2025 Psychotherapy Workshops
27 August 2025, Wednesday (5.30PM - 7.30PM SGT)
An evening with Dr Allan Shafer, Clinical Psychologist & Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
What Kind of Therapist Am I?
Who are you and How do you really work with patients?
Synopsis
I always ask my new supervisees. “Tell me how you work in therapy". The answers are usually couched as therapeutic technique. For example, “I use CBT”, or “I am a psychodynamic psychotherapist” or “I apply ACT” or “Mindfulness” and others. But my question actually is asking “How do you really work?”. Often our publicly espoused therapeutic orientations are different from what actually happens between therapist and patient in the sanctity of the consulting room. And this is related to who we are as people.
Among other qualities – which I will describe in this seminar - I have come to understand that I am a therapist who offers a mind to another for their psychic survival. Who can be simultaneously immersed in sometimes disturbing and sometimes frightening states of mind and yet remain personally and interpersonally tethered to reality in such a way that transformative meaning can be made between two minds.
In this seminar I will also explore in dialogue with the participants, "What kind of therapist are you?”
Guest Speaker Bio
Dr. Allan Shafer MA (Clinical Psychology), D Lit et Phil
Dr. Allan Shafer originally trained as a Clinical Psychologist and has over 45 years’ experience as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor. For a significant period, he has also been a socioanalytic consultant to organisations, predominantly in the mental health sector. He is a clinical member of the Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists and has served as a past President of the Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists of Western Australia, as well as a director of its training program.
Dr. Shafer was an executive member of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia. He is a founding member and former president of Group Relations Australia. He has directed or consulted on psychoanalytically informed group relations experiential conferences in Australia, the UK, India, China, Israel, Poland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Notably, he was the associate director of the 2019 “Leicester Conference” of the Tavistock Institute, London and he has been appointed Honorary Consultant to Group Relations Taiwan.
Dr. Shafer has contributed extensively to conferences and publications in both psychoanalytic psychotherapy and socioanalysis. He has conducted seminars and workshops in the UK, New Zealand, Singapore, India, Taiwan, the USA, and throughout Australia. He has a passionate interest in applying psychoanalytic thinking to the consulting room and to the socio-political world.
Format
120 minute didactic teaching session with Question & Answer
Via Zoom (No recordings are permitted to preserve confidentiality).
Fee
Standard - SGD$76.30 ; Students - SGD$32.70 (All paid fees are incl. 9% GST and non-refundable).
You will receive an invoice and unique Zoom invite once we receive payment confirmation.
If you are joining us from overseas, kindly get in touch with us at enquiries@thepsychpractice.com so we can organise payment with you.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, social workers, psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, clinical trainees, and students.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
27 MaRCH 2025, THURSDAY (5.30pm - 7.30pm SGT)
An evening with Dr Marc Joffe, Clinical Psychologist & Psychodynamic Therapist
Healing the wounds within: A Psychodynamic approach to treating complex-PTSD through Attachment Theory
Synopsis
This online workshop explores the treatment of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) through the integrative lens of psychodynamic therapy and attachment theory. Grounded in the understanding that early attachment ruptures often lay the foundation for chronic relational and emotional challenges, the workshop delves into how developmental trauma impacts an individual’s capacity for emotional regulation, self-concept, and relationships.
The seminar will focus on working with chronic C-PTSD from a psychodynamic perspective and the core themes will include, but won’t be limited to the following:
the duration of the treatment protocol
the patient’s experience of the treatment
understanding the CCPTSD patient’s ‘frustrating’ communications
broadband narrow countertransference phenomena in this population
useful example interpretations
coping with so-called patient resistance
helpful elements in treatment
Psychotherapist Bio
Currently, a Clinical Psychologist with more than 30 years of experience in independent private practice in West Perth.
Previously, Dr. Marc Joffe has consequential experience in the teaching, training and clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists. Over time, he has held roles in both the public and private sectors; has done considerable consultant work in the industry; and has worked at a number of universities, primarily executing clinical training and teaching functions. He was a visiting supervisor at Perth Children's Hospital Eating Disorders Unit, CAMHS.
Format
120 minute didactic teaching session with Question & Answer
Via Zoom (No recordings are permitted to preserve confidentiality).
Fee
Standard - SGD$76.30 ; Students - SGD$32.70 (All paid fees are incl. 9% GST and non-refundable).
You will receive an invoice and unique Zoom invite once we receive payment confirmation.
If you are joining us from overseas, kindly get in touch with us at enquiries@thepsychpractice.com so we can organise payment with you.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, social workers, psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, clinical trainees, and students.