Key course information
We are delighted to be working in partnership with the NHS and NHSE to offer a three-year training course with fully funded places for 20 trainees from across England.
Trainees will develop their skills and competences for engaging in and sustaining strong therapeutic relationships, whilst working clinically in an NHS Talking Therapies (NHSTT) service with users who present with depression.
Trainees will be trained in the Couples Therapy for Depression modality. At the end of the three years, students will be able to work at Level 7 NHS banding and will be employed within the service to which they have been attached for the three-year training.
Please note NHSE funding covers the tuition fee and the salary at Band 5 for the first year and Band 6 for the 2nd and 3rd year. As some in-person attendance is required, the cost of travelling to and from the NHS TT service and Tavistock Relationships in London as well as overnight accommodation is not covered by the funding. Furthermore, trainees must attend a minimum of self-funded 50 hours of personal therapy across year 1 and year 2. If further personal therapy is needed beyond this, it will be at an additional cost to the trainee. The increase of salary to Band 6 considers this extra cost.
Overview
This programme is funded by NHS England and offers a new training pathway to work with couples who present with depression within NHSTT services.
Trainees will learn to work as counsellors delivering CTfD whilst being employed by an NHSTT service. They will be expected to carry out an average of two to three days per week of clinical practice in the NHSTT service.
Whilst working with patients within a NHSTT service, trainees will develop the skills necessary to engage in and maintain strong therapeutic relationships; this includes developing core counselling practitioner competencies as well as specific CTfD competencies.
The training will also promote personal and professional development and self-awareness essential to successful psychotherapeutic counselling.
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Course leader
Annette Wozniak is a clinical psychologist, individual and couple psychodynamic psychotherapist and senior staff member at Tavistock Relationships. She is the programme lead for the Couple Therapy for Depression Postgraduate Diploma Certificate. Annette is also a member of the Mentalization Based Therapy for Couples training and supervision group at Tavistock Relationships. She has extensive experience in teaching and supervision of individual and couple therapists. She is registered with HCPC. Her private practice is in North London.