“For certain fortunate people there is something which transcends all classifications of behaviour, and that is awareness; something which rises above the programming of the past, and that is spontaneity; and something that is more rewarding than games, and that is intimacy.”

Eric Berne, founder of Transactional Analysis

At Therapy for People, we believe that therapy is for everyone – including therapists. Being a therapist is a great responsibility – we bring our best selves to sessions to be emotionally available for our clients. And sometimes – that is hard. Our clients can trigger us, or inevitably bring forth issues we might ourselves be struggling with. And life can be stressful. Being a therapist since the pandemic in the middle of a mental health crisis has been exhausting. Burnout among therapists is high – the average therapist leaves the business after 7 years. Something needs to change.

We believe the answer is more effective therapy for therapists, psychologists and counsellors. At Therapy for People, we are uniquely trained in Psychodynamic intervention methods. We use Transactional Analysis, Re-Decision Therapy and Advanced Integrative Therapy to support therapists in rapidly recovering from trauma, stress and burnout. Transactional Analysis (TA) is a brilliant cognitive model for understanding ourselves, the structure of our personalities, and our own developmental systems, which might have been compromised in early childhood. Re-decision Therapy blends the power of Gestalt (empty chair work) and the models of TA to support profound and transformative therapeutic change. Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) is a powerful Energy Psychology method that gently eases the symptoms of trauma using a somatic-based re-processing technique.