counselling
counselling to resolve your present issues
what setting do you work in? Many contexts are involved in TA counselling:
- health services
- pastoral fields
- advice and guidance
- voluntary agencies
- social and welfare
- informal learning
- counselling agencies
- mediation
- probation and social justice
- complementary therapies
- residential contexts
- social justice and probation
- youth services
- stress management
- personal development workshops
In what roles? Many roles can be enhanced with TA counselling notions:
- Mentor
- guidance worker
- tutor
- support worker
- social worker
- carer
- probation officer
- adviser
- provider of social and life skills
- priest
- coach
- negotiator
- keyworker
- facilitator
- counsellor
- personal trainer
- enabler
- mediator
- personal consultant
- doctor
- dentist
- nurse
- optician
- financial advisor
- osteopath
- midwife
- chiropractor
- reflexologist
- spiritual director
- and so on
Rosemary Napper is a Certified Transactional Analyst in three fields: Organisations, Education and Counselling, and a TSTA in Organisational and Educational applications. She has also been BACP accredited since 1996.
David Tidsall is a BACP registered counsellor and a CTA psychotherapist.
See also “whose field is it, anyway?”
by Andrew Bates PTSTA(P) & Rosemary Napper TSTA(O+E), and “counselling CTA, why did I do it?” by Rosemary Napper
