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Existential Academy
The Existential Academy is a Community Interest company, based in West Hampstead in London and is the heart of the existential psychotherapy community.
The Existential Academy serves to fulfil two functions. Primarily, it is a community facing organisation and aims to bring philosophy to the community in accessible ways through workshops, talks, groups and therapy
The second function of the Existential Academy is to provide professional trainings In the mental health field at a variety of different levels, whether that is at a foundation level, undertaking a psychotherapy training or post-qualifying training and CPD. Our approach to psychotherapy draws on a long philosophical tradition but brings this up to date applying it in a practical way to enable people to achieve greater wellbeing despite the demands, challenges, and frustrations of contemporary life.
The Existential Academy comprises two hubs: a community hub and a professional hub. Our community hub is the perfect place to access workshops, short course and support services for all those, interested in self-development and philosophy The professional hub aims to provide a range of courses for those who are already qualified therapists, psychologists or coaches to gain specialisms in particular areas. Existential Academy also provides a yearlong foundation course designed to be closely integrated with the training courses provided by our sister company the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
The Movement
The Existential Movement exists to reduce interpersonal conflict and psychological suffering and to enhance well-being in the community. It is a non-religious, non-political movement, using existential ideas derived from existential philosophy, psychotherapy, and psychology to achieve these aims. Its motto is to ‘bring wisdom to the world’.
The Existential Movement is composed of international members who wish to pursue the aims as the Existential Movement of enhancing emotional and spiritual health and wellbeing within the communities of each nation.
The movement is administered by a steering committee that directs and coordinates the Movement’s international activities. This is located at the Existential Academy, in London. The Existential Academy is a not-for-profit community interest company, whose motto is to bring philosophy to the community.
The movement is supported and given advice by an international advisory board, of 24 outstanding professionals in the field of existential psychology and psychotherapy. The board meets three times per year and had its first meeting on 6th May 2023, in Athens, at the third World Congress for Existential Therapy.
The first President of the Existential Movement is its founder, Professor Emmy van Deurzen, who is internationally known as an expert in this field. She will be supported and guided by the steering committee and the International Advisory Board.
COURSES
NSPC's Doctorate in Professional Studies in Existential Psychotherapy fosters a supportive and collaborative learning environment Enriched by a close-knit community of like-minded individuals, students engage in exploration of the breadth of human existence and committed to personal and professional development With small class sizes, students benefit from individualized attention and forge meaningful connections with both peers and faculty, creating a vibrant academic experience.
This program offers an unparalleled opportunity for passionate individuals to embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and professional growth. Under the guidance of our excellent faculty, renowned tutors in the field, the DProf in in Existential Psychotherapy provides a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum that seamlessly integrates theoretical knowledge with practical application. Students gain essential skills and a profound understanding of the complexities of the human existence, enabling them to empower individuals towards living and infusing meaning into their lives.
Discover the essence of existential psychotherapy, exploring themes of freedom, responsibility, meaning, and authenticity. Through immersive coursework, intensive seminars, and engaging discussions, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of the existential approach and its applications in therapy.
This program offers a unique avenue for students to engage in research at the forefront of existential psychotherapy. NSPC fosters a culture of scholarly inquiry, empowering students to explore their research interests in depth. The research initiatives provide access to excellent resources, advanced methodologies, and guidance from faculty who are internationally recognized for their contributions to the field. Whether you're interested in investigating the effectiveness of existential interventions, exploring the intersection of existential philosophy and psychotherapy, or delving into specific existential themes, our program provides a supportive environment for you to conduct rigorous research that contributes to the advancement of the field.
At NSPC, we believe in the power of experiential learning. Our program combines academic rigor with real-world application, providing ample opportunities for hands- on experience and clinical practice. You'll have the chance to engage in supervised therapy sessions, case studies, and research projects, honing your therapeutic skills under the guidance of experienced tutors. Our faculty's expertise will guide you in integrating existential principles into your practice, empowering you to facilitate profound personal growth and lasting change in your clients.
Upon successful completion of the program, you'll emerge as a highly skilled and compassionate existential psychotherapist and a researcher equipped to make a profound impact on the field of psychotherapy. Whether you aspire to establish your private practice, pursue an academic career, or expand your therapeutic skills, the Doctorate in Professional Studies in Existential Psychotherapy at NSPC will provide you with the expertise and confidence to achieve your goals.
Join us on this extraordinary academic journey where self-discovery, professional excellence, and groundbreaking research converge. Engage in thought-provoking research, interdisciplinary studies, and valuable clinical experiences. Discover existential therapy and make a profound impact on your own life and that of others. The Doctorate in Professional Studies in Existential Psychotherapy at NSPC eagerly awaits your enrolment.
The Foundation Course at the Existential Academy is your gateway to a world of academic excellence and limitless possibilities. The programme is designed to lay a strong educational foundation, this comprehensive program paves the way for further academic degrees and propels your career aspirations to new heights.
At the Existential Academy, we understand the importance of a solid groundwork for success Our Foundation Course encompasses a diverse range of subjects, carefully curated to equip you with essential knowledge and skills across various disciplines of psychotherapy and counselling. Our tutors will guide you through an immersive learning experience, fostering critical thinking, analytical prowess, and effective communication.
The Foundation course at the Existential Academy can be taken as a standalone course or can serve as a pathway to further academic degrees provided by the Existential Academy and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling (NSPC)
The Foundation course is designed to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge to pursue higher education in psychotherapy, counselling, counselling psychology or coaching. Upon completing a Foundation course, students may be eligible to apply to a PGCert, PGDip, Masters, or Doctorate programme, such as those offered at NSPC or to
embark on the Existential Academy’s Existential Psychotherapy Training (EPT) through the Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy in combination with a relevant Master’s degree such as the MSc in Psychotherapy Studies https://nspc org uk/course-directory/
Upon completing the Foundation Course, you will be empowered to embark on a journey towards your dream academic degree at NSPC and the Existential Academy. Our personalized guidance and support system will assist you in navigating the intricacies of university admissions, helping you secure a coveted spot in your chosen degree programme
NSPC's Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy by Professional Studies combines Existential Theory with Counselling Psychology values. Students are supported in a collaborative learning environment. The practicalities of providing effective psychological therapies are explored through a rich encounter with philosophy and related psychotherapeutic theory. The taught material is enlivened by dynamic and deeply engaged thinking. This is fostered within an established network of practitioner-theorists who will engage with you as your supervisors and tutors. A diversity of human existence is explored, with a committed to personal and professional development. With small class sizes, supportive clinical supervision and a well-structured programme of research supervision, students forge meaningful connections with both peers and faculty, creating a vibrant academic experience. This program provides unique opportunities for passionate individuals
who are engaging with a transformative journey of personal and professional self-discovery. The programme includes all the required elements, as set by our regulating bodies. However, embracing diversity is a core principle, and students are supported in find their own motivations, interests and professional trajectories. With a strong emphasis on phenomenological exploration, there is a seamless connection in the programme between theoretical knowledge and practical application. Students will gain the essential skills along with a profound understanding of the complexities of human existence, within their individual learning horizon. It is with this emphasis on embodied, situated, and intersubjective human existence, that effective therapeutic skills and understandings are built.
Develop your practice with us, by exploring themes of freedom, responsibility, meaning, and authenticity. Through our immersive coursework, intensive seminars, and engaging discussions, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the existential approach and its applications in therapy.
At the NSPC, we are at the forefront of existential and phenomenological research. With many years of teaching behind us, we have an enduring and extensive range of research studies published by our graduates. We continue to build on this by fostering a culture of scholarly inquiry, and by empowering students to explore their research interests in depth. Our research supervisors are experienced in a range of established methodologies. The are also developing new innovations, with an internationally recognised reputation for their contributions to phenomenological and existential practice across many research topics. They will work with you to help you find your motivation, establish your specific interests, and guide you through a rigorous, successful, and publishable research project.
Experiential learning is essential in our teaching practice. You will learn theory when applying it in your clinical placements, and by exploring real-world phenomena in your research study. Under the guidance of experienced tutors, you will integrating existential principles into your practice, empowering you to facilitate profound personal growth and lasting change in your clients.
Upon successful completion of the program, you will emerge as a highly skilled and compassionate Counselling Psychologist. You also be equipped to conduct research that can make a profound impact in your field of interest. Counselling Psychologists have wide range of employment opportunities. You may establish your own private practice if you chose, or engage in an academic career, or take up employment in either public or private mental health services.
Join us on an extraordinary journey where self-discovery, professional excellence, and groundbreaking research converge. Engage with us in thought-provoking explorations. Find out how the practice of existential therapy can have a profound impact on your own life and that of the clients you serve.
Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy by Professional Studies at NSPC eagerly awaits your enrolment.
Autism and Neurodiversity Programmes
Introducing:
• MSc Autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions
• PGDip Autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions
• PGCert Autism
• PGCert ADHD
• PGCert Adult Autism Assessment
The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling NSPC has been involved in research and teaching in autism and neurodiversity since its inception in 1998. The online courses provide in-depth theory, understanding of clinical issues and research skills. NSPC believes that improving awareness, and high quality assessments and services for neurodivergent individuals is paramount. Continued research and increasing the understanding of what life is like for neurodivergent individuals is essential worldwide.
The distance learning nature of these courses means that students can learn in a flexible format that fits around work and personal commitments. The course is wholly online and is accessed by students across the world. Learning incorporates theory, references to real world settings, skills and research. Students learn together in a collaborative way, sharing knowledge and experience.
The courses provide professional development for those supporting autistic and neurodivergent individuals. If you are qualified in a relevant professional field, these courses will enable you to practice as a specialist within that area. However, the programmes are also of interest to those wanting to study autism and neurodivergence solely from an academic and research perspective.
NSPC offers a close-knit community of like-minded individuals. Students are able to engage in exploration of the breadth of human existence and committed to personal and professional development. With small class sizes, students benefit from individualized attention and forge meaningful connections with both peers and faculty, creating a vibrant academic experience.
Upon successful completion of these courses, you will have gained specialised knowledge and feel better equipped to make a profound impact in your profession, or to begin your journey in supporting neurodivergent individuals.
Join us for a new chapter in your academic, professional and personal development.
MA in Pastoral Care: Existential and Humanist Practice
NSPC's Pastoral Care programme is an innovative learning environment providing a unique, safe space for students to learn about and practice existential and humanist pastoral care. Upon successful completion of the programme, you'll emerge as a highly skilled and compassionate pastoral carer equipped to make a profound impact on the dynamic discipline of pastoral care. Whether you aspire to establish your private practice as a celebrant, pursue an academic career, or use your practice and professional skills as a chaplain, the programme will provide you with the expertise and confidence to achieve your goals.
The programme covers: practice skills of empathy, compassion, active listening, reflection and challenge, theoretical philosophical underpinnings of existential practice, the professional competencies and skills of pastoral care in many settings, including but not exclusively, hospitals, hospices the armed forces, higher education institutions, prisons, the qualification of celebrant for namings, weddings and funerals research contributing to the expanding body of pastoral care knowledge.
With small class sizes, students benefit from individualized attention and forge meaningful connections with both peers and faculty, creating a vibrant academic experience. Discover the essence of existential themes of freedom, responsibility, meaning, and authenticity. Through immersive coursework, intensive face to face and online seminars, and engaging discussions, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of the existential approach and its applications in practice.
The programme is flexible and can be completed in 1 year with students graduating with a PG Cert or after 2 years with additional research opportunities and further practice experience the student graduates with a PG Dip. or MA.
Under the guidance of our excellent faculty of renowned tutors in the field, the MA, PG Dip and PG Cert in Pastoral Care: Existential and Humanist Practice provides a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum that seamlessly integrates theoretical knowledge with practical application. Students gain essential skills and a profound understanding of the complexities of the human existence, enabling them to support individuals to find their meaning in their lives, often at significant moments in their lives, and as they face their own and others’ mortality. It is a privilege to be alongside someone at these moments.
While practiced throughout the millennia, pastoral care has recently been developing rapidly to recognize the spiritual and emotional needs of diverse populations in many different settings. Linking with Humanists UK gives this programme a breadth and network which establishes students within this vibrant and fast developing world of pastoral care. The program offers an unparalleled opportunity for passionate committed individuals to embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and professional growth in this expanding area. Get in touch and we can chat through how this programme could meet your aspirations. I’d love to hear from you.
Elizabeth.Young@nspc.org.uk
READING
By Emmy van Deurzen, Claire Arnold-Baker
Existential Therapy: Distinctive Features offers an introduction to what is distinctive about this increasingly popular method. Written by two practicing existential psychotherapists, with many years’ experience, it provides an accessible, bitesize overview of this increasingly used psychological therapy. Using the popular Distinctive Features format, this book describes 15 theoretical features and 15 practical techniques of Existential Therapy.
Existential Therapy will be a valuable source for for psychotherapists, clinical, health and counselling psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists, and all who wish to know more about the existential approach.
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BEING a Friend or a Foe
Prof Emmy van Deurzen, PhD Prof Emmy van Deurzen, PhD
It is an important task in life to work out whether other people are friends or foes, and to act accordingly. This is as true in relation to nation states, as it is for our relationships to family, peers, neighbours and colleagues. It also applies to our relationships to other animals and indeed to the planet itself.
Considering the current state of the world it has become an essential problem to address. This presentation will consider carefully what friends and foes are and what role they play in our lives. Then it will focus on the experience of being a friend or a foe, in order to understand better how we might be able to come to a position of reconciliation and collaboration with others instead of condemning ourselves to a life of fear, avoidance or hostility.
Prof Emmy van Deurzen, PhD is an existential therapist, counselling psychologist, and philosopher, who lives in the UK and who has written numerous books on life issues. Her work has been translated into over 30 languages. She founded the Society for Existential Analysis and its journal in 1988, the Regent’s School of Psychotherapy in 1990, and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in 1996. She continues to be a director of the latter and of the Existential Academy and Dilemma Consultancy, both of which she co-founded with Digby Tantam. She is a visiting professor with Middlesex University and President of the worldwide Existential Movement. Emmy is an international speaker who has given presentations and workshops on five continents.
Amongst her books are the bestseller Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice (Sage, 3d edition 2012), Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness (Sage, 2009), Everyday Mysteries (Routledge, 2nd ed, 2010), Paradox and Passion (Wiley, 2nd ed 2015) and Rising from Existential Crisis (PCCS books, 2021). Her book The Art of Freedom: Guide to a Wiser Life will be published by Penguin in 2024. She is also coauthoring a book for Routledge on Structural Existential Analysis, with Dr. Claire Arnold-Baker.
Age is Just a Number:
The Delusion of Maturity and the Fiction of Individuation
Andrew Samuels Andrew Samuels
A talk on age and aging that does not focus on physical infirmities and dying. Nor on how life experience transforms into wisdom. Instead, you will get a 75 year old naughty-boy questioning of ideas such as maturity and individuation. Even the idea of psychological development itself will be challenged. How ‘authentic’ are these values?
Includes a reaction to generational ways of thinking (baby boomers, millennials etc.). Instead, I look at what the idea of eternal youth has to offer us. On this journey will look at King David’s love life, and at Oscar Wilde’s The Portrait of Dorian Gray. The portrait aged but the man remained the same.
The phrase ‘age is just a number’ is often used to defend relationships where there is a large age gap. Such relationships often need defending because there is prejudice against them including from therapists (for example, that they are patriarchal or incestuous). But I go further and offer ‘age is just a number’ as a reality defying approach to life. It is also a matter of social responsibility and of massive political value. We may want to discuss this in light of the British General Election.
Andrew Samuels is a Jungian psychoanalyst in practice in London, a professor, author and political activist. His work on the value of therapy thinking to politics is widely appreciated. He has worked as a political consultant to leaders, parties and radical groupings in several counties.
He also works for the National Health Service on questions of leadership. Former Chair of UK Council for Psychotherapy. Co-founder of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility.
His many books are in up to 21 languages and include The Plural Psyche, The Political Psyche, and A New Therapy for Politics? A selection of videos is on www.andrewsamuels.com
The Enemies & Friends Within: From the Personal, to the Couple, to Social Justice
Kalanit Ben-Ari, Ph.D. Kalanit Ben-Ari, Ph.D.
The "Friend or Foe" dynamic manifests both within the therapist and the client individually, as well as in the relationship between them, creating layers of complexity in their encounters. Here, we explore how the interplay between the authentic self and the roles we assume can shape personal, relational, and social narratives. By examining the nuances of these relationships, we aim to understand how our clients' (and our own) inner conflicts and alliances not only influence their interactions with themselves and their loved ones, but also reflect and contribute to societal matters.
This session will address how individuals can be their own worst enemies and how these internal conflicts can extend into relationships and broader societal interactions. Specifically, the discussion will challenge how, in the pursuit of social justice, we sometimes inadvertently foster a culture of dehumanization. We simplify and polarize complex issues or adopt harmful behaviours—dynamics that manifest not only in social movements but also within the intimate conflicts of couples and the internal struggles of individuals.
The presentation aims to provide a deeper understanding of these dynamics, offering insights into navigating and processing them in therapeutic practice. By examining the interplay of internal and interpersonal conflicts and their reflection in societal issues, we seek to equip therapists with the tools to promote healthier interactions across all levels of human connection.
Kalanit Ben-Ari, Ph.D. is a senior psychologist, psychotherapist, and author with over 20 years of experience working with couples, individuals, and parents.
With a private clinic in Hampstead, London, she is an international speaker, trainer, and supervisor of therapists. Kalanit is a member of the Faculty at the Imago International Training Institute and served as the Chair of Imago UK from 2013 to 2023.
Dr. Ben-Ari’s expertise is well-recognised; she has trained thousands of therapists worldwide and is frequently featured in professional journals and the media.
Should Life-Enhancing Anxiety be a Touchstone for Therapeutic
and Social Transformation?
Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D. Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D.
Counter to conventional wisdom, what many of us need now is not less anxiety but more, at least of a certain kind. I propose that the world has far too much destructive anxiety precisely because it too often refuses to face the deeper and more invigorating anxiety that could preempt or even prevent that destructive anxiety. I call this invigorating anxiety “lifeenhancing anxiety.” Life-enhancing anxiety is that level of anxiety that enables us to live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence, and is key to improving our child-rearing practices, our creativity, our capacity for cross-cultural bridge building, and our spiritual connection to life. I call this spiritual connection “awe-based.”
In this talk, which is reflective of my recent book Life-Enhancing Anxiety, I will touch on those latter applications of life-enhancing anxiety including and in the context of my own journey with the sensibility.
In the end, I hope to convey how critical life-enhancing anxiety is to many of our individual and collective lives today, and how its depletion-as manifest in dispirited lives, violence, and political polarization —is killing us, both literally and figuratively.
Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D. is a leading spokesperson for existentialhumanistic and existential-integrative psychology, an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University and formerly Teachers College, Columbia University, and a cofounder and current president of the award-winning Existential-Humanistic Institute. He was also a 2022 candidate for president-elect of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Dr. Schneider has authored/coauthored 15 books including The Polarized Mind, The Depolarizing of America, and his latest book: Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World.
Honouring Our Need For Working Within Diverse Anti-oppressive Spaces & Relationships.
Myira Khan Myira Khan
This keynote will explore our sense of self and identity and our relationship between our internal sense of self and external spaces and people.
We will explore the themes of belonging and our experiences in spaces, which may feel safe or unsafe and inclusive or exclusive, and our relational experiences with others in these spaces.
We will explore our need for not just inclusive spaces but working within diverse anti-oppressive spaces and relationships and how we experience spaces and relationships, when we are engaging in and holding responsibility for creating spaces for us to feel safe in and belong in.
Myira Khan is a multi-award-winning Accredited Counsellor, Supervisor, Coach and Counselling Tutor, and the Founder of the Muslim Counsellor and Psychotherapist Network (MCAPN), and author of Working Within Diversity – A Reflective Guide to Anti-Oppressive Practice in Counselling and Therapy (published July 2023).
Myira has over 14 years of clinical experience, alongside delivering workshops, trainings and events internationally on Working Within Diversity and anti-oppressive practice and is a regular keynote speaker and presenter at conferences and events.
Working Within Diversity, both the book and the accompanying workshop and training series, is a culmination of her counselling and supervision experience alongside her extensive teaching and training experience delivering workshops on identity, culture and diversity, to create a robust foundation and framework for anti-oppressive practice in therapy, supervision, coaching and all practitioner-led practices and professions, across all modalities.
As the Founder of the Muslim Counsellor and Psychotherapist Network (MCAPN), established over 10 years ago, Myira runs the network for Muslim counsellors, therapists and psychologists, offering support, CPD opportunities and raising the visibility of Muslim practitioners. A visibly Muslim, ethnically-minoritized, neurodivergent/ADHD practitioner, Myira represents a diversity and intersectional identity within the therapeutic and coaching professions, supporting the establishment of diversity, antioppressive practice and culturally-attuned practice within the profession, alongside promoting counselling and coaching to ethnically-minoritized, Muslim, neurodivergent and under-represented, marginalised and intersectional communities and clients.
From Therapy to Social Justice
Prof Mick Cooper Prof Mick Cooper
At this time of major social and environmental threats, what contribution can counselling and psychotherapy make to enhancing social responsibility and social justice?
In this presentation I will suggest that therapeutic theory and practice has the potential to make a major difference, through a variety of pathways.
First, therapy can help us deepen our understanding of why social difficulties, such as authoritarianism, arise, and therefore how they can be tackled.
Second, therapeutic practices, client-by-client, can contribute to more peaceful, mindful, and thriving citizens.
Third, wider practices informed by therapeutic ideas, such as nonviolent communication and social and emotional learning, have the potential to enhance cooperative and empathic modes of relating; including in political systems, themselves. We can also use ideas and practices in counselling and psychotherapy to deepen an understanding of the system-wide principles and processes by which greater benefit can be attained.
Counsellors and psychotherapists should be confident that their ideas and practices have the potential to change the world—not in isolation, but in collaboration with those others also striving for greater social cooperation, peace, and justice.
Prof Mick Cooper is an internationally recognised author, trainer, and consultant in the field of humanistic, existential, and pluralistic therapies. He is a Chartered Psychologist, and Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton.
Mick has facilitated workshops and lectures around the world, including New Zealand, Lithuania, and Florida.
Mick's books include Existential Therapies (Sage, 2017), Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2018), and The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (Palgrave, 2013).
His latest work is Integrating Counselling and Psychotherapy: Directionality, Synergy, and Social Change (Sage, 2019).
Mick’s principal areas of research have been in shared decisionmaking/personalising therapy, and counselling for young people in schools.
In 2014, Mick received the Carmi Harari Mid-Career Award from Division 32 of the American Psychological Association. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the Academy of Social Sciences.
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ROUND TABLE SPEAKERS
Dr Claire Arnold Baker
Dr Claire Arnold Baker
Dr Claire Arnold-Baker is the principal and the academic director at NSPC also Course Leader for the DCPsych Programme.
She is a lecturer and clinical supervisor on the doctoral programmes and provides research supervision to both doctoral and masters students.
Dr Nancy Hakim Dowek
Dr Nancy Hakim Dowek
Dr Nancy is the course leader at NSPC for the DProf Programme. She is a lecturer and the doctoral programmes and provides clinical research supervision to both doctoral and masters students. She completed her doctoral degree in Existential Psychotherapy on ‘The lived experience of the bi-rooted migrant’.
Nancy’s research interests include: Identity, Migration, Belonging, Roots, uprooting, Bi-Rooted, Cosmopolitanism, Dualism in Self and Identity, Life Crisis and Life Transitions, Existential and Human Issues and Limited Situations.
ny van Deurzen Smith ny van Deurzen Smith
Danny is an existential coach and course leader for the MA in Existential Coaching at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling where they are also Deputy Principal.
Danny co-facilitates a monthly support group for LGBTQ+ autistic adults, and runs NHS training on the topics of neurodiversity and queer identities. In their coaching practice, they work predominantly with autistic and LGBTQ+ clients.
Dr Neil Gibson Dr Neil Gibson
Dr Neil Gibson is a psychotherapist, lecturer, and supervisor. He has worked in the psychotherapy field for 25 years and is currently the course lead for the Existential Psychotherapy Training (EPT) at the Existential Academy, in London.
Neil is also the incumbent Chair of UKCP’s University Training College where is actively involved in the regulation and governance of the psychotherapy profession in the UK.
