Transactional Analysis

Transactional Analysis (TA) was founded by Eric Berne in the 1950s and 1960s and has evolved since. Berne saw each person as being in charge of his/her own destiny and wanting to attain autonomy and to be free from negative influences from the past.

From our early childhood we make unconscious decisions about how to get our needs met in the world, this is what in TA we call ‘script’. We carry those decisions with us into adulthood where they can prevent us from living life as happily as we would want to.

TA therapy can help explain and understand the limiting aspects of our script and how we can make changes to improve the quality of our lives. TA is effective with a wide range of therapeutic issues. Unique in the depth of its theory, this process allows for the individuality of both therapist and client.  Many TA concepts are simple to learn and apply, making them very accessible and effective.

Person Centred Counselling

Carl Rogers, the American Psychologist developed the person-centred approach to counselling which views the client as their own best authority on their own experience, and it views the client as being fully capable of fulfilling their own potential for growth. It recognises, however, that achieving potential requires favourable conditions and that under adverse conditions, individuals may well not grow and develop in the ways that they otherwise could. In particular, when individuals are denied acceptance and positive regard from others -- or when that positive regard is made conditional upon the individual behaving in particular ways -- they may begin to lose touch with what their own experience means for them, and their innate tendency to grow in a direction consistent with that meaning may be stifled.