PhD, BPC, PSA PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

“Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.”

William James


Dr. Coline Covington, PhD, BPC, PSA
Jungian Analyst and Author

Coline is a Training Analyst and Supervisor of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She has been practising as an analyst for over twenty-five years. 

Born in the US, Coline came to England after receiving her BA from Princeton University. She went on to Cambridge University where she received a Diploma in Criminology and LSE where she received a Doctorate in Sociology.

Before starting her practice, Coline worked as a consultant to local authority agencies throughout the UK to develop programmes to prevent young offenders from being sent to prison. In conjunction with the Metropolitan Police, she set up the first victim-offender mediation project in the UK.

From 2008 Coline has worked in the financial sector to promote ethical leadership within organizations undergoing change.

She is former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council, the UK regulatory body for psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

From 2011-2013 Coline was Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. and Visiting Research Fellow in International Politics and Development at the Open University.

She is a Fellow of International Dialogue Initiative, a think tank founded by Prof. Dr, Vamik Volkan, Lord Alderdice and Dr. Robi Friedman for politicians and psychoanalysts to work together to understand the effect of past trauma and large group anxieties on intransigent political conflict.

Coline is in full time private practice in North London.