Will the proposed competencies framework advance the profession or is it fiddling while Rome burns?
ONLINEVENTS hosted the debate.
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Andrew Samuels describes himself as a relational Jungian analyst. He was the chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy and co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility in 1994. He has worked as a political consultant with leading politicians, parties and activist groups in several countries.
His books include The Plural Psyche (1989), The Political Psyche (1993), Politics on the Couch (2001), A New Therapy for Politics? (20160, and Persons, Passions, Psychotherapy, Politics (2018).
I’m based in West London where I also work as a volunteer counsellor, assessor, group facilitator, and supervisor. I have the Post Graduate Diploma and MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Post Graduate certificates in both Coaching and Supervision, and over 20 years experience of working with individuals and groups.
I’m an Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, work with their ethical guidelines, and am listed on their website.
The Person Centred approach believes that you’re capable of discovering your own solutions to your own problems. You are the expert in your own life. There are no diagnoses or labels and conversely, there is no prescription. Instead, via the relationship between client and counsellor, the client discovers personal resources, develops their own power, and becomes more able to grow.
Working with the balance between being solitary and in community, rights and responsibilities, paradox, resolution, submission and action, are central to my practice. Authenticity is the bedrock of my work which means that I will take you seriously and respond to you carefully, respectfully and truthfully, all of which sounds daunting and sombre, which counselling sometimes can be. It can also be joyful, enlightening, exciting and even enjoyable.
I’m Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Nottingham and Programme Director for the MA Person-Centred Experiential Counselling and Psychotherapy. My research interests are in the person-centred experiential approach, person-centred experiential pedagogy, and organisation and structure of the psy-professions more broadly.
