Articles & Other Writings
On this page you will find links to articles, reviews and presentations I have written.
Taking counselling and psychotherapy outside: Destruction or enrichment of the therapeutic frame? Article published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy in 2010.
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Book Review of Ecotherapy; Healing with Nature in Mind by Buzzell and Chalquist. Published in The Transactional Analyst Spring 2012.
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Book Review of Wild Therapy; Undomesticating inner and outer worlds by N. Totton. Published in The Transactional Analyst Autumn 2012.
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'The View from Here'. A seasonal column I wrote in 2014 about nature and outdoor psychotherapy for The Transactional Analyst Magazine.
Winter 2013 (PDF)
Spring 2014 (PDF)
Summer 2014 (PDF)
Autumn 2014 (PDF)
Ecotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice
This book has chapters by many leading experts in the field including one by me - 'A Vital Protocol - Embodied Relational Depth in Nature Based Psychotherapy'
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This amazing picture of my outdoor 'office' was created for me by the wonderfully talented local artist Rebecca Clitheroe.....it forms part of her ' hidden histories' range. If you look closely you will see that she has incorporated other meaningful (to me) aspects of this landscape both from the past and the present.
A very interesting representation of the multi layered landscape experience we can all have through our attachments to important places. For more on her work please click here.
Keynote Speech for the CONFER Conference 'Psychotherapy and the Natural World', November 2016.
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My personal tribute to my friend and colleague, ecotherapist Martin Jordan who died 5th Jan 2017 - read out at his funeral.
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ECO-TA
Writing by me & others on this exciting new development in TA in
2 recent special issues of the Transactional Analyst Magazine
Autumn 2019
Spring 2020
New book on Trauma and Creative Therapies
This brand new book published in June 2020 includes a chapter written by me
An elemental relationship - nature-based trauma therapy
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