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Andy Williams

February 12, 2019 By Jane Williams

Andy Williams
Andy Williams

One of our series of interviews with the trainers at TA training Organisation. Andy Williams is Co Director of TA Training Organisation and an experienced psychotherapist supervisor and trainer. Andy lives in Leeds and we tracked him down at the Training Centre in Horsforth.

Q1. How long have you been a psychotherapy trainer and how did you get into this as a career?

My passion for therapy developed when I was working in the corporate world, working for several large hotel companies.  I began to see how disjointed the workplace was and how abandoned and “missed” colleagues felt.  I knew from this time that I wanted to be a therapist, and then as I became more experienced, to train other therapists.  I qualified in Transactional Analysis and became a UKCP registered psychotherapist in 2005.

I have now been a trainer since 2008 and completed my final training exams in Europe in 2015.  Every journey in psychotherapy is ongoing. I can definitely say I learn something new every day. Especially from my colleagues.

Q2. Is there a specialist area that you are particularly passionate about and why?

When I think about therapy I think about freedom, emancipation and liberation. I want people to be free to be fully themselves; and to be comfortable in their skin.  This often leads me to be passionate about those who are at the margins and edges of our world.  I am very interested in the huge variety of gender identities, gender expression and differing sexualities.  I am also deeply committed to teaching and working particularly in the area of relational theory. I am fascinated to see what happens in the therapy relationship can be a mirror of our past.

Q3. Do you find that as a trainer you learn something as part of the sessions you run which you can take back to your own practise?

It is a great privilege to be a trainer. Humbling, and there is deep learning throughout every process and session.  Above all at the moment I feel I am learning to think!  I can be terribly impulsive and want to get things done and finished.  This is not a good process when considering being or learning to become a therapist.  Things take time and deep reflection.

Q4. What advice would you give to someone who is thinking of taking up psychotherapy or counselling as a career?

I feel generous and warm towards someone who is considering the profession.  I would encourage them to come and talk to someone, to take advantage of one of our free advice hours or to speak to other professionals and ask their advice and seek their experience.  You must find a course and environment that “fits” and goes well with your way of being. Here at TA Training Organisation there are several ways you can have an experience of what it might be like to train here. The TA 101 is a good first step.


Q5. How do your training sessions support students in their careers?

Well I see us as a totally applied training, we watch people becoming living and breathing practitioners.  This week during training we supported someone who was starting running their own business and their own private psychotherapy practice.  We train at the TA Training Organisation in order that people can go and do!  I see it as a very pragmatic process.

Q6. Has there ever been a particularly memorable course that you have run and why?

I have had a few disasters in my time!  I have learnt that it does help if the trainer reads the course brief before starting, so they don’t, for instance, deliver the wrong material to the wrong group. 

On a more serious note, I have greatly enjoyed working with external agencies and delivering training to them.  It’s been great working with some of the local universities and exploring integrative psychotherapeutic approaches in order to support the counselling for students service.

Interested in finding out more about working with us? Please contact us here.

Filed Under: Training Course News Tagged With: psychotherapy, psychotherapy training, supervision, TA Training, trainer, transactional analysis

Supervision and Professional Development Days

November 24, 2015 By Jane Williams

We are really excited about our next new project here at TA Training Organisation.   We are going to be offering a series of Supervision and Professional Development days over the next few months.  The purpose of these new sessions is to offer professionals, both qualified and unqualified, the chance for transactional analysis supervision and continuing professional development.

A new venture

This is a new venture for Andy and me and comes out of a few over coffee discussions, as we have been talking to colleagues, supervisees and trainees, researching and reflecting on else we might support qualified counsellors, therapist and trainees in the Yorkshire area with interesting transactional analysis training and development.

We will run an open agenda day where the topics for the day together are decided by the group at the beginning of each day. This could be a mixture of classic supervision of client work, professional development issues, teaching of theory, personal process time, preparation for CTA or Diploma examinations and ethical and professional practice questions.  The list goes on!

Here’s a typical example of what a day might comprise.

 

Topic Main Training Room Topic Room 4
Group Introductions and agenda Andy and Lin
Case Supervision Andy Ethics Discussion Lin.
Morning break
Theory Teach on Personality Adaptations. Andy and Lin
Case supervision Andy Case Supervision Lin
Lunch
Diploma Exam discussion Andy Case supervision and tape Lin
Discussion of contracting Andy Case Supervision
Afternoon break
Case Supervision Andy Mock CTA Exam Lin.
Check out. Andy and Lin.

With a small group (less than eight people) either Andy or I will take the group with 8 people or more and we will both be present.We take a list of topics and requests at the beginning of the day and then develop the programme. Attendees are welcome to attend whichever session they wish.

“Drop in”

These will be “drop in” groups, you can sign up for just one day or for the whole programme.  Depending on the interest for the rest of this academic year we hope to run these sessions on an ongoing basis meeting once every two months for a day together.

We wanted to offer professionals not qualified in transactional analysis the opportunity of supervision and further development beyond the TA 101 and year one to support them in using transactional analysis in their practice with clients and to be supported in so doing and TA trainees will be able to count hours of supervision according to UKATA and EATA guidelines.

So, if you think this might be something you would like to experience the first session begins in the new year on Friday 5th February, click here to go to more information, if you’d like to find out more please Contact Us with any questions.  Or click on the dates below to go directly to Eventbrite and online booking.

Friday 5th February

Friday 15th April

Friday 10th June

Filed Under: Continuing Professional Development, CTA Exam Tips, Supervision, Training Course News Tagged With: counselling, counselling training, CPD, cta, cta written exam, exam preparation, psychotherapy, supervision, transactional analysis

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