A Clinical Writing Workshop for Psychotherapists

This half-day workshop is aimed at encouraging therapists to put pen to paper and overcome the obstacles that can get in the way of writing for publication. Clinical writing is an important way of processing and refining our thinking as therapists, of opening up our work for development and dialogue with peers, and of communicating the thinking that goes on inside the consulting room to the widest possible audience.

Join us for an immersive, practical workshop led by Kate Thompson and Lorna Robinson, editors-in-chief of the Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis. Kate and Lorna will address the challenges of psychoanalytic writing, from navigating patient confidentiality to choosing the right narrative voice and stance. Through analysis of classic and contemporary texts, film clips, and the option for the workshop leaders to review your own pre-submitted work, you will gain the tools to overcome anxiety and writer’s block, write clearly with your audience in mind, and structure your ideas and edit out unnecessary content.

The aim is for participants to leave the workshop with their creativity stimulated and the determination to make a start on either writing a paper for publication or shaping an ongoing piece of work. We hope that by encouraging participants to put pen to paper on the day, and by discussing writing challenges as well as previous successes in the group, you will feel enabled after the event to continue to develop your creative processes.

Kate Thompson is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist with 27 years of experience working with couples and individuals. She adapted the Couple Therapy for Depression model to work within perinatal services and for couples where there is substance misuse, having led the TR’s CTfD training within the NHS for over 10 years. Alongside running TR’s parenting workshop, Kate co-facilitated Parents as Partners groups for families with disabled children and is particularly interested in how the couple relationship intersects with the parenting one. Kate is co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, co-edited and co-authored ‘Couples as Parents’ (Routledge 2024); ‘Engaging Couples: New Directions in Therapeutic Work with Families’, (Routledge, 2018) and two special editions of the Journal on Divorce and Separation and Parenting (Phoenix, 2021/2026)

Lorna Robinson is a psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist and an individual psychodynamic psychotherapist trained at Tavistock Relationships, London. She was formerly a faculty member of Tavistock Relationships, where she now works as a supervisor and tutor. She maintains a private practice in London and online and is an associate of the Queen Anne Street Practice, London. She is one of the editors-in-chief of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, where she is also the book reviews editor.

Please register by 8 June 2026 to secure your place.

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