Focusing professionals directory

Cambridge

Naomi Silverly 

Following my own challenging journey with health, I offer supported focusing sessions and workshops for navigating ongoing physical symptoms like pain, tension and fatigue, and the narratives that come up around living with and showing up in the world with these challenges in daily life.

Stanmore HA7, UK

Paula Newman 

I find Focusing enriching and healing. It supports empathic and accepting listening, which is in tune with my person-centred therapy approach. I value Focusing as a way of coping with physical ailments, and include this as a topic in my Focusing Skills Training.

London

Frank Bock 

My background is in the arts, retraining in Existential Psychotherapy in 2001. I work now as an Existential Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist, with individuals and groups, as well as in therapy supervision and training. I became interested in focusing 14 years ago and became excited by the combination of philospohy and...

London

Clare Myatt 

I am a somatic coach-therapist, working at depth, weaving focusing in to my professional and personal life.

Trondheim

Vera Rolfine Fryd Lyngmo 

Hello! :) One of the greatest things about Focusing is that it allows me to keep practicing standing in 'Not Knowing'; I don't have to choose between what seems contradictory from the everyday perspective. Plus I get to be with others as they discover genuine fresh insights from inside. Yay!

Alan Tidmarsh 

After training at the UEA I worked as a focusing-oriented therapist until my retirement in 2024.

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.

Bristol BS1, UK

Harriet Brown 

I love sharing focusing and helping you make sense of the strands of your life and finding a way forward that feels right at a deeper level. I value the peace that can come from living life in the inner-directed way.

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.

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...

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.

Southampton

Elizabeth Smith 

I qualified as a Person-Centred Counsellor in 1996 and since then have worked in private practice in Harrow. I am a Senior Accredited member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and also a member of Association of Christian Counsellors. I first discovered Focusing through witnessing a demonstration given by...

Livingston

Helen Dillon 

Conscious Career coach, with 20 years experience coaching women through significant career & life transitions. I offer Focusing-oriented coaching and Focusing training. For me Focusing is a superpower for a fully lived life and meaningful work. Click on my photo to find out more...

Wyre Forest

Jerry Conway 

Retired.

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...

London

Sarah Paul 

Focusing has become one of my most treasured resources for finding clarity, inspiration, and meaning - both in the practice itself and through exploring the philosophy it's founded on. I love seeing others discover their own capacities for Focusing, and its value for them.

Yorkshire, UK

Saskia McCafferty 

I am a BFA Certified Focusing Practitioner and a Certified Focusing Professional with The International Focusing Institute. I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and a Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Certified Practitioner.

Bristol

Gwen Williams 

Focusing offers us a way to meet and be with ourselves in a way that is gentle and compassionate, where everything in our experience is welcomed and every part of us valued.

Torridge

Sarah Hadfield 

Sarah is a GP and Mind-Body Practitioner. She integrates Focusing into her work helping clients to understand their physical symptoms from a whole-person perspective. She guides her clients to cultivate an inner relationship to their body, mind and spirit that facilitates self-healing.

Calstock

John Threadgold 

Hi. I am John Threadgold. I am a focusing teacher, therapist and supervisor and specialist in Trauma. I am also accredited for counselling and psychotherapy by the BACP.