Welcome to my world

 

“Life is pure joy, sorrows but passing clouds…”

After spending my early adulthood playing in bands and promoting live music in London, I arrived in Brighton to study philosophy and modern world history. I remain fascinated by ideas and my curiosity knows no bounds. Since graduating from the University of Brighton, I’ve studied Education for Sustainability at London South Bank University, qualified as an NLP and Timeline Therapy™ practitioner, I’ve been training for the last three years towards qualification as a psychotherapist, and I’ve worked with many people in recent years to enhance their independence and maximise their life choices.

I am a member of the The Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming (ANLP) and British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy* (BACP), and hold professional indemnity insurance through Towergate Professional Risks.

My professional interests include ethics and power within client-practitioner relationships, the possibilities for therapeutic education and educative therapy within the discourse of environmental sustainability, and the construction of new identities as a vehicle for personal and social change.

My personal interests range from music, comedy and film through to philosophy, international development, human rights, environmental sustainability, and social justice (see the Actualize Bookstore for recommended reading). I enjoy practising mindfulness and have a deep interest in Taoism. My psychotherapy training is a continuing adventure in philosophy and my optimism in people shines bright.

I also enjoy taking time out and taking it easy...

Best wishes

Richard *

 

* My BACP membership relates to my counselling practice and not my life coaching work; however, my life coaching is guided by the Principles, Values and Personal Moral Qualities presented in the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice.

 

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QUOTE OF THE MONTH

“There are about twenty fundamental physical constants, such as the speed of light, the gravitational constant, Planck’s constant, and Boltzmann’s constant. These constants are not independent, and it has been estimated that the probability for their unique interrelationship to occur is something like 1/10200 (1 in 10 to the power of 200). Furthermore, the most infinitesimal change in the value of those constants, or in the relation that holds between them, would make the universe unstable and bring it to an end. In relation to life, it is known that a living cell is composed of some 2,000 specific enzymes. Biologists have calculated that the probability for the unique combination of all these elements to occur in order to produce a living cell is something like 1/101000 (1 in 10 to the power of 1,000). Such incredible magnitudes of chance lead to only one far-reaching conclusion: that our being is the product of an infinite improbability of being”.

Manfred Max-Neef