The Berne Institute’s course in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy is intended for trainees who plan to pursue a professional career as psychotherapists. The training is accredited by the Humanistic and

Integrative College (HIPC) of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) for the purpose of registration. The Berne Institute is an Organisational Member of the UKCP within HIPC, and is also a Registered Training Establishment of the United Kingdom Association for Transactional Analysis (UKATA)

Trainees completing the course will normally take the international examination set by the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA) for accreditation as a Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA) in the field of Psychotherapy. Success in the CTA examination qualifies you to be listed in the UKCP’s National Register as a Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist. The CTA qualification is also recognised by TA organisations worldwide as a certificate of competence to practise. It is a necessary step if you intend going on to become a TA trainer within the international EATA/ITAA framework. If you wish to have advanced TA training and supervision to apply to your own practice, without taking the CTA examination, you may also be accepted on the course.

For the duration of your training, you are required to undergo personal psychotherapy. At a minimum, this should be psychotherapy of a type and frequency similar to that which you expect to provide after accreditation. We view this as a professional and ethical necessity, and it is also one of the requirements laid down by the ITA and UKCP. For the TA trainee, this implies membership of an ongoing TA psychotherapy group, as well as individual psychotherapy and participation in “marathons”. We encourage you also to benefit from personal psychotherapy in modalities outside TA. Opportunities for personal psychotherapy are available in conjunction with the training programme. Alternatively or additionally, you may arrange to undertake psychotherapy with other recognised TA practitioners.

To be eligible for the TA Psychotherapy course, you must:

· have a degree (or degree-equivalent qualification), preferably in the helping professions;

· have completed the official TA 101 course or passed the TA 101 open-book examination;

· have completed at least 120 hours of recognised advanced TA training;

· complete an intake interview with one of the trainers, to the mutual satisfaction of trainer and trainee;

· take out membership in UKATA (which confers similar membership in EATA) and pay the necessary UKATA membership subscription