Continuing Professional Development

The Guild of Psychotherapists has been and remains committed to the protection of the public through the twin mechanisms of its Code of Ethics and Complaints Procedure, and its policy on CPD.

CPD is a way of ensuring the maintenance and improvement of standards of knowledge and practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. As well as keeping up to date with current thinking and developments in the practice and theory of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, practitioners are required to reflect upon their understanding of the dynamics, directions, strengths and weaknesses of their personal and professional development both on their own and with colleagues.  This process is subject to a random audit process.