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, Ethics Committee: Alan Colam
  • Registrar: Sally Beeken
  • Angela Greatley (lay Trustee)
  • Poul Rohleder
  • Frances Roper
  • Richard Serlin (lay Trustee)
  • Nikky Sternhell
  • Deborah Abrahams

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: Liz Grant
  • Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector: Jeremy Clarke
  • Association of Psychodynamic Practice and Counselling in Organisational Settings: Jenny Sprince
  • Birkbeck Counselling Association: Andrew Blackwood
  • British Psychanalytic Association: tbc
  • British Psychoanalytical Society / Institute of Psychoanalysis: Vic Sedlak
  • British Psychotherapy Foundation: Jean Knox
  • Enfield Counselling Service: Liz Good
  • Forensic Psychotherapy Society: Richard Curen
  • Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling: Liz Kent
  • Gloucestershire Counselling Service: tbc
  • Manor House Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling: Alex Moss
  • North of England Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists: Christine Murray
  • Northern Ireland Psychoanalytic Society: Hannah Browne
  • Scottish Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists: Gail Taylor
  • Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy: Stella Maile
  • Society of Analytical Psychology: Jennifer Stein
  • Tavistock Relationships: Andrew Balfour
  • Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists: Elisa Reyes-Simpson
  • Wessex Counselling and Psychotherapy: Penny Old
  • West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy: tbc
  • WPF: tbc

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)

2024 Dates

26 January

22 March

10 May

12 July

21 September

4 October

6 December

Key governance documents

Articles of Association
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Our Articles of Association
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BPC Board Meeting 26 November 2021 PUBLIC SUMMARY
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BPC Board Meeting 3 December 2021 PUBLIC SUMMARY
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BPC Board Meeting 21 January 22 PUBLIC SUMMARY
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BPC Board 25 March 2022 PUBLIC SUMMARY
- (153 KB PDF)
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BPC Board 6 May 2022 PUBLIC SUMMARY
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BPC Board 15 July 2022 PUBLIC SUMMARY
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BPC Board 28 October 2022 PUBLIC SUMMARY
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BPC Board 2 December 2022 PUBLIC SUMMARY
- (117 KB PDF)
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BPC Board 27 January 2023 PUBLIC SUMMARY
- (151 KB PDF)
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BPC Board 28 April 2023 PUBLIC SUMMARY
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BPC Board 14 July PUBLIC SUMMARY
- (203 KB PDF)
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BPC Board 20 October PUBLIC SUMMARY
- (104 KB PDF)
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BPC Board 2 December PUBLIC SUMMARY
- (100 KB PDF)
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