The relationship is very much at the core of Robin’s work as he focuses on what gets in the way of forming and maintaining therapeutic relationships that are helpful both as a therapist and as a counselling supervisor. In this interview we enjoyed experiencing Robin’s passion for open, dynamic and freeing relationships!
We enjoyed interviewing Sara Callen & Bernard Mooney about thier experience of The Person-Centred Approach Network (PCAN) which exists to provide opportunities for people to experience temporary Person-Centred Communities.
In 2010 Maria Naranjo set up HarmLESS Psychotherapy as a Social Enterprise to raise awareness about the issues affecting people who self-harm and or may be at risk of suicide. HarmLESS Psychotherapy provides training and psychotherapy at reasonable rates which helps fund free training and free support to those in financial difficulty.
Trauma, Attachment and Neurobiology – Interview with Irene MacDonald
Suggested reference
MacDonald I & Wilson J (2010). Trauma, Attachment and Neurobiology – Interview with Irene MacDonald. [ONLINE] Available at: http://onlinevents.co.uk/interview-with-irene-macdonald/. [Last Accessed 22/02/12].
Peggy Natiello authored “The Person-Centered Approach: A passionate presence” as a challenge to those who practice the person-centered approach “to recognize and fully engage the philosophical belief system, the passionate style of living and the integrity that person-centeredness demands.” Her challenge extends to both therapists working one to one and those who would enter the encounter group experience.
Julia Buckroyd’s new book “Understanding Your Eating: How to eat and not worry about it” is currently Amazon’s no. 1 in Eating Disorders! This excellent book is designed to help those of us who struggle with our eating. Many of us are eating too little or too much and just don’t seem to be able to choose what we do with food. Julia’s book is written to help us understand what might lie beneath the way we eat and help make a permanent shift in our relationship with food.
Is ‘Person-Centred Leadership’ an oxymoron?
Divine Charura has contributed the chapter “The effects of an African heritage” to “The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy” edited by Colin Lago. The chapter “explores the general, historic, cultural, religious and other influences of an African heritage and considers how these influences might impact a therapeutic relationship conducted in another country where the cultural style is different.” In the chapter Divine also proposes 10 principles to consider when working with individuals of African heritage. This work is a rich resource for therapists, helping to expand our own world view and openness to the other.
Kate Lakeland interviewed Anne Stokes and Gill Jones from online training for counsellors ltd at the OCTIA 2011 conference about the training they offer to assist counsellors to work online.
Sunflower Garden offers a range of therapeutic support to children and young people in Edinburgh aged from 5 to 14 years old. The interview is an opportunity to hear about the skills and resources both practitioners and managers need to deliver therapeutic support to vulnerable children.
Sue takes a passionately relational approach to working with anger and feels strongly that some of the more traditional approaches to working with anger and violence are not helpful and may even be traumatising to the client.
Talking with clients about their sexual experiences is a challanging endeavour for many therapists and comes with lots of questions, should I ask client’s about their sexual relationship, why am i not asking, am I embarrassed and what’s the impact of my own sexual experience on my client work.
Psychotherapy tends to consider itself discrete from the non-psychotherapy world. When we’re being psychotherapists and discussing psychotherapy we don’t also think about the gross domestic product of the country in which we’re working, labour relations or what’s on television.
We enjoyed interviewing Colin Lago about his new book “The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy”. This new book is a seminal work which brings together recent critical thinking and research and the exploration of the impact of different cultural heritages upon potential clients and therapists.
Following our interview with John McLeod we interviewed his co-author, Mick Cooper, about the pluralist approach to therapy set out in their new book titled “Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy”
Dr. Jacqueline Simon Gunn gives a compelling discussion on the many different questions and conflicts that come up involving romantic relationships. Using her years of clinical experience with patients as a foundation for her theory and practice she is able to answer and give feedback that arise and unfold within the context of the most complicated relationship human beings can have.
As part of our series on Relational Depth we have already interviewed Mick Cooper and Sue Wilders about their thoughts and experiences of “relational depth” as theoreticians and practitioners. In this event we interviewed Rosanne Knox about her research of the client’s experience of relational depth.
A pluralistic perspective challenges traditional views of therapy and the training of therapists in ways that are thought-provoking and inspiring. The interview is an opportunity to hear directly from John McLeod about his journey into this work and his current thinking.
Motivational Interviewing has been extensively used in working with addiction and is widely known as an effective intervention in this kind of work. Buck has taken this technique and used it successfully in his work with a wide range of clients in his face to face and online practice. Buck describes his use of this technique as closely aligned to the person centred approach while giving both the therapist and client a framework to use in their working alliance.
Sandra Grieve and Lucia Berdondini are currently delivering the COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills, on behalf of Strathclyde University, to a group of students in Afghanistan.
Will Stillwell was a colleague of Carl Rogers and is Co-Director of the La Jolla Program, a 43 year old residential program for individuals which is still following in the client centered/person centered tradition associated with Carl Rogers. Will works in organisations as a coach to individuals, facilitator to groups & mediator in conflict situations.
OCTIA 2011 Interview: ACTO – The Association for Counselling and Therapy Online
Kate Lakeland interviewed Stephanie Palin Vice Chair of ACTO the website for online counsellors and their clients.