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A father and retired businessman, I work with individuals on a wide variety of issues, short and long-term. In addition I currently have space for two low-cost clients.

Email: manorhouse.therapy@gmail.com

Fees (Individuals): £25 per session

After reading English at Trinity College, Cambridge, I was introduced to the work of Carl Rogers in 1973 at INSEAD the Fontainebleau Business School, and immersed myself in Encounter Groups, Bio-Energetic Groups, Gestalt Groups and Psychodrama Therapy Groups throughout the ’70’s, mostly at Quaesitor in North London. I lived in short term Residential Therapeutic Communities, and was a member of a 16 person on-going Six Month Intensive Encounter Group in 1976. I have also participated in several “Enlightenment Intensives”, most recently last summer, a retreat-based contemplation process founded by Charles Berner drawing on the wisdom of Zen Bhuddism. I was all the while working in business, first in International Investment Banking, then in the Food business, continuing until the millennium.

Now in my sixties, I am now in my sixth year of formal study for a Diploma and MA in Integrative Humanistic Psychotherapy at bcpc. With three children of my own and having trained as a parenting educator with Parentline in Stroud I am very interested in the early stages of life, parental influences, attachment, and formation of the self. Nevertheless, however illuminating a study of early events can be, it is the relationship between therapist and client which is the key focus of my work, since that is where the healing happens, rather than in trying to ‘undo’ the past. I am interested in the operation and expression of anger in our lives, as well as the stresses of ‘achieving’ in our society, and the loneliness and alienation that can occur alongside apparent success.