There are places still available for the January 2025 course. Please note this course will start at 9.30 am and not 10.00 as advertised.

A 5 day Certificate Course run on 5 single Mondays over 3 months starting on 13th January 2025.

Trainer: Dr. Ruth Birkebaek

This 5 day course is based on Richard Erskine’s model of a relationally-focused and developmentally- based Integrative Psychotherapy.  Ruth will discuss the fundamental theory and methods of a psychotherapy that aims to integrate client’s affect, cognition, physiology and behaviour into a cohesive sense of self, so that behaviour is by choice in the current situation and not stimulated by fear, compulsion or condition. The unaware, unresolved or fragmented aspects of the self are integrated. Through lectures, case vignettes and experiential exercises, this 5 day workshop will help clinicians and trainees enhance their effectiveness in working relationally. There will be no essays or written work to fulfil as the tutor will be able to judge competency by demonstration and practice.

This course will be useful to psychotherapists, counsellors and trainees who want to enhance their effectiveness in working relationally.

Participants will learn to:

• Create and maintain a contactful and involved therapeutic
  relationship.
• Use phenomenological inquiry to uncover clients unconscious
  experiences
• Help clients to maintain internal contact with their feelings, body
  sensations and thought processes
• Formulate a therapeutic perspective that will include the significance
  of attunement to client’s affect and rhythm while resonating with the
  client’s level of emotional development

WINTER 2025

Module One: 13 January 2025

What is Integrative Psychotherapy? This module will explore the development of a relationship-focused Integrative Psychotherapy. The focus of this module will be on the integration of affect, cognition, behaviour and physiology. We will also discuss the Philosophical Principles of Integrative Psychotherapy.

Module Two: 27 January 2025

Here we will discuss Integrative Psychotherapy as a Comprehensive system that includes a Theory of Motivation, Theory of Personality and Theory of Methods. The focus of this module will be on the Theory of Motivation – what motivates people’s behaviours and attitudes.

Module Three: 17 February 2025

In this module we will look at an integrated set of Theories of Personality and Evaluation that provide ways to understand, evaluate & plan a treatment to facilitate the integration of the personality. The focus of this module will be on Contact, Relational Needs and the Script System – how people are consistently reinforcing their script beliefs about self and others.

Module Four: 17 March 2025

In this module we will discuss how healing occurs through a contactful relationship. The focus will be on the relational methods of Integrative Psychotherapy – how to create and maintain a safe enough therapeutic relationship that helps clients to self[1]stabilise in a mature way.

Module Five: 14 April 2025

This module will focus on Presence and Involvement as healing dimensions of Integrative Psychotherapy – how to work with clients’ vulnerability

Trainer: Ruth Birkebaek is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist, a Certified Integrative Psychotherapy Trainer & Supervisor (CIIPTS) by the IIPA (International Integrative Psychotherapy Association) and a Certified Transactional Analyst – Provisional Trainer & Supervisor (PTSTA). She trained for 5 years with Richard Erskine. Also she has trained in Psychosomatic Medicine, Jung Therapy and Transactional Analysis.  She works full time as a Psychotherapist and Supervisor in private practice in London and delivers trainings and workshops internationally. She is also Primary Tutor at MIP.

Venue: Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy

Time:   9.30 am to 4.30 pm

Cost:    £975 – deposit of £150 (non refundable) required to secure your place. (The balance can be paid in instalments if need be).

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