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Podcast: Exploring psychotherapy in a new paradigm

Leave a Comment / Noel Bell / July 3, 2025

In this podcast I chat with Ruthie Smith about psychotherapy in a new paradigm. Ruthie is the author of Energy, Soul Connecting and Awakening Consciousness – Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm (Karmac Books, 2024). She is also a psychotherapist, teacher, trainer, and clinical supervisor, and professionally trained in different psychotherapeutic approaches, including AIT, Jungian, Psychoanalytic, Attachment-based […]

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My interview with Allan Pimentel

Leave a Comment / Noel Bell / January 10, 2015

My interview with Allan Pimentel, jazz musician and psychotherapist for over 25 years. Allan is a member of the management committee of CCPE, the largest transpersonal training institute in the UK. In the interview Allan chats about the history of CCPE, which recently celebrated 30 years of being a training institute, how he became a therapist

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I was only listening

Leave a Comment / Noel Bell / February 8, 2014

It is quite common to hear counsellors and psychotherapists say to themselves, or in group supervision, that they were only listening to the client and that there was a perceived absence of creative intervention in the therapy on their part. When I feel like this I must remember what Clarkson said about the therapeutic relationship.

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Can psychoanalysis be called transpersonal?

Leave a Comment / Noel Bell / September 20, 2013

In classic Freudian therapy, psychological ill health emerges when the balance between the id, ego and super ego is distorted. “Patients” will present for counselling in an egodystonic state – when thoughts and behaviours are in conflict, or dissonant, with the needs and goals of the ego, or, further, in conflict with a person’s ideal

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How to date more intentionally on dating apps
by Noel Bell
June 3, 2026
My latest article on how to use dating apps more mindfully is available from the Counselling Directory website. The list of tasks that can help to bring about greater focus and intention to your online dating search include the following: Devise your own set of dealbreakers The importance of setting a dealbreaker is that you
What’s worrying you? Abandonment issues?
by Noel Bell
May 6, 2026
I recently reviewed the guidance page on Counselling Directory for the topic of abandonment issues. The Counselling Directory is part of the Happiful Family and is an online platform in the UK that connects people seeking mental and emotional health support with qualified counsellors and psychotherapists. Founded in 2005 it has grown to be a
Here’s why approach goals are better than new year resolutions
by Noel Bell
December 29, 2025
It is by the practice of a good habit that gradually outweighs the power of a bad habit. This truism is probably even more pertinent at this time of year when it is common to evaluate lifestyle options and to assert new goals in an attempt to bring about behavioural change. New year resolutions tend
My Guardian article quotes: should a friend be cut off?
by Noel Bell
November 21, 2025
I am quoted in the latest Ask Annalisa article in the Guardian in response to a letter from a reader seeking advice about a friendship of 20 years. The reader had asked whether or not she should cut off her friend, as her friend only ever talks about herself. Being in avoidance mode, the reader
Farewell to the late Asher Quinn
by Noel Bell
October 13, 2025
I learned of the sad death of Asher Quinn this week. Asher was well known in the London psychotherapy community and died in Hungary on 4 October, where he had been apparently living in recent years. I got in touch with him in 2014 when I was still a (final year) student, and we did
More on energy, soul connecting and awakening consciousness
by Noel Bell
August 21, 2025
Attached here is an edited version of an interview I undertook with author Ruthie Smith about the contents of her book Energy, Soul Connecting and awakening consciousness (Karmac Books, 2024). The attached file is an audio version of the full interview which can be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUjLK3kdkh8 In the broader chat I discuss with Ruthie
Podcast: Exploring psychotherapy in a new paradigm
by Noel Bell
July 3, 2025
In this podcast I chat with Ruthie Smith about psychotherapy in a new paradigm. Ruthie is the author of Energy, Soul Connecting and Awakening Consciousness – Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm (Karmac Books, 2024). She is also a psychotherapist, teacher, trainer, and clinical supervisor, and professionally trained in different psychotherapeutic approaches, including AIT, Jungian, Psychoanalytic, Attachment-based
How to boost self-regulation and overcome bad stress
by Noel Bell
June 18, 2025
Attached is my latest article about how to boost self-regulation and, thereby, how to overcome bad stress. It is important to remember that stress is not something we can really eradicate. Without some form of stress we might be bored senseless. That is why a distinction between good and bad stress can be useful. Good