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Introduction

Since meeting Focusing I have again and again come back to it as a core resource when I have felt strayed from ‘myself’, & I used its magic a lot in my therapy practice When writing on the links between psychotherapy and spirituality, Focusing became absolutely central, so I became a Practitioner.

What services do I offer?

1-1 Focusing sessions
Teaching Focusing 1-1
Introductory sessions for groups
Focusing outside
Focusing oriented therapy (time limited) indoors, outside, and by phone or zoom
Focusing in relation to meditation and to movement.

My background in Focusing

I met Focusing while training as a body psychotherapist a little over 20 years ago, and I completed the Focusing Skills course with Peter Afford. I increasingly used Focusing in my psychotherapy practice over the years, and several times I've offered introductions to it to small groups in settings such as NVC, ecotherapy summer camp, and Quakers. I worked with Focusing partners when possible (this is before Zoom!), including finding a fellow enthusiast in my mindfulness training. & explored solo Focusing including with recorded guidance. I also attended some Focusing Retreats, and summer camps. with Gordon Adam and others.
In 2018, when enrolled in a Quaker programme, I decided to do my Project on Psychotherapy and Spirituality, and to my surprise every road I followed led back to Focusing and Gendlin's philosophy.
In 2019 I decided to train as a Practitioner with Kay Hoffman. Since that time I've attended 'Untangling the Knots' with Peter Gill, a course on Quakers and Focusing, The International Focusing Intensive (on zoom), and this year Anne Weiser Cornell's yearlong 'The Big Shift'.
One of my interests is in how Focusing and ecotherapy support each other.

Qualifications

Focusing Practitioner 2021
Diploma in Body Psychotherapy 2004 (Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy.)
Full accreditation with United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy 2008
Postgraduate Certificate in Mindfulness Based Approaches to Mental Health, 2013
Postgraduate Certificate in Parent-Child Therapy, 2015
Postgraduate Certificate Wild Therapy 2016
Certificate in 'Circle of Trees' practitioner course (Environmental Arts Therapy) 2022
Trauma Skills Course with Babette Rothschid, 2006
MA in Philosophy 1983

How do I practice?

• In person
• Phone
• Online

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