With nearly 40 years of practice, teaching and supervision experience in counselling, psychotherapy and psychology, both for individuals and groups, I have developed a fairly unique and cutting-edge integrative approach which brings the out-dated paradigms of 19th- and 20th century psychology into the new millennium. The key aspects of this approach are its broad-spectrum integrative, holistic-integral as well as relational perspective, rooted in an understanding of the depth and complexity of the human psyche. Drawing from the whole breadth and richness of 100 years of modern psychology and its diversity of approaches (as fragmented and contradictory as they have been and still are), I aim to tailor the theories and techniques I am using to the person, group or organisation I am engaged with. Over the decades, I have worked with hundreds of individuals in therapy and supervision, usually medium to long-term. Since the late 90s I have also been working with couples, again, bringing a broad-spectrum integrative perspective to a field, which is fairly fragmented into diverse, opposing and contradictory schools, therapeutic approaches and paradigms.For more than two decades I have been at the forefront of developing an embodied approach to depth psychotherapy as well as to supervision, group and organisational work, and much of my practice, thinking and writing has been focussed on this area. An embodied approach helps us to address both the psychosomatic depth of problems/pathologies as well as the developmental and transformational potential more deeply and more effectively than the traditional ‘talking therapies’.I am known for bringing a relational perspective to both embodied and integrative approaches, and have been developing what I call the ‘diamond model’ of relational modalities, based on the recognition that different kinds of relational spaces, different kinds of therapeutic relatedness underpin the diversity of therapeutic and psychological approaches. Such a multi-modal perspective is needed to do justice to the depth of the psyche, the complex subjectivity and multi-dimensionality of the people and social systems we work with.Bringing together integrative, embodied and relational ways of working in an experiential format helps us to work powerfully across the whole spectrum from intra-psychic, to interpersonal to collective dimensions of experience.
Listed skills include Psychotherapy, Psychology, Workshop Facilitation, Coaching, and 31 others.
