A friendly mirror – strengthening parent infant relationships using Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) and Watch Wait Wonder (WWW)
Perinatal and parent infant mental health lecture series (CPD90)
This lecture has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience and disappointment caused. You may be interested in other events in this series on 18 November and 16 December.
Our perinatal and parent infant mental health lecture series (CPD90) offers the opportunity to hear from a range of speakers, each experts in their field, as they share clinical insights, experience and research in perinatal and parent-infant mental health.
In this lecture, taking place on Tuesday 21 October, Monika Celebi will present on parent infant relationships with Video Interaction Guidance (VIG).
The online lecture is delivered on Zoom and will include a presentation and interactive Q&A session. A CPD certificate will be provided to evidence attendance, and a recording of the lecture will be made available to all registrants.
About this lecture
A friendly mirror – strengthening parent infant relationships using Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) and Watch Wait Wonder (WWW)
Event date and time
Tuesday 21 October, 12 to 1.30pm (BST). CANCELLED
Speaker
Monika Celebi – Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and VIG Trainer
Synposis
Monika Celebi will discuss the relational application of Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) and the transformative potential of visual images when combined with a curious reflective stance. She will show examples from Baby Bonding groups in the community and from her work with individual parent-infant dyads, who experience mild to moderate depression or anxiety. Monika will also reflect on the use of VIG as an adjunctive intervention with parents facing more severe mental health challenges, such as recovery from psychosis or clinical depression.
There will be some video material shown with permission from the patient.
This lecture will be recorded, and a recording will be sent to registrants.
About this speaker
Monika Celebi is a parent-infant psychotherapist, movement psychotherapist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and a trainer and supervisor in Video Interaction Guidance (VIG). With over 40 years of clinical experience, she has worked in a women’s refuge, psychiatric institutions and community mental health services. Currently, she serves as a parent-infant psychotherapist for the Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust community perinatal team and as Clinical Director of Babies1st, supporting parents during the 1,001 Critical Days through Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) and Watch, Wait, Wonder (WWW).
Who is this lecture for?
Our perinatal mental health lectures are suitable for a wide range of practitioners who work with women, birthing people, their babies and families during the perinatal period, as well as those who are interested in working in, or finding out more about, perinatal and parent-infant mental health.
For example, you may be working as a:
- children’s centre and early years’ practitioner
- family support worker
- family hubs worker
- health visitor or health visitor assistant
- charity practitioner or volunteer
- midwife or midwife assistant
- talking therapies practitioner
- obstetrician
- GP
- social worker
- occupational therapist
nurse - neonatology practitioner
- psychiatrist
- peer support worker
- nursery nurse
- CAMHS practitioner or 0-5 practitioner
Upcoming lectures
18 November 2025
Speaker: Natasha Baker
Topic: Supporting infant feeding in women with severe mental illness
16 December 2025
Speaker: Dr Chrissy Jayarajah