Master Classes in General and Initial Phase competences. These focused 2‑hour masterclass are designed for practitioners who already have foundational IPT knowledge, and want to strengthens their ability to work with clients at an advanced, nuanced level. 

🎓 Communication Analysis:
This focused 2‑hour masterclass offers an immersive exploration of Communication Analysis, one of the core clinical tools in Interpersonal Psychotherapy.

The aims of learning:
👉 Break down real interpersonal exchanges to identify patterns, emotional cues, and missed opportunities for connection  
👉 Guide clients to recognise their communication style, including tone, intention, and impact  
👉 Use targeted role play to rehearse alternative responses and build interpersonal effectiveness  
👉 Support clients in the Initial Phase to map problem areas and clarify interpersonal goals  
👉 Enhance therapeutic precision, ensuring your interventions are timely, attuned, and aligned with IPT’s evidence‑based framework 

Dates:
Wednesday 13th May 12-2pm
Thursday 24th Sept 12-2pm

🎓 The Therapeutic Relationship: 
This advanced masterclass explores the Therapeutic Relationship as the foundation of effective Interpersonal Psychotherapy. Through focused discussion, demonstration, and guided practice, participants will deepen their understanding of how relational attunement and emotional presence shape clinical outcomes. 

The aims of learning: 
👉 Refine your capacity for empathic connection, balancing warmth with professional boundaries  
👉 Identify and manage transference and countertransference within the IPT framework  
👉 Use relational ruptures and repairs as opportunities for growth and therapeutic insight  
👉 Strengthen alliance in the Initial Phase, fostering trust and collaboration from the outset  
👉 Integrate advanced interpersonal techniques to enhance client engagement and sustain therapeutic momentum 

Dates:
Monday 6th July 12-2pm
Tuesday 22nd Sept 12-2pm


🎓 Making Goal Setting & Decision Analysis Meaningful – Linked to the Focal Area:
This advanced masterclass focuses on Goal Setting and Decision Analysis as essential tools for deepening therapeutic focus and aligning interventions with the client’s identified Focal Area. Through guided discussion, demonstration, and experiential practice, participants will learn how to make these processes purposeful, collaborative, and clinically effective. 

The aims of learning:  
👉 Clarify and refine the Focal Area, ensuring goals are directly connected to the client’s interpersonal problem area  
👉 Use Decision Analysis to help clients explore options, consequences, and emotional motivations behind choices  
👉 Facilitate meaningful goal setting, balancing realism with therapeutic challenge  
👉 Integrate these techniques to strengthen client insight and agency in the Initial Phase  
👉 Enhance IPT precision, ensuring interventions remain focused, relational, and outcome‑oriented

Dates:
Thursday 4th June 12-2pm
Monday 5th Oct 12-2pm
 
🎓 Motivational Interviewing:
This advanced masterclass explores Motivational Interviewing (MI) as a complementary approach within Interpersonal Psychotherapy, enhancing engagement and readiness for change. Through demonstration, guided practice, and reflective discussion, participants will refine their ability to integrate MI principles into IPT’s relational framework. 

The aims of learning:  
👉 Apply core MI techniques — open questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries — to deepen client collaboration  
👉 Recognise and respond to ambivalence, supporting clients to explore conflicting motivations and values  
👉 Elicit and strengthen change talk, helping clients articulate goals aligned with their Focal Area  
👉 Integrate MI with IPT’s Initial Phase, fostering trust and commitment to therapeutic work  
👉 Enhance therapeutic momentum, ensuring interventions remain empathic, client‑centred, and goal‑directed 

Dates:
Thursday 18th June 12-2pm
Wednesday 16th September 12-2pm

🎓 Choosing the Focal Area – When it is not Obvious:
This advanced masterclass focuses on the clinical reasoning and interpersonal sensitivity required to identify and define the Focal Area when it is not immediately clear. Through guided discussion, demonstration, and experiential practice, participants will strengthen their ability to navigate complexity and uncertainty in the Initial Phase of IPT. 

The aims of Learning:  
👉 Recognise subtle interpersonal patterns that may indicate potential focal areas  
👉 Use collaborative dialogue and hypothesis testing to clarify the client’s central interpersonal problem  
👉 Apply structured decision‑making strategies to differentiate between overlapping or ambiguous problem areas  
👉 Maintain therapeutic alliance while exploring uncertainty and refining focus  
👉 Enhance IPT precision, ensuring the chosen focal area aligns with the client’s goals and supports meaningful change 

Dates:
Thursday 16th July 12-2pm
Thursday 15th October 12-2pm


🎓 Interpersonal Inventory – Mapping Relationships and Patterns linking to the Problem Area:
This advanced masterclass focuses on the Interpersonal Inventory, a cornerstone of the Initial Phase in Interpersonal Psychotherapy. Through guided discussion, demonstration, and experiential mapping, participants will refine their ability to use the inventory as a dynamic, relational tool for identifying patterns and linking them to the client’s focal problem area. 

The aims of learning:  
👉 Conduct a comprehensive interpersonal mapping, exploring key relationships and recurring interactional themes  
👉 Identify patterns of communication and emotional response that maintain distress or interpersonal difficulties  
👉 Link relational patterns to the focal problem area, ensuring therapeutic focus and coherence  
👉 Use collaborative exploration to help clients gain insight into their relational world and its impact on mood  
👉 Integrate findings into the Initial Phase formulation, strengthening precision and direction for ongoing IPT work 

Dates:
Monday 18th May 12-2pm
Thursday 8th October 12-2pm

🎓 IPT Endings – for the 12 Session Model:
This advanced masterclass explores the Ending Phase of Interpersonal Psychotherapy within the 12‑session model, focusing on how to conclude therapy with clarity, compassion, and clinical precision. Participants will deepen their understanding of how to consolidate gains, manage separation themes, and support clients in sustaining progress beyond therapy. 

The aims of learning:  
👉 Navigate the emotional dynamics of endings, addressing loss, transition, and continuity  
👉 Facilitate reflective review, helping clients integrate insights and recognise interpersonal growth  
👉 Link progress to the Focal Area, reinforcing therapeutic learning and self‑efficacy  
👉 Manage attachment and separation, maintaining warmth while modelling healthy closure  
👉 Plan for maintenance and relapse prevention, ensuring clients leave therapy with confidence and direction 

Dates:
Monday 14th September 12-2pm
Thursday 5th November 12-2pm