Introduction
Thank you for visiting our web site. We trust the information contained in the following pages will inspire you to consider using the clinical and/or professional training services of the Institute.
Our primary aim, enshrined in the constitution of the Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute (registered number 4137238) is to benefit the public welfare, and further the advancement of public education, by developing a range of activities in counselling and psychotherapy on the basis of excellence in practice. We promote a rigorous professionalism grounded in concern, compassion and humanity, both in the provision of skilled practitioner services and professional training.
"SCPTI has an active equal opportunities policy and is working towards compliance with the human rights act"
To this end SCPTI has for several years been developing links with the community through the provision of clinical support to the employees of the borough council, commercial organisations and the local mental health services. In the next few years we intend to expand and extend the range of specialist clinical services in the region.
SCPTI is a full member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and therefore provides accredited training that enables our graduates to enter the UKCP national register of professional psychotherapists.
The Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Institute keeps abreast of developments within the wider community of Psychotherapy through it's membership of the:
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
United Kingdom Association for Therapeutic Counselling
United Kingdom Association for Psychotherapy Integration
European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy
European Association for Gestalt Therapy
European Association for Psychotherapy
Active membership of these organisations, together with a serious commitment to continued growth and development means that professional training at SCPTI remains at the leading edge of psychotherapy education in the UK and Europe.
The SCPTI Board of Directors has three Executive Directors: George Bassett, Peter Lavender and Lydia Noor.
Our teaching teams are well qualified academically and professionally and we are able to draw on the expertise of visiting trainers of international repute.
The Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy, Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy and the Diploma in Supervision at SCPTI are periodically revised in the light of developments in training standards within UKCP and the European Association for Psychotherapy. In addition we have added a Diploma in Relational Centred Psychotherapeutic Counselling ( first intake 2004) to our portfolio of professional trainings.
As a result of this revision of our courses and given the experience and expertise we have brought to this task, we believe that professional training at SCPTI is at the forefront of professional training in the UK and Europe.
While utilising our previous experience of delivering university validated psychotherapy education we prefer not to link SCPTI course with a university but rather with professional accreditation such as the UKCP and EAP, i.e. UKCP registration and the European Certificate of Psychotherapy. In this way we can avoid the increasing bureaucratic requirements of university validation which, in the recent experience of the trainers, leans too much toward academic criteria at the expense of clinical criteria. Furthermore SCPTI seeks to avoid the necessity to be driven by the need for annual recruitment in order to 'fill the years'.
SCPTI is a company limited by guarantee and is not profit making. SCPTI is a member of the UKCP and UKAPC and several European associations outlined above. We are guided in our professional development by these organisations.
Page Updated: 06/03/2010