For qualified practitioners and practitioners in training, I offer personal therapy. I particularly enjoy working with counsellors who use creativity and movement in their practice, or counsellors who wish a creative and/or movement dimension in their supervision if that is what you are looking for.
My approach is broadly humanistic integrative in perspective and blends creativity with social constructionism, experiential person centred and gestalt therapies with other psychotherapeutic approaches, with a developmental somatic edge.
I have an emerging interest in jungian and other psychodynamic approaches.I like to work relationally and creatively with supervisees and would be very interested and curious as to what it is that you would bring to the supervision relationship and how I might support and develop your practice. With that in mind, I draw from the physical/emotional/psychological/spiritual aspects of dance, body movement, the performance art of clowning, various art and media forms – along with the more ‘traditional’ aspects of ‘talking therapies’ supervision. I offer you creative, embodied, relational, experiential, movement based supervision.
My specialism was (and still is) to work with people creatively (if needed, to find a way support them to share/express/communicate their story as appropriate and always in collaboration with them) as well as talking and see them as whole human beings in context of their situation/problem that they bring and their whole life history as appropriate.
If you wish, I can work with you on line via Google Meet, or WhatsApp (encrypted).
Personal therapy takes place in a private, quiet, exclusive use, dedicated Counselling Room with no interruptions or interruptive noise
I bring together my experience of over 20 years of counselling, psychotherapy, personal and professional development and academic studies in creativity, communication, media and culture, and cultural studies.
Personal Therapy or Supervision for “Counsellors in Training” on Level 4 Therapeutic Counselling and Level 5 Psychotherapeutic CPCAB Qualifications
I am available for personal therapy for students on Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB) professional training qualifications at CPCAB accredited centres in the West Midlands.
My approach is humanistic integrative (person centred/gestalt), creative, body process and can include body movement.
Personal Therapy for Qualified or Newly Qualified Counsellors or “Counsellors in Training”
I offer personal therapy for counsellors, ‘counsellors in training’ or newly qualified counsellors from Coventry University and Warwick University counselling and psychotherapy programmes. “Having worked with past students, I have knowledge and experience of the requirements of the course programmes”, Paul.
Personal Therapy for Qualified DMPs or DMPs in training.
I offer personal therapy for students on the MA DMP programme or BA Hons in Creative Expressive Arts, Health and Well Being programme at Derby University.
I offer the same for students on similar MA DMP programmes at Goldsmiths University or Roehampton University, London, who are living and working in the West Midlands. As a past tutor, supervisor for five years and acting Programme Convenor for a brief time at Derby University, I have an understanding what is required by students.
Paul V Ricketts 