Congratulations to Lea Braithwaite, Winner of the 2021 Martin Kitterick Award!

Lea Braithwaite, a recent graduate of the BSc Honours degree in Counselling & Psychotherapy, is this year's winner of the Martin Kitterick Award.

The Award is given annually to the PCI College final year student who produces the most relevant, thoroughly researched and engaging thesis, of outstanding academic quality. PCI College bestows the award in memory of Martin Kitterick, a former director of the college who passed away in 2012. 

The title of Lea's essay is 

Enacting Interactional Justice in The Therapeutic Dyad: A Case for Evolving Praxis for UK and Irish Counsellors Grounded in Traditional Modalities. 

Read Lea Essays from the download section below.

This year's runners up were Anna Zmuda Trzebiatowska.

The title of Anna's essay is 

Exploring the link between social media and young people’s thirst for perfection – is this becoming a modern-day Greek tragedy?