The Therapist’s Role in the Psychotropic Deprescribing Process,with Dr. Anne Guy and Angela Peacock, MSW • Psychotropic Deprescribing Council

Friday, December 6, 2024
9-10:30 a.m PST | noon-1:30 p.m. EST | 5-6:30 p.m. GMT
Registration closes noon PST on Dec 5

The Psychotropic Deprescribing Council is pleased to announce a virtual roundtable to explore the roles of psychotherapists and other certified counselors in the deprescribing of psychiatric and other psychotropic drugs. Dr. Anne Guy (PsychD), UKCP Reg and Angela Peacock, MSW, CPC will lead the discussion.

Therapists may be involved in the deprescribing process when people are considering coming off psychiatric or pain drug treatment, in the process of tapering a psychotropic, or rediscovering their lives after coming off. A client may view going off a psychotropic regimen with trepidation or enthusiasm. The tapering process may be bumpy, requiring new coping skills. After taking a psychotropic for an extended time, people may be motivated to discover new ways of being. An understanding therapist can facilitate this journey and assist in new realizations.

This event is free. Registration closes noon PST on Thursday, December 5. All clinicians are welcome to contribute their experiences to the roundtable.

Dr. Anne Guy, a psychotherapist in private practice in the UK, is the lead editor and co-author of the free Guidance for Psychological Therapists: Enabling Conversations with Clients Taking or Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs, endorsed by the British Psychological Society, The UK Council for Psychotherapy, and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, among other organizations.

Anne is active in the secretariat for the Beyond Pills All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), a member of the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, a founder of the Lived and professional Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP) for Prescribed Drug Dependence, and is working with National Health Service staff to improve the safety of antidepressant deprescribing.

Angela Peacock, MSW, CPC provides education and support to individuals, families, groups, and organizations regarding harm reduction and deprescribing of psychiatric drugs. She hosts 18 support circles per month for clients and family members. Her story, featured in the documentary Medicating Normal (2020), sheds light on the challenges of polypharmacy and discontinuing psychiatric drugs.

Angela’s past positions have included Legislative Policy Fellow at Veterans of Foreign Wars; Military Veteran Liaison at Benzodiazepine Information Coalition; team member at The Withdrawal Project / Inner Compass Initiative.

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