Trainers at The Manchester Institute For Psychotherapy

The Trainers listed below make up the present Trainers working on behalf of The Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy at Present time! They are trainers on:

• The Four year TA Psychotherapy Training programme
• The Supervision Certificate
• The Four year Child and Young people Diploma
• The CPD programme
• 101 Introduction to Transactional Analysis
• Seminars

• BOB COOKE – BA. PGCE. TSTA, Cert. Counselling UKCP Registered Psychotherapist    Bob who is the founder of the Manchester Institute is an experienced Psychotherapist and freelance trainer and Supervisor. He runs a clinical practice encompassing both individual and group psychotherapy. He also runs a four-year TA Psychotherapy course with a UKCP accreditation. The basic theoretical framework that he uses in his work is Transactional Analysis, and he offers an Integrative approach to therapy, incorporating Gestalt and bodywork techniques. Bob is the Principle Director of the Manchester Institute.

• STEPHANIE COOKE   –  CTA PTSTA    Stephanie has a wide range of experience, working with children and adolescents which spans twenty years. She began in the early eighties working as a Social Worker specialising in children and adolescents in all areas of childcare. At this time in her career she also worked in a CAMH’s unit as a counsellor for disturbed adolescents and children who have been traumatised and abused. Stephanie has also worked for Norfolk Childres projects with young offenders, working with them on projects within their local communities.Stephanie has worked as a counsellor and psychotherapist for twenty years, and presently works at the Manchester Institute as a trainer supervisor and psychotherapist with Adults and Children. She believes that all children have the right to “continuity of emotional well being, happiness and essential to this, good enough parenting”, and this is her guiding principal when working with children and their families

• JANET FENGEROS – BA (Hons) PTSTA.  I have had a very varied career path including a return to university as a mature student and a wealth of life experience. I provide a warm empathic environment for individuals wishing to challenge and change negative life patterns.I have a special interest in the difficulties that modern living and working can throw at us including relationship, family and stress related problems and especially how our past can influence how we cope with them. After having changed my life through the therapeutic experience, I believe that through therapy we can hold our negative life events up to the light and change how we deal with them, making us happier more confident people.
• JULIA TOLLEY – Julia has over 25 years personal development experience working with a variety of individuals from diverse backgrounds, seeking help and support for a wide range of issues and problems.  Initially qualified in the field of Human Resources Management in 1991, Julia’s professional contact with people was largely formal and she wanted to engage with people at a less formal and more supportive level.  Training as a Company Coach and Mentor, she started her Transactional Analysis training in 1996 and started her private practice in 1997.  Julia qualified as a Certified Transactional Analyst (Psychotherapist) in 2007 attaining UKCP accreditation as a result.  In the same year she attained the Supervision Certificate from the Manchester Institute.  In 2013, Julia became a PTSTA (P),  and in 2018 a TSTA (P).  She has a Therapy and Supervision practice working from a  log cabin in her garden. Julia works with individuals and couples and adolescents, and is an experienced Chikldren’s Therapy Trainer, working integratively with her Clients, Supervisees and Trainees.  She has developed along with a colleague a training programme for Written Exam Markers.  Whilst training, Julia is mindful of both the delivery of the theoretical material, the relational interface and the practical elements that the audience will take away with them and use in their practice with Clients and Supervisees.
• RUTH BIRKEBAEK – MD, PTSTA, Certified Integrative Psychotherapy Trainer & Supervisor (CIIPTS) by the IIPA (International Integrative Psychotherapy Association), UKCP registered Psychotherapist. Ruth 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, and did trainings in Psychosomatic Medicine and Jung Therapy followed by a 4-year training in Transactional Analysis. In 2003 she moved to the UK and did a 5-year training in Integrative Psychotherapy with Richard Erskine. For the last 17 years Ruth has worked full time as a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice in London, and delivers trainings and workshops internationally.
• SYLVA JOLLIFFE, MSc., CTA, PTSTA, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist.  Sylva has 10 years of experience in private practice, working with a wide variety of adult clients from diverse backgrounds as well as providing supervision to practising therapists and trainees preparing for examinations. She has delivered TA and other training in the commercial world. Sylva has recently joined the Manchester Institute and is looking forward to working with students in the four-year TA Psychotherapy Training Programme.  Before qualifying Sylva worked as a training consultant for many years in the financial services industry before qualifying as a performance coach. Her passion for personal development through coaching led her to explore Transactional Analysis, and so began her TA Journey.  Sylva has previously worked as a volunteer at ChildLine, as well as a local charity supporting adults returning to work and her local NHS early intervention psychosis team. She is also an active member of the UKATA Diversity and Social Responsibility Committee and is committed to developing UKATA policies and processes to promote equality and diversity in the TA community and has co-authored and edited several articles in the Transactional Analyst, the quarterly UKATA magazine.  Sylva is particularly interested in working with trauma and is currently in the process of qualifying as an EMDR therapist.
• SUSIE HEWITT TSTA (Teaching & Supervising Transactional Analyst), MSc Psychotherapy, UKCP Reg Psychotherapist & Supervisor, MBACP Accred, Primary Course Tutor.  Susie is a fully qualified Teaching & Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA-P) who gained her MSc in TA Psychotherapy through Middlesex University in 2017.  She is a Registered Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor with UKCP (United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy).  Susie completed her PG Psychotherapy Diploma in Transactional Analysis in 2011 through her 4 years training at MIP, and was pleased to return to MIP as a Visiting Trainer and then a Primary Course Tutor in 2017/18.She has a busy Private Practice in North Manchester where she works with individuals, couples and families, and has run regular psychotherapy groups since 2010.  She has a particular interest in Adoption; Childhood Sexual Abuse; Family Systems and Groupwork.  Her Masters dissertation topic was on Family Therapy using TA.Susie’s previous career was in IT Sales working for IBM on several key Financial Service Sector accounts such as Barclays, RBS, CFS & Halifax.  She ran the Women In Blue diversity group at IBM and was part of the ‘mentoring’ programme for several high schools in the North West.
• Marilyn Wright TSTA(P), CTA(P), MSc in TA Psychotherapy.  Marilyn has been in clinical practice since 1998, qualifying as a Certified Transactional Analyst, Psychotherapy, in 2003.  Her clinical work has covered a wide range of issues and she is experienced in working with couples.  Her background is in community work and adult community education, and she has had experience of working with community groups in developing skills to manage local projects, as well as developing a parenting skills course.  Since 2007 she has supervised and taught TA, supporting trainees to qualify as CTA’s. Marilyn  became a visiting trainer at MIP in 2017 and a Principal Tutor in 2019.  Her approach to adult education is to acknowledge and build on the wide range of life experience that trainees bring with them.  Marilyn has an interest in relational and developmental trauma, and attachment, and is keenly aware of social identity and the impact of poverty, culture, and prejudice.  She believes it is important to acknowledge the wider social context to understand the individual.