Our trainers on the psychotherapy programme are:
Irene Fairhurst
Person Centred Psychotherapy
Irene is a co-founder of the British Association for the Person Centred Approach (1989) and a co-founder of the Institute for Person-Centred Learning (1992)
Professional activites and experience include:
Harrow College of F.E. : Supervisor / Consultant to Counselling Teaching Staff. Course on Group Process and Facilitation
Southampton City College - External Consultant Dip. in Person-Centred Counselling
Personna (Scotland) - External Consultant Dip. in Person-Centred Counselling
Wigan and Leigh College of F.E. - External Examiner Dip. in Person-Centred Counselling
Newcastle University - External consultant Post Graduate dip. in Counselling Supervision
Newham Action Against Domestic Violence: Supervisor / Consultant. Voluntary Member of Management Committee.
Barnardos: Supervisor/Consultant to the Odyssey Project (Young people at risk through substance abuse)
Private Practice in Counselling & Psychotherapy and Supervision of Counsellors (Group and Individual)
Publications include:
"Rigid or Pure" Person-Centred Practice. Journal of BAPCA
"The Actualising Tendency as the Sole Precept of Client-Centred Therapy" - Paper given at theThird International Conference of CC&EP.
"Group Work in Client-Centred Counselling Training" - Experiences in Relatednessi - Colin Lago and Mhairi MacMIllan (Eds) : PCCS Books, 1999
"Openness in the Client-Centred Therapist" - paper given Conference on the Quality of Presence, Bratislava, 1999 and published in Person-Centred Practice.
"Women Writing in the Person-Centred Approach" Irene Fairhurst (ed) PCCS Books 1999
"The Client-Centred Relationship" - paper given at the BAPCA AGM 2000 and published in Person-to-Person (BAPCA Newsletter).