Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy News Spring 2015

SUSSEX COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY NEWS Spring 2015 www.sussex-counselling.co.uk

Reaching out

Supporting survivors of dissociation

Complaints Clients’ speak

CPD for therapists and anyone working with complex trauma and dissociation including DID. Events throughout the UK — details below of events nearest to Brighton. £75.00 per person (concessions and group discounts also available) including extensive delegate pack & certificate for 6 hours’ CPD. Go to www.pods-online.org.uk/events.

Working with Relational Trauma: Dealing with Disorganised Attachment 28 February 2015 in Central London Trauma and the Body: Somatisation and Dissociation 25 April 2015 in Brighton Trauma, Dissociation & Recovery: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and Complex Trauma 7 November 2015 in Crawley

PODS (Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors) runs an extensive programme of CPD training throughout the UK. For more information go to our website or get in touch:

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Child Sexual Abuse Resource Guide

By Carolyn Spring £8.00 from PODS or £10.00 from Amazon This essential Resource Guide brings together a mix of facts and statistics (‘Age of consent’, ‘Definitions of child sexual abuse’, ‘Who are the abusers?’) with a range of personal articles by sexual abuse survivor Carolyn Spring, touching areas such as powerlessness, denial and self-care.

Dissociation Resource Guide

By Carolyn Spring £8.00 from PODS or £10.00 from Amazon The first half of this Resource Guide looks at definitions, diagnostic criteria, prevalence statistics, causes, and signs and symptoms of dissociative disorders such as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The second half is a selection of relevant articles from a more experiential perspective – that of the dissociative survivor, as well as a partner.

For details of both of these resources as well as others, please go to www.pods-online.org.uk/resources.

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WELCOME...

4 Election dreams What therapists want from politicians

to our Spring issue and the start of an interesting year ahead.

It’s a year in which we will see a general election and politicians have already been making their pledges on mental health issues. A list of requirements for therapists has been drawn up by BACP, calling on a commitment for everyone with common mental disorders to be seen within 28 days. See page 3 for details.

SCAP’s newly-qualified counsellors support group held its first meeting last year. See page 4 to find out more and to read about the experiences of one member who took the BACP Certificate of Proficiency online. The certificate is available to current MBACP and Individual Members of BACP, who have not completed a BACP Accredited course. MBACP members only have until 31 March 2016 to become registered. Individual Members have 24 months from the date of joining BACP to become registered. Any member who fails to register by the applicable deadline, will not be allowed to continue in membership so now is the time to act to ensure BACP membership.

Along with lots of news and details of workshops and seminars held already or to look forward to in 2015, I hope you find lots to interest you in this issue.

5 New Counsellors SCAP support group grows 6 Dog talk How our pets process speech 7 Transgender Clients need special relationship not special knowledge 8 PODS Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors

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Contact Us 10 Polyvagal Theory Understanding the brain’s mixed messages 12 Complaints What happens to clients who complain 16 Men in therapy Workshop review 18 Diary 20 Reviews

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4 Election wish list for therapists

Fish for psychosis

Everyone referred for talking therapy for common mental disorders should be seen within 28 days, says BACP in a new report that examines the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem for mental and physical health services and sets out recommendations for achieving it for psychological therapies.

The report, Psychological Therapies and Parity of Esteem: from commitment to reality, has been welcomed by all three main political parties.

It is based on consultations with over 30 health and social care organisations, more than 2,300 counsellors and psychotherapists and 60 clients receiving talking therapies in England.

It highlights six main pressure points where change is needed: access, choice, waiting times, staff and services, funding and research. BACP says too many people are having to wait too long for NHS therapy, and too many are

Recent follow-up research has assessed the impact of omega-3 fatty acids on the early warning stages of developing psychosis.

Omega-3 fatty acids can be found in foods, including 'oily' fish such as mackerel, salmon, tuna and sardines, and particularly of interest here, fish oil tablets.

A recent study assessed the impact of a 12-week course of fish oil tablets on young people at risk of developing psychosis. Half took marine fish oil capsules, while other a placebo. At the end of 12 months, the individuals who took the fish oil were less likely to develop psychosis than the placebo group, and this difference was also consistently reported after seven years. Fish oil capsules were reported to help the young people deal with challenges in their lives, compared to the placebo group, who tended to move into a psychotic stage more rapidly.

More trials are being conducted into mechanisms behind omega-3 fatty acids and psychosis prevention.

One theory suggests it may be the anti-inflammatory properties of these fatty acids which interact with dopamine and serotonin in the brain, and are associated with mood.

More research is aimed to be published by April 2015.

Details at www.abc.net.au/science/ articles/ 2014/11/17/4129003.htm

only offered CBT, if they are offered any choice at all.

Funding should be matched to need, it says, and all healthcare staff should be trained in mental as well as physical health so that people’s mental health needs are also taken into account and recognised as contributing to their physical health, and vice versa.

Download the report at www.bacp.co.uk/news/ index.php?newsId=3604 * The Department for Education is to produce new guidance for schools on access to counselling for their pupils. The guidance is part of a package of measures announced by Childcare and Education Minister Sam Gyimah to help schools tackle mental ill health among children and young people.

The Government will also be working to develop resources for schools to teach pupils about mental health and challenge stigma.

New chair for Sussex Oakleaf Sussex Oakleaf, which provides specialist support for people recovering from mental health problems, has appointed Neil Curtis as chief executive.

Mr Curtis was previously finance director.

He said: “I am absolutely delighted and extremely proud to be leading Sussex Oakleaf, an organisation whose work supporting people with mental health problems is immensely important. Having previously worked with the organisation, I already appreciate the commitment and contribution of staff across our services. I am looking forward to working with them to strengthen and grow Sussex Oakleaf.” www.sussexoakleaf.org.uk

SCAP NEWS

Therapy network grows Lisa Martucci on SCAP’s newly-qualified counsellors’ support group The first meeting of the SCAP newly qualified counsellors’ support group was held on a dark and chilly night in November at the Jack & Jill in Clayton. The meeting was well-attended with a balance of existing SCAP members and other counsellors who are interested in pursuing an ongoing connection with a growing therapy network.

Topics of conversation covered the loss of structured college and university groups, the transient nature of post-qualification and preemployment or private practice, the pleasures of researching for a website provider and the comparison of courses and final examination board requirements. It was, as had been hoped, supportive and reassuring to share and learn that the concerns and problems being faced were a common theme and experiences were mutual.

Several of us were taking part in the BACP Certificate of Proficiency Test and so speculation about this upcoming event and its staging also featured.

The BACP CoP (Certificate of Proficiency) exam was held at the Holiday Inn in Brighton on 5 December and well-attended, demonstrating that many counsellors and psychotherapists are choosing to endorse the mandatory move from member to registered status and take advantage of the free

examination offer. The deadline is 31 March 2016 after which the category of member will cease to exist and anyone unregistered will not be able to continue membership.

It was supportive and reassuring to share and learn that the concerns and problems being faced were a common theme The exam is computerbased and BACP email candidates before with a comprehensive guide, username and password and a link to open a test sample case. The test case is the same as for practice on the day and this is really helpful as you can take time to familiarise yourself with the system and the way in which the questions and answers unfold.

When you begin the exam each case study provides sequential information at the top of the page which you can refer back to if you need, a scenario is outlined for you along with either a list of possible responses or a direct question with only one possible correct answer. Where the responses are multiple and relate to information you might ask the client, you can select as many as you believe to be

relevant; as you select it will either be correct and open up the case further by prompting the client to supply more details or it will be incorrect and state that no information is forthcoming. Other multiple response questions confirm your selection as either indicated or not and, so throughout, you are able to keep track of how you are doing.

The exam consists of six case studies and can take a maximum of three hours. You therefore know there are 30 minutes per case and there is a timer and display of the percentage outstanding on screen so you can monitor your progress.

At the time of writing the next nearest dates and venues for this examination are in London on16/17/18 April.

The next date for the newly qualified counsellor group meeting is Thursday 26 February at 7.30 p.m. in The Franklin Arms, Washington. Please email Lisa at newcounsellors@sussexcounselling.co.uk if you would like to come.

She will also be at the Hypnosis & Therapy Workshop on Saturday 14th March.

As always, your suggestions for future workshops or feedback on any that you have attended is appreciated.

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If we could talk to the animals Dog owners often claim their pets understand everything they say. Now a University of Sussex study shows that our canine friends do actually process human speech in a similar way to us.

Mammal communication researchers in the School of Psychology tested more than 250 dogs to see how they responded to a set of spoken commands, and found that, like humans, dogs use different parts of the brain to process the verbal components of a familiar sentence and the emotion or intonation of the speaker.

Doctoral candidate Victoria Ratcliffe and Dr David Reby, whose study was published in Current Biology (November), stress, however, that their research does not suggest dogs could understand the full complexity of human speech, only that their perception of

speech parallels that of humans.

Ms Ratcliffe says: “Humans mainly use the left hemisphere of their brain to process the verbal content of speech and the right hemisphere to process the characteristics of the voice whether it’s familiar, male or female - and its emotional content.

“Previous studies have shown that other mammals also have hemispheric biases when processing their own species’ vocalisations, but no one had ever looked at whether biases existed in domesticated animals in response to the different components of human speech.”

The researchers enlisted the help of dogs and their owners in Brighton (including dog walkers in Stanmer Park, and dogs at Brighton’s RSPCA centre) for the study.

Chichester conference debates British family Chichester Counselling holds its annual conference on 28 February when the speaker will be Professor Andrew Samuels speaking on In Search of the British Family: Gorgeous Diversity or Breakdown of the World as We Know it? (And are therapists contributing to the conversation?)

Andrew Samuels has, for 40 years, been evolving a unique blend of post-Jungian, relational psychoanalytic and humanistic approaches to therapy work. He is recognised internationally as a leading commentator from a psychotherapeutic perspective on political and social problems. Cost: £85 - Buffet lunch included.

The event takes place from 10am - 4pm at the Assembly Rooms, Chichester.

More details at office@ccs-counselling.org.uk

CPD programme The Continuing Professional Development Programme for 2015 at the Tunbridge Wells Counselling Centre will be announced shortly.

Recent topics have included: mentalisation, therapeutic writing, the abusive mother, religion and psychology, talking sex - contributing to difficult dialogues and assessment – why we do it and how.

Please contact the Counselling Centre if you wish to attend a workshop or want to find out more.

Tel 01892 548750 or email info@thecounsellingcent re.org.uk

Centre has new home Brighton Therapy Centre has moved to new, larger premises with the clinic now operating from 23, New Road, Brighton BN1 1UG. For more details visit www.brightontherapycent re.org.uk

NEWS & VIEWS

Transgender clients need good relationship not knowledge There is little research in the UK exploring transgender peoples’ experiences of therapy, and no similar studies on counselling for transgender clients.

A new study begins to address this gap by exploring transgender people’s experiences of accessing and receiving counselling outside of gender identity clinics in the UK. The research by Jane Hunt was funded with a BACP Seedcorn grant.

Hunt developed an online survey and undertook semistructured interviews with five volunteer participants.

The survey was completed by 74 participants.

Her findings offer a broad preliminary picture of the experiences of seeking and

Terry steps down Terry Woodhouse who has been Sussex Counselling chair for the last year will be stepping down at the AGM in July so a successor is now sought.

Terry says: “It was good to return to SCAP for a year or so as chair but time to sit back now and enjoy other interests.”

If you are interested in the role contact Terry for more details at terryjwoodhouse@aol.com.

accessing counselling for transgender clients.

Hunt’s survey shows: * Clients found out about counselling through their GP, health service or transgender community and sought counselling through the NHS or private sector. * Issues such as cost and location overrode factors such as the gender or the known

The quality of the relationship with the counselling in which clients felt affirmed and listened to was identified as central to a good therapeutic experience

affirmative stance of the counsellor and clients sought counselling for a variety of reasons. * The quality of the relationship with the counselling in which clients felt affirmed and listened to was identified as central to a good therapeutic experience.

The author concludes that while knowledge of the presenting issues, needs and experiences of transgender people in therapy is important, without a strong therapeutic relationship in which the client feels affirmed and respected, specialist knowledge is ‘rendered ineffective’.

Read more at http:// onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ 10.1080/14733145.2013.8385 97/abstract

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When the sanest thing to do is dissociate SCAP member Joanne Garner on supporting survivors Living and Working with Dissociation by Rob and Carolyn Spring I attended this seminar in Crawley, presented by an organisation called Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors, (PODS).

PODS was founded by husband and wife team Rob and Carolyn Spring some years ago, and is dedicated to

Dissociation is a sane response to some insane events or treatment disseminating information to the public and health sector professionals about Dissociative Identity Disorder, and related symptoms on the dissociative spectrum.

“I am a survivor of extreme ritual abuse, and as a result I developed Dissociative Identity Disorder” is the shocking statement of the first slide shown by Carolyn.

This sets the scene for a very well structured and professionally-delivered seminar on this frequently misdiagnosed, misunderstood and challenging-to-live-andwork-with illness.

The remainder of the day covers diagnostic criteria,

frequency in the general population, myths and folklore surrounding DID, its aetiology – it is only developed in childhood, it is not an adult disorder – symptoms, recommendations for treatment, and the impact on society of leaving this debilitating condition undiagnosed and therefore un or mis-treated.

How NOT to treat survivors and what NOT to do is also covered, with humour and clarity.

Its not possible to do justice to the wealth of information and resources offered by this seminar. Suffice it to say that as an introduction to the subject, I found it very enlightening and informative, horrifying and fascinating in equal measure.

The presenters’ style is conversational, at times very funny indeed, frequently wryly humorous yet profound, and they are very knowledgeable on their subject.

They weave together personal experience with the latest neuroscience, often

describing complex material using colloquial terms (eg ‘front brain, back brain’, ‘smoke alarm’) which makes it highly comprehensible, without being simplistic.

The material draws on a wide variety of sources, including well-known names in the field of trauma and recovery, who we probably all come across in our training and CPD: Babette Rothschild, Judith Lewes Herman, Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, Ellert Nijnhuis, Allan Schore, Janina Fisher to name but a few, as well as citing the DSM, Sidran Institute, MIND, WHO, ISSTD etc.

We were shown YouTube clips to illustrate different points, and one memorably funny excerpt from an old Lucille Ball TV episode, which had most of the audience crying with laughter!

PODS’ website and the handouts supplied at the beginning of the day has comprehensive lists of resources and research,

They weave together personal experience with the latest neuroscience, often describing complex material using colloquial terms

PODS

together with helpful leaflets, booklets and reading lists.

One of the things that stood out for me is that many of the psychological diagnoses that I meet in my clinical practice, usually given by a health professional and accompanied by medication – eg OCD, bi-polar and borderline disorders, anxiety, depression, phobias, PTSD,

Part of the problem is that denial and distortion are the stock in trade of sufferers as a direct result of how they have been treated by those to whom they might reasonably have expected to turn for help

addiction – may simply be a collection of symptoms masking an underlying complex developmental childhood experience of repeated relational trauma and consequent ruptured attachment.

This has resulted in what could more accurately be viewed as an illness at the severe end of the dissociative spectrum, or DID.

We were reminded that part of the problem is that denial and distortion are the stock in trade of sufferers as a direct result of how they have been treated by those to whom they might reasonably have expected to turn for help if their own primary care givers were either part of the abuse or denied its existence.

In turn, the perpetrators routinely deny the impact of their behaviour, and discount the evidence of it, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle of suffering and ignorance.

Encouragement was offered to therapists not to be afraid of working with DID, but simply to offer the qualities of active listening, consistent maintenance of clear boundaries (ie the opposite of the child's experience), and a willingness to engage in a long-term learning journey with their client.

Carolyn stated that the reparative nature of a therapeutic relationship cannot be under-estimated.

To sum up, dissociation is ‘a sane response to some insane events or treatment’.

(Carolyn) when ‘an inescapably stressful event overwhelms people’s existing coping mechanisms’ (Bessel van der Kolk).

Our training teaches us about Fight, Flight or Freeze

as a response to threat: Nijnhuis proposes that ‘freezing in animals is the same as dissociating in humans’, or (Kluft) ‘Mental flight when physical flight is not possible.’

The next local opportunity to hear a PODS presentation will be in Brighton in April this year, entitled Trauma and the Body: Dissociation and Somatisation. The mix of humour and pathos, fact and described fantasy, the wealth of resources cited, and the generally excellent material so professionally presented, I found made compelling viewing and listening. I recommend it to you!

Joanne Garner is a Transactional Analyst and EMDR Accredited Practitioner in private practice in Mid Sussex.

Trauma and the Body: Somatisation and Dissociation is the topic of a seminar organised by PODS in Brighton April 25. More details at www.pods-online.org.uk/ resources.

PODS Book Review see page 20

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Client safety and self regulation Joanne Garner reports on SCAP’s workshop with Matt Ingrams Matt studied TA at Wealden College in East Sussex, providing a frame for his work with clients. He also used the work of Dr Stephen Porges*, who has researched mammalian responses to trauma, now termed Polyvagal Theory, and on Dr Dan Siegal's# concept of ‘the window of tolerance’ (the idea that there is a self-regulated mode of sufficient calmness, safety and rationality which clients can learn to induce for themselves rather than swinging wildly between hyper and hypo-arousal.

Dr Porges* says: “For some people, specific physical characteristics of an environmental challenge will trigger a fight/flight behavior, while others may totally shut down to exactly the same physical features in their environment. We have to understand that it is the response, and not the traumatic event that is critical.

For some people, so-called traumatic events are just events. And for other people, they are really life-threatening experiences, and their body responds as if they are going to die; similar to the mouse in the jaws of the cat. ” Matt reminded us that when human beings experience a perceived overwhelming threat to life, certain unconscious neurobiological mechanisms kick in, over which the individual has no

conscious control; the primitive brain decides how to respond in a millisecond.

The cognitively functioning and highly developed ‘front brain’, with its capacity for rational thought and logical risk assessment, which needs time and a sense of safety to calculate the best course of action in any given situation, does not have time to take control! Says Porges: “The Polyvagal Theory emphasises that our nervous system has more than one defense strategy and the selection of whether we use a mobilised flight/flight or an immobilisation shutdown defense strategy is not a voluntary decision. Outside the realm of our conscious awareness, our nervous system is continuously evaluating risk in the environment, making judgments, and setting up priorities for behaviors that are adaptive, but not cognitive.

“If a life threat triggers a biobehavioural response that puts a human into this state, it may be very difficult to reorganise to become ‘normal’ again.Therapists are aware that many people, who report abuse, especially sexual abuse, experience being held down or physically abused. These abused clients often describe a psychological experience of not really being there. They dissociate or pass

out. For these individuals, the abusive event actually triggered an adaptive response, maybe not fully, but part of it, to enable them not to experience the traumatic event. The problem, of course, is how do you get people back out of that?”

Matt referred to what TA calls a decisional model, where an early experience leads to a ‘decision’ - outside of conscious awareness – about how to survive in a particular situation. This then generalises to become the default response to any similar situation; the decision is incorporated into the individuals's ‘life script’, and

The Polyvagal Theory emphasises that our nervous system has more than one defence strategy and the selection is not a voluntary decision ‘rackets’ (self-manipulating behaviours, thoughts and feelings), develop to maintain the life script.

In order to work with these early decisions and facilitate the individual to make some new decisions about how they want to be in the world, clients need to develop a

CLIENT SAFETY

sense of safety and containment. Matt spoke of the importance of being ‘potently present’, a concept first identified by Pat Crossman, a TA contemporary with Eric Berne, as ‘the 3 Ps: Permission, Protection and Potency.’ Permission to the client to dare to question their inner Parent voice which tells them they're stupid/worthless/can't change; ‘Protection’ to the

As humans we have lost the ability to shake ourselves free of the freeze response client’s inner Child from the punitive Parent voice while they tentatively start to question those early beliefs; and ‘Potency’ of the therapist to offer the required Protection and Permissions until the client develops sufficient autonomy to provide them for themselves.

Matt concluded by observing that as humans we have lost the ability to shake ourselves free of the freeze response; other mammals and birds are able to give themselves a good literal shake when the danger is passed and revert to their previous normal activities; instead, we humans stay in a state of semi-immobilisation, deeply depressed, alternately fretting and anxious, often

using phobic behaviours to avoid thinking clearly, stuck in incapacity. The solution is literally to get moving!

Encouraging clients to move around, if necessary in the consulting room, and most importantly, to engage with regular gentle exercise, is essential to recovery.

He likened these to Babette Rothschild's** concept of ‘anchors’– Stretch! Breathe!

Express! ie get the airwaves open and circulation going.

Matt cited Janina Fisher, another well-known name in the field of trauma recovery, who recommends two further options to support self-soothing – Attach (to a safe figure, even if only by listening to the therapist's answerphone message if noone safe to be around is available) and Think – get your ‘front brain’ back online by doing puzzles, crosswords, sudoku. He proposed that a sense of empowerment – perhaps at first simply by being given factual information – helps clients move out of depression/freeze mode and start to feel safer. A very important ability for the therapist is to develop attunement and empathy.

When working with severely dissociated clients, Matt has found the analogy of the person being like a house, with a chute between the attic (hyper arousal) and the basement (hypo arousal, or incapacitation) can be very useful. The client can

understand that regularly using the chute to zoom back and forth outside the limits of their window of tolerance is unhelpful; learning how to stop at different points in the chute and access the ‘living room’ filing cabinet of inner resources, which stabilise and regulate, is much better.

Matt Ingrams is a counsellor, trainer and supervisor working in private practice with individuals and couples. based in East Sussex.

Joanne Garner is an MSc CTA(P) CertEd UKCP reg, BACP Register, EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner. *The interview is available as part of a series on the latest developments in neurobiology and working with traumatised clients available at www.nicabm.com. # Daniel J. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute. ** Babette Rothschild, is author of The Body Remembers, and associated work on trauma survivors.

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What happens when clients complain Anne Rogers on the various experiences of those with a grievance In a sequel to the article in our last issue on clients’ complaints and the experience of therapists Anne Rogers traces the experiences of five of the people she interviewed who brought a complaint, three of whom were therapists, two lay people.

All wanted to tell their story, they wanted to be heard.

Although a few of the complaints had taken place ten or more years previously all their experiences remained painful.

In my previous article I highlighted the lack of support that the therapists felt when faced with a complaint; the complainants were in an even weaker position. Therapists have colleagues, supervisors and, often, the support of their insurance companies. None of these is available for clients.

Irene 1 very early in her therapy experienced instances of boundary crossing. She commented: ‘I should have got up and gone. I didn’t because I was so hopeful that somebody was going to help me ... I should have known.... well I knew it then really. ... I couldn’t tell anybody for a long time. It really disturbed me.’

She was given the option of an informal or formal complaint. She chose the

informal route and spoke to two therapists from the institution. She did not feel ready to make a formal complaint. She was not told of the outcome of this talk.

The therapist agreed to meet her in a form of mediation.

This was attended by two therapists from the organisation. She said she found this very helpful. Later she brought a second and different complaint against the same therapist with another organisation. She went to Popan,2 attended their courses learnt how the system worked.

She commented ‘It’s no point saying ‘I’m upset’ or whatever. You have to use the system properly’. The therapist was sanctioned.

Irene felt reasonably pleased with the outcome.

Ruth felt secure and contained in her therapy but the situation changed; it became no longer the quiet secure place it had been; a noisy child could be heard in the house; it became a place of distress and terror. She became frightened when her therapist did not seem to acknowledge this. She wrote to her asking to meet in some form of mediation, to try to understand what was happening. The therapist refused, telling her to go ahead with a complaint. There

was also a separate boundary issue.

When I asked her what she hoped to get out of the complaint she said: ‘I wanted some sort of vindication, that it wasn’t all my fault. I wanted to be taken seriously and respected’.

The complaint was heard by a panel from the therapist’s organisation. Ruth hoped they would see her distress. She felt attacked by the therapist’s

I should have got up and gone. I didn’t because I was so hopeful that somebody was going to help me spokesperson. The panel found nothing wrong with the therapist’s behaviour although she was censored over the boundary issue. Ruth’s comment was: ‘It felt like the Blitz, everything in pieces ... and you are left to rebuild your own home’. She was left with a terrible sense of loss.

Both Ruth and Irene had great difficulties in finding another therapist they felt they could trust. Ruth acknowledged that the experience greatly influenced the way she subsequently worked as a counsellor. ‘I

COMPLAINTS

became ... impotent, just wanting to be kind and loving.’

Vera also knew she should have left her therapist. ‘I did not like him, I knew it in my bones... my self esteem was low... I didn’t take my feelings seriously....’ The years went by, she felt trapped. She was getting nowhere. There were several instances of boundary crossing in relation to her work and training. Eventually she wrote to the therapist’s organisation telling them of the situation’. She wanted resolution – an acknowledgment of some of the mistakes. She asked to meet him with another person. He refused. He was seen by members of his organisation without her being present. Some years later she went back to her therapist. She said she needed to sort things out with him as there were issues she could not resolve on her own.

Joan brought a complaint against her therapist for severe breach of confidentiality. In spite of her concrete evidence she found it difficult to accept that she would be believed. She was helped and guided throughout the complaint by a friend and colleague, a BACP counsellor. She said she

could not have done it without her help and guidance. She was believed.

Petra was barred from making a very serious complaint because the therapist in question resigned from the organisation before the complaint was lodged. At the time the organisation would only hear complaints against present members.

This has now changed and all

Several of my interviewees just wanted to meet with their therapists in some form of mediation; they talked of restorative justice, and an apology but their therapists refused to meet with them organisations will hear complaints against therapists who were members at the time of the alleged complaint.

Several of my interviewees just wanted to meet with their therapists in some form of mediation; they talked of restorative justice, and an apology but their therapists refused to meet with them.

Three of my interviewees considered taking their therapists to court but were dissuaded from this process by the lawyers they consulted.

Some situations described took place many years ago.

Proceedings have changed.

Some of the situations described here could not, hopefully, happen now.

BPC and UKCP now hear all complaints centrally. Both organisations encourage clients and therapists to enter into some form of mediation, when appropriate – with an independent mediator.

BACP has always heard complaints centrally but mediation was not available at the time of the research although I understand there are moves towards introducing it.

All names have been changed.

1 Irene, Ruth and Vera were therapists.

2 Popan – later Witness now disbanded through withdrawal of grants. SeeThe Clinic for Boundary Studies. www.professionalboundarie s.org.uk My thanks to Val Simanowitz for her help in writing this article.

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Brighton Person Centred Community Workshop Programme 2015 Saturday 2nd May 2015 10-4.30 David Murphy – Trauma and the therapeutic relationship: approaches to process and practice Trauma is increasingly recognised as a potential unifying factor for understanding distress and as underpinning a range of difficulties for which people seek psychotherapy.

David Murphy PhD., CPsychol. is a HCPC registered counselling psychologist. He has worked for a number of years as a person-centred psychotherapist in the field of trauma and is honorary psychologist in psychotherapy at the Centre for Trauma.

Saturday 26th September 2015 – 10am – 4pm– Danuta Lipinska Living well with dementia? : A person-centred perspective Dementia may well be one of the main challenges of the twenty-first century. We will explore the main concerns brought into the counselling relationship. the impact on partners & relatives and the particular issues of young onset dementia.

Danuta Lipinska, MA, MBACP (Accred) Author of 'Person-centred counselling for people with dementia: Making sense of self' (2009) - has pioneered counselling persons with dementia.

Saturday 28th November 2015 – 10am – 4pm – Sandy Gee Living an Authentic Life This workshop will be a joint exploration of what it means 'to live an authentic life’. We will experientially engage in the quest to be authentic in the moment with the group as well as look together at what it means to live authentically in our lives beyond.

Sandy Gee is a lapsed Person-Centred ‘Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist’, who paused to take a sabbatical 4 years ago and never went back. She has been grappling since with how to more deeply/ wildly live an authentic, self-attuned life.

Cost: £65/£45 concession To book, please visit www.brightonbapca.co.uk

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MEN IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

Men’s issues in psychotherapy Rob Trounce and Shelley Holland on the ‘dry father’ Brighton Therapy Partnership hosted Professor Andrew’s Samuels’ workshop on Men’s Issues in Psychotherapy in November.

Professor Samuels, who was charismatic and controversial in equal measure, discussed a number of concepts that are key to his understanding of the issues of men in therapy, fathering, sexuality, and sexual misconduct.

A key concept in Andrew’s discussion of the role of the father is that of Erotic and Aggressive Playback, and the Dry Father.

Erotic playback by the father involves physical use of the body through stroking, cuddling, hugs, physical proximity and shows the father admiring, recognising, and supporting the child. For a daughter, this frees her from the tyranny of her mother.

Rather than her future being a replica of her mother, this opens up different pathways for her to become someone unique.

In terms of aggression, the father uses a variety of ways of showing his anger. From this, the son learns how to manage aggression and how to become more confident.

Both boys and girls learn multiple ways of showing aggression, in part from their parents.

Playback comes from the physicality the father shows the child. The interest in the erotic or the aggression starts with the child, and then is fed back by the father in a way that is healthy, safe and emotionally manageable for the child.

A particularly prevalent issue which resonated with many delegates was that of the dry father – one who does not offer much in the way of emotional sharing – a fairly stoic figure who gives little in

A particularly prevalent issue which resonated with many delegates was that of the dry father - one who does not offer much in the way of emotional sharing the way of erotic or aggressive playback, but is nevertheless a loving and caring person. They just don’t typically show it. Their lacking in this regard can lead to children acting out in order to resonate in some way with their father’s emotions.

Andrew’s discussion on different Family Structures

made a particular point that while most therapists are not overtly homophobic many are not truly comfortable with non-heterosexual family structures, echoing the undertones of most published works on the subject yet, as Samuels asserts ‘research on children brought up in same sex marriages is incredibly boring – there are no disadvantages or issues shown’ and that all familial structures have disadvantages in some sense or another, with none showing any stark advantages. Even if one were to show advantages, that is not an indictment on the others.

Read more on Andrew Samuels’ workshop at www.brightontherapypartn ership.org.uk/mens-issuestherapy-summary/ Shelley Holland is a counsellor in private practice in Brighton & Hove Rob Trounce is an independent digital marketing specialist based in Brighton

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CPD Workshops Spring/Summer 2015 Saturday 21st March Michael Soth - “How to Work When the Client’s Conflict Becomes the Therapist’s Conflict” Saturday 18th April Margaret Landale – “Trauma and the Therapeutic Relationship” Saturday 25th April Dr Chris Irons – “Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT): Working with Shame and Self Criticism” Saturday 9th May Pat Williams – “The Therapeutic Use of Metaphor, Story and Narrative” Saturday 6th June Caroline Hearst – “Introduction to Autism: The Invisible End of the Spectrum” Saturday 20th June Maya Jarrett – “Making the Unbearable Bearable” Saturday 4th July Michael Soth - “The Impossible Profession: Making a Sustainable Living as a Therapist”

Visit our website: www.brightontherapypartnership.org.uk All events just £95 including all snacks, refreshments, scrumptious lunch, CPD certificate and general good humour. Full details of events and booking information available on the website or email shelley@brightontherapypartnership.org.uk

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FEBRUARY 26 SCAP’s newly-qualified counsellor group meeting VENUE: The Franklin Arms, Washington TIME: 7.30pm Open to all newly qualified counsellors DETAILS: Email Lisa Martucci at newcounsellors@sussex -counselling.co.uk SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY Parental Conflict and Attachment Theory.

10.15am-12.30pm.

Brighton Consulting and Training Rooms, 18a Clermont Road, Brighton, BN1 6SJ. £36. www.brightonconsultingroo ms.co.uk SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY Chichester Counselling Annual Conference with Professor Andrew Samuels: In Search of the British Family. 10am-4pm Assembly Rooms, Chichester. www.ccs-counselling.org.uk SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY Trauma and Recovery – a one day Foundation for the Introductory Certificate in Trauma Therapy. Wealden Institute. www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk

SATURDAY 21 FEBRUARY AND SATURDAY 18 APRIL 2015 Cultivating mindfulness in psychotherapy. Two day workshop. Brighthelm Centre, Brighton. Details www.brightontherapypartn ership.org.uk/events/ cultivating-mindfulnesspsychotherapy-2-dayworkshop/ SUNDAY MARCH 1 Trauma in Children.

Workshop Wealden Institute. www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk TUESDAY MARCH 3 Animal Assisted Therapy.

Wealden Institute. www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk SUNDAY MARCH 8 Severe and Complex Trauma and Dissociation. Wealden Institute. www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk MONDAY MARCH 9 Lecture: Therapy for Self Harm, Depression and Suicidal Behaviour. With Stephen Briggs. Jury’s Inn. Brighton. 5-7.30pm. £12. www.emotionaldevelopmen t.co.uk/events MONDAY 9 MARCH and TUESDAY 10 MARCH Attachment, Attachment Disorder, Trauma and Recovery. Wealden Institute. www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk MONDAY 9 March and TUESDAY 10 MARCH Official TA101, two day Introductory Workshop for

Transactional Analysis.

Wealden Institute. www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk THURSDAY MARCH 12 Diploma in Counselling Exam Prep Day. Wealden Institute. www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk THURSDAY MARCH 12 Six week mindfulness course.

8-9.30pm Cornerstone Community Centre. Church Road, Hove. £125. www.hovestressbusters.co.uk

SATURDAY MARCH 14 SCAP SEMINAR. Hypnosis and Therapy. VENUE: Community Base, Brighton.

TIME: 10am-1pm DETAILS: To book contact Pat Smale on Tel 01273 844315. Email pat@smale32.fsnet.co.uk or online at www.sussexcounselling.co.uk THURSDAY MARCH 19 The Work of Erik Erikson.

Wealden Institute. www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk SATURDAY 21 March 10am - 4.30 pm How to Work When the Client's Conflict Becomes the Therapist's Conflict City Coast Centre, Portslade (Brighton & Hove). www.brightontherapypartn ership.org.uk/events

DIARY SATURDAY MARCH 28 Messy Play therapy with Caroline Anderson.

9.45am-3.30pm. Brighton Consulting and Training Rooms, 18a Clermont Road, Brighton, BN1 6SJ. £72 www.brightonconsultingroo ms.co.uk SATURDAY MARCH 28 Creative 101 - Introduction to Working with the Arts in Therapy. The Link Centre. http://thelinkcentre.co.uk/ cpd-workshops.html THURSDAY MARCH 31 Animal Assisted Therapy.

Wealden Institute. www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk SATURDAY MARCH 28 Live webcast: Beginning, developing and strengthening the way we work online. A webcast for counsellors working online and those interested in online therapeutic work. Details www.bacp.co.uk/events/ conference.php? eventiD=117020 SATURDAY APRIL 18 Trauma and the Therapeutic Relationship. With Margaret Landale. www.brightontherapypartn ership.org.uk/events SATURDAY APRIL 25 Trauma and the Body: Somatisation and Dissociation. Brighton. www.pods-online.org.uk/ resources

SATURDAY APRIL 25 Compassion focussed therapy: Working with Shame and self criticism. Brighthelm Centre, Brighton 10am-5pm. www.brightontherapypartn ership.org.uk/events APRIL 27 Troubled Teens and the Rage to feel alive. Jargon-free workshop with David Taransaud. Jury’s Inn, Brighton. 5.30-7.30 pm £12 www.emotionaldevelopment .co.uk/events SATURDAY MAY 2 Trauma and the Therapeutic Relationship: approaches to process and practice.

Brighton Person-Centred Community Workshop with David Murphy.

10am-4.30pm. Cost £65 (£45). Details: www. brightonbapca.co.uk SATURDAY MAY 9 The Therapeutic Use of Metaphor, Story and

Narrative. City Coast Centre, Portslade. 10am-4.30pm www.brightontherapypartn ership.org.uk/events/ SATURDAY MAY 16 Neuroscience and some Applications to Psychotherapy with Sally Carritt. Centre for Emotional Development, Brighton.

9.45am-12 noon. £30. www.emotionaldevelopment .co.uk/events TUESDAY MAY 19 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Working with Double Binds in Therapy. Wealden Institute. www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk TUESDAY JUNE 16 Mindful Eating Workshop with Jan Eaton. Centre for Emotional Development, Brighton. 9.45am-12 noon. £30. www.emotionaldevelopment .co.uk/events

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Recover to avenge

Theory, reality and politics

Recovery is my best revenge: My experience of trauma, abuse and dissociative identity disorder (Collected Essays Book 1 Kindle Edition] Carolyn Spring

The New Politics of Experience and The Bitter Herbs - Theodor Itten and Ron Roberts

In this first volume of her collected essays, Carolyn Spring writes candidly from a number of perspectives about her experiences of living with trauma-related dissociation.

'Memories of Mummy' is an evocative piece told mainly through the eyes of a child; 'Rediscovering Eden' is raw and disturbing; 'Dissociative Moments' is a profound insight into the experience of dissociation. This volume covers topics such as shame, child sexual abuse, and the complex meanings of 'madness', but finishes with a determined vision of recovery and the journey towards it.

Carolyn Spring is a writer as well as being Director of PODS (Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors) and its charity framework START (Survivors Trauma and Abuse Recovery Trust). PODS works to make recovery from dissociative disorders a reality through training, informing and supporting. www.pods-online.org.uk/ index.html

A lot of what is done in the name of psychotherapy and psychology is driven by motives which are base, shallow and commercial. Theorising of the human condition too often follows the ideological fashions of the day, which can be described as biological/corporate fundamentalism.

This toxic mixture not only mystifies the general public but also makes philosophical knowledge slaves of professional psychologists. As neoliberal capitalism continues its forward march, this book considers its influence on the divide between academic psychology and the psychotherapeutic art of healing.

This has made the relationship between the practical and academic sides of psychology deeply problematic as well as dishonest.

Theodor Itten, a Psychotherapist UKCP and Clinical Psychologist MBPS in private practice - and Ron Roberts a Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Criminology and Sociology at Kingston University, London explore these issues from their respective positions on each side of the psychotherapy, academic psychology divide.

Questioning reality and reason

PREVIEW

Birdy is the moving story of friendship and family, dreams and survival, exploring the effects of war, notions of sanity and one man's obsession with birds. It’s the subject of a new performance at Connaught Theatre Worthing.

Inspired by the William Wharton novel, we are introduced to Birdy - confined in a World War 11 military psychiatric hospital, locked in silence and trapped in a bird persona. Led by his childhood friend and fellow casualty of war Al, we journey back through their early years as we relive their memories. As Al and Birdy leave for battle, their lives are changed forever, but who or what represents true sanity? The world we live in or those who question its reality and reason.

A highly visual experience, the performance is intensified by powerful live music and song. Physicality and dynamic circus skills are used to convey a sense of otherworldliness.

Birdy shows at the Connaught Theatre, Worthing on Sunday 1 March at 7.30pm. Book tickets at https://uk.patronbase.com/ _WorthingTheatres/Productions

REVIEWS

Humanity at heart

Therapy for more than the worried well

The Humans - Matt Haig

Person-Centred Practice at the Difficult Edge - Peter Pearce

The hero of this novel is Professor Andrew Martin, dead before it even begins.

As it turns out, he wasn’t very nice - as the alien imposter who now occupies his body discovers.

Sent to Earth to destroy evidence that Andrew had solved a major mathematical problem, the alien soon finds himself learning more about the professor, his family, and ‘the humans’ than he ever expected. When he begins to fall for his own wife and son, who have no idea he’s not the real Andrew, the alien must choose between completing his mission and returning home or finding a new home right here on Earth.

Haig suffered a breakdown in his early twenties. After battling depression he turned to writing and believes reading and writing books saved his life, and that in a world trying to increasingly isolate us from our environment and our true selves, books are our route to freedom, and to each other.

Email newsletter@sussexcounselling.co.uk if you would like to review any books for us or suggest books to review

This book presents accounts of the practice of the personcentred approach (PCA) with people suffering from a range of severe and enduring conditions.

Comprehensively refuting the notion that person-centred therapy is suitable only for the 'worried well', it backs up contemporary practice with appropriate theory.

Contributions include: personcentred therapy with posttraumatic stress (Stephen Joseph and David Murphy); Tenuous contact - Personcentred therapy with adolescent process (Peter Pearce and Ros Sewell); PreTherapy with psychotic clients (Dion van Werde); Refutation of myths of inappropriateness of person-centered therapy at the difficult edge (Lisbeth Sommerbeck); Difficult processes (Margaret Warner) and several other chapters from leading theorists and practitioners.

Part 1, which covers practice, includes understanding post traumatic stress and facilitating post traumatic growth, person-centred therapy with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, person-centred therapy with people with learning

disabilities, tenuous contact: a new theory about adolescent process, pre-Therapy at its edges: from palliative care to exercising newly recovered contact functioning, combining person-centred therapy and pre-therapy with clients at the difficult edge, a person-centred approach to counselling clients with autistic process, personcentred therapy for people with dementia, pre-therapy and dementia – the opportunity to put personcentred theory into everyday practice.

Part 2 features conceptualisations that support practice, client processes at the difficult edge, the relation between intersubjectivity, imitation, mirror neurons, empathy and pre-therapy, refutation of myths of inappropriateness of personcentred therapy at the difficult edge.

Part 3 cover research that supports practice - an investigation of the effectiveness of personcentred therapy for ‘psychotic’ processes in adult clients and pre-therapy process and outcome: a review of research instruments and findings.

Full details are available at: www.pccs-books.co.uk/ products/diffult-edge/ #.VK5ipsb2pS1

Wealden Psychology Institute Established in Crowborough, East Sussex since 1986

www.wealdeninstitute.co.uk For 28 years Wealden Institute has been a centre of excellence for specialized and advanced learning for counsellors, psychotherapist and supervisors, offering courses from beginner to post graduate level, accredited by the BACP and recognized by the UKCP, UKATA, EATA and ITAA. The Institute has many years’ experience in providing the highest levels of practice through our Trauma Clinic, Supervision Service, Forensic Psychology Division and Animal Facilitated Therapy at our organic farm in High Hurstwood. We offer popular and acclaimed training in each of these fields through the highly respected Wealden College of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

• • • • • • Counselling and Psychotherapy for children and adults, individuals and couples At a range of prices to suit all needs.

Wealden Trauma Clinic Our clinic offers TA, EMDR, Mindfulness and Animal Facilitated Therapy for child and adult survivors of abuse, violence and trauma.

Supervision of Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists and Supervisors Face to face or by Skype or telephone, for trainees and qualified practitioners.

Foundation Certificate in Transactional Analysis Counselling & Psychotherapy.

Ten weekend modules or 20 fortnightly Monday modules.

Advanced Transactional Analysis Counselling & Psychotherapy (leading to UKCP registration).

Ten weekend modules per year over three years.

Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling 40 days per year for two years – BACP Accredited course Fully recognised EMDR training For accredited Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Psychologists.

Specialist training courses for counsellors and psychotherapists in Trauma Therapy, CBT, Coaching, Working with LGBT Clients, Working with Children and Adolescents, Working with Families, Forensic Counselling and Psychotherapy, Supervision, to name a few. Look at our Short Course Programme for details.

We have a full programme of one and two day short courses and workshops – see our website for details.

If you would like to get further information or arrange to come in for a chat, please contact the head office in Crowborough. You will receive a warm welcome.

• • • • • • Wealden Psychology Institute, 2 Quarry View, Whitehill Road, Crowborough, TN6 1JT

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We asked a few of our students what they like about training at The Link Centre...

“the training... it’s interactive, thought-provoking and challenging as well as supportive and fun!” “a fabulous learning environment - the tutors are inspiring and the people I have met come from all walks of life, which adds to the richness of the learning experience.”

At The Link Centre we take pride in offering quality training, resulting in professional, ethical and competent practitioners. If you are interested in further developing your skills and experience, join us for some of our CPD Workshops and introductory courses.

We run a variety of flexible, part-time workshops and courses throughout the year - here are some that we have coming up:

Creative 101: Working with the Arts in Therapy Saturday 28th March For training and qualified practitioners, across all modalities, who are interested in exploring the language of image as a resource in their client work.

Course Tutor: Suki Abbott UKCP Reg. Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and Creative Supervisor

Wellbeing / Networking Evenings Wednesday 4th February, 15th April, 3rd June Come along and join us for one of our informal wellbeing networking evenings. There is a 1 hour talk from a guest speaker and you will have the opportunity to meet with like-minded people, to network, get support and exchange ideas.

For further details, please contact

01892 652 487 www.thelinkcentre.co.uk email: leilani@thelinkcentre.co.uk The Link Centre training rooms are at Newick, Sussex.

Later in the year . . . .

Working with Groups Sunday 7th June

Multi-Level Counselling Skills (30 hours) 29th/30th August and 5th/6th September

Working Outside the Therapy Room 17th/18th October

IT’S NOT TOO EARLY TO CONTACT US! Starting October 2015 Foundation Certificate in TA and

Counselling and Psychotherapy Course If you, or anyone you know would like to start a career in counselling, then this course is for them.

Please contact us to find out more.

HYPNOSIS AND THERAPY MARCH 14 PAUL ATKINSON

SCAP SEMINAR 14 MARCH 2015 10AM-1PM COMMUNITY BASE BRIGHTON BOOK: contact Pat Smale Seminar Co-ordinator.

TEL: 01273 844315, pat@smale32.fsnet.co.uk

Payment either by Paypal at www.sussexcounselling.co.uk or by cheque.

OUR next seminar is on

SATURDAY MARCH 14, 2015

when we are delighted to

introduce you to Paul

Atkinson, who has worked as

a therapist for over 25 years,

with postgrad training in

counselling/psychotherapy

and clinical hypnosis, and

consultant status in Eye

Movement Desensitisation and

Reprocessing (EMDR).

Paul will talk about the use of

hypnosis, looking at what

constitutes it, linking hypnosis

to research into therapeutic

outcomes and enhancement

of outcomes, and use of

hypnosis with common

difficulties.

Venue South Wing Conference Room Community Base,Queens Road Brighton

TIME: 10 and 1pm

COST: £20 for SCAP members and students and £30 non SCAP members.

Light refreshments will be available and CPD certificates will be provided.

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