Therapy Insights Festival 21st - 25th September 2020

Join the festival opening talk with Ieso's Chief Clinical Officer, Sarah Bateup who will set the scene for a insightful and lively festival. She'll share her reflections on where the online therapy world is today and where we need to be prepared to journey next as she highlights the talks and experiences available during the festival.

Have you ever wondered what language, inter-session message frequency and supervision techniques impact recovery rates? Data scientist, Dr Michael Ewbank, and therapist trainer, Joanne Adams team up to share what analysis of transcripts and other therapist activities shows makes the difference.

Delve into Dr Andy Blackwell's TEDx talk on how AI has the potential to unlock mental health. As Ieso's Chief Scientific Officer, Andy is on a mission to decode and democratise mental health and in this talk, he explains exactly how this works. Afterwards, you will have the opportunity to ask Andy questions, including what this means for real life human therapists like you..!

Sarah Bateup recently completed a PhD, studying the relationship between therapist variables and patient outcomes across 200 BABCP accredited CBT therapists over a 12-month period. The results were fascinating and you can join this session to find out what she learnt...

In partnership with Sheffield University's Clinical Psychology Unit, Dr Ana Catarino (Principal Scientist at Ieso) will explain what patient profiling is, how it can be applied to help predict whether a patient is likely to recover or not, and what that means for you as a therapist.

The Ieso science team mine the world's largest mental health therapy dataset using advanced analytical techniques to uncover what matters to real therapists. What a patient types in therapy (also known as their 'utterances') reveals new findings about their response to treatment for depression. In this short session, Ieso's Dr Michael Ewbank will explain and interpret these findings for therapists.

In this bitesize session, Ieso's Principal Scientist, Dr Ana Catarino, will shed new light on different types of depression using her research from the Ieso dataset. She will share implications for therapists and delivery of treatment.

Interested in what's new and innovative in supervision? Following the 3.30pm session on growth curve models, Kate Tilbury will explain how they can also be used to support supervision, creating more powerful conversations between supervisors and therapists.

Learn a new way to improve your therapy skills! Deliberate practice is integral to many professions and is part of career long learning. In this session, Ieso's Joanne Adams will explain why we might choose to practice as a CBT therapist and how exactly we can do that.

"Non Epileptic Attack disorder (NEAD) primarily involves neurological symptoms that present like organic disorders of the nervous system, but do not have an organic basis (medically unexplained, ‘functional Neurological Symptoms’; FNS) (Stone, 2011).

Approximately 12–20% of patients seen in epilepsy clinics may have NEAD rather than epileptic seizures, and rates of NEAD have been estimated at around 4.9 in a 100,000 per year.

Kiera O'Dell will focus on application and intervention of online CBT techniques to help support a patient with Non-Epileptic Attack disorder, also know historically as conversion disorder.

Behavioural experiments are at the heart of Clark and Well’s treatment protocol for social anxiety disorder. Understandably they can cause anxiety for our patients and for ourselves too! Join us to hear about Ieso’s experiences of conducting stooge experiments virtually and hear feedback from our therapists and their patients about the power of these behavioural experiments.

It’s important to put the patient at the heart of everything we do. We can always learn from our patient’s experience of therapy. Clinical Supervisor, Babalwa Madikazi will be talking to a patient, who has recently finished therapy, to learn about his experiences of having CBT.

Learn how to adapt your communication style to digital delivery (how not to be a robot; stories of ‘common’ mistakes).

An exploration of what values are, how to find and connect to them, and how to use them to influence behaviour when people seem stuck, lost, and trapped by their situation.

A theme that I frequently come cross in my Clinical Supervisor role with Ieso, is the effect that our beliefs, thoughts and judgements as therapists have on patient’s treatment and their experience of therapy. Sometimes we can ‘predict’ when someone will engage well and other times we cannot. Sometimes we can become increasingly frustrated and hopeless when things aren’t moving forward how we expect or want them to, particularly when patients are comorbid, appear complex, have had therapy before or simply don’t engage with homework. Therefore; in this interactive workshop I want to explore our role as therapists; our beliefs, judgments and how this effects patients we are struggling with by being vulnerable together, reflecting and doing some experiential exercises. I would like to try to understand possible trends or patterns us therapists find ourselves doing, why we do these and discuss how to reflect and monitor this to bring us back to do what we know works for CBT to be effective.

2020 has followed a trajectory none of us could have predicted and as a result patient presentations have changed radically both in category and volume. Hear from from Ieso's Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Andy Blackwell, and a member of our clinical team for an explanation of how the patients and the type of treatment they are seeking has changed this year and what this means for therapists and supervisors.

In this session, Ross O'Brien, formerly NHS lead for Grenfell and now Associate Director of Innovation and Technology at London Digital IAPT, will be exploring how IAPT services should be considering the digitally excluded populations who find themselves unable to access healthcare. He will also be giving a glimpse into some of the new digital innovations that are driving forward digital IAPT service delivery in London currently and into the future.

This workshop will give you an opportunity to return to the group and share how you got on with your deliberate practise during this week. It will be an informal opportunity to commit to continued deliberate practise!