My interview with Paul Magrie, transpersonal psychotherapist and member of management committee of the CCPE in West London. In the interview Paul discusses his take on integrative psychotherapy and his involvement with CCPE from the 1990s. CCPE recently celebrated 30 years as a transpersonal training institute and clinical services provider. In the interview Paul refers […]
We all have endings, whether it is with people, jobs, courses, families, therapy, groups, schooling, etc. How we deal with our own individual endings is often a reflection of how we dealt with endings within our family. Families tend to set the blue print for how we operate in groups and how we left our family
It seemed appropriate that I recently attended a DSM 5 seminar entitled Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders, given that the recent World Mental Health Day centred on the theme ‘Living with Schizophrenia’. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the handbook developed by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and is used
At the weekend I attended a free two day course in London on life coaching which was run by the Coaching Academy. I have always been curious about the synergy between coaching and counselling/psychotherapy and, therefore, decided to explore what coaching was all about. The course promised that I would learn some coaching fundamentals over