Transactional Analysis Cymru

12/10/2026

What does it really mean to be OK?

In this video, I explore life positions—and how accepting our shared uncertainty and vulnerability might allow us to meet ourselves and others with greater compassion.

11/10/2026

Psychotherapy training is a significant commitment, and it deserves time for thought.

TAC’s four-year core curriculum includes ten training weekends each year, alongside personal therapy, study and, as training progresses, clinical practice and supervision.

A supportive exam group and assessment paths leading to UKCP accreditation follow the core curriculum.

If you are considering taking this journey, we welcome a conversation about what it could involve for you.

You can bring your questions to one of our forthcoming open days, or contact us directly.
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03/09/2026

We are not isolated individuals.

Each of us is shaped by relationship, family stories, culture, history, place and the wider systems in which our lives unfold. Some of these influences are known and spoken. Others are carried through the body, through images and dreams, or through patterns inherited across generations.

Depth psychotherapy attends closely to an inner world within a matrix of time, memory, context and ground.

At TAC, trainees are invited to think personally, relationally, collectively, transgenerationally and ecologically — listening for the many threads that shape a person’s unconscious process.

We meet this complexity with curiosity, humility and care.

Applications for the next training intake open on 1 November 2026.

Discover more at tacymru.co.uk.

01/09/2026

The land enters the learning.

At Tycanol, we train between the Preseli Hills and the sea, held by the ancient temperate rainforest of Tŷ Canol Woods.

The land is not there for us to use - we are immersed in a shared relational field.

The weather changes. The body settles. Attention widens. The inarticulate finds voice.

Working outdoors invites reflection, movement, creativity and a deeper awareness of our soul in connection within a living world.

Psychotherapy training becomes rooted not only in ideas and relationship, but in body, place and the more-than-human.

Applications open on 1 November 2026.

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31/08/2026

The land enters the learning.

At Tycanol, psychotherapy training takes place within an open bowl of land, held by the ancient temperate rainforest of Tŷ Canol Woods, between the Preseli Hills and the sea.

The land is not there for us to use - we are immersed in relationship. Weather, season, movement and the more-than-human world become part of the field of attention.

Working outside can change the pace of learning. The body settles. Awareness widens. We begin to notice what becomes possible when we are no longer held only by walls, words and familiar ways of thinking.

Depth psychotherapy asks us to listen beneath the surface. The land can support this listening — offering space for reflection, creativity, embodied experience and a deeper awareness of our soul within a living world.

Applications for the next training intake open on 1 November 2026.

Discover more at tacymru.co.uk.

27/08/2026

Turn towards challenge with curiosity.

Difference can stir — uncertainty, defensiveness, the wish to withdraw, or a grasp towards certainty, rigidity, collapse or adaption. Its happening in our world now.

Within psychotherapy training, these moments can become thresholds for deeper learning.

At TAC, Adult–Adult learning means meeting one another with honesty, dignity and shared responsibility. Culture, identity, power and intersectionality are part of the relational field in the room.

Curiosity helps us pause and wonder:

What is being touched within me? What might another person be experiencing? What is asking to be understood between us?

Curiosity does not remove discomfort. It can help us remain present enough to listen, reflect, repair and grow.

Applications for the next training intake open on 1 November 2026.

Discover more at tacymru.co.uk.

24/08/2026

The group becomes the workshop.

A training group is more than a collection of people learning together. Over time, it becomes a living field of relationship — a place where patterns emerge and the challenge of difference may be met full on.

Within a small, held community, trainees learn through relationship itself. We learn how to belong not through platitudes, but through challenge and genuine care. Sometimes we have to tolerate what feels threatening to our Child parts, or uncomfortable for our Parent parts. This is an essential process for the restructuring of the ego to allow for our core self or psyche to unfold.

This calls for courage and care: to remain present, speak honestly, listen deeply, and become curious about what each of us brings into the room. This is a physical and psychological place where we can become more aware, more responsible and more able to meet another person as they are with compassion, at times assessment but not judgement.

Applications for the next training intake open on 1 November 2026.

Discover more at tacymru.co.uk.

20/08/2026

Can you learn relationship from a book?

Well you can - but it only goes so far. (I grew up on Jane Austin and the Bronte sisters)

Books and theory matter. They offer language, understanding and maps for the work. But relationship is something we encounter and live. And it can be really hard.

It is felt in the space between people — in moments of trust and uncertainty, closeness and distance, difference misunderstanding and repair. It asks us to notice what is happening within ourselves while remaining open to the experience of another.

At TAC, our relationships and the learning group become part of the work. Trainees develop the capacity to stay present when something difficult emerges, to listen beneath what is spoken, and to approach vulnerability with curiosity and care.

Psychotherapy is not only something we do. It grows from who we are able to be in relationship.

Applications for the next training intake open on 1 November 2026.

Discover more at tacymru.co.uk.

20/08/2026

20/08/2026

Self-discovery can arrive in unexpected forms—even as a very large beard!

In “Who are you, Rosalind?”, Rosalind shares a dream that aftermaking her horrified also made her laugh and prompted a deeper reflection on identity, leadership and her relationship with the animus within her.

It is a playful nudge that growth is not always predictable. Sometimes the images that surprise us most have something meaningful to say.

And that's part of what we offer in A Space for Growth - a place where the unconscious can nudge you, your conscious knowledge can grow, and an opportunity to practice different roles such as practitioner, supervisor, teacher and leader.
This is an online learning journey for those of you who want more from their CTA and possibilities beyond. (See link below for more information)

What has nudged you?