Events

Open Days

Clinical Doctorate in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy

Friday 13th November 2026 at 5pm

Venue: Online

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Friday 18th December 2026 at 1.30pm - 5.30pmIn Person

Venue: In Person at BTPP, 322 Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham, B9 4AA

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Friday Open Lectures

A Qualifying Paper "The Lonely Corner of the Triangle: An adolescent girl’s journey towards separateness."

Speaker: Leah Greatholder (Formerly Wilson)

Date: Friday 2nd October 2026

Time: 1.30pm - 3.30pm

Format: Online

Cost: £40

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Leah Greatholder is a newly qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, having completed her clinical training placement with the CAMHS Outpatients Team at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. She is looking forward to starting her next role as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist within Cannock CAMHS.

Leah feels she got so much from her time training with BTPP, both personally and clinically, and feels very honoured to have the opportunity to present her qualifying paper.

The Lonely Corner of the Triangle: An adolescent girl’s journey towards separateness

“My paper follows the story of an adolescent girl with a diagnosis of anorexia, who struggled with low mood, suicidal thoughts and barely a sense of identity. It follows her journey through three years of psychotherapy, exploring the gradual and often painful process of developing a sense of self and moving towards separateness.

Alongside this, I reflect on my own journey through the clinical training, how I used supervision, and the significance of parent work alongside the therapy. It is an honest and vulnerable account of the cracks, bumps and uncertainties along the way, as well as the moments of hope and change. I hope it will be both heart-wrenching and heart-warming.”

SATURDAY LECTURES

Speaker: Maxine Dennis

Date: Saturday 10th October 2026

Time: 10am - 1pm

Format: In Person at BTPP, 322 Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham, B9 4AA

Cost: £40

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Maxine Dennis is a Psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and consultant clinical psychologist , who works with individuals, groups and organisations. One of the original founding members of 10 Windsor walk ( which provides psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and training in south London) and a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. A speaker, lecturer for various psychology, counselling , psychotherapy organisations in the UK and abroad. A training analyst for child psychotherapy and various adult psychotherapy trainings. Her clinical practice is in South London. She has Directed and staffed on numerous group relations conference .

More 2026-27 lectures coming soon …

Workshops are open to professionals working with children and adolescents and others interested in working in a psychodynamic way but places must be booked in advance.

Venue: Birmingham Trust for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Studio 322, Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham B9 4AA

Tel: 0121 7530413     
Email: info@btpp.co.uk      Website: www.btpp.space

ALL THE SPEAKERS ARE EXPERIENCED CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPISTS, ADULT PSYCHOTHERAPISTS OR PSYCHOANALYSTS WORKING IN THE NHS AND IN PRIVATE PRACTICE. 

Previous lectures:

• “Psychoanalytic Understanding of Emotionally Unregulated Personality Disorder: Countertransference as a Guide, not a Problem”: Speaker: Marcus Evans: Date: Friday 23rd January 2026

• " Thinking about Birth and Trauma in a CAMHS Under Fives Clinic": Speaker: Worcestershire Under Fives Team: Date: Friday 19th December 2025

• Live Clinical Supervision : Speaker: Robert Caper : Date: Saturday 6th Decmeber 2025

• “Psychoanalysis, Eros and Clinical Practice”: Speaker: Maxine Dennis : Date: Saturday 11th October 2025

• “May these Memories Break your Falll”: Speaker: Megan Bennett: date Friday 19th September 2025

• “Working with Two Siblings in Local Authority Care” : Speakers: Lorraine Mattocks & Jemima Phorson : Date: Friday 18th July 2025 - in memory of Simi Colford.

• “Approaching Death and Dying” : Speaker: Elisabeth Dennis : Date: Saturday 14th June 2025

• A Qualifying Paper: “Come in - Keep Out” : Speakers: Heather Stewart and Natasha Stubbs : Date: Friday 11th April 2025

• “The dreamer is the thinker: discussion of a dream sequence presented by Donald Meltzer” : Speaker: Meg Harris Williams : Date: Saturday 5th April 2025

• “Making a Space for Meaning: psychotherapeutic work with autistic children and young people”: Speaker: Matthew Jenkins: Date: Friday 20th December 2024

• Live Clinical Supervision : Speaker: Robert Caper : Date: Saturday 7th Decmeber 2024

• The ‘transferential leap’- Weaving the work of Louise Bourgeois and infamous Anansi stories Maxine Dennis (psychoanalyst) describes clinical material illustrating the complex interplay between intergenerational trauma and racialisation: Speaker: Maxine Dennis : Date: Saturday 12th October 2024

• “Race in the Clinical Encounter: Listening to the Nuances”: Speaker: Narendra Keval : Date: Friday 15th November 2024

•  “Ali`s wonderland and what she found there: A journey of piecing the unintegrated experience to help the thinking girl build a proper foundation.” : Speaker: Katrina Brailsford : Date: Friday 20th September 2024