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Raushan Kamdar
 

Psychotherapist & Post-Graduate Tutor
MBACP | COSCA 
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Hi, I am Raushan!

I'm an academic tutor and registered psychotherapist of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (MBACP), and Counselling & Psychotherapy Scotland (COSCA), based in Edinburgh, UK.


I'm a Clinical Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ICP&P), and a Psychoanalytic Fellow at the Washington-Baltimore Centre for Psychoanalysis (WBCP).

Alongside running my clinical practice, I also teach at the postgraduate level in Scotland (University of Edinburgh and First Psychology Institute).

 

My research interests lie in intergenerational histories and the ways in which these saturate individual and collective unconsciouses. 

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I work within the psychodynamic approaches to therapy. You can find the details of my education and training below.

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Education

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  • Masters in Counselling (Interpersonal Dialogue: Psychodynamic and Person-Centred Therapy) University of Edinburgh, UK (Awarded Distinction)

  • ​​Master of Arts, University of Delhi, India (Awarded First)

  • Bachelor of Arts, St. Xavier's College, India (Awarded Distinction)

Professional Registrations

  • British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP Registered Member; Eligible for Accreditation)​ 

  • Counselling and Psychotherapy Scotland (COSCA Qualified Therapist)​

  • American Psychological Association (APA, International Affiliate Member)​

  • International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP, Psychological Therapist Member)​

  • International Attachment Network (UK)​

  • Association of Psychosocial Studies (UK)​

  • Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society (UK)​

  • The Black, African, Asian Therapy Network, UK (BAATN, Psychological Therapist Member)

Current Work-Experience

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  • Psychotherapist, The Whole Works, Edinburgh​ (see here)

  • Psychotherapist, First Psychology, Edinburgh​ (see here)

  • Guest Lecturer (Visting Faculty) for Masters in Counselling, University of Edinburgh, UK​

  • Course Tutor for Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychological Therapy (BACP Accredited), First Psychology Institute, Edinburgh (see here)

Previous Work-Experience

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  • Trainee Therapist, Saheliya - Edinburgh, UK

  • Trainee Therapist, Hope Park Counselling Centre, UK

  • Volunteer Support Worker, The Urja Trust (NGO), Mumbai

  • Volunteer, The Udisha Project (NGO), Mumbai

  • Projects Administrator, Hope Park Counselling Centre, UK

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Continued Education 

Tavistock Clinic London

  • A Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Couple Relationship (Mary Morgan)

  • Intergenerational Transmissions (Jill Salberg)

  • On Love: Mature, Clinical and Pathological (Salman Akhtar)

  • Working with Narcissistic Dynamics (Nancy McWilliams)

  • Diagnosis and its Clinical Implications (Nancy McWilliams)

  • ADHD & ADD in Adult Psychotherapy (Phil Mollon)

  • The Dialogues of Unconsciouses in Clinical Impasse (Anthony Bass & Zack Eleftheriadou

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Psychoanalytic Inquiry: Infant Research & Couples Therapy

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  • Developmental Systems Perspective (David Shaddock, PhD, MFT)

  • From Dyad to Triad: What Infant Research Can Tell Us About Couples Therapy (David Shaddock, PhD, MFT)

  • Clinical Cases (David Shaddock, PhD, MFT)

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Relational Psychoanalysis (IARPP)​

  • Overview of Relational psychoanalysis, analyst’s subjectivity, intersubjectivity (Steve Kuchuck)

  • Dissociation, unconscious to unconscious communication, multiple self-states, trauma (Tony Bass)

  • Sociocultural and political aspects of relational work, otherness and intersectionality (Hilary Offman)

  • Enactment and impasse and clinical case seminar (Hazel Ipp)

  • Self-disclosure (Steve Kuchuck)

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Anna Freud Centre, London

  • Mentalization-Based Therapy for Adults (Peter Fonagy, Anthony Bateman, Eia Asen)

NScience, UK

  • Disordered Eating and the Trauma Re-Enactment Syndrome (Lisa Ferentz)

  • Unprocessed Anger (Dr Jan McGregor Hepburn)

  • Navigating Personality Dynamics in the Treatment of Complex Trauma (Kathy Steele)

  • The Difficult Mother: Insufferable or Misunderstood (Dr Gwen Adshead & Dr Chrissy Jayarajah)

  • Vulnerable Narcissism (Dr Michael Beattie & Dr Gwen Adshead)

  • Psychological Defenses as Relational Strategies (Kathy Steele)​

Association for Psychosocial Studies, UK

  • The Abject Body of the Psychiatric Sufferer: On the Medicalization of Suffering by Mila Kirstie Kulsa and Elan Cohen

  • Meaning Making in Carceral Spaces

  • Hidden Migrations: Does Experience have a Body Memory? Nigel Williams

  • Embodiments of Maternal Absence', Marilyn Charles and María Mirón

  • Dissecting and Transcending Enduring Fallacies, Prof Elelwani Ramugondo

  • Embodiments of Maternal Absence', Marilyn Charles and María Mirón

Additional Training

  • The Challenge of Racism in Therapeutic Practice by Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga at BAATN, UK

  • Queer Affirmative Therapy by Mariwala Health Initiative, India

  • Counselling for Traumatised NHS Staff: A Short-Term Psychodynamic and Relational Approach, Centre for Creative- Relational Inquiry, UK

  • Working with Suicidal Clients by John S. Flanagan, BACP

  • Building Alliance with Defensive, Angry Clients, Molyn Leszcz, BACP

  • Culture as the Bad Object by Dr Nini Fang (Institute of Group Analysis, India)

  • Psychotherapy: A Kind of Clinical Philosophy by Dr Farhad Dalal (Hank Nunn Institute, Inida)

  • Talking Women and Bodies by Susie Orbach and Sarah Benamer (Institute of Group Analysis, UK)

  • Understanding Personality Disorders (Hank Nunn Institute, India)

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