About My Experience I was born in the Great Smokey Mountains in east Tennessee and have experienced a diversity of work and experiences mainly in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. My career development has included being a medic, working in an emergency room, running a Hospital in the Yemen, oil exploration on land and at sea, business management, business consultancy, and of course being a psychotherapist. My work has taken me to more than 90 countries around the world and taught me many lessons about other cultures and individuals as well as myself. My journey to becoming a qualified psychotherapist began in the late 60’s when I worked with substance abusers in Utah and Arizona. Part of my journey was working on psychiatric unit at the University Medical Center, Salt Lake City. My introduction to therapy was to Gestalt, TA, Psychometric Testing, and Psychodrama, all as a client and a practitioner. In 1988 I took the introductory course to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at the University of Kent in Canterbury. In 1989 I began the M.A. in Psychotherapy and Counselling course at Antioch, now known as Regents College and completed my Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy training with the IPSS in June 2003. As I move forward in life I am contemplating further enhancement of my psychotherapy skills, perhaps writing a book, and elaborating on my personal theories of psychotherapy and counselling. This is in the context of expanding my horizons through boating and the practical skills needd to be safe ashore and at sea. Please contact me for more info. Education 1989-1996 School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, London Antioch/Regents College, MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling (Dissertation not completed). Included 8 months supervised practice of Psychotherapy at the Marylebone Healing Centre & Mind in Ashford, Kent 1995-1996 Cassel Hospital Richmond Training in Organisational Psychodynamics with Dr. Robert Hinshelwood. I took a placement in a doctor's surgery to make observations of the interactions between the staff and the patients. This material was then processed with Dr. Hinshelwood using the works of Klein and Menzies Lythe Smith. This included 46 hours of observation and 40 hours of supervision. 1998-2003 Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies London Diploma in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy MA Psychoanalytic Psychtherapy and Social Studies North London University Included 3,000 hours supervised training practice Apr 2010 - Jan 2011 Guild of Psychotherapis Pluralistc Supervision Course Professional Organisations Moderator, UKCP Psychotherapy Council Mar 2010 - Mar 2011 Honorary Fellow UKCP from Dec 2009 BACP MBACP since August 1995 Member of the Organisation for Promotion of Understanding in Society (OPUS) Member of The Higher Education Network for Research and Information in Psychoanalysis (THERIP) since 1994 Registrant of the UK Council for Psychotherapy, (UKCP) CPJA Since 2003 Registration Number 0313569 Chair of the Ethics March 2005 - Mar 2007 Chair UKCP Mar 2007 -Dec 2009 Member of the UKCP Executive and Finance Committee Member of the UKCP Governing Board as a Trustee Committee Work Mental Health Providers Forum - Philosophy Panel National Audit of Psychological Therapies - Royal College Psychiatry