Mutuality in Contemporary Relational Psychotherapy Deepak Dhananjaya, Karen Minikin, Katherine Murphy, Carole Shadbot and Charlotte Sills (Chair)

At the 2023 IARTA Annual Conference, a panel of leading Transactional Analysis practitioners — Deepak Dhanajaya, Karen Minikin, Katherine Murphy, Carole Shadbolt, and Chair Charlotte Sills — gathered online to unpack the concept of Mutuality in contemporary relational psychotherapy. Inspired by Lew Aron’s phrase “mutuality with asymmetry,” this lively, multi-voiced conversation explores how mutuality shapes therapeutic power dynamics, fosters relational connection, and influences ethical clinical practice.

Listeners will benefit from the dynamic exchange of ideas, facilitated discussions, and engaging audience questions, making this recording a rich resource for anyone interested in the evolving landscape of relational TA and psychotherapy.

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Video lecture – 2hr and 55 mins – This webinar was originally recorded on the 10^th Dec 2023

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Deepak Dhananjaya is a CTA in Psychotherapy (CTA – P), PTSTA (Psychotherapy), Agile-Leadership-Organisation Coach, and has ACC- ICF credentials. He has a private clinical, teaching, and supervision practice in psychotherapy. Heis the co-founder of AgileSattva Consulting that focuses on organisation development and transformation organisation Bangalore, India. He is also the founder of Prabhava Institute of Inclusive Mental Health (PIIMH) that focuses on inclusivity in mental health education and services. He is an engineer and has earned Masters in Sexuality and Sexual counselling. He works with marginalised communities, families, and individual client settings. His work is deeply informed by transactional analysis, a socio-cultural-political frame of reference which reflects in his writings and practice. He believes in compassionate activism.

Karen Minikin is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer (TSTA (P)) currently working in West Somerset and Devon. She draws on history with personal life experience and uses this in relating to help integrate the psychodynamics of politics and power within a relational framework. She has written on these themes in chapters of books and articles, and her book, Radical-Relational Perspectives in TA Psychotherapy, was published in September 2023.

Katherine Murphy, a New Zealand born Londoner, is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and educator working in independent practice in West London. With roots in humanistic philosophy and an Integrative understanding of TA psychotherapy, she has embraced the relational turn in psychoanalysis and woven this into her Integrative psychosocial metapsychology. She has always believed that we are interconnected, influenced, and influencing from the personal to the interpersonal to the planetary.

Carole Shadbolt lives and practices in the United Kingdom. In a long career, she originally trained as a social worker and worked both as a generic and a specialist psychiatric social worker at The Maudsley Hospital, part of the Institute of Psychiatry in London. She qualified as a Transactional Analyst Metanoia under the tutelage of Petruska Clarkson, Sue Fish and Maria Gilbert. Carole worked as a tutor for many years at Metanoia Institute on their MSc in Relational Transactional Analysis programme. She maintains an independent psychotherapy and supervisory practice in Oxfordshire. A relational psychotherapist by instinct, Carole is a published author and a founder member of the International Association of Relational Transactional Analysis and serves on their Steering group. She has been “out” since the late seventies, and her abiding interest is in LGBTQ + issues and diversity.