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Welcome to our clinical trainings

In the UK, we are the leading organisation to offer specialist clinical trainings with a relationship focus. Our trainings equip therapists to work with individuals and couples to help them understand themselves, improve their relationships and create better lives for themselves and their families.

We provide our trainees with clinical experience and highly experienced supervision through our own clinical service, both online and via our Central London City Wellbeing Centre, located a short walk from our training premises.

Accredited trainings to become a professional therapist

With 75 years of expertise, Tavistock Relationships is the world leading centre of excellence for couple and individual counselling and psychotherapy training. Because we are committed to providing the best therapy for couples and individuals, we select our candidates very carefully. Every year we have a high number of applicants and there is a rigorous selection process. To train and qualify with Tavistock Relationships is an achievement that marks you out as an expert among your peers and with clients. Read about our two professional clinical training options below.

Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy MA/PG Dip

A unique three-year training that qualifies practitioners to work with both couples and individuals using a psychodynamic framework. This course is accredited by the BACP and offers an academic award (PG Dip or MA) via our partnership with Birkbeck College, University of London.

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Advanced standing pathways are available for clinicians with an existing clinical qualification.

Find out more and apply

Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy MA

A four-year course which provides a comprehensive understanding of psychoanalytic theory and techniques. This course is provided as an MA via Birkbeck College, University of London and accredited by the BPC.

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Advanced standing pathways are available for clinicians with an existing clinical qualification.

Find out more and apply

Why study with us?

  • Tavistock Relationships is a pioneer in the field. You will benefit from our long history of research, training and best practice.
  • Choice and career flexibility. We are unique in offering a training in both couple and individual therapy, ensuring you will have greater options in your career.
  • Teaching and supervision is provided by senior staff. All our trainings and supervisions are delivered by highly experienced staff at Tavistock Relationships.
  • In-house clinical placements. We are one of the few trainings in the UK to provide placements for students, meaning you don’t need to worry about finding an external organisation in which to complete your clinical hours.
  • Career or ongoing work opportunities. Our service is run by senior staff, former students and current students, and you will have the opportunity to work within our world-leading clinical services.
  • Be part of TR’s lively and growing community. After graduation you will be able to join our alumni group, and take advantage of our high-quality CPDs and conferences, which will help you to keep on top of recent developments in the field and to further develop your clinical practice.
  • We offer an innovative range of new and established courses, with options for remote learning and varying entry levels.
  • Accreditations: BPC, BACP

Read our FAQs page to find out more.

A route to apply for our professional trainings

The Foundation Certificate in Couple Counselling and Psychotherapy is a course designed to serve as a grounding to apply for a professional training.

Find out more and apply

Come to one of our Open Events

If you'd like to know more about counselling and psychotherapy courses or a career in counselling, come to one of our open events and learn more.

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Teaching standard is high and challenging both intellectually and personally. 

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I have been allocated clients quickly, and my work well-supervised.

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Find out about our Diversity Bursaries

Tavistock Relationships is offering dedicated Diversity Bursaries for our Foundation Certificate and MA/PGDip Courses. >>

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Get in touch with us

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Read how we look after your privacy here

Your Privacy

Tavistock Relationships is committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of prospective employees, contractors, volunteers and interns. We comply with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulations.

Please follow the headings below to read about the way we manage data submitted on this form.

Website enquiries

If you use our website enquiry service to contact us regarding any of our service, we will ask you to provide us with your name, a method of contacting you and information about your enquiry. We will only use this information to respond to your enquiry

Where your data is stored?

Your information is stored in Salesforce CRM upon submission, where only the relevant respondent can view it.

How long is it stored for?

If you decide not to proceed with registering for our services we will keep your enquiry details for up to one year after the end of your enquiry. After this time your details will be deleted.

When you use our website:-

Cookies

Like many other websites, our website uses cookies. 'Cookies' are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. For example, we use cookies to store your country preference. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better more personalised service.

When you use our website we obtain information about you from cookies which tell us your IP address, when you visited our website and which pages you looked at.

It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. If you would like to turn cookies off you can do so by clicking ‘no’ when prompted by our cookie notice. Turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality when using our website. As an example, if you turn off cookies, some information like anonymised ‘User ID’s’ for logging into systems will not be retained, so you will need to retype them each time.

Cookies are stored for a maximum of 6 months, though most expire much sooner.

Confidentiality

Tavistock Relationships adheres to a professional code of ethical standards which includes the principle of confidentiality. This means that we would not disclose information about you to a third party without your agreement, except in situations where there was significant concern about harm to you or someone else and this would normally be discussed with you beforehand.

We ensure that access to your personal data is restricted to members of staff who require access as part of delivering our service.

Your rights

The GDPR gives you certain rights in relation to the data we hold about you. You can exercise the rights outlined below by contacting us:

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In writing to Privacy, Tavistock Relationships, 56-60 Hallam Street, London, W1W 6JL Telephone 0207 380 1975

Under the GDPR you can:

  • Find out what information we hold about you
  • Access a copy of the information we hold about you
  • Rectify any inaccurate or incomplete personal data
  • Have the right to object to our processing of your personal information
  • Ask us to delete or restrict how we use your personal information, but this right is determined by applicable law
  • Have your registration information (if registering using our online booking system) sent to another provider
  • Have the right to appropriate decision making (TR does not use automated profiling or decision making)
  • Complain to a regulator if you think we have not complied with data protection laws. You can lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Privacy policies

We have specific data protection policies for each of our services and if you go on to become a client, then you can access the policy of the service you enquired about here:

Clinical Service
https://tavistockrelationships.org/contact-us/privacy-policies/clinical-services-privacy-policies

Training and Events
https://tavistockrelationships.org/contact-us/privacy-policies/training-events-privacy-policy

Recruitment and selection
https://tavistockrelationships.org/contact-us/privacy-policies/recruitment-selection-privacy-policy

Building Relationships for Stronger Families
https://tavistockrelationships.org/contact-us/privacy-policies/brsf-privacy-notice

Between Us App
https://tavistockrelationships.org/contact-us/privacy-policies/between-us-privacy-policy