The Institute for CENT, West Yorkshire, UK

The Institute for Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy

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Mission: To integrate Rational therapy, Psychodynamic therapy, Narrative Therapy, Moral philosophy and Zen Buddhism

Executive Director: Dr Jim Byrne, FISPC

Jim.Nata.Couples.pg.jpg The Institute for Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (I-CENT) was established in March 2007, by Jim Byrne and Renata Taylor-Byrne, to take forward the best of Albert Ellis’s therapeutic ideas, by integrating them with emerging ideas from Attachment theory, Narrative therapy, and a number of ideas from Buddhism and Moral philosophy.

Over the past three years, much work has been done towards this mission. Dr Byrne has written twelve papers on some of the key questions in Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT), and those papers can be found and purchased from the I-CENT Publications page, here.

The first e-book on CENT - titled Therapy after Ellis, Berne, Freud and the Buddha - has been written and it can also be found and purchased here.

There are also two other books on CENT, applied to anxiety and self confidence, on the I-CENT Publications page, here.

Renata Taylor-Byrne will take over as Director of the Education & Training Division of I-CENT, with effect from 1st September 2010, and her education and training plans will be posted on the Training Division page, here.

Membership of the Institute is open to suitably qualified individuals, who should, in the first instance, contact Jim Byrne for details of accreditation processes. Please email Dr Jim Byrne at institute-cent-studies@abc-counselling.com.

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