How do we really see older people and those who need care? Using Transactional Analysis concepts including life positions, discounting, and the Drama Triangle to examine the assumptions we don't always notice.

Thinking about training in Transactional Analysis? This guide explains how the UK pathway works, from the TA101 and Foundation Year to professional training, registration, costs and choosing a provider.

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.

Supervision gives you formulation, perspective, and clinical accountability, and it is irreplaceable. But there is a difference between discussing a case and being witnessed in the experience of carrying it. In supervision, you report what happened and receive another mind on the problem. What is harder to reach is the felt sense of being in the room with a couple - the roles you were drawn into, the feelings that arrived uninvited, the shifts in your posture and attention th

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.

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.

From time to time, a coach will email me and say something like: “I’m not a therapist — would the TA101 still be relevant for me?” It’s an understandable question. Transactional Analysis is a recognised psychotherapy approach. But the honest answer is that some of the most thoughtful participants we see on theTA101 are coaches. Not because they want to retrain as therapists. But because they’re working with real human complexity — and they want a way of thinking that can hold