Focusing professionals directory

Stroud

Helen Bower

As a trainer I mainly teach care and supporting worker’s own development in areas such as resilience, self-awareness, managing stress, self-regulation and capacity for personal change. Focusing is the main tacit unpinning for this. I Focus regularly and it is my main personal practice.

Norfolk

Martin Langsdon

I work as a counsellor and supervisor and Focusing is a key part of my practice.

Ventnor

Trudie Johnston

I discovered Focusing shortly before the lockdown and have found it helps support me in my everyday life.

United Kingdom

Zeid Halaseh

I am a UKCP registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist with over a decade of clinical experience, offering depth psychotherapy for insight, healing and creative growth.

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.

South East

Russ Kendall

I have a background in Psychology, which I remain passionate about, and I worked as a Psychology lecturer for many years. My particular interest in Humanistic Psychology led me to train as a Counsellor 10 years ago and I have been running a private practice for the past 6 years....

Northampton NN3, UK

Rob Burgess

I have been sharing Focusing with people for 5 yrs in 1:1 sessions. I also integrate Focusing into my bodywork practice as both Shiatsu and Craniosacral Therapist, which includes mentoring of other therapists as well as trainee Focusing practitioners.

West Midlands, UK

Katherine Long

I love introducing people to Focusing practice, and am constantly in awe of the many ways it can enrich our lives, as well as to heal past trauma, or stuckness. As well as 121 and group programmes, I combine Focusing with coaching and organisation development.

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...

Ashburton

Susan Jordan

After years of meditation and psychotherapy, it was Focusing that finally taught me how to go about making a friendly relationship with everything in me. There's always something special about sensing deeply into that open, accepting Focusing place, and I love helping others to discover it.

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!

Chalfont Saint Peter

Sabine Lees

I am a BACP registered Counsellor and work for the past 9 years in private practice in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire.

Brighton

Rob Thomson

Ive been a therapist for 14 years and am a focusing orientated therapist. What this means is that I weave an experiential aspect into all my therapy with clients

Malvern Hills

Cathy Rowan

Focusing has enabled me to transform my life from an existence of micromanaging chronic pain to one of finding myself again. The Focusing process gently created showed me how to feel safe living in my body rather than being stuck in dissociation and freeze which had underpinned much of the pain.

East Sussex, UK

Amanda Raine

I struggled for over twenty years with depression, CPTST, eating disorders and addictions, and it was Focusing that brought the deep empathic listening and longed for change. Sharing this life changing process continues to inspire and touch me as I witness people's unique journeys unfolding.

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.

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.

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...

Hove

Nora Larimar

(previously Alison Thorpe) I'm a Counsellor and Focusing practitioner. I work with an approach called 'Clean Language' which has a lot in common with Focusing. Here's an example video to see it in practice. https://youtu.be/suAaFjoazbc?si=YWFqPVtmi6gb9szU It works online as well as in-person.