Many children and young adults who experience gender dysphoria pose considerable challenges to psychodynamic counsellors and psychotherapists. This course (Part 2) is suitable for mental health professionals, psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors and psychiatrists, which will focus on some of the technical.

This is the second course in a series and will cover therapeutic relationships, issues in the transference countertransference, concrete thinking and symbolic functioning, acting out, the therapist's neutrality, psychic retreat from adult sexuality, and grievances towards parents.

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Susan Evans is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She worked for 40 years in mental health services in the NHS, including the national gender identity service for children. Susan was also a Senior Fellow at UEL and ran several training courses at the Tavistock Clinic. She now has a private practice in southeast London.

She is a member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation and is registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council. Susan and Marcus published their book Gender Dysphoria: A therapeutic model for working with children, adolescents and young adults in 2021.

Marcus Evans is a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. He worked in mental health services and as first a psychiatric nurse then an adult psychotherapist in the NHS for over 40 years and has a particular interest in psychoanalytic thinking in mental health settings. He was head of the nursing discipline for 20 years and Clinical Lead of the Adult and Adolescent Departments at the Tavistock & Portman Trust.

He is the author of two books applying psychoanalytic thinking in mental health settings Making Room for Madness in Mental Health and Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings.