APL Booking Form - The John Bowlby Centre

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Please note: Applications for 2025 intake have now filled and this application form is for the 2026 intake. The course cost may increase from the £5865/ year set for the 2025 intake which will be confirmed by December 2025.

If after applying, a space becomes available for the 2025 intake, you will be informed.

There are quite a few requirements so please read the form thoroughly before you begin filling in the form.

APL Application Form - September 2026

Contact Details

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Address *

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Address Line 2

City

State / Province / Region

Postal Code

Country

Email *

Daytime Phone Number

Weekend Phone Number

Mobile Phone Number

Payment

In order to book your place on your chosen course you will need to pay a deposit of £250 by 30th June 2026 and commit to paying the full course fee for the coming year.

Interview Fee *

Price: £100.00

Deposit *

Price: £250.00

I will pay the £250 deposit and £100 interview fee via PayPal when submitting this form online

Declaration

I understand that my place on the course is not secure until the deposit of £250 has been paid to The Bowlby Centre in full. I confirm that I herewith require The Bowlby Centre to book my place on the course indicated at the top of this form. I confirm that if accepted I will pay the full fee for the first year on demand and that my place on the course is at risk if payments are not made. I understand that courses can be over-booked or places become unavailable, and that my deposit will be returned in those eventualities. I confirm that my deposit is non-returnable if I withdraw from the application process after 10th July 2026

Signature *

Clear Signature

I hereby apply to enroll with the Bowlby Centre.

Current Psychotherapy

In view of the important role that personal therapy plays in your development as a psychotherapist, we expect you to be in personal therapy with an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist or a psychotherapist who works from a psychodynamic perspective for the two years of the APL course and up until you register. It is a requirement to be in therapy once a week with a therapist who meets The Bowlby Centre’s criteria for approval as a Training Therapist. They must be a member of the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy, (UKCP) Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis (CPJA) section or a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). It is also a requirement to increase this to twice weekly therapy for a period of 9 months at some point prior to registration. This may be during or after the completion of the two years training. If you are unsure as to whether your personal therapy experience or current therapy arrangements meet these criteria, you can discuss this with Tori torivleach@aol.com

Name of your therapist *

Length of time with your therapist

Name of the section of the UKCP or BPC to which your therapist belongs

Are you registered disabled?

Would you describe yourself as differently abled including special educational needs eg dyslexia?

Please provide details so we can think together about the kind of support you may need on the training

Have you had an enhanced DBS check?

Is it up to date?

About You

Please explore for us your reasons for applying to train as a psychotherapist with The Bowlby Centre

This is so that we can get a sense and understanding of you as a person. Tell us about your past and current circumstances and some idea of what you would bring to The Bowlby Centre, as well as what you would hope to gain from the course. How would you describe this point in your life and why you are considering training now?

Personal Psychotherapy

Details

a) Please outline all your previous psychotherapy or counselling giving us the length of the therapy and when in your life this was undertaken. It is also helpful to know the therapeutic orientation of your therapist(s).

b) Please reflect on your experience of therapy and how this has influenced your application to train with The Bowlby Centre.

Relevant Life and Work Experience and its Relationship to Your Emotional Readiness to Train

Current Occupation

Counselling or therapy qualifications: Please list with dates

Please reflect on your experience of working with people in emotional distress and how this has led you to want to further your development as a psychotherapist

Education or Experience of Learning

Please tell us about your previous training and include a description of the content of your prior course

The Bowlby Centre’s values around education support people’s different learning styles and those with special educational needs. As the course is at the equivalent of post-graduate level, the abilities we are looking for are the capacity to explore, analyse and engage with your own process, the material and with others in a learning group.

Please upload proof of completion of your previous counselling or psychotherapy training in PDF format

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

Or send proof of completion by email to - admin@thebowlbycentre.org.uk

I confirm I will send proof of completion by email

The Bowlby Centre Philosophy

Our belief is that attachment theory based psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a positive and valuable contribution to the world.

Attachment relationships affect all aspects of people’s internal and external lives. This starts with our earliest childhood experiences which shape us emotionally and physically, forming our identity, security, resilience, creativity, relationships and mental health. All people can benefit from learning about attachment theory.

Our approach to mental health is therefore based on seeing to understand the specific ways which make a particular person vulnerable, hurting a struggling to cope, and relate to their pain with attention, engagement and attunement: the makings of a secure base. This principle remains the same however well or unwell the person is, whatever their walk of life, whoever they are.

We therefore inherently welcome, value and celebrate diversity. We seek to understand the reality of people from different ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities, faiths, abilities and disabilities, neurominorities and socio-economic backgrounds. We recognise we have an ethical responsibility to do the work to ensure a safe, inclusive home for our psychotherapy community, trainees and the people they work with. Our teaching, training and information is high-quality, offered in small groups for strong relational practice.

Attachment relationships are formed and shaped in the real world, not only ‘in the mind’. We therefore believe that all real-life impacts must be part of the therapy and treated with respect, warmth, openness, and readiness to interact and relate. In particular, we believe that people who have undergone extreme traumatic experiences must have their reality acknowledged and their ways to survive deeply respected. Above all, we believe that recognising our shares humanity is our shared secure base.

The Bowlby Centre Values

Our work is lived by and measured against our values. We are:

Compassionate Attuned Inclusive

Curious Courageous Transparent

With this in mind, please address the following: a) What are your personal values?

b) What is your experience and understanding of oppression?

c) How do you take responsibility for your own prejudice?

Guidelines for references for applicants

You will need to get one professional and one personal reference to support your application. Your personal reference can be from a friend, a mentor or your therapist, but should not be from a family member.

Please direct each of them to http://thebowlbycentre.org.uk/training/references-form

Your CV

Please upload your CV in PDF format *

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Signature *

Clear Signature

Please sign to confirm that it contains accurate and factual information.

Date *

Please contact Sarah Slater at admin@thebowlbycentre.org.uk if you have any queries.

When you press the send button you will be emailed a copy of this form, for your records or to print it out.

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