IPCAPA MASTERCLASS SERIES

Welcome to the first of our autumn series.  This series offers a live online space for IPCAPA child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapists to present their work to a senior child psychotherapy clinician, in the presence of a professional audience. It is an opportunity to observe an Independent approach in practice and to gain a deeper understanding of how we work with children, adolescents, and young adults.

We are delighted that Pamela Bartram will be in the supervisor’s chair for the first of our autumn events.

About the Speakers

Pamela Bartram was born and grew up in Glasgow. As a music therapist, she worked with children with a range of disabilities. She became the director of the Roehampton Music Therapy Training Course, combining her clinical work and teaching with a growing interest in psychoanalysis. She went on to train as a child and adolescent psychotherapist and to work in the NHS in CAMHS. She became the manager of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team for children with disabilities and their families while continuing to work as a clinician. Her interest in working with parents led to her further training as an adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is a senior member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation where she contributes to Clinical Services and to courses including Infant Observation, IPCAPA (The Independent Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training), and the adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (PPA) training. She is a training supervisor for IPCAPA and PPA.

Throughout this journey, she has maintained a commitment to making psychotherapy available to children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities and to supporting their families. She is interested in the mutative effect of the non-verbal aspects of human communication in the clinical encounter.

She works in private practice offering both direct work and supervision.

Rumbi Magadzire is a newly qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. She is working full-time in a specialist CAMHS team that supports children and adolescents with Learning Disabilities and/or Neurodevelopmental Conditions. This team offers support only to children who attend Special Schools.

Rumbi is finalising her doctoral research that explores the experiences of parents of children with an Intellectual Disability in how they support their child with sexual development.

*If you are a psychotherapist or counsellor residing in an active conflict zone, you are eligible to attend this event free of charge (regardless of whether you are a bpf member or not). Please email membership@bpf-psychotherapy to enquire about a ticket.