Training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

The ACP regulates five Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy trainings across the UK. These include: 

• The Northern School for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
https://www.nscap.org.uk/content/clinical-training-in-child-and-adolescent-psychotherapy

• Human Development Scotland
https://www.hds.scot/child-adolescent-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy

• The Independent Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training (UCL, BPF, Anna Freud Centre)
https://www.britishpsychotherapyfoundation.org.uk/education/

• Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
https://tavistockandportman.ac.uk/courses/child-and-adolescent-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy-m80/

• Birmingham Trust for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
https://btpp.space

Training to become a child and adolescent psychotherapist takes four years, and involves a rigorous theoretical teaching programme and a clinical placement within NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). 

Each training school also offers foundation courses and further trainings, including parent-infant psychotherapy training, couples and adult trainings.

Further trainings allow ACP qualified child and adolescent psychotherapists to develop specialist skills. One such example is the Psychodynamic or Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy training at the BPF, which is currently open for applications: 

https://www.britishpsychotherapyfoundation.org.uk/education/training/psychoanalytic-parent-infant-psychotherapy/

For more information about trainings visit our website:
https://childpsychotherapy.org.uk/training-events-0