Key information
We are delighted to be working in partnership with the NHS and NHSE to be developing a new training for 15 trainees from across the UK.
Trainees will develop their skills and competences to engage in and sustain strong therapeutic relationships. They will be trained to work in an NHS Talking Therapies service with users with depression.
Trainees will be trained in the Couples Therapy for Depression modality along with a psychodynamic training in counselling. At the end of the three years students will end the training at level 7 NHS banding and will be employed within the service to which they have been attached for the three-year training.
If you are interested in this training opportunity, please head to our ' Work for Us' page for more information about the training posts.
Overview
This programme is funded by Health Education England (HEE) (NHS) and offers a new training pathway that provides trainee Psychotherapeutic Counsellors with advanced conceptual understanding and skills in the practical application of psychotherapeutic counselling and a defined standard of competency in Couple Therapy for Depression.
You will train to work as psychodynamic counsellor delivering CTfD for adults with depression in NHS IAPT services. During training, you will be employed by an IAPT service in England, and you will be expected to carry out an average of two to three days per week of clinical practice in the IAPT service.
Trainees will develop the qualities and skills to engage in and sustain strong therapeutic relationships and work effectively with IAPT service users with depression.
This includes developing core psychodynamic counselling practitioner competencies and the integration of CTfD in line with the needs of service users, families, and carers.
The training will also promote personal and professional development and self-awareness essential to successful psychotherapeutic counselling.
Year 1
In the first year, trainees are expected to:
- Study topics including initiating, maintaining, and developing the therapeutic relationship, the nature of depression and its impact on wellbeing, the range of counselling and psychotherapy modalities, safeguarding, and developing personal resilience.
- Complete three non-credit bearing modules covering the fundamental principles and practice of psychoanalytic/psychodynamic psychotherapeutic counselling and an overview of the principles and practice of the IAPT modality they will be training in.
- Undertake a minimum of 30 hours of skills practice in assessment and therapy, before being assessed individually for readiness to work with service users.
- Following sign off, trainees will undertake a minimum of 100 supervised client hours working with adults with mild to moderate depression in an IAPT service.
Year 2
In the second year, trainees are expected to:
- Build their knowledge and understanding of their chosen theoretical base and develop ways of working with simple and more complex presentations of human distress and depression.
- Complete three 20 credit modules, aiming to extend and refine the application of psychotherapeutic counselling theories to gain a deeper understanding of the therapeutic process.
- Continue the development of the skills required to provide a therapeutic service to service users with depression within IAPT services.
- Gain critical knowledge and understanding of the theories and principles underpinning Couples Therapy for Depression.
- Undertake a minimum of 150 supervised client hours working within the selected modality with service users with depression in an IAPT setting in line with the IAPT Manual.
Year 3
In the third year, trainees are expected to:
- Complete another three 20 credit modules to prepare to work as High Intensity Therapists working in IAPT services delivering Couples Therapy for Depression.
- Complete the teaching and learning hours, required period of supervised clinical work, supervision requirements and assessment of competence in line with the national curriculum for Couple Therapy for Depression. This will include a minimum of 200 supervised client hours, thereby achieving a minimum of 450 hours over the three years.
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Course leader
Sarah Ingram has a background in Community Development and has worked in both statutory and voluntary sector settings. Before joining Tavistock Relationships Sarah was Head of Parenting with responsibility for the development and delivery of parenting support for hard to reach families. At Tavistock Relationships Sarah leads the DWP funded Reducing Parental Conflict Programme, a large programme with a remit to evaluate evidence based interventions and their impact on reducing parental conflict.
Student testimonials
It was fantastic to be part of some really great training.
I really enjoyed learning about couple dynamics and how to work with this. It was nice having more than one facilitator and I found them all to be warm and insightful.
The formulation guides the work and provide a framework which can help in the understanding of the relational aspects.
Former students
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© 2023 Tavistock Relationships. All Rights Reserved.
10 New Street, London EC2M 4TP
Tel: 020 7380 1975
Registered Charity Number: 211058. Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology. Company number: 241618.