Adult Training
Adult Psychotherapists are trained specifically to work with Adults aged eighteen and above. The preparation and training for becoming a psychoanalytic or a psychodynamic psychotherapist is both very lengthy and rigorous and the British Psychoanalytic Council requires its training institutions to maintain the very highest standards, particularly with regard to the selection and admission to those training to become psychotherapists. All those training must undergo their own personal intensive psychotherapy at a minimum of three times per week for psychoanalytic psychotherapists and minimum once per week for psychodynamic psychotherapists, over the duration of the training (no less than five years). This enables the therapist to identify with their patients without being judgmental. Most importantly a psychotherapist needs to have passion, commitment and dedication to their patients and profession to undergo such an intensive training.
Child and Adolescent Training
ACP Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists undertake a six-year training funded by the NHS. They are trained to closely observe behaviour, play and words in order to understand the underlying sources of disturbance that is interfering with ordinary healthy development. They work with a range of presenting difficulties and disorders such as anxiety, low mood and depression, ADHD, autistic spectrum disorders, confusion about sexuality or gender, self-harm and eating disorders.