ICTAQ - the International Centre for Transactional Analysis Qualifications was launched by Julie Hay, Lynda Tongue and Sandra Wilson to provide a way to offer more qualifications and to supplement the international TA qualifications of CTA
and TSTA (Certified Transactional Analyst, Teaching & Supervising Transactional Analyst).
We already had the ICDSV for Developmental Super-Vision qualifications, and the ICDTA for awards and qualifications that relates to the
developmental fields of TA application (i.e. organisational, educational, counselling/coaching). We have now added ICTAP - for TA Psychotherapy qualifications - and ICTAC - for Coaching.
ICDSV, ICDTA, ICTAPand ICTAC all operate on the basis of ongoing assessment of
professional practice (rather than essays), with certificate and diploma as stages on the way to an MSc and/or relevant international TA qualifications. This sidesteps the international procedures whereby you get nothing if you drop out
between your introductory TA 101 program and the final examinations a few years later.
We have an international network of TA trainers, supervisors, trainees, students and other interested parties. We operate a range of TA awards and qualifications, that complement and extend those of the international TA associations (ITAA/EATA) and lead to optional postgraduate and MSc award. We invite all P/TSTAs who might like to offer any of these qualifications to contact us to
discuss joining the team.
The following statement is included in the interests of openness and transparency.
ICDTA and ICDSV were previously run under the sponsorship of Psychological Intelligence Ltd, Sandra Wilson Consulting Ltd and Triangle Partnership, and associated
with Psychological Intelligence Foundation CIC, a non-profit educational organisation. ICTAP was run under the sponsorship of Psychological Intelligence Ltd and associated with Psychological Intelligence Foundation CIC. They are now combined to create ICTAQ - the International Centre for Transactional Analysis Qualifications CIC, set up under UK law as a non-profit community interest company.
ICTAQ is now also responsible for the TA Proficiency Awards (run as a voluntary social action scheme)- see www.taproficiencyawards.org
and the International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research & Practice ( a free open access journal) - see www.ijtarp.org