July 2026
Our mission and aims:
APPCIOS is an innovative and diverse independent professional association which continues to be fast growing. It was formed in 2011 with a view to providing accreditation, validation and a professional network for psychodynamic practitioners working within organisational settings in a variety of professional roles.
APPCIOS members have demonstrated expertise in psychodynamic practice and counselling within organisational settings.
APPCIOS is not associated with any one training organisation but is able to accept practitioners from a wide variety of in-house and ‘portfolio’ trainings.
We aim:
- To promote psychodynamic organisational thinking.
- To be an on-line community for psychodynamic practitioners.
- To offer recognised, non-traditional and accessible, portfolio-based trainings in psychodynamic practice.
- To provide accreditation for new and established organisations offering psychodynamic training.
- To provide continuing professional development to members through webinars, therapeutic supervision and mentoring.
APPCIOS aims to support psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thinking and practice in organisational settings. We believe that a healthy and benign environment is essential to promote insight, thoughtfulness and emotional well-being. For psychoanalytic or psychodynamic work to be effective and to thrive it must attend both to the individual and the organisational context that supports them.
We promote practice that attends to the emotional experience of both practitioners and clients, within any organisation where services are provided for vulnerable adults, children and families - in education, health, social care and a variety of other contexts.