Initial entry to the Advanced Transactional Analysis Programme:

• Successful completion of our Foundation course in TA or equivalent training of a minimum 120 hours' TA training.
• Personal and professional readiness to continue training.

Subsequent years of the Advanced Transactional Analysis Programme:

• Successful completion of the requirements of previous training year(s).
• Personal and professional readiness to continue training.

How to apply:

You can apply by submitting the following documents and items:

• Advanced Courses Application Form (available to download from 'Download' section of this web page).

Final application date
 

The deadline for applications is 6 weeks before the start of the course. A decision will be made on whether the course will run, based on confirmed and accepted places, 4 weeks before the start date of the course. Any applications received after the 6 week deadline will only be processed at the discretion of the Programmes Lead.

The rolling programme includes:

• Classical school of TA
• Redecision school of TA
• Cathexis school of TA
• TA as a relational therapy
• Use of supervision
• DSM V and psychopharmacology
• Working with diversity
• Ethics and professional practice
• Working with an integrating TA theory
• Contracting, treatment direction and change
• Models of the therapeutic relationship
• Working with the unconscious and intersubjectivity
• Endings in therapy
• Sexuality
• Theories and disorders of the self
• Working with trauma and abuse
• Working with shame.
• Integration of TA theory into practice
• Attachment theory
• Neuroscience and psychotherapy
• Research and psychotherapy
• Transference and countertransference in the therapeutic relationship
• Working with narrative
• Impasse and uncertainty in the relationship
• Working with couples
• Working with groups
• What sort of practitioner am I?

Additional Course Requirements:

Students undertake personal therapy, clinical practice, supervision, continuing professional development and a mental health familiarisation placement.

To qualify as a Certified Transactional Analyst, leading to UKCP Registration, students meet requirements set out by both the UKCP (through the UK Association for TA), and the European Association of TA. The details of all these requirements are complex, so are set out in full in the course Handbook.

Iron Mill College's tuition fee for our Advanced Transactional Analysis Training Programme is £2,550 per year.

There are two payment options available. The total course fee is payable as per the structure below:
 

Option 1 (Total Payable £2450.00):

An Enrolment Deposit of £750.00 (Non-Refundable) followed by:
ONE instalment of £1700.00
Due On: 1st September


Option 2 (Total Payable £2550.00):

All the tutors on the TA course are qualified as TA psychotherapists (Certified Transactional Analyst, psychotherapy speciality) with at least an MSc-level qualification, and are qualified to teach TA (Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, psychotherapy speciality).

Our learning programmes are designed to be participative, experiential and to draw whenever possible on prior lived experience. The academic value of programmes is enhanced by a learning environment that is warm, transparent, and genuine. Learners and staff interact in a mutual effort to engage in and promote the concept of lifelong learning.

Further qualification to teach and supervise within the TA field via the progression routes set out by the International TA associations.