Administration - Background Information
I have completed an advanced course in person centred counselling and four years at Manchester Institute Low Cost Therapy Website studying Transactional Analysis. "Classsical TA" is cognitive and works with the here and now. There are some similarities between classical TA and CBT and coaching.
Whether models of counselling, coaching, or psychotherapy are used, there are overlaps in that all models are about overcoming personal difficulties and facilitating change. The methods used are similar and in some instances identical.
It is often considered that psychotherapy is more directive and looks to the past and the historical influences for the answers to 'here and now issues'. The counsellor however may work more with crisis intervention.
My training in Transactional Analysis (TA) Psychotherapy enables me to use a whole range of techniques which are incorporated into the therapy and are adapted to suit each individual whatever the presenting problem. 
More about TA
TA is a theory about the structure of personality, developed by Eric Berne in 1956. His theory was based on definite behavioural observations about individuals and the way they relate to each other.
His book, TA in Psychotherapy (1961), describes what he believed, and demonstrated that whatever happens to the individual is recorded in the brain. This includes everything the person experiences in childhood, all that is incorporated from parent figures, perceptions and events, the feelings associated with these events, and the distortions in one's memory. All this is stored as though on a computer disc. These memories can be replayed and the events recalled and re-experienced in response to something that is happening to the individual in the present day, thus influencing us in the way we relate to each other and to events that occur in our lives.
The terms Parent, Adult and Child Ego State denote states of mind and their related patterns of behaviour as they occur. TA Today is a good book to read if you want to know more.
