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SAFPAC Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling. Psychotherapy and councelling training London
UKCP Training in Existential-Analytic Psychotherapy
​and Existential-Analytic Psychotherapeutic Counselling
  • Develop your therapeutic relational abilities to help others be clearer about the meaning of their experiences and desires Train and be on the UKCP register as an existential-analytic psychotherapist and existential-analytic psychotherapeutic counsellor
  • 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 and psychoanalytic 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

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 or psychotherapeutic counsellors 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) and became a UKCP accredited training organisational member through the Constructivist and Existential College of UKCP. With regard to research and publications, these were previously carried out by the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education whilst at the Universities of Surrey and Roehampton, and are now carried out through SAFPAC's Research Unit for Therapeutic Education (RUTE). 
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​Term dates
ACADEMIC YEAR 2021-2022
  • Autumn Term - Phenomenology through Existentialism - 07/10/2021 - 16/12/2021 (Reading week 28/10/21)
  • Spring Term - Phenomenology through Psychoanalysis - 13/01/2022 - 24/03/2022 (Reading week 17/02/22)
  • Summer Term - Phenomenology and Critical Psychotherapy -  28/04/2022 - 07/07/2022 (Reading Week 02/06/22)
  • Saturday meetings 10.00am - 5.00pm:
    6th November 2021
    26th February 2022
    14th May 2022

ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-2023

  • Autumn Term - Phenomenology through Existentialism - 06/10/2021 - 15/12/2022 (Reading week 27/10/22)
  • Spring Term - Phenomenology through Psychoanalysis - 12/01/2023 - 23/03/2023 (Reading week 16/02/23)
  • Summer Term - Phenomenology and Critical Psychotherapy -  27/04/2023 - 06/07/2023 (Reading Week 01/06/23)
  • Saturday meetings 10.00am - 5.00pm:
    5th November 2022
    25th February 2023
    13th May 2023
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.​
Successful participants may apply to go on the UKCP register as an existential-analytic psychotherapeutic counsellor during phase 4, and as an existential-analytic psychotherapist immediately after phase 4. 

​Fees
Fees (£1000 per annum (or £375 per term) (£1150 per annum or £415 per term for academic year 2022/23) 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


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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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