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
- Alan Colam
- Registrar: Sally Beeken
- Angela Greatley (lay Trustee)
- Frances Roper
- 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: tbc
- Association of Jungian Analysts: Meg Bisset
- Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector: Jeremy Clarke and Tony Burch
- Association of Psychodynamic Practice and Counselling in Organisational Settings: Jenny Sprince and Trudy Darien-Nugent
- Birkbeck Counselling Association: Andrew Blackwood
- British Psychanalytic Association: Catherine McKisack and Jan Harvie-Clark
- British Psychoanalytical Society / Institute of Psychoanalysis: Vic Sedlak
- British Psychotherapy Foundation: Frances Gillies and Jean Knox
- Enfield Counselling Service: Liz Good
- Forensic Psychotherapy Society: Richard Curen
- Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling: Liz Kent
- Gloucestershire Counselling Service: Edward Wier and Jessica Sullivan
- Manor House Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling: Alex Moss
- Northern Ireland Psychoanalytic Society: Bernard Cullen
- Scottish Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists: Gail Taylor
- Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy: Eva Gell
- Society of Analytical Psychology: Jennifer Stein
- Tavistock Relationships: Andrew Balfour
- Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists: Elisa Reyes-Simpson
- University of Exeter: Richard Mizen
- Wessex Counselling and Psychotherapy: Jo-Anne Graham
- West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy: John Nicholas and Sue Walker
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)
2025 Dates
31 January
28 March
9 May
18 July
13 September
17 October
12 December
