Key US Psychoanalytic lectures from Tavistock Relationship staff compiled to help trainees, couple psychotherapists, counsellors, marriage and family therapists

New Course, Certificate in the Study of the Couple Relationship, provides expansion outside of London

Pictured above is CEO Andrew Balfour after he and Liz Salter (our Bristol-based Couple Psychotherapist) opened the first session of Tavistock Relationships’ new professional training qualification, which is being delivered in Bristol.

Accreditation welcomed by CEO Andrew Balfour as a 'major commitment to fairness' 

Tavistock Relationships has been confirmed as a Living Wage employer, receiving certification from the Living Wage Foundation (LWF).

Practitioner training, couple therapy for depression and affordable relationship support amongst the key topics asked of new government

The Relationships Alliance, a group of relationship support charities consisting of Relate, OnePlusOne, Tavistock Relationships and Marriage Care, has just published a document outlining seven policy priorities that should be addressed by the elected government. 

Tavistock Relationships’ staff visit Europe & China to talk about and teach relationship skills and psychotherapy.

The last few weeks have seen a number of important activities by our faculty members, touring three key international events, seeking and participating in professional exchanges designed to raise the awareness of couple therapy methods and techniques.

Video features Sabah Khan exploring how to become a psychotherapist and going on to work at Tavistock Relationships

CEO Andrew Balfour examines the potential implications for divorce and separation in the UK

CEO quoted on how therapy can help and the effect of couple conflict on children

"Why couple relationships are difficult but why they matter“ video from one of our most renowned Couple Psychotherapists

Our plans for helping couple relationships and parenting with new training

A blog by Richard Meier

In her January speech on mental health, the Prime Minister announced that the Government would be providing mental health first aid training to all secondary schools, with a commitment to train at least one teacher in every secondary school in mental health first aid by 2019.

The Cowans Blog: Success of Parenting & Relationship Support

(Part 2 of 2) The development of Parents as Partners in the U.K. has been fascinating for us to witness. We’ve found that in both the U.K. and the U.S., parenting programmes are typically attended by mothers, with little attention paid to fathers or the relationship between the parents.

How Parents as Partners is helping couples communicate and benefitting their children 

(Part 1 of 2) Professors Philip and Carolyn Cowan reflect on their upcoming visit to England, where they will meet with the staff of Tavistock Relationships, family service providers from around the U.K., and those responsible for family policy in the government and local authorities.

Organisation praised for its work helping relationships, parents and children

The value of counselling and psychotherapy and the help it provides for couples and children was highlighted today in Parliament in a speech by the Rt. Hon. Caroline Nokes MP.

The first few months of Tavistock Relationships’ new Online Therapy Service have gone well 

Tavistock Relationships' psychotherapy advice features on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour

Couple Therapy - a sign of health or admitting defeat?

By Krisztina Glausius

Head of Clinical Services

Tavistock Relationships’ work is biggest known to date

Results from the largest prospective naturalistic study of couple therapy for adults ever published show that it is highly effective, at not only reducing individual psychological distress, but also improving the relationship quality between partners.

We see well above the London average of clients from ethic minorities in our practice and much higher than the UK national demographic

See the video featuring one of our workers about or work and diversity.

An economic evaluation of one of Tavistock Relationships’ free programmes, Parents as Partners (a group-based approach to strengthening couple relationships, with a focus on encouraging parents’ involvement with family life), undertaken by volunteer economist with Pro Bono Economics Dr. Allan Little, was showcased at a major event in London.

A talk given by Andrew Balfour, Chief Executive, Tavistock Relationships to a policy roundtable, hosted by Norman Lamb MP, organised jointly by Tavistock Relationships and the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust