Key Perspectives for Efficient Psychotherapy
A nine-month professional development series for qualified therapists
What makes therapy efficient isn't more technique - it's the quality of the therapist's attention. Across nine monthly sessions, Dr Elvin Aydin Keles brings together object relations, Transactional Analysis, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Mentalization-Based Treatment, and the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders into a single developmental year, building the kind of clinical presence that reaches the clients other approaches can't.
Led by Dr Elvin Aydin Keles, PhD, TSTA-P
September 2026 - May 2027 · Nine monthly sessions · Online
You know the client. They're engaged. Thoughtful. They show up, they reflect, they want to change. And yet, session after session, the work keeps arriving at the same place. Something decided long ago is still quietly running the show - for them, and sometimes, if you're honest, for you too.
This is the territory Key Perspectives for Efficient Psychotherapy was built for: not the clients who respond cleanly to a clear technique, but the ones who test every framework you've got. The moments when therapy stops moving. The relationships where your own patterns and theirs seem to activate together, and neither of you can quite think straight.
This programme doesn't offer another technique to add to the pile. It offers something slower and more durable: a developmental year spent building the quality of attention that makes those moments workable.
What this programme is
Key Perspectives for Efficient Psychotherapy is a nine-month professional development series for qualified therapists and advanced trainees of any modality. It meets once a month from September to May, each session running for two hours. No prior knowledge of any specific therapeutic framework is assumed beyond your own clinical training.
The series makes a single sustained argument: that the most efficient route to lasting therapeutic change - whether you have six sessions with a client or six years - is a clear understanding of how the self forms, how it organises itself around relational failure, and what the therapeutic relationship needs to provide to help that organisation become more flexible.
The frameworks drawn on across the year - object relations, several schools of Transactional Analysis, Mentalization-Based Treatment, and the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders - aren't presented as competing systems to choose between. They're complementary perspectives, each illuminating something the others can't see as clearly. The therapist who has genuinely inhabited all of them hasn't accumulated more techniques. They've developed a finer quality of attention - and it's that quality of attention, more than any single intervention, that makes therapy efficient.
This programme is open to all modalities. Whether you work psychodynamically, integratively, in TA, person-centred, CBT, or systemically, the year is built to deepen your clinical thinking - not to convert you to a new model.
Meet Dr Elvin Aydin Keles
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).
How the Programme Works
Nine months.
Nine Modules.
Workshops and Reflective Sessions
This programme is designed as a developmental learning experience, not a series of standalone workshops. Each module builds on the last, gradually developing your understanding of the relational self, transference, therapeutic process, personality functioning, mentalizing, and therapeutic change.
At the same time, every module is also designed to stand on its own. You're welcome to attend individual sessions that reflect your particular interests - but the greatest benefit comes from engaging with the programme as a whole. Taken together, the nine modules offer an integrated framework for understanding psychological development, therapeutic relationships, personality functioning, and clinical change - something genuinely difficult to build through isolated CPD days.
You're encouraged to complete the suggested readings before each module, and to bring your own clinical questions and reflections into the discussion groups. The aim across the year isn't simply to accumulate knowledge - it's to deepen your capacity for reflection, relational understanding, and clinical presence, so you can meet clients with more curiosity, depth, flexibility, and effectiveness.
Teaching sessions take place on the first Thursday of each month: a two-hour session (5 - 7pm UK time) focused on theory, clinical application, and experiential reflection. Every teaching session is recorded and made available to participants afterwards.
Reflective practice groups follow on the third Thursday of each month: a one-to-two-hour discussion (starting 5pm UK time), case consultation, and reflective practice space, designed to help you translate the month's theory into your own clinical work. Many of the concepts explored across the year - transference, enactment, personality functioning, mentalizing, the Therapist's Dilemma - only fully land through reflection on lived clinical experience and dialogue with colleagues, and that's what these sessions are for.
Reflective practice groups are reserved for participants booking the full nine-module programme. Because they depend on the continuity, trust, and shared language that build within a stable group over the year, they aren't available as a standalone booking or an add-on to individual modules. They also aren't recorded, to protect the confidentiality and openness of the space.
The Programme at a Glance
The nine modules are grouped into three arcs. Each arc builds on the last, and each module also stands alone - but the programme rewards those who attend the full year with a cumulative argument that none of the individual sessions can deliver alone.
Arc One: Foundations
Sept - Nov 2026
The relational self
Fransferential phenomena
The therapeutic relationship as instrument
Arc Two: Clinical Reading
Dec 2026 - Feb 2027
Relational diagnosis
Rupture and repair
Neurotic organisation
Arc Three: Depth Work
Mar - May 2027
Therapeutic impasse
Severe dysfunction
Integration
Who this series is for
This series is designed for qualified therapists and advanced trainees working in any modality - person-centred, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural, integrative, Transactional Analysis, systemic, and others.
It will be particularly valuable if you:
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Find that your current theoretical framework isn't sufficient for the most complex or stuck presentations you encounter
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Want a research-grounded and clinically rigorous account of why some clients are harder to reach than others
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Are drawn to the relational dimensions of your work but want more precise language for what's happening between you and your clients
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Have been practising for some years and want CPD that moves your practice forward, rather than reviewing what you already know
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Are curious about how different therapeutic traditions — psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive, systemic — are, in fact, addressing the same fundamental clinical questions
Programme Options
There are three ways to join the programme:
OPTION A £500 (Early bird offer £450)
Teaching Programme - Workshops for all 9 modules
All nine online teaching sessions across the year - includes recordings and Certificate in Key Perspectives in Efficient Psychotherapy
OPTION B £900 (Early bird offer £810)
Full Programme - Workshops plus Reflective Practice Groups
All nine teaching sessions plus all 9 reflective practice group sessions. Includes recordings and Certificate in Key Perspectives in Efficient Psychotherapy together with case application.
Payable in 2 instalments.
OPTION C £60 per workshop
Individual Workshops
Book single sessions as they interest you. Includes CPD Certificate.
Reflective practice groups are not included with this option.
Format
CPD Hours
Audience
Prerequisites
Delivery
Recording
Nine sessions of two hours each, monthly from September 2026 to May 2027
18 hours of verifiable CPD across the year
Qualified therapists and advanced trainees of any modality
Qualification or advanced training in any therapeutic modality. No prior knowledge of TA, MBT or the AMPD is assumed
Live and Online
Teaching sessions are recorded and made available to participants. Reflective practice groups are not recorded.
Programme Overview
A note on support during the programme
You're encouraged to remain in personal therapy, supervision, or a reflective practice process while undertaking this programme. Many of the concepts explored throughout the year invite reflection not only on your clients, but on your own relational patterns, assumptions, and ways of being in therapeutic relationships.
FAQs
Can I book individual modules ?
Yes - each module is designed to stand alone, and you're welcome to attend just the sessions most relevant to you. Please be aware that Reflective practice groups are not included with individual module bookings.
Where can I see the full module content breakdown?
Download the full programme brochure for a complete description of all nine modules, including learning outcomes.
What's the difference between Option A and Option B
Option A includes the nine teaching sessions only. Option B includes the teaching sessions plus the nine reflective practice groups, which give you a confidential space to bring your own casework and apply the month's learning.
What platform will sessions be hosted on?
The training and groups will both be delivered via Zoom.
If I book individual modules now, can I add the reflective practice groups later?
No - reflective practice groups depend on a stable, continuous cohort across the year, so they're only available to those who book the full programme (Option B) from the outset.
Do I need experience in TA, MBT, or psychodynamic theory to take part?
The programme assumes only your own clinical training - no prior knowledge of TA, MBT, or the AMPD is required.