"I can honestly say that my Chrysalis course was life-changing. I've worked through the obstacles holding me back, and feel I am being of real service to my clients."

Julie Smith, Chrysalis graduate

Who are we?

Established in 1998, Chrysalis^® is now the UK's market leading trainer in talking therapies, with courses held across the country. We specialise in professional counselling, therapy and hypnotherapy courses. Chrysalis^® seeks to encourage all our students to grow themselves through practical, enjoyable and satisfying courses - and in doing so, to help others grow. We take great pride in what we have to offer.

It's important to know that we are a Not For Profit Company. We have no shareholders, and our Directors and staff salaries are legally restricted to the going market rate. Any surplus "profits" we generate are required to be re-invested into sustaining and improving our training.

Venues for the current year include: Birmingham - The Beeches, Bournville, Cardiff - Cardiff University, Chelmsford - Writtle College, Edinburgh - Queen Margaret University, Exeter - Buckerall Lodge Hotel, Guildford - University of Surrey, Ipswich - Kesgrave Community Centre, Leeds - All Saints and Trinity College, Liverpool - Liverpool Hope University, London - Queen Mary University, Maidstone - The Beautiful Aylesford Priory , Manchester - Manchester University, Norwich - University of East Anglia , Nottingham - Nottingham University, Reading - Reading University, Southampton - Southampton University, Stoke On Trent - Keele University , Welwyn Garden City - Hitchin Priory and Worthing - Field Place.

Our Founder is Dr Chris Forester. Chris holds degrees from Oxford in Philosophy, Theology and Psychoanalysis, as well as numerous professional qualifications. Chris has held university lectureships, prominent roles in national therapy organisations, has appeared on TV internationally and has given numerous workshops. In 2000, the novel Faith by Number 1 Best Selling author Peter James featured our founder as one of his characters.

Our Principal and Chair of Trustees is Sharon Forester. Sharon has a background in charity work including the Terrence Higgins Trust and has been a Training Manager for the Parkinson's Disease Society. Sharon is an experienced counsellor and hypnotherapist and course writer with a black belt in Judo and a love of nature.

Our Principal is supported by a large team of dedicated, experienced and qualified counsellors and therapists - full details of their qualifications and experience can be found by clicking on the link below.

For full details of our current team, click here

 

All Chrysalis^® courses seek to combine practical skills which will help others, with training in personal growth and development.

We feel our courses are unique in combining a creative, enjoyable and relaxed approach with professional recognition and accreditation from appropriate bodies. Students often have work or family commitments and our timetables are designed to help. We pride ourselves on treating our students as individuals. We feel that counselling and therapy is an art, not a science - our training will give you the skills and techniques, but the rest of it comes from within you. We don't like the impersonal, qualification factory, time-consuming approach of many counselling training programmes.

Most of us have seen those nature shows where, after plodding through life, the caterpillar spins its cocoon, transforms itself, and emerges as a butterfly - a completely new being. This imagery is what inspired us to call ourselves Chrysalis. Just like a chrysalis, we hope to be a safe, protective environment where practical and interesting training will help you emerge, with new skills and confidence, a sense of meaning and purpose, and the ability to help others. We hope you will consider our courses in this spirit.

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