Frances Basset MBACP (Senior Accred), DPsych Candidate, Metanoia Institute

Frances Basset has worked for over twenty years as a Psychosynthesis Psychotherapist and integrative supervisor and educator. She has worked in both the voluntary sector and in private practice. Frances is currently completing her doctorate at the Metanoia Institute. Her research explores whiteness and white identity in the context of antiracist psychotherapy education. She is a senior accredited member of the BACP and student member of the UKCP. Prior to her career as a psychotherapist, Frances was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton where she designed and led degree and master’s level courses on anti-oppressive practice across a range of health care professions. Frances currently co-facilitates four times yearly, ‘examining whiteness’ groups in Brighton and Hove. These groups are open to all psychotherapists and counsellors who want to actively address the injustices and inequalities of racism within the profession through personal and collective work on white identity, power, privilege, and complicity.