Jay East, CTA
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I am a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist. I have been working therapeutically with clients since 2004, completing my formal qualifications in 2011 as a Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA) with psychotherapy speciality. I am also a supervisor, gaining my Clinical Supervision certification in 2010. My practice with clients is informed by my background as a State Registered Nurse (before entering into the psychotherapeutic profession), facilitated and grounded by my life experiences both personal and professional.
I have studied many complementary trainings along the way to enhance my practice. I work therapeutically using Transactional Analysis (TA) integrating my many other complimentary trainings, depending upon their value to each individual client’s needs. I work online (Zoom) and face-to-face in a dedicated purpose built therapy space in Surrey U.K., where I am based
Transactional Analysis (TA) sits at the heart of my work as a therapist. Developed by Eric Berne in the 1950s, it is a well-established, humanistic approach that uses clear, accessible language to help make sense of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
One of the things I value most about TA is how it can gently support people to understand themselves more deeply — their patterns, their relationships, and the ways they have learned to cope over time. Many of the people I work with find it both insightful and empowering, offering a way to explore their experiences with curiosity rather than judgement.
Through this understanding, TA can help bring awareness to patterns that may no longer feel helpful, and open up new possibilities for change. It can support you in developing a more compassionate relationship with yourself, as well as creating more fulfilling connections with others, and moving towards a way of living that feels more aligned with who you are.
Additional areas of interest studied
Supervision, Somatic Trauma Therapy, Embodied Relational Therapy, Wild Therapy, Radix, EMDR, DBT, Couples Therapy and Group facilitation. I also continue to undertake every year supportive trainings and therapeutically related workshops to enhance my practice and keep me abreast of current research.
Working with me can take many different forms. For some, it may feel more structured and focused, such as a cognitive-behavioural approach. For others, it may become a deeper, more exploratory psychotherapeutic journey — and often it’s something that gently unfolds in between. Together, we find a pace and way of working that feels right for you.
I work in a holistic and creative way, drawing on a range of approaches, including body psychotherapy where it may be helpful. I believe we are more than just our thoughts — we are a whole “body-mind.” Our bodies hold important information about our experiences, emotions, and patterns, often in ways we’re not consciously aware of. Learning to listen to these signals can be a valuable and supportive part of the therapeutic process.
Our nervous system also plays a central role in how we experience the world. It is shaped by our life experiences and influences how we respond to stress, connection, and safety. Bringing gentle awareness to this can open up new ways of understanding ourselves and support meaningful change.
When you begin therapy with me, your experience will be tailored to you — your needs, your history, and where you are right now in your life. Therapy can support you in exploring the different layers of what has brought you here, with care and at your own pace.
I don’t offer quick fixes, but I do offer a space where there is a potential for real, lasting change to happen. Often, as new insights emerge, you may find yourself moving in ways you hadn’t expected — towards something that feels more aligned, grounded, and true to you.
Psychotherapy & Counselling for Individuals, Couple's, Groups & Supervision
Reasons to Come to Therapy
Some of the reasons why people choose to see a psychotherapist:
- For psychotherapy & counselling
- For couples therapy
- For pre-marital therapy
- For group therapy
- For your own personal development
- To understand yourself
- Because you are having difficulties in your relationships
- Because you are in a toxic or abusive relationship (physical, emotional, psychological or financial)
- You struggle to even ‘be’ in life
- Life in and out of work has become too stressful
- You are feeling overwhelmed
- You are suffering with anxiety, panic attacks, post traumatic stress
- You are suffering with depression
- You are suffering with insecurities
- You are suffering with obsessions
- You have fears and phobias
- You are unable to manage your anger
- You are unable to manage your emotions generally
- You are suffering with grief and loss as in a person, job or peace of mind
- Your past is damaging your present life and threatening to damage your future
- You are suffering with trauma and/or abuse in your life, from past or present events
- When you try to do things differently, you end up in the same old mess
- You are dealing with difficult events
- You just have a sense that you are going nowhere
- Or indeed you may feel there are other issues not mentioned here, yet with which you need support
Clients find that psychotherapy and counselling is a process that can support bridging a gap between where they are now and where they want to be in the future.
How do you start to do that?
- Decide that you want to do something different
- Decide to invest in yourself
- Commit to your decision
- See contact details to arrange an appointment
Education & Training
- UKCP Registered Psychotherapist
- Certified Transactional Analyst
- 4 years Transactional Analysis Training plus 4 years advanced training
- Diploma in Clinical Supervision
- EMDR certified
- DPNS (Diploma in Professional Studies in Nursing)
- BA (Health Studies)
- General Counselling Diploma
- Embodied Relational Therapy (ERT) Diploma
- Wild Therapy with Nick Totton
- Radix ongoing training
- Introduction to Screen Acting - City Academy
- Screen acting - Level 1 - City Academy
- 12 days Somatic Trauma Therapy Training with Babette Rothschild
- 2 days Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Skills Training Workshop
- 2 days Somatic Trauma Therapy Training Refresher workshop with Babette Rothschild MSW, LCSW
- Group Process Training
- TFT Algorithm Training Course
- Certificate in working with couples
- Certificate in working with groups
- 3 days Workshop on “Six Personality Adaptations”with Ian Stewart PhD TSTA
- Various ongoing Body Psychotherapy & Trauma CPD workshops
- 101 Transactional Analysis verification certificate
- Reiki Master level