Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Violent Couples: Understanding and Working with Domestic Violence

Couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist and the Programme Head of the Postgraduate Diploma in Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy at TCCR, where she also teaches and supervises. Before training at TCCR, she was a senior lecturer in sociology, and researched and published in domestic violence, women, and mental health. Her co-authored publications include: “Domestic violence and child contact”, In: A Mullender and R. Morley (Eds.), Children Living with Domestic Violence; “Child contact and domestic violence”, In: The Magistrate; and For the Sake of the Children—The Law, Domestic Violence and Child Contact in England, published by Women's Studies International Forum. For several years, she was on the management committee of a Women's Aid refuge, and now has a specific interest in understanding the dynamics of and thinking about how to work with couples in violent relationships.

Couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Head of Clinical Services at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships with particular responsibility for intake and allocation. He is also employed as a consultant family psychotherapist in the NHS working for a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Barnet. Damian is an associate with Pink Therapy Services where he delivers post graduate training in relationship therapy with gender and sexual diversities. He is in private practice as a supervisor and psychotherapist working with couples. He has a particular interest in working with couples where there is violence and abuse, and his doctorate in systemic psychotherapy was relating to understanding the meaning of violence and abuse in the couple relationships of gay men.