Balanced Minds — Psychologist in London, England

I completed the Balanced Minds online 'Introduction to Compassion Focussed Therapy' and found it accessible, insightful and impactful. It has added invaluable insights and practical tools to my repertoire as a therapist.

I’m sincerely grateful to Balanced Minds for the Compassionate Mind Training (CMT) Facilitator programme. The training was thoughtfully structured, ethically grounded, and deeply experiential. It supported not only learning, but real embodiment of compassion in both personal and professional contexts. My thanks to Dr. Chris Irons, Dr. Charlie Heriot-Maitland and Kay Brewster for their clarity, depth, and guidance throughout the journey. And a special thank you to Ona for her consistent support, care, and presence at every step.

Balanced Minds is fantastic and has supported my learning and understanding for some time now. Excellent training materials. The App is the best compassion support I have experienced via technology - it is second to none. Thank you so much Dr Irons and the team!

I thoroughly recommend using Balanced Minds to anyone seeking a greater understanding of compassion focused therapy - and its many benefits. They are very professional, thoughtful, empathic, skillful and helpful. I initially used their App and after the insights from the fantastically practical & useful 28 day programme within the App, I decided to take it further via some one-to-one sessions with Dr Chris Irons. My work with Chris was deep & meaningful and led me to huge shifts and insights which were both deeply psychological and emotional yet also very practically applicable. I cannot recommend Chris and his team's work highly enough.

Absolutely exceptional. I attended my Compassionate Mind Training with both Chris and Charlie a few years ago and I have attended additional training course with them on Compassionate Focused Therapy. Outstanding training and really good value for money. All of the training courses provide comprehensive handouts and videos. Both Chris and Charlie have such a vast knowledge and I would recommend for anyone interested in Compassionate Mind Training or Compassionate Focused Therapy to check out their website for a range of options.

We are incredibly lucky to receive group CFT supervision from Chris Irons at Balanced Minds. The team find this supervision invaluable - Chris's highly skilled, thoughtful and reflective supervision supports the team with CFT work in different settings; both with complex clients in individual and group settings, elements of service development as well as encouraging clinicians to utilise CFT in a self-focused and reflective way. Thank you to Chris and the Balanced Minds team!

I can’t recommend the supervision and training offered by Balanced Minds highly enough. I had the pleasure of receiving both from Chris, and I gained a wealth of experience that I’ve been able to apply to my clinical work as well as my research. Chris brought professionalism, expertise, and a genuinely human approach to every session. His style and approach created a space where I felt comfortable being open and honest throughout supervision

The best training I have done in the space of mental health and wellbeing! I recently completed the 8-week course in Compassionate Mind Training course and found it incredibly practical, relatable and effective. I've been able to implement all of the practices and concepts into my personal life, my parenting and my profession working with children and educators. The course is incredibly well resourced with a weekly engaging and informative presentation, detailed summarizing notes and weekly meditation recordings which I am still using daily. I was concerned the course could be a bit 'fluffy' (I think compassion can have a bit of a misinformed reputation in this regard!) but it was rigorously supported by recent research and, as mentioned, highly practical. I've been working and learning in the mental health and wellbeing space for a very long time and I have found Compassion Focused Therapy to be the best fit for me (more so than CBT or ACT) because the framework it adopts can be applied to all facets of my life and with a range of low intensity and high intensity emotions. I am now going on to complete the 4-part 'Train the Trainer' qualification that Balanced Mind provides in CMT, and am so looking forward to learning more and spreading this meaningful work.

I have accessed Balanced Minds for regular supervision from Dr Chris Irons over the years. My experience has been one of immense professionalism, wisdom, compassion, experience and skill. I highly recommend Balanced Minds to individuals seeking evidence based psychological therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy specifically from highly experienced and skilled Clinical Psychologists. I have been fortunate to work alongside several of the clinicians at Balanced Minds in other organisations and would highly rate them.

I've had supervision with one of the directors (Chris) for years now. I’m truly grateful for the support and guidance I’ve received from him. He has played a huge role in my professional and personal growth and he consistently embodies a compassionate supervisor role (whether that's teaching, mentoring/coaching or offering support and advice). His depth of knowledge in Compassion Focused Therapy is outstanding, and he shares it in such a thoughtful, accessible and grounded way. I feel very fortunate to have learned from him and couldn’t recommend him more highly. I am aware the rest of the team also provide wonderful support so I would recommend Balanced Minds for supervision, training and therapy.