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PSYCHOTHERAPY & SPIRITUALITY

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IS THERE A DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN EGO STATES AND THE SOUL?

A TWO DAY WORKSHOP

Presented by Sava Allott

In this two-day workshop we will discuss spirituality and how it may lead us beyond the theory of psychotherapy, into realms of the unknown.

We will explore a variety of subjects from religion, myths, intuition and synchronicity, alongside the beliefs of different analysts and philosophers. For example, what did Eric Berne mean by the term Physis? Who are the three unconscious drives Fanita English imagined dancing above us? What did Martin Buber mean by I-IT and I-Thou relationships?

We’ll discuss whether there are parallels between psychotherapy and spirituality.

If we discounted spirituality in psychotherapy, do we force our clients into repression? We’ll explore how individually or collectively we relate to, Soul, Self, Spirit, the Divine, and God? What may be revealed through enquiry, attunement and involvement when exploring spirituality? This workshop is open to psychotherapists, counsellors and trainees.

Trainer: Sava Allott is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and works from the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy in Chorlton, Manchester. Her training was in Transactional Analysis from an Integrative Perspective, and she has a continuing passion in the subjects of dreams, dream analysis, mythology and alchemy.

Dates: 6th & 7th October 2025 (Monday and Tuesday)
Time: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Venue: Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy
Cost: £295 – deposit £100 (non refundable)

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This workshop carries Continuing Professional Development credits

PSYCHOTHERAPY & CREATIVE METHODS

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A ONE DAY WORKSHOP – PRESENTED BY SAVA ALLOTT

In this workshop we will explore the process of initiation and attunement, and how to work with the non-verbal, fearful, vulnerable child within our clients. This can be challenging for both client and therapist. How do we create a safe, secure, attachment to a child who longs to be seen and heard and at the same time is fearful and mistrusting of all relationships?

Creative interventions help to create a safe space and open doors to the imagination and fantasy which enable our clients to freely express themselves by letting go of fearful expectations, shame and embarrassment. I aim to shift both therapist and client from the stuck position.

This workshop is open to psychotherapists, counsellors and trainees alike.

Trainer: Sava Allott is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and works from the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy in Chorlton, Manchester. Her training was in Transactional Analysis from an Integrative Perspective and she has a continuing passion in the subject’s of dreams, dream analysis, mythology and alchemy.

Date: Monday, 10th November 2025
Time: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Venue: Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy
Cost: £175 – deposit £75 (non refundable)

To book

OR telephone 0161-862 9456 to pay by card

This workshop carries Continuing Professional Development credits

DREAMS, ILLUSION, CONTROL

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A ONE DAY WORKSHOP PRESENTED BY SAVA ALLOTT

In this workshop we will explore dreaming from the perspective of different therapeutic modalities.

My belief is that dreams may amplify unconscious messages in need of conscious attention and stress the phenomenological importance of working with dreams in the therapy room.

This workshop is open to psychotherapists, counsellors and trainees alike.

This is the same workshop that was held at the Manchester psychotherapy conference in 2024. However, we will have more time on this day which will allow more participants to take part in experiential exercises and there will be time for deeper discussions.

Trainer: Sava Allott is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and works from the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy in Chorlton, Manchester. Her training was in Transactional Analysis from an Integrative Perspective and she has a continuing passion in the subjects of dreams, dream analysis, mythology and alchemy.

Date:   Monday, 22nd September 2025

Time: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

Venue: Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy

Cost:   £175 – deposit £75 (non-refundable)

This workshop carries Continuing Professional Development credits

DEPRESSION IN THE CONSULTING ROOM

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Understanding and managing Counter Transference

A ONE DAY WORKSHOP – PRESENTED BY DR. RUTH BIRKEBAEK

In this workshop we will discuss depression as a symptom of a much larger mental health problem. A symptom that results from early significant relationship disruptions. What happens to young children when parents/caretakers are consistently mis-attuned to their relational and developmental needs? We will explore clients’ different forms of transference enacted in the therapeutic relationship, and therapists’ counter-transference when working with depressed clients, such as helplessness and hopelessness.

What happens when therapists ask clients to change their depressive behaviours and attitudes? We will discuss the paradoxical theory of change and the psychological function of clients’ depressive behaviours.

Participants will learn to:

  • understand the phenomenological experience of this client group, including their attachment patterns, script beliefs and unconscious relational patterns, and how these manifest in the counter-transference;
  • formulate a therapeutic perspective that will include the significance of attunement to client’s affect and rhythm while resonating with the client’s level of emotional development;
  • understand and manage the various aspects of transference and counter-transference.

Through a mix of didactic teaching and case discussions this workshop will help clinicians to apply theory in clinical practice and to enhance their effectiveness through identifying relational aspects of depression and to work with the transference and counter-transference.

Trainer: Ruth Birkebaek is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist, a Certified Integrative Psychotherapy Trainer & Supervisor (CIIPTS-IIPA) and a Certified Transactional Analyst – Provisional Trainer & Supervisor (PTSTA). Additionally, Ruth has trained in Psychosomatic Medicine and Jung Therapy. She started her career in Brazil in 1989 as a Plastic Surgeon. After graduating from medical school, she became interested in the impact of the mind on the development of physical illness. Ruth now works full-time as a Psychotherapist and Supervisor in private practice in London and delivers trainings in Relational Integrative Psychotherapy & Transactional Analysis. She is a Primary Course Tutor at the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy.

Date: Monday, 29th September 2025
Time: 9.30 am to 4.30 pm
Venue: Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy
Cost: £175 – deposit £75 (non refundable)

This workshop carries Continuing Professional Development credits

CERTIFICATE IN FUNDAMENTALS OF RELATIONAL & INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY

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There are places still available for the January 2025 course. Please note this course will start at 9.30 am and not 10.00 as advertised.

A 5 day Certificate Course run on 5 single Mondays over 3 months starting on 13th January 2025.

Trainer: Dr. Ruth Birkebaek

This 5 day course is based on Richard Erskine’s model of a relationally-focused and developmentally- based Integrative Psychotherapy.  Ruth will discuss the fundamental theory and methods of a psychotherapy that aims to integrate client’s affect, cognition, physiology and behaviour into a cohesive sense of self, so that behaviour is by choice in the current situation and not stimulated by fear, compulsion or condition. The unaware, unresolved or fragmented aspects of the self are integrated. Through lectures, case vignettes and experiential exercises, this 5 day workshop will help clinicians and trainees enhance their effectiveness in working relationally. There will be no essays or written work to fulfil as the tutor will be able to judge competency by demonstration and practice.

This course will be useful to psychotherapists, counsellors and trainees who want to enhance their effectiveness in working relationally.

Participants will learn to:

  • Create and maintain a contactful and involved therapeutic
    relationship.
  • Use phenomenological inquiry to uncover clients unconscious
    experiences
  • Help clients to maintain internal contact with their feelings, body
    sensations and thought processes
  • Formulate a therapeutic perspective that will include the significance
    of attunement to client’s affect and rhythm while resonating with the
    client’s level of emotional development

WINTER 2025

Module One: 13 January 2025

What is Integrative Psychotherapy? This module will explore the development of a relationship-focused Integrative Psychotherapy. The focus of this module will be on the integration of affect, cognition, behaviour and physiology. We will also discuss the Philosophical Principles of Integrative Psychotherapy.

Module Two: 27 January 2025

Here we will discuss Integrative Psychotherapy as a Comprehensive system that includes a Theory of Motivation, Theory of Personality and Theory of Methods. The focus of this module will be on the Theory of Motivation – what motivates people’s behaviours and attitudes.

Module Three: 17 February 2025

In this module we will look at an integrated set of Theories of Personality and Evaluation that provide ways to understand, evaluate & plan a treatment to facilitate the integration of the personality. The focus of this module will be on Contact, Relational Needs and the Script System – how people are consistently reinforcing their script beliefs about self and others.

Module Four: 17 March 2025

In this module we will discuss how healing occurs through a contactful relationship. The focus will be on the relational methods of Integrative Psychotherapy – how to create and maintain a safe enough therapeutic relationship that helps clients to self[1]stabilise in a mature way.

Module Five: 14 April 2025

This module will focus on Presence and Involvement as healing dimensions of Integrative Psychotherapy – how to work with clients’ vulnerability

Trainer: Ruth Birkebaek is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist, a Certified Integrative Psychotherapy Trainer & Supervisor (CIIPTS) by the IIPA (International Integrative Psychotherapy Association) and a Certified Transactional Analyst – Provisional Trainer & Supervisor (PTSTA). She trained for 5 years with Richard Erskine. Also she has trained in Psychosomatic Medicine, Jung Therapy and Transactional Analysis.  She works full time as a Psychotherapist and Supervisor in private practice in London and delivers trainings and workshops internationally. She is also Primary Tutor at MIP.

Venue: Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy

Time:   9.30 am to 4.30 pm

Cost:    £975 – deposit of £150 (non refundable) required to secure your place. (The balance can be paid in instalments if need be).

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Re-Accreditation Procedure for UKCP Registered Graduates

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The UKCP requires that all therapists who are registered with the UKCP must be re-accredited every 5 years through MIP or through direct membership.

Introduction:

In October 2015 MIP was accepted as an organisational member of the UKCP within the Humanistic & Integrative College (HIPC).

HIPC is the biggest college in the UKCP and includes many humanistic disciplines such as Gestalt and Existential Psychotherapy. 

UKCP holds a national register of Psychotherapists and Psychotherapeutic Counsellors.  The main purpose of the register is to “provide assurance to the standards of registers of unregulated health and care occupations”.  It exists to advance, promote and maintain high standards of practice of psychotherapy for the benefit of all. 

UKCP’s position on reaccreditation is that all full clinical members must be able to provide documentation which demonstrates and supports the way they are practicing as a psychotherapist.  This process must be undertaken at a minimum of once every 5 years.

Purposes of Re-accreditation:

*         To underpin and promote reflective and informed practice and continuing professional development.

*         To underpin and support best practice in a way that is beneficial to both practitioners and service users.

Pathways for Re-accreditation

There are 2 pathways to re-accreditation:

*         Through the organisational member, MIP.

*         Directly through the UKCP (HIPC)

If the second route is taken, MIP must be informed.

Members of MIP will follow the re-accreditation process as indicated below. Please note there is a £25 administration charge. 

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Direct Members will follow the HIPC college procedures which are outlined on the HIPC college website once they have registered.

Re-accreditation Procedure and Requirements

MIP Requirements are:

*         Demonstrate that therapists are still working in a professional capacity.

*         Provide a Supervision log – documentation to verify their supervision provision over the last five years.  This should also include a statement from their present supervisor verifying the amount of contracted supervision.

*         Copy of professional indemnity insurance cover.

*         An outline of organisational work, such as teaching, training, seminars, lectures etc.

*         Continuing Professional Development record. Members must provide details of their CPD over the last five years in keeping with UKCP and MIP’s CPD requirements.

          The minimum requirement is 250 CPD hours over a five year period, normally with a minimum of 20 hours in any one year.  This will be discussed in your Peer Review meeting with an understanding of how the work undertaken has contributed to your specific development as a therapist.  (This will include certificates of attendance and documentary evidence).  In this context, MIP will require a short evaluation of your future needs and indication on how those will be met.

*         Each applicant needs to show that their CPD reflects the diversity and equalities policy of the UKCP.  This includes things such as an understanding of power dynamics, prejudice, importance of oppression, and the needs of the diverse group of clients that they work with on a clinical level.

*         Each member will write a brief reflective document (1000 words) outlining the development of their clinical practice over the last five years.  This should also include their future aspirations with regards to their clinical journey and enhancement of professional effectiveness.

*         Details of any complaints made with regards to yourself in the last five years.

*         Details of your clinical practice.

*         Life-work balance: details of non-professional interests including any significant family or personal events over the last 5 years.

Professional Will Arrangements

The HIPC guidelines state “We recognise it as our professional responsibility to ensure that arrangements are in place for sudden long-term or permanent absence from work so that the clients’ needs can be provided for”.  Therefore, in this submission please describe your present professional will.

Re-accreditation Procedure/Criteria

*         MIP, via the Re-accreditation Committee, will inform MIP graduates when they are due for reaccreditation.  This will be done four to six months before the due date. 

*         Members will choose a professional peer review group which should have a have a minimum of three members in addition to the member being re-accredited (UKCP or equivalent, eg BACP, BPC).  The suggested make-up of this peer review group is that it contains at least one member who is not familiar with the individual member’s work and this member should sign the summary of the meeting. 

          It is strongly recommended that all individual members meet on an ongoing basis with peers for supervision/professional development/peer consultation, in addition to their own individual supervision.  It is suggested that the make-up of the peer review group is that it contains at least one member of their regular peer group.

*         The peer review group will meet and the individual needs to take with them the necessary requirements outlined above – where they will discuss and provide written evidence to each other, and evaluate how they meet the requirements above.

*         The chair of the group, after the necessary discussion and evaluation, collects the individual’s written evaluation, with a short report of the peer review group’s processes, and sends it to the MIP Re-accreditation Committee.

*         It is recommended that this peer review group will last three to four hours in totality for completion purposes.

*         If there is a lack of agreement within the peer review group concerning one of the members with regards to their evaluation or documentation, the chair of the peer review group will inform the chair of the Re-accreditation Committee as soon as it is possible to do so.

Final Outcome of the Above Procedure

The Re-accreditation Committee looks at the documentation and report from the peer group and discusses whether to

            *         Re-accredit

          *         Re-accredit with conditions and time schedule

          *         Not to re-accredit

Re-accreditation Committee

The Re-accreditation Committee is made up of three representatives and meets once a year in July and if needed it may meet for a further date in January.  All documentation from the peer review meeting is be forwarded to the Re-accreditation Committee for consideration with regards to registration with the UKCP. 

The three representatives will be made up of members of the Quality & Procedures Committee.

After completion of this stage the Director of Training will inform the UKCP of the candidate’s name for formal registration.

APPEALS PROCEDURE

If your submission for re-accreditation was unsuccessful, you have the right to appeal against our decision.

There are 2 grounds on which you can appeal:

*         If the assessment procedure has not been followed correctly, or

*         If your submission has not been fairly and properly assessed against the published criteria.

How to Appeal:

Appeals should be made in writing to the Chair of the Re-accreditation Committee within 14 days of receiving the decision.

An “Appeals Panel” will be formed which includes the Chair of Re-accreditation Committee and at least two senior trainers/tutors/supervisors from MIP.  The applicant may be invited to a face-to-face meeting.  This process will be completed within one month of receiving the appeal letter.  The Chair of the Appeals Panel holds authority and will make the final decision on any appeal.

Members not meeting requirement

Where there is evidence that a member is not meeting requirements for re-accreditationthe person concerned will be provided with the reasons and given time to comment.   Where appropriate, members will be offered advice intended to improve the chances of successful re-accreditation after subsequent application.

If an individual refuses to submit the required information, or if it is determined that an individual has not met the requirements for reaccreditation, the organisational member (or the HIPC assessment board in the case of direct members) will provide a written report to the College Chair stating the basis on which the decision was made.  The College Chair (or delegated responsible officer) will consider the report and make a decision. This decision will be final.

Where it has been established the requirements for reaccreditation have not been met, or if an application for reaccreditation is not received, despite requests, the member (either from an organisational member or direct member) will be referred to the UKCP registrar who will authorise an immediate and full audit of the member concerned by the UKCP membership team.  Failure to meet audit requirements or to complete with UKCP audit constitute grounds for the member to be removed from the UKCP register.

This policy will be reviewed every 18 months and updated a minimum of every 36 months.

                                                  Reviewed & Revised September 2023