About the Terence Watts BWRT Institute
About Us
The Institute is the Training Arm of the BWRT® methodology - If you're searching for therapy, please visit https://bwrt-professionals.com Alternatively, to just find out more about BWRT in general, visit our 'showcase' site at: https://www.bwrt-info.com
BWRT has already been the subject of a Ph.D. awarded from Lincoln University, UK, and a full clinical trial has just been successfully completed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34696777/ The trial was funded and conducted by the University of Bergen, Norway, after professors there were impressed with its performance. The paper is due to be published in May/June 2026
BrainWorking Recursive Therapy® - BWRT® - was created in 2011 by Terence Watts, a therapist, author of many books and training courses and principal of the Essex Institute in Essex, UK. Like many great ideas it was born out of a moment of inspiration while reading about some experiments carried out in 1983 and later which appeared to show that we don't actually have free will in the way we usually think of it. More than that, it showed that decisions were made and acted upon by our mental processes before we become consciously aware of them.
Who is Terence Watts? Click here to find out.
It was immediately evident that this process accounted for a huge number of the psychological difficulties which so many people have to put up with, and obvious, too, that with some research it could provide the basis for a profound therapeutic intervention, something potentially more powerful and effective than anything that existed to date. Terence had for some time been working on an idea to work with several complicated issues:
- Why we sometimes can't stop ourselves doing things.
- Why we sometimes feel that we just cannot do something we would really like to.
- Why we so often limit ourselves from getting on with life.
- Why we sometimes give up on something without even trying properly to do it.
- Why we sometimes fear something when there's no real reason to do so.
- Why some situations 'trigger' uncomfortable feelings, even though we have no idea why.
- Why therapy doesn't always work as we want it to.
The research, investigation and analysis Terence had carried out so far had raised almost as many questions as answers; he was unwilling, though, to accept that this was just the way things are and it was reading about the 1983 experiments that the key to the entire puzzle exploded into Terence's mind. He began working on the project immediately and it soon became evident that here was something very special indeed, something that worked in a way that was different from anything that had gone before. You can read the full story of development and the science behind BWRT here.
After extensive testing, a training programme was implemented and rapidly gained the reputation among many therapists as a 'must have' process for working with all manner of issues. On the first training was an eminent South African Psychologist, Rafiq Lockhat and it wasn't long before he and Terence joined forces, with Rafiq as research partner. Terence and Rafiq remain firm friends to this day, though each has their own training school.
It was shortly after that first training that we became an independent training organisation, dedicted solely to the training of this particular process. In March 2015, we were given permission by the UK Secretary of State to use the designation 'Institute' and in 2025, permission to become 'The International BWRT Institute' as a result of the research and scientific base of the BWRT® process, the world-wide reach, and our rigorous code of ethics. The institute continues to grow, with Terence addeing to the library of courses and Julie, wife, speading the word via expert social media work into as many far-flung places as possible!
For more details click: What is BWRT?
Videos
Here's a brief Video giving an overview of the BWRT Process: https://youtu.be/ErnTFCVTJSg
And the follow up: https://youtu.be/OqXE7VFuRRk
And here's a 'Doodly' version of the history of BWRT in under two minutes: https://youtu.be/j4MkAlAznMc
Click here for the Training Brochure
