NORTHSIDE
TRAINING
Interpersonal, Intrapsychic, or both?
Linking interpersonal and intrapsychic theories together
In this workshop, we’ll use ideas from multiplicity and ITAP to explore how these theories can be understood as both intrapsychic and interpersonal — helping us work more fluidly across the inner and relational dimensions of our clients’ experience.
Thurs 11 December 2025, Online
Course Information
Content
In Transactional Analysis, some theories focus mainly on what happens between people (interpersonal), while others focus on what happens inside one person’s psyche (intrapsychic).
For example:
-
Relational needs theory is about what we need from others in relationships — an interpersonal concept.
-
Self-reparenting is about how we nurture or care for ourselves internally — an intrapsychic concept.
The workshop will explore how ideas like multiplicity (the notion that the self is made up of multiple parts, voices, or subpersonalities) or ITAP (the Integrative Transactional Analysis perspective, which bridges different models) can help us think about these theories as both interpersonal and intrapsychic at the same time.
In other words, instead of seeing relational needs only as something between two people, or self-reparenting only as something inside one person, attendees will be invited to think about how both inner and outer relationships are always at play.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, participants will feel more confident recognising how interpersonal and intrapsychic dynamics intertwine — and will have practical ways to apply this integrated understanding in their client work.
Details
The workshop takes place online via Zoom on Thursday 11 December 2025 6 - 8pm UK time.
Tickets cost £12 and attendees will receive a CPD certificate following the event. Click on the button below to reserve your place.
About the trainer
Ben Groves – PTSTA(P), CTA(P), MSW, UKATAdip, CTF, PEP2, BA(hons). UKCP and SWE registered.
Ben is a psychotherapist based in York, previously a social worker for over 10 years, He has a private practice and also offers supervision, training and consultancy. Ben has a deep passion for working with and helping people in the most effective ways he can.
_edited.jpg)
