Metanoia Institute

We were founded in the early 1980s and were among the first organisations in the UK to offer humanistically oriented professional training programmes. Metanoia Institute is a well-established educational charity specialising in professional training programmes for counsellors, psychotherapists, counselling psychologists, supervisors, coaches and organisational development consultants.

At Metanoia, all our approaches offer a broad basis from which to develop a personal style. We emphasise the importance of developing a sound therapeutic relationship that can support and challenge the client according to the context. Psychotherapy outcome research and the experience of practitioners in the field suggest that no single psychotherapy or counselling approach is significantly more effective than any other approach, and all have something to offer the clinician. It is the nature of the problem, the client's personality, and the setting of the therapy that call for a particular approach.