Overview

The APS Outer Eastern Melbourne Branch is pleased to invite all members and beyond to a fullday in-person workshop featuring Tania Kalkidis and building on the highly successful four-part webinar series we hosted in 2025.

This workshop offers a deeper dive into psychodynamic and attachment-based approaches to therapy. Moving beyond theory, the workshop emphasizes clinical application, helping therapists integrate psychodynamic principles with attachment-focused skills in real-world practice. Through experiential exercises, case discussions, and live demonstrations, participants will explore how unconscious processes, transference, and countertransference dynamics intersect with attachment patterns in the therapeutic encounter. The focus will be on cultivating therapeutic presence, deepening relational attunement, and using the therapist–client relationship as a secure base for growth and healing.

 

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this event, participants should be able to:

• Apply psychodynamic concepts such as transference, countertransference, and unconscious communication to attachment-focused clinical work.
• Develop practical skills for working with clients’ attachment styles in the here-and-now of the therapeutic relationship.
• Strengthen the therapist’s capacity for attunement, regulation, and use of self as a secure base to support client transformation.

Presenter(s)

Ms. Tania Kalkidis

About the presenter(s)

We are excited to have Tania Kalkidis leading us through this full-day in-person event. Tania is a registered Clinical Psychologist, Child Psychologist, Psychotherapist, and Board Approved Supervisor. She has run over 55 supervision and professional development training workshops in the past 9 years for the APS, and over 75 over the course of her career, specialising in training psychologists to use reflective practice processes and psychotherapy techniques. Tania was a Clinical Supervisor for the Clinical Psychology Masters students at Bond University on the Gold Coast for 6 years (2011 – 2017). In addition, she has developed her own Registrar Training Supervision program that runs for 2 years, as part of the Clinical Psychology endorsement requirements. She is passionate about supervision and teaching and combines her own unique style and expertise in all of her work, both individually and in groups. Tania is currently Clinic Director for Freedom in Spirit Psychology, a Psychotherapy Clinic on the Gold Coast. She is also the director and founder of Deep Mind Psychodynamic Training a new business that runs short, engaging, and dynamic online training programs for psychologists to assist in the implementation of psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment/relational concepts, and neuroscience into their current work context and paradigms. The 4-week short course entitled the “Deep Mind Transformation Method” has recently been APS CPD approved for 11 CPD points. Visit: www.deepmindpt.com/ for more information and enrolments.

Notes

Registration includes  Morning Tea, Lunch and Afternoon Tea.

Target Audience

This event is aimed at all psychologists and mental health clinicians.

Parking available at Eastland Shopping Centre at a reduced rate with voucher from the venue.

CPD

It is up to attendees to assess and determine how learning from this event aligns with the requirements of their learning plan. The providers accordingly do not make any representation that the event counts towards attendees’ CPD learning requirements. If an attendee determines themselves that the learning they complete aligns to their learning plan, then they can decide to count those hours towards their CPD requirements for the registration cycle.

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If you are experiencing registration difficulties please contact APS Events Support.