BCYP Presents - Adolescence: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach

The Brent Centre for Young People's Adolescence: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach seminar series will explore a wide range of topics in adolescent psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Throughout the series, our expert presenters, each with specialised knowledge in adolescent therapeutic work, will deliver insightful seminars on key issues and approaches for effectively supporting young people in therapeutic settings.

We have a great discount for students and trainees. We want this seminar to be accessible and inclusive, so please reach out if the price point is unaffordable for you.

All seminars will be recorded and sent to ticket holders the following Monday to accommodate different schedules and time zones.

Saturday 18 January 2025
Nina Wessels (Consultant Psychoanalyst and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist)
The nature of impasse between latency and adolescence

Saturday 15 February 2025
Jana Duchonova (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, BCYP)
Therapeutic work in schools: applying a psychoanalytic frame

Saturday 15 March 2025
Don Campbell (Distinguished Fellow, Training Analyst, Child and Adolescent Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society)
From violence to its depiction: working with a violent male adolescent

Saturday 26 April 2025
Peter Wilson (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist)
Why can’t an adolescent be more like an adult? The relationship between an adolescent and an adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist

Saturday 17 May 2025
Carlos Vasquez (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist)
Adolescent Exploratory Therapy as a way of engaging young people that reject help: when adolescents are made to come to psychotherapy

Saturday 7 June 2025
Rita Conneely (Adolescent Interpersonal Psychotherapist, BCYP)
Providing the therapeutic support for adolescents in untraditional settings

Saturday 19 July 2025
Catalina Bronstein (Fellow, Training Analyst, Child and Adolescent Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society)
I am worried I am doomed: on dreams and the fear of death in adolescence

Saturday 20 September 2025
Rachel Acheson (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist)
Sex, sexuality and the body in online work with adolescent boys

Saturday 18 October 2025
Joelle Alfille-Cook (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, BCYP)
Working with parents of adolescents

Saturday 15 November 2025
Sara Flanders (Fellow, Training Analyst, Child and Adolescent Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society)
What’s so traumatic about adolescence?

Building on our successful 2024 seminars, this year's series aims to share our organisation's unqiue knowledge and experiences relating to adolescence with psychoanalytic and psychotherapy professionals. These seminars will provide a space for discussion and reflection on some of the challanges and complexities relating to the profession.

Organised and chaired by Dr Gil Son I, BCYP Psychoanalyst and Clinical Researcher, Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

“I just want to say thank you. The difficult and exhausting therapy case discussed, sometimes without a glimmer of hope, turned into significant behavioural change. It’s very helpful and supportive to know that colleagues abroad are also working with complex cases.” - 2024 BCYP Seminar Series Attendee

About the Brent Centre

Founded in 1967, by Psychoanalysts Moses (Moe) Laufer, Egle Laufer, Mervin Glasser, Myer Wohl and Psychiatrist Maurice Friedman, the Brent Centre for Young People is one of the UK’s first mental health services specifically for young people aged 11-24, reaching those who may otherwise not receive help.

Over the past 50 years, the Brent Centre for Young People has developed unique talking therapies, most notably Adolescent Exploratory Therapy (AET), a form of psychodynamic talking therapy that recognises the unique developmental phase of adolescence and the psychological challenges associated with this stage in a young person’s life. Additionally, the Brent Centre has developed specialised Group Therapy for Young Offenders, and Sport & Thought, which uses football as a setting for group talking therapy. The Centre also delivers widely-used therapies such as psychotherapy and family therapy.

We provide a vital space for young people to reflect on and explore their worries in a safe environment. The Centre works with young people struggling with suicidality, depression, anxiety, self-harm, and other mental health challenges.

As the primary adolescent psychotherapy service in North London, the Centre has enhanced the accessibility of mental health services to young people. Led by some of the sector’s leading clinicians, we reach young people through eight schools, the Youth Offending Service (YOS), in-house at our sites in the London boroughs of Brent and Westminster, and other projects.

Each year, the Brent Centre for Young People reaches over 800 young people through a diverse range of mental health services and projects. By offering support to young people, we empower them to overcome barriers and challenges, enabling them to live enriching and rewarding lives, as all young people deserve.

The Brent Centre is a charity, and we appreciate any additional fundraising support you can offer: https://www.brentcentre.org.uk/donate/donate-online