Supervision - (practice currently closed to new supervisees)
I am endorsed by the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA) as a provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (PTSTA) and I offer both individual and group supervision to counsellors and psychotherapists from my practice in Edinburgh and East Lothian. I currently run a monthly supervision group in Edinburgh. If you are interested in the possibility of joining a group or would like individual supervision please get in touch.
I take an integrative approach to supervision combining my Transactional Analysis training with a relational approach. I am interested in the unconscious motifs within supervision and group dynamics and in the last couple of years have undertaken regular supervision workshops with Robin Shohet.
Academic Student Support
During the period 2013-2015 I was employed as Academic Student Support Advisor on the Queen Margaret University Masters programme delivered by Physis Training, Edinburgh. I am interested in supporting supervisees in all written aspects of their training at whatever level that might be.
Presentations at Conferences
November 2013 "The Vital Spark - Relational Dialogues" STAA Conference, Edinburgh
March 2014 "The Vital Spark - Revisited" TA Cumbrian Conference, Penrith
February 2015 "Elements of Being and Aspects of Self - to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man" TA Cumbrian Conference, Penrith and again at UKATA National Conference, Edinburgh, April 2015
March 2017 Boundaries and Belonging -"I'm in with the "in" crowd, I go where the "in" crowd go (after Bryan Ferry)- an Exploration of the Narcissistic necessity to belong and the impact of being excluded on our individual boundaries and identity" TA Cumbrian Conference, Penrith
July 2017 Boundaries and Belonging (as above) TA World Conference, Berlin
Professional Development Seminars
January 2016 "Working with Grief, Loss and Endings" Edinburgh
April 2016 "Understanding and Working with Erotic Transference and Desire in the Consulting room" Edinburgh
June 2017 "Working with Erotic Transference" seminar at 1 day CPD event for counsellors, University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness
Publications
Banks K., (2013) Skin as a container mediating primary self-other relationships: an exploration of the psychological function of skin disorders, Transactional Analysis Journal, 43, 164-173.
