Prof Melanie Turner

Wednesday, 23rd July, 25

6.30 p.m to 8.30 p.m (AEST)

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Dr Kris Rao

Thursday, 24th July, 25

6.30 p.m  to 8.30 p.m (AEST)

Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) remains one of the most misunderstood and underreported forms of abuse. This webinar provides a research-informed overview of the extent, nature, and psychological dynamics of CSA, highlighting the unique challenges in measuring its prevalence and addressing its impact. Participants will explore why global statistics are difficult to gather and how cultural and systemic denial, minimization, and stereotyping contribute to ongoing misconceptions.

Drawing on recent studies, the session examines key concepts such as the Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS), which explains how children respond to abuse through patterns of helplessness, entrapment, and accommodation. We will also explore the complex processes of disclosure, recantation, and the child’s coping strategies, as well as the profound psychological and medical consequences that can follow. This webinar is essential for professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of CSA through the lens of current research and clinical insights.

Prof Andrew Moskowitz

The American psychologist Philip Bromberg, more than any other contemporary thinker and clinician, built a bridge between dissociation and contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and theory. Through his writings and teachings, Bromberg emphasized the core relevance of dissociation to the interpersonal psychology of Harry Stack Sullivan and relational psychoanalysis. He quipped that Janet’s ghost had come home to haunt Freud – who had famously eschewed dissociation for repression. Bromberg argued forcefully for a central role for trauma and dissociation in normal personality, and for pre-emptive dissociation in personality disorders – which maintained interpersonal distance in order to prevent psychological pain. He also believed that effective therapy required the activation of parts of the therapist’s self that could engage with the client’s parts (essential for the enactments he viewed as necessary for therapeutic progress) all the while respecting the other (normal) dissociative parts that were in the background; in addition, Bromberg insisted on – in striking contrast to classical psychoanalysis – the necessity of periodic therapist disclosures in order for therapy to be effective. And in his use of dreams in therapy, as in many of his teachings, he echoed – without apparently realizing it – the writings of another major historical figure who locked horns with Freud – Carl Jung.

Dr Nick Bendit

Despite the fact that we know psychotherapy is effective across a wide range of mental health disorders, the mechanism of change is unknown. Each model of psychotherapy has a different theory about how change occurs, yet these theories do not explain why different therapies usually end up with similar outcomes. In this webinar, Dr Nick Bendit will outline a hypothesis that is central to all models, whether they recognise it or not, as a mechanism of change, mediated through the therapeutic relationship, which helps the client to experience emotions and thoughts that were unmanageable previously, and therefore avoided in a wide variety of ways. Different models address this with different techniques, implicit and explicit, but at the core is the safety and human contact of the therapeutic relationship. This, combined with the therapist modelling that emotions are important, tolerable and make sense, allows the client to explore their internal emotional world in a new way. A new relationship to their internal emotional and cognitive world is gradually built, allowing the client to live their life with more control, freedom and comfort.

Dr Nick Bendit

Dissociation is an area of mental health that few practitioners know much about. It is shrouded in mystery and controversy, but in the last 10 years there is an increasing literature of the science and clinical practice of dissociation. In particular, complex dissociation appears in clients with severe borderline personality disorder and clients with dissociative identity disorder. This Online Course will introduce you to dissociation, discuss cognitive neuroscience of dissociation, clinical syndromes in dissociation with both PTSD and BPD subtype, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).

Dr Paul Martin

This online course explores the dynamics of separation, grief, and mourning as integral aspects of normal development, focusing on their role in shaping an individual’s experience of loss. It provides a comprehensive understanding of various types of loss, the factors that amplify or alleviate the pain of grief, and the adjustments individuals must make in response. The course also examines how to assess potential pathological responses to loss and mourning, along with psychological treatments for both normal grief and complicated bereavement. Key topics include assessing grief, death and mortality across the lifespan, the connection between attachment theory and mourning, stage theories of grief, the psychodynamic perspective on loss, the neurobiology of the grieving brain, psychotherapy and treatment options, and an anthropological view of loss, grief, and mourning.

Dr Lynne Jacobs

Join renowned Gestalt therapist Dr Lynne Jacobs for a rich and thought-provoking 5-part webinar series that delves into core themes of contemporary relational Gestalt therapy. The series includes in-depth presentations on Dialogue and Double Consciousness, the Paradoxical Theory of Change, Enduring Relational Themes, Intersubjectivity and Gestalt Theory, and I–Thou Relationships. Each webinar offers a unique opportunity to explore key theoretical insights and their clinical applications, guided by one of the most respected voices in the field. Available as a bundle, the series offers outstanding value for clinicians, students, and anyone looking to deepen their understanding of relational Gestalt work.

Daniel Shaw

This powerful three-part webinar bundle features renowned psychoanalyst and author Daniel Shaw, offering a comprehensive exploration of traumatic narcissism, relational subjugation, and cult-related trauma. Drawing on his influential theory of the “traumatizing narcissist,” Shaw provides in-depth clinical insights and practical strategies for working with clients who have endured controlling, shame-inducing, and emotionally abusive relationships—whether in families, intimate partnerships, or cult-like systems.