Taster session: The Raw and Tender Edge of Confrontation: working with erotic countertransference

Ahead of the 2-day workshop being held in May at the Psychosynthesis Trust, Jeremy Kelsall hosts a free 2-hour taster session online on developing our awareness and understanding of the erotic countertransference, or attraction towards clients.

Workshop purpose

This ‘taster’ session will give you a clear idea of what to expect in the 2-day “The Raw and Tender Edge of Confrontation: working with erotic countertransference”.

At the two-day workshop we aim to develop our awareness and understanding of the experience of erotic countertransference, or attraction towards clients. This can be a powerful, intoxicating and unnerving experience when it appears. This workshop aims to help us move beyond the taboo that can often surround this area and that may lead us to suppress our feelings and thus limit the scope of the work.  

The presence of the erotic on the part of the therapist need not be a cause for alarm or shame. Rather, the arrival of this powerful energy in the therapy room can signal the emergence of something valuable within the relationship. Conscious acknowledgement of these feelings can allow us to deepen the work as well as better safeguard both our clients and ourselves. 

Read more about the two-day workshop here

Who is it for?

Psychotherapists and counsellors, and trainee psychotherapists and counsellors.

About Jeremy Kelsall

Jeremy is a a psychosynthesis psychotherapist and has been working in private practice as a psychosynthesis counsellor since 2015. He qualified as a psychosynthesis psychotherapist in 2023 and as part of his training, undertook research into the area of erotic countertransference. This workshop draws on that research and subsequent ongoing enquiry.