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SAFPAC Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling. Psychotherapy and councelling training London
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UKCP training and CPD in critical existential-analytic psychotherapy

  • Develop your therapeutic relational abilities to help others be clearer about the meaning of their experiences and desires in a post postmodern world
  • Train and be on the UKCP registers as an existential-analytic psychotherapist
  • Alternatively, if as a psychological therapist you have a minimum of 2 years' training that includes personal therapy, attend as continuous professional development (100 hours CPD per annum)
  • Learn through a practice-based programme in Wimbledon, London (Thursday evenings and one Saturday a term)
  • Consider the implications of what emerges in practice through humanistic, existential, psychoanalytic, postmodern and feminist ideas as well as the arts and humanities
  • Develop critical perspectives theoretically and politically on psychotherapy and the nature of psychotherapeutic knowledge
  • Be part of a learning community facilitated by university lecturers who are also practitioners and researchers 
  • Access experienced clinical and academic supervisors and existential-analytic psychotherapists
  • Hear from a wide range of visiting speakers
  • Commence at any time during the year

Welcome to the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling

SAFPAC is a not-for-profit Company Limited by Guarantee. Our focus is to provide a training in critical existential-analytic psychotherapy. The training. which mainly takes place on Thursday evenings and one Saturday a term, is normally held at Wimbledon Park Hall (Arthur's Cafe) 170 Arthur's Road, London SW19 7AQ (near Wimbledon Park Underground Station). However, because of COVID-19 this programme , together with the weekly one-to-one supervision/tutorials, etc are being conducted by Zoom or Skype. 

Should you be interested in the training, or in therapy or supervision, with one of the existential-analytic psychotherapists on our register, please feel free to contact us for more information. 
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Prof Del Loewenthal (Chair)
Dr Julia Cayne (Vice Chair)
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History
We were formed in 1998 as the Surrey Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling from students, alumni and staff of the MSc and PhD in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Surrey. These programmes in turn had commenced in 1978 at the Wolfson Medical Rehabilitation Centre in Wimbledon through South-West London College and the NHS.

​When in 2004 these programmes transferred to what became the University of Roehampton, and were subsequently joined by the PsychD in Psychotherapy and Counselling, the alumni association changed its name to the Southern Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC).  In 2015 SAFPAC was approved, through the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association (UPCA), to provide a training that enables its successful students to go on the UPCA and United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) registers as existential-analytic psychotherapists.   In 2019, the programmes returned to Wimbledon at Wimbledon Park Hall (Arthur's Cafe). Throughout that period the trainings were in association with the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, what is now The Research Group for Therapeutic Education at the University of Roehampton. Since then, SAFPAC's research and publications are carried out through SAFPAC's Research Unit for Therapeutic Education (RUTE). 
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​Term dates

ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-2020
  • Autumn Term - Phenomenology through Existentialism - 03/10/2019 - 05/12/2019 (Reading week: 31/10/19)
  • Spring Term - Phenomenology through Psychoanalysis - 09/01/2020 - 26/03/2020 (Reading week: 20/02/20)
  • Summer Term - Phenomenology and Critical Psychotherapy - 30/04/2020 - 02/07/2020 (Reading week: 28/05/20)
  • Saturday meetings 10.00am - 5.00pm:
    2nd November 2019
    15th February 2020
    16th May 2020
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2020-2021
  • Autumn Term - Phenomenology through Existentialism - 01/10/2020 - 03/12/2020 (Reading week 29/10/20)
  • Spring Term - Phenomenology through Psychoanalysis - 07/01/2021 - 25/03/2021 (Reading week 18/02/20)
  • Summer Term - Phenomenology and Critical Psychotherapy -  29/04/2021 - 01/07/2021 (Reading Week 27/05/20)
  • Saturday meetings 10.00am - 5.00pm:
    7th November 2020
    27th February 2021
    15th May 2021
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Contact SAFPAC
Phone 07817 758 824
Email enquiries@safpac.co.uk 

The Training
We aim to facilitate a place where we can develop others' and our own potency and potentiality for being in the world with others. Here we might also still be able to think about how alienated we are through valuing existential notions such as experience and meaning whilst questioning other aspects such as existentialism’s inferred narcissism and the place it has come to take up with regards to such aspects as psychoanalysis and the political. The post-existential would also include the post-phenomenological, where, for example, notions of being open to what emerges in the between (as well as of embodiment) would be given primacy. ​
  • Phase one (year one) is an introduction to critical psychotherapy and phenomenology initially through Rogers.
  • Phase two (year two) explores phenomenology in existentialism, psychoanalysis and critical psychotherapy.
  • Phase three (year three) addresses some implications of theory and research for thoughtful practice.
  • Phase four (year four/continuity year) focuses on developing practice; the single session, brief and long term therapy.​

​Fees
Fees (£1000 per annum (or £375 per term) for the UKCP training and £750 per annum (or £275 per term) for CPD) can be paid termly and will be reviewed annually.  
A charge of £200 for the application is made for progression onto the UKCP register as a clinical member. Bursaries are available in certain situations. Click here for more details. 

​In addition, participants on the UKCP training will have to pay for clinical supervision and personal therapy. Click here for more information. 

MORE ABOUT THE TRAINING


UKCP UK Council for Psychotherapy
UPCA Universities psychotherapy & councelling association
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Council of Management

Chair/Chair of Research and Publications (RUTE) – Professor Del Loewenthal
Chair of Training – Dr Julia Cayne
Treasurer/Chair of Finance, Audit and Risk – Dr Erik Abrams
Chair of Ethics and Complaints – Sally Parsloe LLB
Chair of CPD, Membership and Accreditation Committee – Dr Elizabeth Nicholl
Chair of Equality and Diversity – Dr Onel Brooks
Chair of Digital and Social Media/Data Protection Officer – Dr Christian Buckland
Health and Safety Officer – Miranda Kersley
Administrator – Betty Bertrand
Secretary – Jozef Bries
Complaints Clerk – Jean Wells
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Training

The programme is designed for those individuals who wish to meet the requirements for professional accreditation by the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (and for CPD). Besides private practice, the programme is also designed to meet the needs of professionals and public, private and voluntary organisations.
Fees and how to apply
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News and Events

Aside from this UKCP training, all advertised seminars and conferences can be booked through Eventbrite unless otherwise stated. 
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Other Associated organisations:

UKCP UK Council for Psychotherapy
UPCA Universities psychotherapy & councelling association
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