About Me

  I am an accredited UK Registered Independent Counsellor and an accredited group facilitator/therapist. I am accredited by the Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners.

Training and Qualifications

Date Qualification/Courses successfully completed Training Organisation
1987 BSc Psychology University College Cardiff
1991 Certificate of Training in HIV/AIDS Counselling Terrence Higgins Trust, London
1991-4 FACETS - BAC Accredited three-year Counsellor Training Programme in Person-Centred & Existential Counselling and Groupwork. Department of Continuing Education, City University, London
1996/7 Counselling Psychology - Dierotao - Learning by Enquiry PHYSIS, London
1997/8 Accredited 5Rhythms™ Dance Teacher Moving Center, USA
2000 Spectrum One Year Course in Psychotherapy Spectrum, London
2002 Post-Graduate Course in Psychotherapy Spectrum, London
2002 Accredited Counsellor and Group Facilitator/Therapist Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners
2002 UK Registered Independent Counsellor United Kingdom Register of Counsellors
2003/4 Spectrum Working with Couples Training Spectrum, London
2001-4
Spectrum Sexuality Programme Spectrum, London

Publications

Talking Spaces: a therapeutic groupwork approach to HIV prevention with gay men. PACE (1995) Download a pdf (1.4mb) >>

Talking Spaces II: evidence-based therapeutic groupwork with gay and bisexual men. PACE (2006) Download a pdf (1.2mb) >>

Getting Ready: a PACE workbook that aims to help you improve your self-esteem and get youself ready to make relationships. Download a pdf (2mb) >>

Getting What You Want: following on from Getting Ready, the second personal development workbook for gay and bisexual men produced by PACE in collaboration with the Camden and Islington Gay Men’s Team. Download a pdf (2.3mb) >>

An ammended version of Talking Spaces appears as a chapter in Working with Men for Change. Ed: Jim Wild, UCL Press (1999) Written with Alfred Hurst as the secondary author.

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