BCPC Information

BCPC Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling Training (BCPC) provides BACP and UKCP accredited training courses in Psychotherapy and Counselling in Bath. It aims to maintain excellence and innovation in the provision of its training, and to provide ongoing professional support to qualified practitioners. We remain committed to furthering our standards and continually developing as an organisation to remain at the cutting edge of therapeutic work and theoretical perspectives. History BCPC was among the first humanistic therapy trainings to be set up in the Southwest, and was founded in 1984. The founders wanted to provide a professional training embedded in humanistic traditions and integrating psychoanalytic approaches. Our founders were also involved in the establishment of UKCP, the first national body established to unite and regulate the profession of psychotherapy. Since 1990, students can choose a training path of either counselling or psychotherapy, and both are aligned with the original educational intent – a humanistic emphasis on learning experientially that leads to authentic theoretical integration. Our training remains an integration of humanistic and psychoanalytic approaches. Since 1995 the psychotherapy training has also embraced Intersubjective Systems Theory seeing this as the modern expression of the original founders’ intentions.