About Us
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We were founded in the early 1980s and were among the first organisations in the UK to offer humanistically oriented professional training programmes.
Metanoia Institute is a well-established educational charity, specialising in the professional training programmes for counsellors, psychotherapists, counselling psychologists, supervisors, coaches and organisational development consultants.
Our Approach to Psychological Therapies
At Metanoia, all our approaches offer a broad basis from which to develop a personal style. We emphasise the importance of developing a sound therapeutic relationship that can support and challenge the client according to the context.
Psychotherapy outcome research and the experience of practitioners in the field, suggest that no single psychotherapy or counselling approach is significantly more effective than any other approach, and all have something to offer the clinician. It is the nature of the problem, the personality of the client and the setting of the therapy, that call for a particular approach.
Increasingly clinicians are required to be flexible and responsive, to the specific requirements of the context in which they work and to tailor the delivery of psychotherapy, to the needs of a particular client within the particular context. In particular, it is the quality of the therapeutic relationship, that is key in determining the success of the therapy.
All our training courses combine a focus on the therapeutic relationship, with a sound and coherent theoretical basis that can be flexible and responsive to client needs.