About this course

This one-day training aims to enhance clinical arts psychotherapy skills in formulation and develop understanding of the competencies required to deliver effective brief psychodynamic interventions. The course will introduce the Interpersonal Affective Focus (IPAF) from Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy as a framework to support clinical focus in brief arts psychotherapies work with complex depression.

 

Skills You will Learn

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the structure of a brief dynamic approach, including phases of treatment, formulation, and its limitations.
  • Develop a working knowledge of the Interpersonal Affective Focus (IPAF), its role in relational patterns, and its relevance to complex depression.
  • Identify key components of dynamic formulation and use art-making to explore unconscious relational dynamics and emotional defences.
  • Apply dynamic and IPAF-informed formulation to clinical work with complex depression through case material and experiential exercises.
  • Practice culturally responsive therapeutic engagement, incorporating cultural values and narratives while minimising bias and fostering collaboration.

 

Approach

The training will combine presentations, case vignettes, and experiential activities. Emphasis will be placed on reflective practice and discussion of clinical scenarios, supporting participants to develop confidence in understanding and applying IPAF in practice.

 

Target Audience

This training is suitable for arts psychotherapists working with mood disorders who wish to develop their skills in clinical formulation for brief, focused arts psychotherapies.

 

Outcomes 

Participants will leave with practical tools to integrate dynamic concepts into IPAF-focused practice, supporting relational and emotional work that is meaningful, collaborative, and responsive to clients’ needs.

 

Location

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL)
Trust Headquarters
The Nye Bevan Room, 1st Floor
350 Euston Road
Regent's Place
London NW1 3AX

Dates

4 June 2026

Time

10:00 am - 04:30 pm

ICAPT IPAF Training

£100.00


The trainer

Diane Eagles

 
 

Diane Eagles is an artist and Art Psychotherapist with 33 years experience. She has 
worked for Central North West London NHS Trust for most of this time, managing the Older Adult Arts Psychotherapies service as well as working in adult psychotherapy outpatients and male Psychiatric Intensive Care. She has contributed to the International Centre for Arts Psychotherapy Training, ICAPT, since its inception.

Diane has been a visiting lecturer and tutor for Roehampton University, The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, IATE and Brunel Art Psychotherapy training amongst others. She was co producer of the Adaptation of Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for Arts Psychotherapy, A-DIT, and has an interest in Environmental Art Psychotherapy (EAT) with a recently published paper on attentional focus in EAT.

 

Professor Dominik Havsteen-Franklin

Dominik is employed as a Consultant in Arts Psychotherapies for CNWL NHS Foundation Trust and as Professor of Practice in Arts Therapies at Brunel University London. He is the founder and Vice President for European Federation of Art Therapy. Dominik is an internationally established, British Art Therapist and Clinical Academic who investigates and develops innovative models of arts-based intervention in health care that use body movement, musicality and visual image making. He has an extensive portfolio of research collaborations including working with East London NHS Foundation Trust (London), University of Hertfordshire on the Horizons Project, Imperial College, Fred’s Company (London), Weill University (Qatar), Grenwich University (London), Sp(i)eel Arts Collective (South Africa). 

Dominik's research has focused primarily on intervention development to impact on health conditions such as art therapy for complex depression, mentalization based art psychotherapy for emotionally unstable personality disorder and developing psychosocial practice in South Africa. Research in progress includes using art therapy in museums in Qatar, Arts Therapies for heterogenous groups in mental health, and neuro studies of change process in arts therapies. His major project at present is focusing on healthcare worker team development.