Focusing professionals directory

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Dieter Kahlmann

My name is Dieter, I am German 67 years old living in the Canary Islands. I first met Focusing through Ann's book “Radical Acceptance of Everything” after my stroke in 2021 and decided to learn it as part of my recovery. My goal is living a Focusing life and support others on their Focusing journey.

South West

Barbara McGavin

My greatest joy is exploring the frontiers of the Focusing process – what it is and how it can be applied in daily life. Since 1991, Ann Weiser Cornell and I have been developing Inner Relationship Focusing to help people learn Focusing more easily. Since 1994, we have been exploring...

Luke Farren

Amy McCormack

I am an integrative counsellor working in private practice and a focusing practitioner. Learning to focus and developing a regular practice has transformed my relationship with myself. Consequently it is now at the heart of my therapeutic work.

Leipzig

Amona Buechler

Amona has been offering courses, workshops, and sessions online & offline since 1998. She is a Certified Focusing Trainer/Coordinator in Training and a Certified Feldenkrais Assistant Trainer. Of German origin, she lived in Chicago 1998-2015, traveled the world until 2021, and now lives in Germany.

Stroud

Caroline Redmond

Focusing is life-changing. As a counsellor, I rarely include focusing by teaching, or even mentioning its name. I know its power however, and hold it close as a possibility for each session. People know focusing - it is a natural way - it only needs space and safety and it unfolds as it will

Tywyn

Bernie Heaney

Having practised meditation for years and being a mindfulness teacher, I luckily found focusing. To me focusing is a gateway to self-acceptance and self-compassion. It is in the spirit of 'everything is welcome' that I now share focusing and mindfulness with others.

Shrewsbury

Bethany Rivers

I love the compassion, the freshness, the insight that comes from focusing. I'm especially interested in focusing with regards: creativity, dreams and grief.

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...

Edinburgh

Marion Stumpe

Focusing has beautifully enriched my life. I see every moment as an opportunity to engage and connect with life in its fullest and have a heartfelt wish to bring this wonderful gift to others. I am here for you for when you are ready to connect to your body’s innate knowing, aliveness and wholeness.

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!

North West

Patricia Foster

I have been living and working (Financial – Shipping Sector) in Greece since 1981 and came across Focusing in 2002. From the out-start I was captivated (and I mean out-start!). I then trained and qualified as a Focuser and Focusing Oriented Therapist with the Focusing institute, HFC and UEA. During...

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.

Liverton

Fiona Parr

Focusing has given me so much and I enjoy sharing its riches and gifts with others. I teach Focusing from my home on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, and online. I enjoy working with people in individual sessions and teaching small groups.

London

Frank Bock

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Deal

Kaye Heyes

AuDHD Focusing-oriented coach, supervisor and hypnosis practitioner, supporting highly sensitive and neurodivergent people. I weave creative practices with a WayPower “wayfinding” approach, supporting people to connect and listen to their felt sense and inner knowing by learning Focusing.

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.

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.