Who are we?
TAC Facilitators
Director and Principal Core Trainer: Rosalind Sharples MSc. (psychotherapy) CTA(P), TSTA(P), UKATA, EATA, ITAA, UKCP.
Rosalind is an experienced psychotherapist, senior trainer and supervisor with a masters in psychotherapy through the modality of Transactional Analysis. She is also a member of several organisations; UKATA (UK Association for Transactional Analysis), EATA (European Association for Transactional Analysis) and the UKCP (UK council for psychotherapy).
This means she has an ethical framework from which she works, as these bodies advise and oversee how she trains, ensuring that standards are high. She is a member of the training and standards committee for UKATA, as well as their representative for the UKCP. This means she is part of the team that are responsible for making contemporary policies for teaching and assessing TA in the UK.
Rosalind has also trained in Process Oriented Psychotherapy and Family Constellation Therapy.
As an artist and dancer, she brings creativity and somatic awareness to look at the human condition and expand her trainees knowledge, whilst continuing to expand her own knowledge as well. To find out a bit more about how Rosalind thinks about TA please view video below.
Professional Development Facilitator:
James Sweeney TSTA(P)
I am in private practice working with adults, young people, and couples. I also work with groups therapeutically and within the context of training counsellors and therapists in academic settings.I am interested in research within the fields of psychotherapy. My particular interests revolve around how we can understand and make meaning of the experience of therapy both as clients and therapists and also how change can be conceptualised and be made meaningful.I am a member of the United Kingdom Association for Transactional Analysis Research Committee.For more information, please see James's website: https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/therapist/james-sweeney/
Visiting Facilitator (Trauma, Neuroscience and Affect Regulation)
Karina Heiligers, TSTA(P), CTA(P)
We are proud to include Karina as a member of our regular visiting tutors. She is one of the first of the international body of trainers and supervisors on our team. She is a supervisor and trainer working in Romania. Her specialism is in movement, neuroscience and trauma. Her work is creative and inspirational.
For more information please contact her on: heiligerskarina@gmail.com
External Process Facilitator
Robin Hobbes TSTA(P)
As the former Chairperson and Chair of Ethics of the British Institute of Transactional Analysis and the European Association of Transactional Analysis, Robin is well placed to hold the role of external process facilitator - part of our ethical process.
He has made many national and international presentations on Transactional Analysis and has published on the subject – writing a number of articles. With Keith Tudor he co-wrote the Transactional Analysis chapter in “The Handbook of Individual Therapy” edited by Windy Dryden. He was also the Clinical supervisor for Connect Therapeutic Community – a pioneering therapeutic community in Birmingham that applied TA principles to working with the disordered. He was the Ethical Advisor to the European Transactional Analysis Association for a number of years.
His philosophical approach to Transactional Analysis is very much influenced by an existential approach in which the “going about existingly” is the main focus of therapeutic attention. He seeks to integrate phenomenology and heuristic approaches in his work as a trainer, supervisor and practitioner.
He is an approved and fully qualified teacher and supervisor in Transactional Analysis.
External Examiner
Steff Oates TSTA(P)
Steff is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst living in mid Wales, she runs a psychotherapy and supervision practice and is Vice President Research and Innovation of the International Transactional Analysis Association. Steff is an occasional guest editor of the Transactional Analysis Journal and has written numerous articles and chapters in books. Steff remains passionate about Transactional Analysis with a keen interest in researching the history and development of TA theory and methodology.
Professional Development Facilitator
Paul Robinson TSTA(E)
