Weekend Conference April 25-27, 2025, will be offered as a hybrid conference with both online and onsite options. Open to any mental health professional or mental health professional-in-training
Navigating the Rapids: Contemporary Couples and the Journey of Parenthood
Program Date(s):
April 25, 2025 - April 27, 2025Overview
The course will use lecture, large group discussion, small group/GAM group discussion, case presentation and discussion and informal discussion to achieve the course objectives.
General weekend schedule
Start and end times are approximate for your personal planning purposes. Detailed times, reading lists, and educational objectives will be provided to registered participants.
Friday 9:30am – 6:30 pm US ET
Saturday 9:30am – 6:30pm US ET
Sunday 10:00am – 2:00pm US ET
Damian McCann, D.Sys.Psych and Kate Thompson
Damian McCann, D.Sys.Psych is a psychoanalytic couple psychotherapist working as a visiting clinician at Tavistock Relationships, London; adjunct faculty member of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) Washington, DC; an associate of Queen Anne Street Practice, London; and an editorial board member of Couple & Family Psychoanalysis. He is also a consultant systemic psychotherapist with many years of experience working with children, adolescents, and their families. He has a particular interest in working with gender and sexual diversity in psychoanalytic practice and has published and taught widely on this topic. His doctoral research was concerned with understanding the meaning and impact of violence in the couple relationships of gay men and he is involved in developing approaches to working with couples more generally in which there is violence and abuse. He is the editor of ‘Same-Sex Couples and Other Identities: Psychoanalytic Perspectives’ published by Routledge in 2021 and co-editor of “Couples as Parents: Explorations in Couple Psychotherapy’ also published by Routledge in 2024.
Kate Thompson is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist with over 25 years of experience working with couples and individuals. She adapted the Couple Therapy for Depression model to work with perinatal services and for couples where there is substance misuse. Having led the Couple Therapy for Depression training project within the NHS for over 10 years, she now supervises for TR within the team.
Alongside running TR’s parenting workshop for over 10 years, 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. This interest grew through her funded work in projects focusing on parents caught in conflictual separation.
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 a special edition of the Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis on Divorce and Separation, (Phoenix, 2021). Kate writes for a variety of publications, lectures in the UK and abroad, is registered with BPC and BACP, and has a private practice in South West London.
IPI Faculty Weekend Co-Chairs
Colleen Sandor, PhD
Tuition and Fees
Registration options:
- Full Conference
- $475 up to 21 days in advance; $525 thereafter
- *Full members: $359
- *Associate members: $410
- Full time students: $175
- Saturday All Day (morning and afternoon): $175
- Saturday Morning only: $100
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Continuing Education Credit Hours
Full Weekend Conference:
- 14.5 CE credits
Saturday All Day:
- 6 CE credits
Saturday Morning only:
- 2.5 CE credits
Weekend Conference Attendance Policy
Participants can only earn CE credits for each session they attend in its entirety. No partial credit can be given.
Membership Benefits
Become a member of IPI at any level and you will have the option of adding on a Zoom Pro account as one of your member benefits. Associate and Full Members also receive discounted registration fees for most of IPI’s events, a subscription to PEP Web, the online psychoanalytic library, and other benefits depending on membership level.
HIPAA compliant Zoom video accounts are an optional add on for all IPI memberships. IPI has a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement with Zoom, which provides a HIPAA compliant platform for our accounts. HIPPA compliance is strongly recommended for all internet-mediated clinical work and clinical teaching. The “+ Zoom Pro” add-on to the IPI membership gives the user the ability to host online meetings with multiple people at the same time. [Current members can upgrade to the “+ Zoom Pro” account and only pay the difference in price from your current membership level.]
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Continuing Education Information
The International Psychotherapy Institute, IPI, is approved by The American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IPI maintains responsibility for the program and its content. The International Psychotherapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6017. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The International Psychotherapy Institute is responsible for all aspects of the programs. The International Psychotherapy Institute is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education learning activities and maintains full responsibility for this program. This training qualifies for Category I continuing education units. The International Psychotherapy Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0299.
Participants are responsible for verifying that IPI CE credit is accepted by the licensing boards in their own states.
Should you have any questions about the program or the application process, please feel free to contact:
IPI Administrative Team - contactus@theipi.org
