About

Nicola Blunden

Nicola Blunden has worked in the South Wales valleys for more than two decades as a therapist and supervisor. She has specialist experience working with trauma, cancer, domestic violence, and disability. She practises in anti-oppressive and co-productive ways, co-creating a new, unique therapy approach with each client, according to their wishes and needs. Nicola has researched and published writing on plural identity, improvisation, ethics, decolonisation, and pluralistic research. Most recently, Nicola proposed a framework for pluralistic integration in person-centred therapy, for the third edition of Tribes of the Person-Centred Nation (Cooper 2024). Over the past ten years, Nicola has supported, and learned from, hundreds of trainee counsellors and supervisors in her course leader roles at the University of South Wales, the Metanoia Institute, and UWE Bristol. Nicola is a passionate advocate for epistemic justice, particularly for disabled clients and therapists, whose voices continue to be suppressed in our profession.