Counselling & Psychotherapy Training Institute - About CPTI

CPTI Location
Most courses are run at our centre, where the number of courses running necessitates using alternative premises, information and directions will be sent with the booking or registration confirmation.

Causewayside runs south from the city centre as a continuation of George IV Bridge and Buccleuch Street. The South Side Centre is on the right hand side about 400 yards from the Dick Vet College at the east end of the Meadows. It is situated adjacent to the Borough Hotel.

Bus no. 42 passes the Centre. Bus nos. 3, 3A, 5, 7, 8, 29, 31, 37, 47 & 49 , come from Princes Street across North Bridge to parallel Newington Road, alight at West Preston Street and walk through turning left at Causewayside, 14, 30 & 33 come to Newington Road but turn into East Preston Street. Bus nos. 40, 41 and 41A come across the Meadows on Melville Drive. Bus no. 5 comes from Morningside along Grange Road to Causewayside.

If you are travelling by rail, North Bridge can best be accessed by leaving Waverly Station by the Market Street exit and climbing the stairs up to North Bridge, which is the road crossing the Station. The centre is about a 25 minute walk or take the bus to Newington Road as above.

Travelling by car from out of Edinburgh: take the Edinburgh Bypass (A720) to the junction with the A701, for Straiton, Liberton and the City Centre, travel into the city on the A701for just over 2 miles then bear left at the sign for the university. Follow this road (Mayfield Road, Ratcliffe Terrace and Causewayside) for about a mile and a half and the centre is on your left. There is metered parking Monday – Friday on the streets off Causewayside. £1 per hour – 6 hours maximum. Parking is free on side roads on Saturdays and Sundays and is permitted on the main road on Sunday.

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