about me

I am a Gestalt psychotherapist, specialising in Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Therapy (IoPT), the trauma work developed by Professor Franz Ruppert. I have been in practice since 1989. Since 2005 I have studied intensively with Professor Ruppert, and my work is now entirely focused on IoPT psychotrauma work.

Since the Covid-19 lockdown I have been working online, open workshops, individual sessions, supervision and professional learning events. Before the lockdown I also taught courses in Singapore, Utrecht and Istanbul, and work with practitioners in The Netherlands. I have facilitated open seminars in Utrecht, USA, Berlin, Oslo, Brazil, Israel and Romania, and online in Moscow.

I edited all of the English translations of Franz Ruppert's books, published by Green Balloon Publishing, a partnership which I established in 2008 with John Mitchell. I have written four books myself, one on Family Constellations and two on IoPT work with a third due for publication in June 2021; you can find out more on the BOOKS page.

My other passion is my place in Wiltshire, just off Salisbury Plain, where I am 're-wilding' 2.5 acres of what was horse paddock. It is an exciting project, that is constantly changing, and growing.

Where the wood is, there are now young trees, and now on every tree you can find a variety of insects... and where there are insects will come creatures that feed on insects.

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Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

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I have now split the education & learning (training) events to another website: www.iopt-practitioner-events.com

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On the Trauma of Identity and the Trauma of Love:

"As the mother’s psyche is split, so her heart is split also."

(From my forthcoming book, Trauma & Identity due out mid 2021)

Personal statement: I am a psychotrauma therapist (originally a Gestalt psychotherapist) with over 30 years experience. My passion is working with people where there is the possibility of real, healthy emotional contact, where truth is honoured, and reality takes precedence over illusions. For more about me click here.

"All the trauma in the world comes originally from children trying to adjust to environments that are sometimes crazily impossible for them to understand and manage."

Taken from my next book, due out mid 2021.

"Be in love with your life. Every minute of it." Jack Kerouac.

What is the purpose of Life?

To live a good life, and to come to know who I really am.

"There are so many people in the world who have a good amount of 'healthy I'; it's just that they also have unresolved trauma and slide so easily into their survival strategies and ruin it all for themselves." (Vivian)