This is the link to my recent interview with Dwight Turner, psychotherapist based in Paddington, West London. In the interview Dwight chats about his personal background, his take on integrative counselling & psychotherapy and his article on the absent father that hinders the growth of black men in the new millennium.
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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
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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 recently chatted with Windy Dryden about CBT and integrative psychotherapy. Windy was the first appointed professor of counselling studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 1992. In the interview we discuss the challenges of editing the Handbook on Individual Therapy, often viewed as essential reading for anyone wanting to know more about counselling
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I met the wonderful Jocelyn Chaplin the other day and we had an amazing chat about feminism, psycho-spiritual development and integrative psychotherapy – at her consulting room in North London. We also chatted about seemingly anything, and everything, remotely relevant to counselling and psychotherapy and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Her recent book was Deep Equality:
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On Tuesday I interviewed Dr John Rowan about integrative psychotherapy practice. In the interview John tells me about his ideas on psycho spiritual development, levels of consciousness and his views on personification. Well known in the psychotherapy environment for his work on Subpersonalities, his other books are Ordinary Ecstasy, Healing the Male Psyche (Therapy as initiation)
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Integrative psychotherapy should include all states of being, that is what it means to work from a holistic perspective, as well as all major theoretical traditions, this is what it means to be integrative. If human beings exist on at least five levels, namely body, feelings, intellect, soul and spirit, then we have to work
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The term integrative psychotherapist can be loosely banded around these days and can often engender confusion for potential clients when seeking counselling and psychotherapy. Each school of counselling and psychotherapy can be quite precious about their particular approach. Psychoanalysis can be seen as purist as can Rogerian therapy in that they both offer a comprehensive approach
the journey in transpersonal integrative psychotherapy is to seek one’s essence, one’s real self I often wonder if early life experiences are important in shaping adult character and whether unconscious communication such as transference and counter-transference is integral to transpersonal integrative psychotherapy. Perhaps transpersonal integrative psychotherapy presupposes psychoanalysis or, rather, include it as a first