Ofra Anker was born in Jerusalem, immigrating to the UK in 1975. She changed direction and trained as a psychotherapist in London during the 80’s.
Ofra is a UKCP registered psychotherapist with over 25 years' experience as a counsellor, psychotherapist and group facilitator. Ofra worked for 26 years as a senior faculty member at a private training centre in North London, training students in counselling and psychotherapy. She uses both an integrative therapeutic approach and a psychodynamic, emotionally focused approach (ISTDP), which means that she calls upon an extensive range of maps, models and understanding from various theoretical systems, which include psychodynamic, systemic, CBT, psychosynthesis, and Gestalt.
Ofra works with adult individuals and couples from diverse and varied backgrounds.
Ofra is also a supervisor with over 20 years' experience, providing supervision to students, graduates and qualified psychotherapists.
For nearly 15 years Ofra was involved with UKCP which is the umbrella body for counselling and psychotherapy professions in the UK. Amongst her many other roles with the organisation, she was the chair of HIPC Assessment Board for 10 years, and a trustee on UKCP Board of Trustees.
Ofra has retired from her work with UKCP as well as from her work as a senior teacher/ trainer and she now devotes her professional life entirely to her private practice as a psychotherapist and a supervisor.
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