Describe the importance of mindfulness in trauma therapy
• Summarize the phase-oriented treatment approaches utilized in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy practice with trauma clients
• Apply information and skills acquired to clinical work with trauma clients

About the Facilitator

Jennifer Gardner, MSW, LICSW, CST, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years’ experience working with children and individuals in diverse settings including settings including healthcare, community mental health, early intervention, and private practice. Since 2005, she has held a private practice in Reading, MA, providing psychotherapy to couples and adults using a variety of modalities including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR and psychodynamic intervention. She is Certified in Early Intervention in MA, holds an MSW from Salem State University, and a Certificate in Sex Therapy from the University of Michigan and is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. Since her Certification as a Sensorimotor Psychotherapist in 2016, she has supported students toward certification in New York, Boston, and Dublin. Her interests include attachment, sex therapy, and relationships including couples and caregivers. Jennifer trains and provides consultation internationally for SPI and is co-developing a course in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for working with couples.

Trauma and the Body: The Theory and Practice of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Friday, 4 November 2022 – Galway, Ireland led by SPI faculty, Jennifer Gardner MA, LISCW, CST

Credit Hours: 6

Times: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Location: The Connacht Hotel, Old Dublin Road, Renmore, Galway, Ireland H91 K5DD

Instructor: Jennifer Gardner MA, LICSW, CST

Tuition: €150. 5% early registration discount if payment received by 10/07/2022.

Contact: Support SPI, support@nullsensorimotor.org

Local Contact: Ruth Steenvoorden, 087 7922323, ruthsteenvoorden@nullgmail.com

 

Trauma and the Body: The Theory and Practice of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Saturday, 5 November 2022 – Cork, Ireland led by SPI faculty, Jennifer Gardner MA, LISCW, CST

Credit Hours: 6

Times: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Location: The Metropole Hotel Cork, MacCurtain Street, Victorian Quarter, Cork, Ireland T23 EEC3

Instructor: Jennifer Gardner MA, LICSW, CST

Tuition: €150. 5% early registration discount if payment received by 10/07/2022.

Contact: Support SPI, support@nullsensorimotor.org

Local Contact: Ruth Steenvoorden, 087 7922323, ruthsteenvoorden@nullgmail.com

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Storytelling – A Talk by Stephen Grosz

by Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (IFPP)

Date: Saturday 29^th October 2022

Time: 1:30pm – 3:30pm IST

Location: Carmelite Community Centre, 56 Aungier Street, Dublin 2 D02 T258

Cost: €20 – €50

This event will now be held online and in person.

• Online Bookings
• In Person Bookings

Stephen Grosz – Supervision Availability 29/10/22

After the event which is scheduled to end at 3:30pm, Stephen Grosz will offer a clinical seminar, or individual supervision to any ICP members who may be interested.

The clinical seminar would be for up to six ICP members. The seminar would last 90 minutes or so; one of the six participants would need to liaise with Melanie Taylor (IFPP Admin) in advance, and briefly present a case. The fee would be €50. per participant.

Alternately, Stephen can offer two individuals one hour’s supervision each. The fee for individual supervision would be €150.

If this is of interest, please respond as soon as possible to ifppoffice1@nullgmail.com

Storytelling – A Talk by Stephen Grosz

About This Event

We are all storytellers – we make stories to make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales. There must be someone to listen.

The Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (IFPP) are delighted to invite you to an in-person event with the psychoanalyst and best-selling author, Stephen Grosz.

Stephen Grosz is a practicing psychoanalyst who has worked with patients for more than thirty-five years. Born in America, he was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Oxford University. He lives in London, where he is a Training Analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

In his book The Examined Life, Stephen Grosz distils 50,000 hours of clinical work as a psychoanalyst into a series of jargon-free stories. A Sunday Times bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book, The Examined Life has been translated into more than thirty languages. It was described by Michiko Kakutani, in the New York Times, as sharing “the best literary qualities of Freud’s most persuasive work…a series of slim, piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks.”

In this talk, Stephen Grosz will the discuss the importance of storytelling inside and outside of psychotherapy.

Note: The in-person event is strictly limited to 80 people.

IFPP Contact Details

Email: ifppoffice1@nullgmail.com

Phone: 086 173 2238

Schedule

• 1:30pm – 2pm Registration / Tea & Coffee
• 2pm – 2:45pm “An Examined Life” a reading by Stephen Grosz
• 2:45pm – 3:30pm Q & A / Discussion
• 3:30pm End

Praise for “The Examined Life”

Andrew Solomon, Author Of “Far From The Tree” “This book conveys the nuanced complexities of psychoanalysis in deceptively simple human stories. It is written with generosity toward both its subjects and its readers; with authentic wit; and with flashes of profound insight. The novelistic charm of its case histories makes it impossible to put down, but while you may read it for entertainment, it will leave you wiser about humanity than you were when you picked it up.”

Patrick Mcgrath, Author Of “Asylum” “Someone in pain enters an analyst’s consulting room, and is paid careful, intelligent attention. The Examined Life is a fascinating collection of quiet stories about very real human predicaments: the listening cure at its best.”

Victoria Hislop, Author of “The Thread” “I couldn’t put this down – I read about other people, but learned about myself at the same time. Real stories can be so much more fascinating than fictional ones, especially with Stephen Grosz. No preaching, no clichés – just wisdom.”

Ruth Padel, Author of “52 Ways Of Looking at a Poem” “A beautifully judged, wonderfully readable book with an unusually clear and kind voice. There is a rare integrity in the writing: no showing off, just honest attention to each trusted relationship. I read the whole thing in one sitting, cover to cover.”

Sophie Hannah, Author of “Little Face” “This gripping book offers psychological solutions to some extremely complex human puzzles and is full of wisdom and insight.”

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