Open help menu
Live Webinar
GXC 2025 Online Virtual Conference - Mental Health Without Borders

Applying Psychodynamic Approaches to Non-Psychotherapy Clinical Encounters

Harry Reid, MBBS BSc(Hons) MRCPSYCH DTMPH 🇬🇧
|

Pricing

Information

Date & Time

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Apply principles of psychodynamic theory to enhance clinical interactions outside of formal psychotherapy.

  • Analyze patient interactions using object relations theory to identify underlying relational dynamics.

  • Demonstrate the use of psychodynamically-informed interventions to improve engagement during brief encounters.

  • Differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate applications of psychodynamic techniques in non-therapy contexts.

Educational Goal

This presentation will strengthen clinicians’ ability to integrate psychodynamic perspectives into everyday patient encounters, creating opportunities for greater therapeutic engagement. Participants will enhance their professional sophistication by learning how psychological insights can enrich brief clinical interactions while maintaining clear role boundaries.

Description

Many providers often view psychodynamic or other psychological approaches as limited to the domain of psychotherapy; however, applying these therapeutic approaches to everyday clinical encounters, such as medication reviews, risk assessments, and initial assessments, can be extremely valuable, often acting as an opportunity for deeper therapeutic engagement.


More specifically, incorporating psychodynamically-informed approaches–even briefly–can enhance rapport, clarify complex cases, and support better clinical outcomes. Without utilizing the lens of psychodynamic or other psychological approaches, providers may miss important relational dynamics, unconscious processes, or inadvertently blur the boundaries between psychotherapy and non-therapy roles.


However, when applying these principles to general clinical encounters, there can be risks when these roles or tasks are confused or not held in mind. As a result, this presentation will also explore how to apply psychological approaches to general clinical encounters, while maintaining ethical and professional safeguards.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Harry Reid, MBBS BSc(Hons) MRCPSYCH DTMPH 🇬🇧
Dr Harry Reid is a consultant general adult psychiatrist with subspecialty accreditation in substance misuse and liaison psychiatry. He works as a specialist addiction psychiatrist at the London Psychiatry Clinic and has held senior NHS roles across community, inpatient, and psychotherapy services, including clinical leadership in homelessness and complex trauma pathways. Dr Reid has published on personality disorder, risk management, and barriers to care. He has a strong interest in psychoanalytic theory and is completing further training in group analysis at the Institute of Group Analysis and in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.

Financially Sponsored By

  • GXC Events - The Global Exchange Conference