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Training Programme

The Arbours Psychotherapy Training Programme integrates psychoanalytic thought with contemporary social and cultural thinking. It focuses on individual and community psychotherapeutic practice.

The programme is based on Arbours’ extensive experience since 1970 of providing therapeutic support for people in emotional distress, including psychosis. The training programme has links with the Arbours therapeutic communities, crisis centre and psychotherapy service.

• Associates Programme
• Training Programme
• Training Committee
• Training Fees
• Outline of Psychotherapy Training
• Application Form and Timetables

Associates Programme

The Associates Programme, which starts in January every year,

is a stand-alone programme and is often the access route to the full psychotherapy training programme. It

is suitable for those who are interested in exploring psychoanalytic principles, and in applying them to individuals, or in residential or community settings. Participation in an ongoing experiential group helps towards a dynamic understanding of interpersonal and intrapsychic issues raised in the course.

Seminars, workshops and experiential groups

The course comprises three terms of ten weeks. The students meet on a Monday evening from 7pm to 10pm for a theoretical seminar and the experiential group. In addition, there are four Tuesday evening workshops per term and Associates can access six clinical seminars on Thursday evenings per term.

Clinical placements

Although not a requirement of the Associates Programme, there may be some opportunities for supervised placements during the year. These could be of particular interest to associates who intend to apply for the Training Programme in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as associates who have had little or no prior clinical experience. Placements are arranged jointly between the community co-ordinators and the training committee.

Personal psychotherapy

Associates are required to be in individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy at least once a week with a psychotherapist approved by the training committee. Associates will be assigned a personal tutor with whom they will meet three times a term.

Access to the Associates Programme

Applicants to the Associates Programme will attend two interviews and are expected to satisfy the training committee as to their personal maturity, motivation and competence. Two letters of recommendation are required from people who have known the applicant for at least one year either in a professional or an academic capacity.

Arbours operates an equal-opportunities policy and welcomes applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds. The Association of Arbours Psychotherapists and the Arbours Training Programme offer two bursaries each of £1,000 a year to Asian, African or Afro-Caribbean trainees. Details can be obtained from the training committee.

Associates may apply for acceptance to the full Training Programme in psychoanalytic psychotherapy during the third term of the Associates Programme. Acceptance will be subject to the decision of the training committee.

The Training Programme

The Arbours Training Programme provides intensive preparation for the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Emphasis is placed on understanding the inner worlds and social relations of people in distress.

The programme involves seminars, workshops, experiential groups, clinical placements, personal psychoanalytic psychotherapy and supervised training cases. Teachers are drawn from the Arbours Association and from a wide range of experts in specialised subjects.

Seminars, workshops and experiential groups

Seminars are held on two evenings a week, usually Mondays and Thursdays, from 8.30pm to 10.00pm. Experiential groups take place on Tuesday evenings twice a term, and there are occasional special workshops. Most seminars and workshops are at 6 Church Lane, London N8.

Clinical Placements

The training at Arbours is unique in affording the opportunity to undertake supervised clinical placements, both in the Arbours therapeutic communities and crisis centre. These placements give students sound and varied clinical experience, and complement the academic and theoretical aspects of the training.

Trainees undertake the first of the two clinical placements at one of the three Arbours therapeutic communities. The second is at the Arbours Crisis Centre, working with the crisis intervention teams. Each placement is usually for a period of six months to a year. We encourage trainees to do their communities placement on a residential basis; however, the residential aspect of the programme is flexible, and can be arranged to fit in with circumstances of work or family. We aim to make it possible for people to remain in full-time employment while completing all parts of the Arbours programme. Trainees on placements receive weekly supervision and are required to write reports about their work in the communities and crisis centre.

Training psychotherapy casework

After trainees have satisfactorily completed their clinical placements, they will be referred, subject to the decision of the training committee, two individuals for psychotherapy and will work under supervision for each case. Referral of training cases is usually made through the Arbours Psychotherapy Service. To complete the course, trainees present a final paper about their work with one of their training cases.

Personal psychotherapy

Trainees are required to be in individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy at least three times a week, starting upon acceptance to the programme and continuing for the entire period of their training. Trainees

meet twice per term with their personal tutor and participate twice a term in an experiential group.

Access to the training

Arbours operates an equal-opportunities policy and welcomes applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds.
Usually, trainees are expected to have completed the Associates Programme before acceptance into the Training Programme which starts in January. Training fees are due before the beginning of each term and are reviewed every year.

The Association of Arbours Psychotherapists and the Arbours Training Programme offer two bursaries each of £1,000 a year to Asian, African or Afro-Caribbean trainees. Details can be obtained from the training committee.

Completion of training and qualification

Upon successful completion of the course the trainee, subject to the decision of the training committee, will be awarded a Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and be invited to join the Association of Arbours Psychotherapists (AAP). He or she can then attend the regular monthly therapists’ meetings. All members of the AAP are included in the Register of Psychotherapists of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.

The Training Committee

• Kym Winter (Chair)
• Peter Berry
• Kate Gilbert
• Rosamund Johnson
• Tom Ryan
• Björg Sveinsdottir
• Ana Valea

The training committee reserves the right to make any changes to the course that it deems necessary.

The Arbours Association is a member of the Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Section of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.

Training Fees for 2010

Associates Programme Registration Fee	£75
Associates Programme	£1600/£1700 a year
Full trainees	£600 a term
Mature (ie qualifying year)	£290 a term
Ongoing	£55 a term

Training fees are reviewed each year. The above rates are subject to the conditions of payment decided by the training committee.

Outline of Psychotherapy Training

Application Form and Timetables

Associates Programme Application Form (pdf document, 242 KB)

Outline of Psychotherapy Training (pdf document, 84 KB)

Associates programme timetable (pdf document, 53 KB)

Training programme timetable (pdf document, 57 KB)

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