In this video  Karen Burke and Stephanie Cooke are both discussing the history and  creation of the low-cost clinic at the Manchester Institute for psychotherapy.The low-cost clinic is unique in its creation as improvised a placement for the third year trainees in the transactional analysis psychotherapy training. The clinic was the brainchild of Bob Cooke who is the clinical director and founder of the Manchester Institute for psychotherapy- 1987.

Karen Burke is Gestalt psychotherapist at the Institute and put together the low-cost brochure which outlines the framework  which the clinic operates from- indeed this brochure is vital to the understanding and regulations of the running of the low-cost clinic at MIP. Karen has recently conducted  research with regards to the low-cost clinic and its challenges and growth.