About Jean
I have been a practicing therapist for many years, working in a variety of settings in long and short-term therapy, the charity sector and private practice. My initial 10-year career in media was interrupted for a long break to raise children.
I integrate existential, phenomenological, and psychoanalytic ideas into my work. What this means to me is that I see each individual as unique and multifaceted, without reference to categories or labels. I see therapy as a deepening conversation, exploring here and now possibilities for coping and for improving lives through the considered experience of a life crisis, problem, or confusion, with an awareness of past experiences that may still resonate within us.
Education and Qualifications:
- MSc Counselling and Psychotherapy, University of Roehampton
- Dip Humanistic Counselling, University of Chichester
- PG Dip Advanced Social Research Methods, City University London
- Certificate in the Couple Relationship, Tavistock Relationships
- Advanced Diploma in Relationship Psychotherapy (Couples), NAOS
- Advanced Diploma in Supervision, KRCS
I am a former Senior Lecturer in Counselling (University of Chichester) and Lecturer in Counselling (Guildford College)
Senior Accredited Member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
Registered Member, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), Constructivist and Existential College