 Hello, and welcome to MIP TV, and we are doing a series called Meet the Trainers, where we speak, or I speak, to the people who train and work at Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy, so I'm delighted to welcome Susie Ewitt, who's one of the trainers at MIP, and just in the preamble before we press the record button, Susie was telling me you actually trained at MIP. I did. 2007 to 2011, I did my four year TA training. And what do you think, how do you think it helps you as a trainer having trained at the Institute? Well, lots of training institutes in the country have different styles and different cultures, and when we think organisationally it's important to know as a trainer the culture and ethos of the organisation you're training for. So it's great to know Barbara as a trainer and personally and understand how his institute works having been on the receiving end of it as a trainer. So it's great to come back as a trainer and sort of slot back in to the way that it should be. Yeah, so you're fitting in with the ethos of the organisation and hopefully training in the way that you've been trained in the ethos that you've been trained, sharing that along the line a little bit. Now you said earlier that you were PTSD, is that correct? Yeah, there's one letter missing. It's a PTSD, which is a provisional teaching and supervising transactional analyst. Yeah, and I think that's really important, isn't it, because what Prots may be not widely known is that you have to be an accredited teacher to teach TA. I've got a certificate education, but that wouldn't allow me to go and teach transactional analysis. It just goes to show the kind of quality that goes into TA training really, doesn't it? It does, yeah. And in order to clock up your TA training hours, you need to be trained by PTSD or a TSTA, yeah. So that is a real difference. I'm sure that might surprise some people who watch this, that actually the whole of the system of TA is built around quality assurance from supervision to the training to the actual kind of theories. There's a whole kind of system in place. So, got any favourite theories? What's your favourite theory? All trainers have a favourite bit of theory. What's your favourite bit of theory? My favourite bit of theory is going to be TA, because I've had eight, nine years of training in TA. It's stroke theory. It's about the stroke economy that Claude Steiner came up with and invented. All about how he says we can deal with the critical parent and turn the volume down on the critical parent in our head and manage anxiety and depression through making sure that our stroke bag is full. Well, there we go. And I'm going to add to that, Susie, as we've finished this interview. Thank you so much for taking the time. And I'm sure that the students of the future watching this will get so much out of it. Susie, you're it. Thank you very much. Thanks for all the work.