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Counselling and Psychotherapy work

How I work

I work as an integrative psychotherapist. The underlying basis of my approach is Person-Centred. I believe passionately in empowering the client, and the client being their own expert. My other main influences are body-centred psychotherapy (particularly from a neo-Reichan perspective), Process-Orientated Psychotherapy, and Focusing. I am also very interested in the areas where shamanic work and psychotherapy overlap and interface.

I am based in Lancaster, Lancashire UK. Ioffer one-to-one work, on usually a weekly basis. I can offer both short-term and long-term work, although my preferance is for longer work.

I work in Lancaster in north-west England. I also offer telephone work in homeopathy, for clients who live to far away for face-to-face work.

My fees are between £35 and £55 per session, depending on income (I leave it to people to decide what they can afford to pay, within this range).

I offer a no-fee, no obligation, introductory session, where we can meet each other and see if it feels right to work together. Please contact me to discuss booking an initial meeting.

My background and experience

I have been in practice for over twenty years. As well as extensive experience in one-to-one work, I am an experienced supervisor and trainer. I did most of my therapy training in the early 80s, which was a time of great experimenting and innovation in the humanistic psychotherapy movement. I did three years training in person-centred counselling; a two year training in polarity therapy (which was taught in a very body-psychotherapy way); a six month course in core process psychotherapy; a six month post-grad course in process-orientated psychotherapy; numerous residentails and short courses in Pellin work, Reichian bodywork, Psychodrama, Focusing  and other therapies; masses of Rebirthing; was involved in co-counselling and the Radical Therapy (or, Red Therapy) movement extensively throughout my 20s, and I was active in men's and other self-directed therapy groups. Plus I have been in personal Reichian therapy for three years, psychodynamic for two years, person-centred for a total of four years, and cognitive analytical for six months. I was a supervisor for counselling diploma students for ten years; taught counselling at levels 1, 2 and 3 (diploma) for six years; headed the counselling diploma at Lancaster and Morecambe college for two years; set up my own college of polarity bodywork which ran for eight years, teaching a heavily process-orientated and neo-Reichan way of working; taught counselling skills to homeopaths for nine years at two different colleges, and on a freelance post-grad basis. I am not in the BACP or UKCP as I am strongly opposed to their particular approach to  'professionalising' psychotherapy. I work as an independent.