In order to undertake this course, we ask that you are:

• a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic psychotherapist or psychoanalyst, and are currently registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC); or
• a psychodynamic psychotherapist, and are currently registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP); or
• a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and are currently a registered member of the UKCP’s Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College (CPJA).

Home

£4,090 per year (2025/26)

International

£8,180 per year (2025/26)

You will be charged course fees for each year of your course. If your course is longer than one year, the fees that you will be charged after the first year will be subject to an annual uplift, which is not normally expected to exceed 6% or the Consumer Price Index (as stated on 01 September of that academic year) if higher than 6%. At its discretion and in rare instances, the Trust may determine a figure greater than either, to reflect costs associated with the activity (e.g. assessment, teaching, administration etc.), which shall not exceed 10%. Please refer to our Terms and Conditions, and Student Fees & Refund Policy for further information.

Financial support may be available to help you fund your studies at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

Assessment

To be awarded a Trust Certificate, participants should attend a minimum of 80% of all lectures, experiential and supervision groups, plus at least one team meeting per month, and complete a short, twice-yearly report for both of their patients.

Participants’ progress will be reviewed at twice-yearly progression boards, by a panel made up of the course lead and supervisors, with input from the experiential group leader and the academic module lecturers.

Attendance

This course is intended to be undertaken on a part-time basis, with approximately six hours of face-to-face activity taking place in the Tavistock Centre each week. This includes the weekly experiential group and clinical sessions in the Trauma Service. Where possible, we hope to be able to offer some flexibility in terms of these timings, and in the timings of weekly supervision groups, recognizing that these will need to fit into therapists’ already busy working week.

Our intention is for this course to be delivered in a blended mode. Some elements of the training will delivered be face to face, including the clinical placement and experiential group. It is anticipated that the lectures which make up each academic module will be delivered online or in-person, depending on the topic, to maximise flexibility.

For the academic year 2025/26, the experiential group and lectures will take place in the Tavistock Centre on Tuesday afternoons at 2.00pm and 3.30pm respectively. Clinical sessions can be arranged to take place on the same day, or on another day. Supervision groups will take place online, and there will be three sessions to choose between, spread throughout the week. Trauma Service team meetings take place on Mondays at 2.00pm, and course participants will be required to attend a minimum of one meeting per month – presenting a patient in a team meeting once over the course of the two years.

There is growing evidence of the need for therapists to be able to adapt their traditional psychoanalytic stance to work with traumatised patients. Many traditional trainings cannot give sufficient emphasis to trauma, considering its ubiquity in clinical work.

This course offers a sound clinical training to work as a trauma therapist within a psychoanalytic frame. It will support therapists in their current practice, while also introducing new possibilities for working in the trauma field.