Intercultural Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Intercultural Psychodynamic Counselling). University of East London

This programme provides professional training in Intercultural Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, with a flexible specialism in working with refugees and asylum seekers.

Intercultural Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy places the relationship between client and therapist at the centre of the intervention, with a focus on the deficits resulting from the individual's early development, external trauma and/ or culture-bound symptoms that may be presented within the therapeutic context. The intercultural approach uses the psychoanalytic clinical structure allowing space for some flexibility, so that consideration may be given to issues of race, culture and genuine concerns of the client that may otherwise fall outside the experience of professionals trained and working only within the western framework. The focus of this programme is on building intercultural competencies in both theoretical and clinical arenas, with a specific focus on refugees.