The short answer to the 'who studies TA?' question is - almost anyone who works with people. TA has four recognised fields of application: psychotherapy, counselling, education, and organisational development. So the people who study it are therapists and counsellors, but also teachers, coaches, HR professionals, managers, social workers, nurses, and people who are simply curious about what makes human beings tick.

If you have never done a TA101, you may be wondering : what happens on the course? And is it worth two days (or 12 hours) of your time? We give an overview of the TA101 content and an idea of what to expect on the course.

Balint groups sit somewhere between supervision, group dreaming, transference and countertransference exploration and something more elusive. They create a particular kind of space where the ordinary details of clinical work - a throwaway comment from a client, a moment of irritation, confusion or affection - suddenly become rich material for thinking.

The course framework is rooted in TA's concept of life script; the early decisions we make about ourselves and the world, often formed before we had the language to question them. Andy reflects on something that will feel familiar to many practitioners: that when a child feels misunderstood by the humans around them, they often turn elsewhere. To a pet. To a tree. To the garden. There's something about the wider world that is different.

Eating-body distress is rarely about food. Debbie Thomson explores why a relational and attachment-informed approach changes everything about how therapists understand and work with this client group.

A five-part series exploring what it takes to hold the complexity of couples work — drawing on Gottman, Tavistock, Kleinian and Jungian thinking, alongside Brad McLean's own integrative TA model.