Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Navigating Application and Training

If you’re a Black woman in the UK interested or working in counselling, psychology or coaching, you won’t want to miss this conversation, the second in our new programme series Black Women Therapists in Conversation. Presented by Black Women Therapists UK (BWTUK) Online Conference hosts Mary Pascall and Tonia Mihill, in the lead up to BWTUK 25, this series features a range of talented and motivational speakers, spotlighting creative approaches to successful careers in the helping professions.

For this second conversation, Kairo Maynard, who is in her final year of completing a Doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the UK, will share her training journey. She will guide you through the process of application and interview, including examples of interview question, outline pre-clinical requirements and highlight the demands of training.

Join Kairo, Mary and Tonia in conversation on Saturday 10th May 2025, 10 am GMT and take the opportunity to ask any burning questions about embarking on training in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the UK.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Introduction to child and adolescent psychotherapy.
• Approaching the application process for child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
• Understanding the training demands for child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Black woman in the UK interested or working in counselling, psychotherapy, psychology or coaching.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Participants will be introduced to the application and interview process for child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy training in the UK.

This workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

Kairo is a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered dramatherapist and a British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) registered Time-limited Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (TAPP) practitioner, based in London, UK. She works in a Community NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service and is currently completing a doctorate in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Kairo also writes and speaks about intergenerational trauma and attachment, racial injustice and health inequalities for Black and other marginalised communities. Her work includes: ‘Can Dramatherapy help Black women discover their true self despite racial and gender oppression?’ (2018, Dramatherapy Journal); “As a Black therapist, I want to see action come out of mental health awareness discussions” (online, 2019, Mental Health Today); ‘A Black Therapist Sees Herself: Exploring sameness and difference in the dramatherapy room’, in ‘Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapies’ (2022, Jessica Kingsley Publishers). Kairo is passionate about improving the visibility of Black, Asian and other unprioritised therapists and trainees in the UK.

For BWTUK 24 one-day online conference, Kairo offered a dynamic seminar entitled From the Strong Life to the ‘Soft Life’: Why Black women are looking to Change.

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Mary is a psychotherapeutic counsellor, group facilitator and mentor in private practice, and host for BWTOC UK. Mary is also an associate tutor for the post-graduate diploma in person-centred counselling at The Norwich Centre, Norfolk, UK. She is registered with the British Association For Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and with the Black African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN, https://www.baatn.org.uk/). Specialising in working with transcultural issues through a person-centred lens, her approach is relational, racial justice allied and social justice allied. Within her practice, Mary offers counselling for adults, mentoring for counselling trainees and, as a group facilitator, a tailored programme of online and in-person experiential workshops offering an enabling space, in which participants can explore the impact of race and culture on well-being within the current climate, the context of their work, training or supervision.

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Tonia is Co-Host for BWTOC UK. She works as Head of Therapeutic Services at MAP (https://www.map.uk.net/), a Youth Charity, based in Norfolk, UK. Tonia also delivers Form and Freedom Supervision training colleague, Cat Burton, to deliver (https://therapynorwich.com/). Tonia qualified as a person-centred counsellor in 2007 and has devised, and delivered, anti-racist training since the mid-nineties. She is a member of the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN, https://www.baatn.org.uk/) and has participated in their mentoring programme since 2016. Her counselling practice is situated in the context of a lifelong active commitment to personal and community development, global justice, and equality. She is author of the chapter ‘Effective Anti-Racist Practice in Counselling and Therapy Training’ in 'Therapy in Colour: Intersectional, Anti-Racist and Intercultural Approaches by Therapists of Colour’ (2023, Jessica Kingsley Publishers).

For BWTUK 24 one-day online conference, Tonia offered a radical workshop entitled Rest as Resistance: Rest Now! Accessible at: https://onlinevents.co.uk/courses/ (search 2024 Black Women Therapists Online Conference: ‘Challenging the Strong Black Woman Archetype’).

Event Venue

Online