UKCP Accredited Psychotherapy Diploma in Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapy

The next intake will be September 2024 and applications are now open. 

The training is a creative, contemporary approach to psychotherapy, integrating developmental, relational and archetypal perspectives in a soulfully grounded way.

For graduates of our counselling training, the Psychotherapy training is the final two years of a five year training. The Psychotherapy diploma has an entry point every other year and we invite applications both from graduates of Re-Vision’s counselling diploma and from those who have qualified elsewhere.

Please contact us on info@re-vision.org.uk to find out more and make an application.

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?” John Keats

Character of this training

Relationship, integration and soul are the three principles that underpin Re-Vision’s method. At the heart of our approach to psychotherapy is the field of the relationship – a space that contains both therapist and client. We hold a creative tension between the Psychodynamic emphasis on frustrating narcissistic demands and that of the Transpersonal for the deep yearnings of the soul. Within a mutual synergetic field the question, “Who does this experience belong to?” loses its importance. Psychotherapy from a Soulful Perspective, the heart of the Re-Vision approach, is a mutual process for transformation and renewal in which both parties are deeply engaged. The size of training groups at Re-Vision is maintained at a modest level to reflect the need for close and intimate contact in this profession, giving each student the personal attention they need for their development. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse communities and hold an ethos of working with and challenging the overt and covert use of structural power issues where they arise.

Aims and outcomes

The overall aim of the training is to combine a transpersonal and soulful perspective with clinical excellence. Grounded in a trauma-informed model of distress, this two year Post-Diploma course is intended to deepen previous training to establish a psychotherapeutic basis for long-term soulful engagement with clients. Practical outcomes include developing the ability to:

• work creatively with the transference/ counter-transference matrix via reading the synergetic field
• link intuition and imagination with thinking and feeling in practice
• step outside frames of ‘what is wrong’ and explore what ‘happened to you’ and what ‘troubles the soul’
• see trauma and dissociation through an altering lens
• give a soulful perspective to psychopathology
• work with shadow material and issues of power and abuse
• pay attention to matters of power and oppression as they manifest in our personal and clinical stories
• use mythology as a source for framing clients’ history
• ‘Anima Mundi’: Hold awareness of ecological crisis as a soul emergency

“This is an organisation that carefully nurtures each student, gradually empowering them till they reach a point where they feel fully equipped both professionally and personally to function as responsible psychotherapists.” HIPS (Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy) quinquennial re-accreditation of the training 2013

Who is it for?

This training is for qualified counsellors who want to deepen their work within a psychospiritual context and achieve UKCP registration.
Applications are welcomed both from Re-Vision counselling graduates and those who have trained elsewhere.

Training format and method

This programme is intended to complete a psychotherapy training of five years’ duration of which the first part comprises the Counselling Diploma. The Post-Diploma training takes an additional two years. Courses are experiential with an emphasis on inner connection to thinking rather than conceptual abstraction. This building on inner experience is part of the ‘inside-out’ learning method which supports the development of creative learning.

Stage 4 (2024/2025)

• Thursdays: fortnightly group training sessions (seminars, supervision, tutorials and interpersonal groups)
• 1 saturday workshop
• 5 full weekend workshops 
• 1 residential weekend (Winter Residential)
• 4-day residential summer intensive

Stage 5 (2025/2026)

• Thursdays: fortnightly group training sessions ( seminars, supervision, tutorial and interpersonal groups)
• 2 full weekend workshops 
• 2 saturdays workshops
• 1 residential weekend (Winter Residential)
• 4-day residential summer intensive

Stage 4

Thursday Modules

 TERM ONE – Bridging Course – Context and the Field 

This module forms term 1 of Stage 4. Over this term, the new stage 4 cohort is encouraged to connect, share personal material and form as a group. During these seminars we will bridge the space between being a counsellor and becoming a psychotherapist, via re-orienting to the Re-Vision Approach. We explore the wounded healer archetype and reconnect with and ‘dream on’, themes from the Re-Vision Counselling Training. During these seminars we will explore the two subtle and powerful ideas of Context and Field as developed at Re-Vision for the creative use of counter- transference within a soulful perspective. Includes Thursday seminars and training weekends.
Weekend themes:  Wounded Healer, Field Constellations, Soul-story

TERM TWO – Growing Down

Thursdays during this term will alternate between: supervision groups, tutorials, IPGs and theory seminars (three theory seminars). The aim of this term is to give space for reading, consolidating concepts and applying them into client work.
Weekend themes: Shame, Anima Mundi and Images of Self

TERM THREE – Stories of Soul-Making

We will discover how wounds and shadow are portals to soul-making and the ‘not yet told story’ via embodied participation in myths and tales. We will be working at the personal, clinical, cultural and soulful levels exploring with story, movement, dreams and shadow material as ways to engage clients’ stories at depth.
Weekend theme: Stories of Soul-Making and Working at the Threshold

Stage 5

Thursday Modules

– A Soulful Psychopathology

What ails thee? What might soul be saying through psychopathology? How do presenting symptoms speak to us? We’ll explore symptoms/wounds through both archetypal (Jung/Hillman) and developmental lenses (trauma/neuroscience) using the interactive Relational Soul-Field of the Re-Vision approach. We will work with myth, archetype and body via a mixture of conversational seminars and coaching sessions that aim to re-frame psychopathology giving soul’s suffering a place..

– The Craft of Therapy

This course aims to develop the quality of attention that therapists give to soul, creativity and play, exploring through an alchemical lens and the craft of attuning with the relational soul-field. Topics include: alchemy and transformational cycles, Eros and the erotic field, cultural complexes, and Mid-life. The main emphasis being to develop your capacities for holding and attuning with the deep body.

– The Wounded Researcher

Psychotherapy is a lived experience always relative to the story-telling of the author(s) and always grounded in uncertainty. Using a Participator-Researcher model we aim to increase awareness of research methods giving attention to heuristic, autoethnographic and hermeneutic methods. The module leads into incubation of students’ own unique research.

Saturday/Sunday themes:

Power and the Therapist’s Shadow, Introduction to Psychiatry, Trauma and Dissociation, Alchemy and Psychotherapy.

Entry requirements

To be eligible to apply for the Advanced Diploma, you need to be a member of a professional body and have obtained at least 200 individual face to face client hours with adults.  You also need to be supervised by a UKCP registered supervisor and have had at least three years of individual personal psychotherapy/counselling.  However, please note that acceptance is not automatic, as there is an Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) application process to go through in order for us to assess if you meet our criteria.  

Application procedure

This programme is offered biennially. Application forms are now available for September 2024, and please also look at our Transitions training which is a prerequisite for the course. We will accept applications from March 2024 and will invite those successful to interviews as applications are received. Please note that we will make offers of course places throughout the interview process with decisions made around April, June and early September and therefore encourage you to attend Transitions and apply early when possible.

Qualification
Students who successfully complete the training are eligible for UKCP registration. Graduates of our master level psychotherapy training can also apply for the European Certificate of Psychotherapy (EAP) and/or European Certificate of Integrative Psychotherapy (ECIP).

Fees
Fees include all residential costs and fortnightly supervision – click on the link for details Counselling & psychotherapy fees 2024 – 2025

We offer a discount on fees through a bursary system for students who would otherwise be unable to afford the training and specifically those who come from groups underrepresented in the profession.  Unfortunately our training is not eligible for student or adult learner loans.

For further information, please contact: The Administrator, Re-Vision, 97 Brondesbury Road, London NW6 6RY Tel: 020 8357 8881   info@re-vision.org.uk

STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
“The course helped me to mature as a therapist by encouraging me to find my own voice, and allowed me to integrate various therapeutic approaches within my own thinking.”     Katerina Gadjanski

“This is the qualification I value the most, it took considerable effort to get it and it was worth every exciting moment.”  Sophia Neville

 

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