Member Institutions

GCS specialises in providing counselling and training counsellors to professional standards. It was established in 1980 to offer affordable, open-ended, in-depth counselling in Gloucestershire. All clients are assessed at the Centre and allocation considered carefully. There are now over 60 part-time counsellors and over 220 people use the counselling service each week. All counselling is regularly supervised on a weekly basis. Experienced senior staff, seminar leaders, tutors and supervisors ensure the high standards of training and practice with which GCS has become associated.

Established in 1992, training institution and professional association for psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

Established in 1988, training institution and professional association for psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

Established in 1972, professional association for psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

Established in 1985, training institution and professional association for
psychoanalytic psychotherapists and psychodynamic psychotherapists.

Established in 1936, training institution and professional association for analysts (Jungian) in the United Kingdom.

Tavistock Relationships aims to promote the understanding of couple relationships from a psychoanalytic perspective and to develop psychoanalytically informed work with couples. It does this through providing training and professional support for its own members and other practitioners working in related fields, and through holding events that aim to engage the wider community in thinking about couple relationships.

The Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists was established in 1995 as the professional association for the psychoanalytical psychotherapy training, the child psychotherapy training and family therapy trainings at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust (incorporating the Society of Psycho-Analytical Psychotherapists, founded in 1983).

Wessex Counselling Service was formed in 1983 to offer professional and affordable counselling to people around Frome, Bath and Bristol – also to provide counselling and psychotherapy training.