Focusing professionals directory

London

Abdul Mateen Omary 

I have got BA in Psychology, Certifying Focusing professional coordinator and TOT in Psychosocial and peace building. Focusing has changed my life, it taught me how to build effective relationships, it gradually changed my behaviour. Focusing helped me develop my listening skills and I learnt to put myself in a...

Yorkshire And Humberside

David Garlovsky 

Teacher trainer/CEO Schools and Homes Energy Education Project – Using Focusing/Listening to develop problem solves skills and combine education and invention to facilitate decisions about energy use and climate change. Successfully pioneered an education method and STEM renewable energy resources

South Hams

Heather (Hajah) Tetley 

I have been a qualified Focusing Practitioner for 8 years & a practicing Companion for 20+. I am also a Transpersonal counsellor. I teach mediation & active mindfulness. Since 1965 I have been actively involved in spiritual traditions of all World religions, blessed with wonderful teachers.

London

Andy Philpott 

I am a BFA Certified Focusing Practitioner and an IFI Certified Focusing Trainer. I support people exploring their personal relationships and Financial Freedom. I practice Nonviolent Communication (NVC) which I integrate with Focusing to work with groups for social change and in conflict mediation.

Bristol

Gordon Adam 

Focusing has been an integral and transformative part of my life for the last 17 years: I Focus several times each week; facilitate a monthly Focusing group; run regular 5-day Focusing Retreats in Dartmoor; offer 'Focusing with Poetry' workshops; and I have been editing the BFA newsletter since 2016

Shrewsbury

Vajrapriya Moss 

I practice from Shrewsbury UK, having first encountered focusing in 2011. I find the practice of great benefit alongside my spiritual practice (of Buddhism), as well as in digesting the everyday rough-and-tumble of life to see what I feel.

Rob Foxcroft 

Meeting focusing was a homecoming: 'These are my people. I knew this all my life. Now I have friends in this inner world.' Focusing and listening have carried my life forward for many years. It has been a joy and a privilege to share focusing with others, and to listen to their inward explorations.

Edinburgh

Ruth Friedman 

I help my clients overcome self-doubt, value themselves more and increase their confidence so that they can bring more value to their projects I have been focusing since 2014 and trained in Inner Relational Focusing and Relational Whole Body Focusing

Hythe

Carolann Samuels 

I've practised Yoga all my adult life, and have taught for 25 years. Finding Focusing was a shift change in my life and complements Yoga practice perfectly. Focusing has integrated itself into my life in a gentle, nurturing way, and I only wish that everyone knew how to Focus for themselves.

CCWC+79 Bristol, UK

Mareike Ringena 

Focusing has shown me how to open the door to the ‘ME’ inside – I am particuraly passionate to integrate Focusing with non verbal creative forms of expression. I am offering Focusing on its own as well as integrating Focusing into my practise as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist.

English Speakers Abroad

Astrid Schillings 

Focusing came into my life in 1981, when a student of Person Centred psychology. It resonated deeply with my wondering what it is to be human, why we are here. In that spirit I became a Psychotherapist/Psychologist. I have been been exploring and teaching extensively on the interface of Sensitive...

Bedfordshire, UK

Kay Hoffmann 

I love sharing focusing and find it hugely enriching to do so. What a privilege it is to meet people on such an authentic level and to introduce them to this soothing, enlivening, creative way of being with their own inner world!

Bradford

Celia Dawson 

I am a Certifying Co-ordinator with the International Focusing Institute. I train therapists in working with complex trauma and we incorporate Focusing in our work together with many other modalities. I am a Director of the Complex Trauma Institute.

Cornwall, UK

Hilary Thorn 

Focusing takes you on a journey out of your thinking mind and into your feeling body, connecting you to your inner wisdom with curiosity and compassion. I love to combine it with creativity, exploring how giving the body another language to express itself can be both liberating and surprising!

Kennet

Addie Van Der Kooy 

I have been fortunate to work closely for many years with Kevin McEvenue, the founder of Wholebody Focusing (WBF). First as his client and later as co-presenter of many WBF workshops and retreats in the UK. We also produced the WBF workbook “Focusing With Your Whole Body”. I am registered...

Peebles

Cecelia Clegg 

For me, Wholebody focusing is a very gentle and powerful way of living into deeper awareness of ourselves in the present moment. Learning to allow our bodies to lead us opens pathways to inner healing, is transformative and life-giving in daily living.

Marion Winslow 

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.

Holyhead

Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes 

Focusing offered me the keys to the rest of me! Finding my felt sense revitalised my learning, creativity & deepened by connection to self and others. I am a Certified Focusing Practitioner. I run a private Integrative Psychotherapy practice and retreat in North Wales.

Brighton BN1, UK

Greg Madison 

I am an existential and focusing-oriented chartered psychologist and specialist psychotherapist on the BPS register. I am practicing and supervising online and lecturing worldwide on therapy, focusing, and related topics. I also host The Living Process, a podcast featuring Focusing conversations.

adriana dorsett 

As well as being a Focusing Practitioner I have been working with individuals and couples as a relationship counselor, with Relate Avon in Bristol. My passion for Focusing and Counseling led me towards (IFS) Internal Family Systems, specialising in intimacy.