WHAT IS SWANSEA PSYCHOTHERAPY PARTNERSHIP?
Swansea Psychotherapy Partnership (SPP) is a constituted association. It consists of UKCP trained psychotherapists living and working in the Swansea area and supports some counsellors working towards full UKCP accreditation. We collaborate to promote psychotherapy locally through events and networking.
What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy helps people to understand and change patterns of thinking feeling and behaving that cause distress in their lives. It can be beneficial for anyone suffering from distress, wanting to make some changes in their lives and relationships, interested in gaining greater self-awareness in order to fulfil their potential, whether or not you have a recognised mental health condition.
Psychotherapy involves exploring feelings, beliefs, thoughts and relevant events, sometimes from childhood and personal history, in a structured way with someone trained to help you do it safely.
Psychotherapists complete rigorous reflective learning which equips them with the the skills and understanding to work in depth with people experiencing a range of serious mental health issues in liaison with mental health services.
All UKCP psychotherapists are required to complete a mental health placement and encouraged to develop a multi-disciplinary approach to working.
How do psychotherapists train?
Psychotherapy training is experiential. Four years of personal psychotherapy (180 hours) and group training encourages practitioners to apply therapy to their own as well as other people's realities, understanding the processes and patterns that shape our own and others personalities.
Psychotherapists commit to a four year in-depth training course which must include several hundred hours of supervised client hours and personal therapy to gain accreditation with the UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy)
This is masters level training and prepares pyschotherapists to work with a variety of people with a wide range of mental health issues.
Training at the Welsh Psychotherapy Partnership (WPP) includes a research project, research into latest developments in neuroscience and a mental health placement in a clinical setting.
What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy helps people to understand and change patterns of thinking feeling and behaving that cause distress in their lives. It can be beneficial for anyone suffering from distress, wanting to make some changes in their lives and relationships, interested in gaining greater self-awareness in order to fulfil their potential, whether or not you have a recognised mental health condition.
Psychotherapy involves exploring feelings, beliefs, thoughts and relevant events, sometimes from childhood and personal history, in a structured way with someone trained to help you do it safely.
Psychotherapists complete rigorous reflective learning which equips them with the the skills and understanding to work in depth with people experiencing a range of serious mental health issues in liaison with mental health services.
All UKCP psychotherapists are required to complete a mental health placement and encouraged to develop a multi-disciplinary approach to working.
How do psychotherapists train?
Psychotherapy training is experiential. Four years of personal psychotherapy (180 hours) and group training encourages practitioners to apply therapy to their own as well as other people's realities, understanding the processes and patterns that shape our own and others personalities.
Psychotherapists commit to a four year in-depth training course which must include several hundred hours of supervised client hours and personal therapy to gain accreditation with the UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy)
This is masters level training and prepares pyschotherapists to work with a variety of people with a wide range of mental health issues.
Training at the Welsh Psychotherapy Partnership (WPP) includes a research project, research into latest developments in neuroscience and a mental health placement in a clinical setting.
What is our approach to psychotherapy?
Therapists working with SPP share a common philosophy and common values;
Relationships with others is the central dynamic in human growth and development and the psychotherapeutic relationship is key to explore what it means to be in relationship with others.
Human beings make meaning, including meaning about themselves and others, within a world of different types of relationships.
A therapeutic relationship can be transformational; meaning and knowledge may be reworked within relationships.
A person's subjective experience is their 'truth' and psychotherapy must honour the client's perspective
Life is in continuous change and flux and we need to be able to adapt and change to make the most of our experience of being alive
Our patterns of relating to ourselves and others are determined by our past relationships so exploring these are key to creating change and a better future.
Therapists working with SPP share a common philosophy and common values;
Relationships with others is the central dynamic in human growth and development and the psychotherapeutic relationship is key to explore what it means to be in relationship with others.
Human beings make meaning, including meaning about themselves and others, within a world of different types of relationships.
A therapeutic relationship can be transformational; meaning and knowledge may be reworked within relationships.
A person's subjective experience is their 'truth' and psychotherapy must honour the client's perspective
Life is in continuous change and flux and we need to be able to adapt and change to make the most of our experience of being alive
Our patterns of relating to ourselves and others are determined by our past relationships so exploring these are key to creating change and a better future.
