ABOUT ME

                                I was born in Arkansas, USA. In 1973 I came to
                                England, where I worked, first as an EFL teacher
                                and teacher trainer. I then moved into prison
                                education and became Deputy Education Officer at
                                HMP Dartmoor and Co-ordinator of Open Learning
                                for Devon Prisons.

                                In 1982 I trained in body psychotherapy
                                (Biosynthesis) with David Boadella, and co-founded
                                two of the earlier men’s groups in the UK, perhaps
                                the first to have such a strong psychotherapeutic input.

                                In 1984 I  set up my therapeutic practice in Devon,
                                training, supervising and working with individuals,
                                couples and groups. I have led training groups
                                for the NHS, the Probation Service, and the staff
                                of Broadreach House, among others. Recently
                                I have run a number of single-day training workshops
                                in a variety of subjects of interest to therapists and
                                others in the helping professions, including Body Work,
                                CBT for Humanistic Practitioners, Speaking of Sex,
                                Working with Angry Clients and Working with
                                Pathological Spirituality. The feedback from these
                                has been very good and I am expanding this part of my
                                practice. Over the next few years I intend to offer a
                                course which will provide training and support
                                for practitioners working with long-term (two
                                years or more) clients. I also want to provide training
                                and support for practitioners wishing to set up their
                                own peer supervision groups.

                                In 1995 I encountered the work of Arnold Mindell
                                (Process Work) which I studied and trained in over
                                a four year period. Process Work, with its emphasis
                                on the present moment had a huge influence on the
                                development of my own work, as did my own
                                personal therapy with a psychodynamic (Winnicottian)
                                therapist.

                                My style of work is body-aware, in-the-moment work
                                which recognises the powerful influence that the past
                                can have on the present. The root of my work is a deeply
                                held, underlying attitude towards the totality of what is
                                present in the moment, that it is both meaningful and
                                understandable. The attitude can be summed up pretty
                                well by the phrase, “Respectful Curiosity.”

                                I call this style of work Integrated Life Work.

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