Governance

We are a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. Our Board of Trustees, supported and advised by the Chief Executive, provide the strategic direction of the organisation and ensure it is well governed. We place great importance on our close relationship with our Member Institutions and our Council provides a key link with our Trustees.

Our Trustees

Trustees are responsible for the good governance of the organisation, setting strategic objectives and overseeing the delivery of business objectives They are appointed on a skills and competency basis. Our Articles of Association require that most of our Trustees are BPC Registrants, but that a minimum of two are lay Trustees. The clinical Trustees are not appointed as representatives of their Member Institutions (MIs).

Chair: Lee Smith
Chair, Professional Standards Committee:  Jan McGregor Hepburn
Chair, Ethics Committee: Alan Colam
Registrar: Sally Beeken
Angela Greatley (lay Trustee)
Tim Kent
Poul Rohleder
Richard Serlin (lay Trustee)
Nikky Sternhell

Our Council

Council comprises of representatives of our Member Institutions, usually the Chair or a senior Board member of each organisation. Our Articles of Association require that Council representatives are BPC Registrants. Council ensures that the Trustees are actively engaged with our Member Institutions. Council meetings are chaired by the Chair of Trustees and other Trustees are in attendance.

Anna Freud Centre: Tessa Baradon
Association of Jungian Analysts: Liz Grant
Association of Medical Psychodynamic Psychotherapists : Richard Ingram
Association of Psychodynamic Counsellors: tbc
Association of Psychodynamic Practice and Counselling in Organisational Settings: Andew Briggs
British Psychanalytic Association: Joscelyn Richards
British Psychoanalytical Society / Institute of Psychoanalysis: Michael Mercer
British Psychotherapy Foundation: David Vincent
Forensic Psychotherapy Society: Richard Curan
Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling: Mary Rose Thompson
Gloucestershire Counselling Service: Emma Griffiths
North of England Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists: Christine Murray
Northern Ireland Psychoanalytic Society: Hannah Browne
Scottish Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists: Jane Naismith
Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy: Eva Gell
Society of Analytical Psychology: Inge Spencer
Tavistock Relationships: Andrew Balfour
Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists: Elisa Reyes-Simpson
Wessex Counselling and Psychotherapy: Penny Old
West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy: Lynette Maple

Board Meetings

In the interest of transparency, we will now be publishing the dates of our Board meetings and summaries of the public sections of these meetings (please see below)