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Dr Peter Pearce, UKCP Reg. Psychotherapist, EAP Reg. Psychotherapist, BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor Peter is Director of Clinical Training at Metanoia. He has been active in the development of counselling, psychotherapy and the broader psychological professions for many years , having begun working in mental health and disability during the closure of long stay hospitals in the early 1980s. At Metanoia, Peter has led the development and running of a wide range of post qualification career development programmes for therapists. For example, he led the Metanoia Institute team which collaborated with BACP on the development of the National Curriculum for Counselling for Depression (now PCE-CfD – one of the NICE recommended modalities for depression available free at the point of delivery within NHS Talking Therapies across the country) and the successful Metanoia bid to be appointed by Health Education England to develop a ground-breaking, full-time, salaried training route into the NHS psychotherapeutic counselling workforce. As a working-class boy from a big family, himself only able to train as a therapist because of funding support from the innovative NHS community team he worked for, he is particularly pleased to have an involvement in this development.