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Northside Training offer CPD courses, longer-form professional training and practitioner groups for counsellors, psychotherapists, supervisors, coaches and workplace professionals - whatever modality you work in.

Perfectionism. People-pleasing. Withdrawal. Over-preparing. Difficulty changing plans. A strong need to get things right...
10/09/2026

Perfectionism. People-pleasing. Withdrawal. Over-preparing. Difficulty changing plans. A strong need to get things right.

Transactional Analysis gives us useful ways of thinking about how these patterns develop and what they may mean but a neurodivergent perspective adds another layer.

What if some of what we are seeing developed as a way of managing the experience of getting things wrong in environments that were never designed with that person in mind?

That doesn’t make the psychological understanding irrelevant. It means we may need to hold more than one explanation at the same time.

Our TA101 from a Neurodivergent Perspective explores the recognised TA101 syllabus while looking again at familiar ideas through this additional lens.

With Nea Clark PTSTA(P)
Online on 7, 14 & 21 November 2026 1 - 5.30pm UK time.

More details via link in first comment.

The obvious answer is the dream itself. The narrative, the imagery, the feeling it left behind. But there are more layer...
09/09/2026

The obvious answer is the dream itself. The narrative, the imagery, the feeling it left behind.

But there are more layers aren't there? How do we account for those? The act of bringing a dream to your therapist is itself a communication. The client has chosen this material, from everything they could talk about, and offered it to you.

Sometimes a dream is symbolic. Sometimes it's emotional processing happening in real time. Sometimes it's a way of saying something indirectly. And sometimes it's a relational event - something about what's happening between the two of you, expressed in a form that feels safer than saying it outright.

What happens when we hold more than one possibility at the same time?

What makes Imago different from other approaches to couples therapy?There are a number of well-established models for wo...
08/09/2026

What makes Imago different from other approaches to couples therapy?

There are a number of well-established models for working with couples, and each approaches the work in a slightly different way.

One of the distinctive features of Imago Relationship Therapy is the attention it gives to the conversation happening between the couple.

Rather than the therapist becoming the person who explains, interprets or mediates, Imago offers a structured way for partners to slow things down, listen more carefully and begin to understand what may be sitting underneath familiar patterns of conflict.

It also changes the therapist’s role in the room.

Instead of becoming the centre of the conversation, the therapist helps create the conditions for a different kind of conversation to happen between the couple themselves.

For some practitioners, that shift is one of the most interesting parts of learning the approach.

07/09/2026

More from our conversations with Dr Elvin Aydin Keles. In this clip, Elvin talks about something that's shaped the way she works: the places where different therapeutic frameworks overlap and inform each other, and why those intersections fascinate her.

Have you ever found that an idea from outside your core training changed the way you understood something inside it?

The TA101 is often described as an introduction to Transactional Analysis.Which it is.But “introductory” can make it sou...
05/09/2026

The TA101 is often described as an introduction to Transactional Analysis.

Which it is.

But “introductory” can make it sound as though the ideas are basic or something you quickly move on from. In practice, many of the models introduced over those two days are ones people return to again and again.

Ego states. Transactions. Games. Script. Strokes.

They give us different ways of thinking about what happens between people: how we communicate, what we expect from one another, the patterns we fall into and the ways our past experience can shape what happens in the present.

That can be useful in therapy, of course. But also in supervision, coaching, education, leadership, teams, workplaces and ordinary relationships.

TA was designed to be accessible without being simplistic. You can understand the basic idea quite quickly, and then spend years noticing more within it.

Our next face-to-face TA101 takes place in Leeds on 10 & 11 October with trainer Andy Williams.

Two days to get properly introduced to Transactional Analysis, in a warm and welcoming setting, exploring both the principles and how they show up in real life.

Link in first comment.

What resources do you use in your work?Some practitioners work almost entirely through conversation, and that suits them...
04/09/2026

What resources do you use in your work?

Some practitioners work almost entirely through conversation, and that suits them and their clients perfectly well. Others seem to accumulate a drawer - or several drawers - of things over the years: buttons, stones, small figures, picture cards, flip chart paper.

We use picture cards on the TA101, and I’m always interested in what can happen when someone chooses an image to represent how something feels.

Sometimes it helps them put words to something that hadn’t quite been available in ordinary conversation. And often, the most interesting part isn’t really the card at all. It’s why that particular image stood out.

They can be useful in groups too. When someone talks about what they see in an image, or what drew them towards it, other people can suddenly get a glimpse of an experience they might not have understood from the outside.

If you’ve never used picture cards in your work but are curious about them, supervision can be a good place to experiment - particularly if you have a supervisor who enjoys working creatively. Trying them out in a supported space will usually tell you far more than simply reading about the technique.

We’ve written a bit more about how picture cards can be used in therapy in a blog (link in first comment).

I’d be interested to know what you use.

Do you tend to work mainly through conversation, or are there particular resources you find yourself reaching for again and again?

Tomorrow afternoon we welcome the first of the new Professional Pathways Groups starting this month.These groups are par...
03/09/2026

Tomorrow afternoon we welcome the first of the new Professional Pathways Groups starting this month.

These groups are part of the deeper end of professional development: space to think carefully about clinical work, supervision, teaching, theory and the professional questions that come with taking the next step.

They bring together experienced Transactional Analysis practitioners who are moving towards TEW, PTSTA or TSTA endorsement, with the agenda shaped partly by the members themselves - their cases, questions, areas of interest, exam preparation and the parts of their understanding that they want to develop further.

The groups are facilitated by Andy Williams, and we’re really looking forward to welcoming everyone into this year’s cohorts, getting to know the work they bring, and seeing how their thinking and practice develop over the year.

Tomorrow’s group is the first to get underway.

Andy Williams Psychotherapy

02/09/2026

Dreams in therapy. A new online seminar series with Brad McLean, Dreaming in the Consulting Room, covering everything from why clients bring dreams into the room to what you do with them when they arrive. Develop greater confidence in inviting, listening to, and working with dreams in psychotherapy.

These are the areas the series covers. More details coming soon.

One of the things that can feel quite different about Imago Relationship Therapy is where the therapist sits in the proc...
01/09/2026

One of the things that can feel quite different about Imago Relationship Therapy is where the therapist sits in the process.

Rather than becoming another voice in the conversation, the therapist helps partners talk directly to each other - slowing things down and creating enough structure for each person to listen, respond and begin to understand what is happening between them.

This structure, including the Imago Dialogue Process creates a measure of safety both for the couple and the therapist. For therapists used to individual work, that can require quite a shift but you’re still bringing all your therapeutic skill and experience, but using it differently.

31/08/2026

We said we'd be sharing more about the trainers we work with. Here's a short clip from a conversation I had with Dr Elvin Aydin Keles about how she first found her way into the therapeutic world

It's two and a half minutes, and worth a watch.

What drew you into the work you do now? Was it a straight line, or more of a winding route?

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