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.
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.
Course Content
Presenter
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.
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). 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.
Anti-Racist Trainer, Author, Head of Therapeutic Services
Hello, I’m Tonia, Co-Host for BWTOC UK 24. I’m a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accredited counsellor and I work as head of therapeutic services at MAP, a youth charity based in Norfolk, UK. I qualified as a person-centred counsellor in 2007 and have devised, and delivered, anti-racist training since the mid-nineties. I am a member of the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN) with whom I have been a mentor since 2016. My counselling practice is situated in the context of a lifelong, active commitment to personal and community development, global justice and equality. I am author of the chapter ‘Effective AntiRacist Practice in Counselling and Therapy Training’ in ‘Therapy in Colour: Intersectional, AntiRacist and Intercultural Approaches by Therapists of Colour’ (2023, Jessica Kingsley Publishers). I’m pleased and excited to be Co-Host for the 1st Ever BWTOC UK. I’ll also be facilitating a 45- minute Salon, championing Rest as Resistance.
