PTTC Graduation Ceremony July 2025
GMMH’s Psychological Therapies Training Centre (PTTC) held their second graduation ceremony of 2025 in July to celebrate the achievements of more than 50 trainees who had completed one of the 21 postgraduate training or credit bearing CPD courses offered by the PTTC in 2023-24.
These were:
- Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive and Behaviour Therapies (a 24-month training course):
- CBT for Psychosis & Bipolar pathway
- CBT for Personality Disorders pathway
- Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Applications of CBT:
- Psychosis & Bipolar pathway
- Personality Disorders pathway
- Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision Skills for Children & Young People (CYP):
- CBT pathway
- CYP Wellbeing Practitioner / Education Mental Health Practitioner pathway
- Foundation in CBT (a CPD credit bearing course)
The ceremony was held at the Curve and was a great opportunity for previous trainees to catch up with their fellow cohort members and training teams.
This year marks the silver jubilee for the PTTC, which has been providing high quality training in evidence-based psychological therapies since 2000 and is considered to be a centre of excellence. All the courses are validated by the University of Manchester.
In October 2025, the PTTC will be holding their final graduation of the year where they will be celebrating the achievements of more than 100 trainees working with children and young people.
Freda McManus, Head of The Psychological Therapies Training Centre, said:
“Our trainees come from all over the region, and sometimes further afield, both from the NHS, and other public sector and voluntary services. Our courses are highly demanding and require a great deal of them. In addition, they are all adult learners, who have the usual complicated set of demands and responsibilities in their lives, so are having to juggle these, their usual jobs, and our requirements over a sustained period. The fact that people have reached the point of graduation reflects a high level of sacrifice and commitment.
The graduation ceremonies give us an opportunity to acknowledge the work that our trainees have done, and how much they have achieved in completing the training successfully and highlight the likely future benefit for service users and their families and carers. We are very proud of them all.”
