Trasnactional Analysis and Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling Training

	Who We Are Robin Hobbes and Judi Ledward set up elan - training and development in 1982 to provide psychotherapy and counselling in the Manchester area. We were pioneers in those days with no one else (as far as we know) doing what we were doing here in Manchester. We are married and have two children (Robin is a step-parent) two cats and a dog. We are both UKCP Registered Psychotherapists. Robin is a Transactional Analyst and Judi is an Integrative Psychotherapist. Robin spends his professional life teaching, supervising and practicing psychotherapy and counselling. He has been involved in Transactional Analysis for 24 years. He passed his clinical exams in 1985 and has been running a training programme here in Manchester since 1987. He has been directly involved in the development of TA both nationally and internationally. The former Chairperson and Chair of Ethics of the British Institute of Transactional Analysis, he is now chairperson of the ITA's Clinical syb-committee.. He has made many national and international presentations on Transactional Analysis and has published on the subject. He has written a number of articles and with Keith Tudor wrote the Transactional Analysis chapter in "The Handbook of Individual Therapy".He is alos the Clinical supervisor for Connect therapeutic community - a pioneering therapeutic communtiy in Birmingham that applies TA principles to working with the disordered. He has two particular interests. First, the application of Transactional Analysis to the seriously disordered, and second, the integration of Transactional Analysis with Transpersonal Psychology - providing a holistic approach to psychotherapeutic treatment. He is an approved and fully qualified teacher and supervisor in Transactional Analysis. Judi is an American living in Britain for the past twenty-six years. She is a psychologist and psychotherapist, trained in the United States and Britain. She has been working in private practice with individuals, couples and groups for twenty-two years. Prior to that, she did research in Psychiatry for Manchester University Department of Psychiatry at the Medical School, including a project looking at GPs attitudes to their patients' emotional problems. She has worked on an action-research project for young families to prevent parenting problems, and for seven years she has been Group work Consultant to the Diploma in Counselling course at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has extensive experience providing training for public and business organisations. She regularly offers courses at the Skyros Centre in Greece and at Cortijo Romero in Spain. She also runs two professional development courses the details of which you will find here. For 20 years she has been meditating. For the same length of time she has been including meditational practices and ideas in all aspects of her work. Her particular interests are the use of the self in psychotherapy and healing relationships in groups. elan - training and development Hilltop Centre 217 Ashley Road, Hale Altrincham Cheshire WA15 8SG Tel:0161 928 9997 Fax:0161 929 6916 You can reach us by email at: admin@elantraining.org Return to the Home Page Who We Are Transactional Analysis Training at elan Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy Frequently Asked Questions About Training Personal Development Courses in the UK and abroad Other Sites of Interest