Humanistic Psychotherapy & Counselling Training Course London, UK

We received an email yesterday that stopped me in my tracks. Someone who had attended one of our workshops wrote to say thank you, not just for the content, but for the way the space felt. She said she had felt safe. And then she asked a question that I think matters: “What led you to be so intentional about creating a diverse and inclusive space, given that both founders are not people of colour?”

Yesterday, a group of Homa tutors spent the afternoon on a walking tour with researcher, historian, activist, public speaker and CEO of Black Rooted Darrel Blake, tracing the "slave trade money trail” through the City. It was fascinating, absorbing and deeply uncomfortable.

Training at Homa is not simply about learning therapeutic skills or absorbing theory. It is a developmental journey that begins with the self and gradually unfolds into the practice of psychotherapy. At Homa, becoming a therapist also means Walking the Walk, bringing the values of Humanistic psychotherapy into our relationships, communities and the wider world.

Ths Independent Practitioners Network (IPN) is an experiment in creating a more cooperative and relational way of organising therapists. Rather than a central authority assessing and regulating practitioners, the IPN is built around small peer groups of therapists who know each other’s work well. These groups support, challenge and take responsibility for one another’s practice, and then connect with other groups in a wider network of mutual accountability.

I work in a field adjacent to AI, and I am training in humanistic psychotherapy. From this vantage point, much of the current discussion about AI in therapy seems slightly off-target.

This piece, written by trainee Gianluca Campanella, was inspired by his explorations as part of Year 2 work at Homa on sex, sexuality, and gender. It was first published in Counselling Matters, the magazine of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, in their December 2025 issue on men’s mental health.

Most of us are familiar with professional bodies like BACP or NCPS, organisations that focus on ethics, accreditation and professional standards. But fewer therapists and trainees know about the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union (PCU) a practitioner-led union that represents and supports counsellors and psychotherapists in a different way.

When the founders of Homa began dreaming up this project, we wanted a name that carried meaning, something alive, symbolic and resonant across cultures.

On Sunday 13th July 2025, HOMA Year 2 trainees presented an exhibition at the HOMA headquarters on Lloyd Baker Street which was a culmination of our term’s work on Race, Power and Privilege.

It is with deep gratitude that we honour the life and legacy of Jenner Roth, co-founder of Spectrum, Centre for Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy

What are the ethical and relational costs of AI speaking as us when it’s not us?

We acknowledge that identity is deeply personal, and everyone has the right to define themselves in the way that feels authentic. Global Majority is not a label that works for everyone, and we respect individual preferences.

A Letter To My Teen Self. A Year 2 HOMA Trainee Shares Their Homework

Did the UK Supreme Court rule on the ‘legal definition of a woman’?

Some reflections on the recent Supreme Court judgment. Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the case of For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers. Whilst not pretending to provide a comprehensive analysis, we thought it might be helpful to explain some elements of the judgment for HOMA trainees, and to offer some ideas as to what it might mean for the work that we do together.