Registrations are open for the next (2024/2025) Krakow edition of the annual seminar for psychotherapists, psychologists, and midwives who work with pregnant women and infants and their families. The seminar in the psychodynamic approach is dedicated to the practical aspects of psychotherapeutic work. It includes a lecture part, text analysis, and supervision (Balint Group) of the participants' work.

Date: the second (usually) Saturday of the month from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Location: D. Winnicott Association of Child Psychotherapists, Krakow, ul. Krowoderska 71a/5

There are nine meetings planned on the following topics:
14.09.2024 Psychodynamics of pregnancy
12.10.2024 Working with pregnant women
16.11.2024 Birth and postpartum – psychodynamics
07.12.2024 Postpartum depression
11.01.2025 Working with the mother-infant dyad and working with the family
08.02.2025 Infant - primitive states of mind and emotional development
15.03.2025 Disorders in infant development / Feeding disorders
12.04.2025 Transgenerational transmission / Sleep disorders
17.05.2024 Abuse and trauma / Limits and aggressiveness

Leader: Elżbieta Wilkowska – psychologist (UJ), certified (PTP) psychodynamic psychotherapist (KCP). She specializes in working with pregnant women, mother-infant dyads, and families of children aged 0-3 years. She gained experience working at Casa Angela Maternity Home in Sao Paulo and the Habitare Association, which works for the prevention and intervention in maternal and child mental health. She completed a two-year course in psychoanalytic observation of infants using the Ester Bick method (Instituto SEDES Sapientiae, Sao Paulo). She worked at Clinica Social Habitare and currently works in a private practice in Krakow and at the Early Parenthood Clinic at St. Louis Children's Hospital in Krakow. She is the vice president of the D. Winnicott Association of Child Psychotherapists in Krakow.

Number of participants: 7-9 (The group is closed, so the decision to participate is associated with payment for all meetings. Possibility of monthly installment payments)

Cost of each meeting: 350 PLN

Information and registrations: psychoterapia.wilkowska.elzbieta@gmail.com

link to registrations: https://forms.gle/EU8ua7Y4B7FBMnQCA

Soon information about the second group of the annual seminar, which will meet in Warsaw.