About Marion Lindsay

I am a qualified and experienced psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and a qualified psychoanalyst. I am registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) through the North of England Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists (NEAPP) which is now part of British Psychotherapy Foundation (BPF), and the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPS). The BPC is registered with the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) which is a governmental body. I was previously registered with the UKCP (1993 – 2013), and with the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists (2014 – 2024). I originally trained as an Art Therapist (1984) and worked within the NHS in London and in voluntary sector community organisations. 

I am committed to addressing issues of race, gender, sexuality, disability and class in my work. I regularly seek out learning opportunities that help to challenge my perspective and to find ways of understanding individuals within a wider social lens, alongside a focus on the internal world.

Past Roles

After moving to Manchester, I worked for 7 years at 42nd Street, a community mental health service for young people. During this time, I completed a Diploma in Psychotherapy at University of Liverpool (1991).

In 1995 I moved to work as an Adult Psychotherapist at the Red House Psychotherapy Service and Macartney House Psychotherapy Service, both NHS psychotherapy services within Greater Manchester. I left Macartney House in 1998 to develop my work at the Red House where I was employed until 2014. I left that post to further develop my independent practice.

I had an independent practice working from Hampden House Psychotherapy Centre between 2008 – 2015.  

Present Roles

I work from a consulting room at Norwood House in Fallowfield, Central Manchester.  I see individuals usually in longer-term intensive individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

I have extensive experience of working with people in psychological distress who have experienced trauma and abuse in their histories. I set up and ran the Trauma Clinic at the Red House in 2002 after completing a 1- year training at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust entitled Understanding Trauma (2001). I subsequently trained in Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), a focused treatment for people with borderline personality disorder.

I have experience offering clinical supervision to psychotherapy trainees, to psychotherapists at the beginning of their qualified practice and to experienced psychotherapists. I have a supervision qualification (1994).

Additional Roles

I was on the Executive of North West Institute for Dynamic Psychotherapy (NWIDP) and served as Chair from 2007-2009. I then worked with a small group of psychotherapists to help re-establish training in psychodynamic/psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Greater Manchester. This resulted in bringing the D58 (M) Foundation in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy course to Manchester. The M58 and D59 courses are now based in Leeds and delivered by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.

I am a Training Therapist for trainees on the M58, and D59 trainings, and for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy trainees at NSCAP (Northern School of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy). 

I chair Manchester Psychoanalytic Development Trust (MPDT), which organises CPD events related to psychoanalytic theory and practice. I also chair the Northern Psychoanalytic Partnership (NPP), a steering group focused on supporting and developing training in psychodynamic, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis in the North West of England.