Relevant Links
These are the beginnings of a collection of useful and relevant links. It's currently not a very comprehensive list, and there's no particular structure or logic to what's included and what isn't. If you want to suggest and contribute any links that you find useful for Continuing Professional Development of counsellors and psychotherapists, please send them to us.
Counselling & Psychotherapy Organisations
- UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) national registering organisation for psychotherapists
- British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) national registering organisation for counsellors
- Psychotherapy Excellence national portal for CPD
- Association of Chiron Body Psychotherapists my original training and accrediting organisation
- European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP) my European-wide member organisation
- International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP)
- Association for Humanistic Psychology: AHP(B) the Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain is a registered charity which promotes and applies a holistic understanding of people. Humanistic psychology has relevance for individuals and communities as well as for our larger society and culture. The association publishes the bi-monthly humanistic journal 'Self and Society'.
- Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners
- UK Association for Psychotherapy Integration (UKAPI)
- Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy (old site at time of closure)
Counselling & Psychotherapy Journals
- Therapy Today journal of BACP
- The Psychotherapist Published three times a year, The Psychotherapist is a magazine for the benefit of UKCP members and aims to keep them informed of developments likely to impact on the profession. It contains news, updates on regulation, feature articles, letters, book reviews, details of courses, conferences and more.
- Self & Society magazine of the Association for Humanistic Psychology
- Psychoanalytic Dialogues The International Journal of Relational Perspectives
- The British Gestalt Journal
- Contemporary Psychotherapy Journal in association with the Minster Centre
- Depth Insights is a semi-annual journal that has served as the primary scholarly peer-reviewed depth psychology publication for the online community, Depth Psychology Alliance, since 2011
UK Training Centres & Colleagues
- Nick Totton runs Embodied-Relational Therapy (ERT) training and CPD; has a whole big collection of therapy-related links and bookmarks
- The Minster Centre integrative psychotherapy centre in London (some of my colleagues from Chiron started teaching there after the closure of Chiron)
- Re-Vision Centre for Integrative Psychosynthesis
- Metanoia Institute training in counselling, psychotherapy, counselling psychology, coaching, supervision, child psychotherapy and organisational development
- Edinburgh Gestalt Institute
Sites of Various Therapeutic Approaches
- Process Oriented Psychology (Process Work) UK
- Institute of Psychoanalysis
- British Psychoanalytic Association (BPA)
- Society of Analytical Psychology
- Irvin Yalom
- Transactional Analysis in the UK
- The Gestalt Psychotherapy & Training Institute
- Bert Hellinger Family & Organisational Constellations
Networking and Directories
- Counselling Directory advertise yourself as a therapist (national / £15 per month or £160 for a year)/li>
- RSCPP advertise yourself as a therapist (national / referral fee equivalent of one session)
- Welldoing.org focuses on self development, mental health and wellbeing
Facilitation and Groupwork
- Groupfacilitation Forum
- John Heron
Organisational Development
- Spiral Dynamics - Chris Cowan
- Spiral Dynamics - Dr. Don Beck
- Presencing Institute Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers - Theory U and Presence
- Charles Hampden-Turner is the author of some of the best books on consulting: Charting the Corporate Mind and Corporate Culture: Vicious and Virtuous Circles.
- Complexity Theory
- Margaret Wheatley
- Ralph Stacey
- Roffey Park
- Ashridge
- Cranfield