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I am a classically Client Centered Psychotherapist.
I work from the 1957 model as described by Rogers in his classic book "CLIENT CENTERED THERAPY"
i am none directive in my approach.
None directive is what I am not. But the term "Emancipatory Psychotherapy verses alienating control" perfectly describes my up to date aproach, Perhaps now more than it has ever been.
I follow my clients in that gray area just behind the analytical therapies. reversing the I-thou of Buber to the thou -I of client centered.
I learned my trade in the shpyards as a Mechanical fitter. In the engineering world I learned about interactions and people as a trade unionist. I went to Lancaster University where I did a BA (Hons) in History going on to do an MA in historical research. I lectured in History for Lancaster and the Central University of Lancashire, having experienced an acrimonious divorce I ended up with nothing and was a single parent for ten years. In that time i gained a few A levels and studies at night school `I stumbled across an introduction to Psychotherapies, which i was taken by discovering my true vocation. I attended introduction to, level one and two diploma in counselling. I went to leeds metropolitan 2002-2006 and attended a four year course to become a Client Centered Psychotherapist under the UKCP and a member of the UPCA since 2002. I started to practice in 2002 Qualifying in 2004 graduated in 2006 and as the Psytherapist for Risdale estates established a theraputic intervention in the sealed units alongside Psychiatry and psychology for ten years. I did go to Manchester to study under Paul Wilkins but he retired shortly after and i did not complete my Ph.D.
I now practice privately taking approximatly 15-20 clients a week. I am in excess of over 21,000 hours contact.
Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.
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