Scholarships and funding

What you get:

A £100 Amazon voucher.

Who can apply:

Current students or alumni of the FdA Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations course, who refer a student.

How to apply:

You can learn more about this bursary and discover how to apply by visiting the TCTO Referral Bursary scholarships page.

What you get:

£1000 paid in three instalments throughout the academic year.

Who can apply:

Students who will be studying on Year 2 or 3 of the MA Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy course. You must have been offered a place on the 2nd year of the MA Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy course, or about to enter year 2 or 3 of the 3 year MA Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy course.

How to apply:

The deadline for 2025-2026 applications is September 1st 2025. Applications for these bursaries must be submitted to the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies. Please see the documents below for further details:

• Application form .doc
• Guidance notes .doc

The background:

The Kegerreis Bursary is made possible thanks to a donation from Professor Sue Kegerreis to the University.  It is designed to help students with clinical supervision costs.

What you get:

A 25% discount in tuition fees for each year of study.

Who can apply:

Members of staff at our Schools Membership institutions who wish to undertake the FdA Therapeutic Communications and Therapeutic Organisations course, based either at our Colchester Campus or online.

For full eligibility criteria and details on how to apply visit the Schools Membership Staff TCTO Fee Discount scholarship page.

The background:

This scholarship has been made available to help staff from membership schools access higher education.

What you get:

This scholarship entitles you to a complete reduction of your tuition fees, equivalent to the value of £10,000. For overseas students your tuition fees will be reduced to the home fee rate.

Deadline and how to apply:

The deadline to apply for 2024-2025 has now passed and applications are no longer being accepted. Full eligibility criteria and application guidelines can be found on the Essex Futures Refugee Care Scholarship page.

The background:

This scholarship has been made possible due to an incredibly generous donation. The donor wishes to support students through their studies in MA Refugee Care.

Who can receive the prize:

The prize will be given to an FdA Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations student who receives the highest awarded mark for the Critical Analysis (PA121) essay.

How you can use it:

This prize can be awarded as a National Book token or an Amazon voucher. Prize winners can add the award to their Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR) and their CV.

Who can receive the prize:

The prize will be given to a BA Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Organisations student who achieves the overall highest awarded mark. The prize will be awarded upon graduation.

How you can use it:

This prize can be awarded as a National Book token or an Amazon voucher. Prize winners can add the award to their Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR) and their CV.

Who can receive the prize:

The prize will be given to a BA Psychodynamic Practice student who receives the highest awarded mark for the Critical Analysis (PA121) essay.

How you can use it:

This prize can be awarded as a National Book token or an Amazon voucher. Prize winners can add the award to their Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR) and their CV.

Who can receive the prize:

The prize will be given to the student with the highest awarded mark for the module Key Concepts in Jungian and Post-Jungian Analytical Psychology. In case of multiple top scorers, the reflective report element of the module will be assessed to determine the winner. If scores are still tied, the prize will be shared.

How you can use it:

This prize will be awarded as an Amazon voucher. Prize winners can add the award to their Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR) and their CV.

The background:

The David Henderson Prize was founded in 2024 to commemorate the passing of Dr David Henderson, an eminent scholar of Jungian studies and lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex.

Who can receive the prize:

The prize will be given to an MA Refugee Care student who achieves the highest awarded mark for the dissertation. The prize will be awarded upon graduation.

How you can use it:

This is a £1000 cash prize. Prize winners can add the award to their Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR) and their CV.

The background:

The Rima Cherri Prize, founded in 2022, was introduced to commemorate the passing of Rima Cherri, a PhD student of the Department. Rima was a journalist for Reuters and video producer for the United Nations Refugee Agency. Her research and work focused on the struggles of refugee children. You can read more about the prize and Rima's work in this Colchester Gazette article.

Who can receive the prize:

The prize will be given to a first year student on MA Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (36-month variant) who achieves the highest mark in the reflective essay for PA221-6-FY Personal Development. In the event of the tie, the prize will be split amongst all students achieving the highest mark.  

How you can use it:

This prize can be used towards the second-year tuition fees in the first instance, or if these are being already met by a scholarship, then the prize can be used towards the recipient’s supervision costs and/or accommodation.

The background:

The Henry Centre was founded in January 2020 by Natalie Corbett, a graduate of the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies. It is a private counselling and psychotherapy centre based in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. The Centre provides high quality, meaningful and ethically minded therapy for individuals, couples and children.

Natalie said on starting the centre, “My aim is to provide an excellent standard of care for our clients and promote the idea of psychodynamic thinking within the local community. By starting the Henry Centre prize, we are continuing our work in helping to support and develop new talent within the local psychodynamic community.” Visit the Henry Centre to learn more about Natalie's work.