Community

The Person-Centred Association is supported by volunteers through Working Groups, Special Interest Groups and Local Groups that focus and act on a variety of important and fundamental issues from a person-centred perspective.

We are recruiting volunteers for each group.

Below are synopses that have been provided by the Lead of each group. All groups have interesting and exciting areas that they are focussing on. You do not need to be an expert in any of them; you just have a passion about the approach and want to contribute to widening its application.

If you are interested in one of the above, please contact tg@the-pca.org.uk.

Working and Special Interest Groups

Research

Are you either a counsellor interested in doing some research but don't know where to start, or a seasoned researcher in the person-centred approach looking for other people in the community to connect with? Are you someone who might be able to mentor new researchers as they start their resea...

Student

Lead: Kathy Engler

This group is for any counselling students who are wanting to explore and learn more about the Person-Centred Approach. We meet every month over zoom to explore how we can support one another in our learning and development. To find our more or to join the group please email student.group@th...

Trauma

Lead: Fiona Gregory

The trauma special interest group is an online meeting place for person-centred practitioners and students who work with or are interested in working with trauma. We use the space to talk about the experiences and challenges of this type of work, and read and discuss relevant academic articles a...

Disabilities

Leads: LJ Potter (tPCA) & Paula Williams (PCT Scotland)

The disabilities SIG is a new collaboration between PCT Scotland and tPCA. We welcome all therapists, whether in training or qualified who self-identify with having a disability or a chronic condition who would like to meet with others interested in the person-centred approach. You need to be a m...

Person-Centred Quarterly

Lead: Sebastian Heid

The Person-centred Quarterly has been a cornerstone of the person-centred community in the UK for many years. Only in recent years have we made a move to modernise the format and moved to a fully electronic version in order to ease distribution and lower cost for the members of the tPCA. We hope ...

Non-Pathologising Therapy

Lead: Julie Elliott

Promoting Person-Centred Therapy as a non-pathologising therapy I continue to be concerned that the PCA is often seen as ok for the easy stuff, but for the more complex work, other therapeutic traditions are required. I also remain concerned that some among our PC peers can take an almost ant...

Women Contributors to the PCA

Lead: Miha Momoiu

Irene Fairhurst wrote over 20 years ago in Women Writing in the Person-Centred Approach that although women usually outnumbered men in PC training courses, when it came to literature the opposite was true with most editions of collected writings containing much less material by women. Are women’s...

Wider Applications

Lead: Sara Callen

The tPCA Wider Applications Working Group (WA WG) members are interested in the application of PCA in other areas of life beyond counselling and psychotherapy – both personal and professional. Areas of interest might be – education, health and social care, business, youth work, parenting.. this l...

Race, Culture and Ethnicity

The Race, Culture and Ethnicity Special Interest Group offer The Person Centred Association's members a space to be able to respectfully explore and discuss how race, ethnicity and culture affects all aspects of professional work with clients. Previously called the BAME SIG the group has an u...

Education & Training

Lead: Christine Bennett

The focus of the Education and Training Special Interest Group is to look at how the person-centred approach can best be facilitated, developed and promoted in more formalised CPD and educational settings. We have a solid and passionate team of individuals in place who have a very real stake in t...

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