accreditation

Core Process Psychotherapy

Karuna Institute is a founder member organisation of the U.K.C.P., and completion of our 4-year Professional Training leads with the required additional supervised client practice, to practitioner accreditation and registration with U.K.C.P. Trainees undertaking our 2 year Post-Qualification MA can also undertake further supervised clinical practice as part of our requirements leading to practitioner accreditation and UKCP Registration.

The two professional psychotherapy trainings offer an M.A. (completed at Graduation) that are validated by Middlesex University under their Collaborative Programme.

Being represented at the U.K.C.P. ensures that trainees, trainers and all our accredited members can input into the dialogue and decision-making process at a national level. Such representation ensures that at all levels in our community we are professionally up-to-date and informed on developments in the wider field of psychotherapy.

The Professional organisation for qualified Core Process Psychotherapists is the Association of Core Process Psychotherapists (A.C.P.P.) which was founded in 2002. The intention of the Association is to foster a creative, open engagement with all accredited practitioners and with graduates working towards accreditation who choose to become members. A.C.P.P. is an important vehicle for professional support and connection with the wider community.

Craniosacral Biodynamic Therapy

Franklyn Sills' Training in Craniosacral Biodynamics is accredited by the Craniosacral Therapy Association UK and, via teacher accreditation, by the Craniosacral Association of North America. Graduates are eligible to register with these organizations and use the initials R.C.S.T.

The Karuna Institute is also an affiliated training organisation with the International Affiliation of Biodynamic Trainings (I.A.B.T.) and graduates may use the initials B.C.S.T. to indicate that they have completed a Craniosacral Biodynamic Therapy Training.

"The mindfulness/awareness practices that one can develop are personal but there is a 2,500 year old tradition of practice within Buddhism that can help, so you do not have to re-invent the wheel to develop the inner muscles of hearing, of receptivity with the whole body; (ways) to stay resourced, to stay centred, present… to be able to enter the present moment as fully as you can, or to know when you are not in it..."

Maura Sills, 'Inner Processes of the Practitioner and the Cultivation of Equanimity', Talk at the CSTA AGM, 2000