Key Perspectives for Psychotherapy
Three linked clinical CPD series with Dr Elvin Aydin Keles
A programme for qualified therapists and advanced trainees interested in thinking more deeply about development, therapeutic relationship, complexity and change.
Drawing across object relations, Transactional Analysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, Mentalization-Based Treatment and contemporary thinking about personality functioning.
Series One begins January 2027 · Online · Open to all modalities
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Led by Dr Elvin Aydin Keles, PhD, TSTA-P
Series One January - March 2027 online
Series Two April - June 2027 online
Series Three September - November 2027 online
When understanding isn't quite enough
There are clients we understand well on paper, yet the therapy continues to return to the same place.
Sometimes the difficulty isn't a lack of technique. It may lie in how the client's experience has become organised, what is happening within the therapeutic relationship, or what is being evoked in us as therapists.
Key Perspectives brings together a number of clinical traditions to explore these moments from different angles.
Across three linked series, Elvin draws on object relations, Transactional Analysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, Mentalization-Based Treatment and contemporary thinking about personality functioning.
The purpose isn't to replace the modality you already work within, but to broaden the perspectives available to you when the work becomes more complex.
The programme: three linked series
Key Perspectives can be taken as a complete programme or as three individual series.
Each series includes three monthly workshops and can be booked with or without an accompanying reflective practice group.
Series 1
How We Become
Who We Are
January – March 2027
How the self develops through relationship, and how those early experiences emerge within therapeutic work.
Workshops
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The relational self
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Transferential phenomena
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The therapeutic relationship as instrument
Series One Details
Series 2
Making Sense of What’s Happening
April – June 2027
Looking beyond the presenting difficulty to think about how experience is organised, what happens when the therapeutic relationship ruptures, and why old adaptations can persist.
Workshops
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Relational assessment and formulation
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Rupture, repair and therapeutic failure
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Patterns that outlive their purpose
Series Two Details
Series 3
When Therapy Gets Stuck
September to November 2027
Working with complexity and impasse, including what happens when client and therapist both come under relational and emotional pressure
Workshops
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Therapeutic impasse
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Mentalizing under pressure
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Integration and the efficient therapist
Series Three Details
How Each Series Works
Each series consists of three live, two-hour online workshops. Sessions combine theory, clinical application and space for reflection, and recordings are available afterwards.
You can book the teaching series on its own or add the accompanying reflective practice group.
The reflective groups meet between workshops and provide a confidential space to bring clinical material, questions and responses to the month's ideas. Groups remain consistent across each three-month series and are not recorded.
Teaching per series: 6 CPD hours
Teaching and Reflective Practice Group: 10.5 CPD hours
A live two-hour online workshop introduces the month’s ideas, bringing together theory, clinical application and experiential reflection.
Learn
Take it into practice
Between sessions, you have time to notice what the ideas illuminate in your own clinical work.
Reflect
If you choose the series with reflective practice, you’ll return two weeks later to a smaller group with Elvin to discuss clinical questions, case material and what you are noticing in practice.
With different ways to join - you can choose the option that works for you
Series workshops
Three linked two-hour workshops.
Three live online teaching sessions
Recordings of each teaching session
6 hours of verifiable CPD
Suggested reading and supporting material
£160 per series
Series + Reflective Practice Group
Three teaching workshops plus three reflective practice group sessions
Alongside the teaching, you have a confidential space to bring clinical questions and explore how the month’s ideas are showing up in your own work.
Everything in the teaching series
Three reflective practice sessions
Continuity with the same group across the series
£300 per series
Interested in one particular topic? Individual workshops can also be booked for £60.
Meet Dr Elvin Aydin Keles
Relational psychotherapist · supervisor
· educator · researcher
Elvin Aydin Keles, PhD, LPC, LMHC, NCC, TSTA-P is a relational psychotherapist, supervisor, educator and researcher with over twenty years of clinical experience across Turkey, the UK, Canada and the US.
She holds an MA and a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Essex, postgraduate training in Transactional Analysis from the Metanoia Institute London, and a MEd in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Houston-Victoria. She is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA-P) and a certified Mentalization-Based Treatment practitioner, trained at the Anna Freud Centre.
Elvin has extensive high-acuity clinical experience in specialist personality disorder settings, and is the author of two books on psychotherapy: “Gönlüm Dilime Dargın” (“My Heart is Cross with my Tongue”, 2021) and “Terapistin İkilemi” (“The Therapist's Dilemma”, 2024).
Who it's for
Key Perspectives is intended for qualified therapists and advanced trainees from any therapeutic modality.
It may be particularly relevant to practitioners interested in complex or stuck therapeutic work; relational and transferential processes; formulation beyond presenting symptoms; personality functioning; and the relationship between different therapeutic traditions.
No previous training in Transactional Analysis, Mentalization-Based Treatment or the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders is required.
Booking
Each series can be booked as teaching only or with the accompanying reflective practice group. Individual workshops can also be booked separately.
Workshop Series
Workshop Series and Reflective Practice Group
Series One
£160
£300
Series Two
£160
£300
Series Three
£160
£300
Full Programme
£460
£850
Individual workshops: £60 per workshop
Dates
Module Workshop Dates Reflective Practice Group
1 7 January 2027 5 - 7pm 21 January 2027 5pm start
2 11 February 2027 5 - 7pm 25 February 2027 5pm start
3 11 March 2027 5 - 7pm 25 March 2027 5pm start
4 8 April 2027 5 - 7pm 22 April 2027 5pm start
5 6 May 2027 5 - 7pm 27 May 2027 5pm start
6 10 June 2027 5 - 7pm 24 June 2027 5pm start
7 9 September 2027 5 - 7pm 23 September 2027 5pm start 8 7 October 2027 5 - 7pm 21 October 2027 5pm start
9 11 November 2027 5 - 7pm 18 November 2027 5pm start (3rd Thurs )
Practical Information
Format
Dates
Workshop times
Delivery
Recordings
CPD
Audience
Previous knowledge
Three series of 3 workshops
Series 1: Jan - Mar 2027, Series 2: Apr - Jun 2027, Series 3: Sept - Nov 2027
5 - 7pm UK time
Live online via Zoom
All live workshops are recorded. Reflective Practice Group sessions are not recorded.
6 hours learning per workshop series - 18 hrs CPD across all 3 series
Qualified therapists and advanced students
No previous TA, MBT or AMPD knowledge required.
The downloadable programme guide contains:
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Full descriptions of all nine workshops
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Theoretical frameworks
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Learning outcomes
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Dates and timings
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Information about reflective practice
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Booking options
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FAQs
Can I take one series without taking the others?
Yes. Each series is designed to stand on its own. You can book one, two or all three.
Can I attend an individual workshop?
Yes. Individual workshops can be booked separately at £60 per session. Reflective practice groups are only available with a complete three-workshop series.
Do I need previous experience of TA or MBT?
No. Your existing clinical training is the starting point; no previous TA, MBT or AMPD training is required.
Are sessions recorded?
Teaching workshops are recorded and made available afterwards. Reflective practice groups are not recorded because of their confidential nature.
Can I join a reflective practice group later?
No. Each group works with the same participants throughout the three-month series, so a place needs to be booked from the beginning.