Sussex counselling winter 2014

SUSSEX COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY NEWS Winter 2014 www.sussex-counselling.co.uk

Complaints

When therapists feel abandoned

Inside out

Ecotherapy in action

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The Rock Clinic Association has been providing a range of affordable therapies to the community of Brighton, Hove and Sussex since 1990.

The Rock is a co-operative association of psychotherapists and counsellors, yoga teachers and complementary therapists based at two sites across the city.

With disabled access, facilities for individual psychological and physical therapy and space for group work, both Clinics offer low cost counselling and specialist therapeutic yoga.

The Rock also provides training placements counselling and psychotherapy.

Registered charity No. 105732

Rock East 270 Eastern Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 5TA 01273 621 841 Rock West 8 Western Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 2PG. reception@rockclinic.org.uk 01273 326 826

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Winter 2014 Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy (SCAP) News is the quarterly newsletter for counsellors and psychotherapists working in and around Sussex who are registered members of SCAP. Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy Newsletter is the official journal of Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy. Views expressed in the journal and signed by a writer are the views of the writer and not necessarily those of Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy. Publication in this journal does not imply endorsement of the writer’s views. Similarly publication of adverts does not constitute endorsement by Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy.

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WELCOME...

5 Sensitivity Working with highly sensitive people

to our Winter issue in which we don our warm coats and get out and about to enjoy all that is best about the great outdoors.

For an increasing group of therapists, taking to the outdoors is not just about breathing in fresh air and feeling better but subscribing to the growing body of evidence that it leads to improved mental health.

That’s why in this issue we have focussed on Ecotherapy, find out what it is and why therapists see it as a useful tool for some clients.

I was struck by the comment from William Bird of the RSPB, who in a report for the Society, wonders why we consider it inappropriate to lock up animals in zoos and yet seem impervious to the idea that many of our old people spend years incarcerated in care homes without access to the outdoors.

See Bird’s report in Reviews, page 20, and find out more about Ecotherapy and what it involves from a therapist who has embraced the discipline as well as a review from SCAP’s Sheila Pope, who attended a training session with the distinguished therapist Martin Jordon, who has engaged with the subject for many years, Elsewhere in this issue we look at Suicide and coping with the fears it arouses in therapists faced with suicidal clients.

And we find out how the complaints procedure against therapists can leave them feeling abandoned, distraught and, in one example, absolutely broken by the process.

With lots more news from around the county we hope you find much to inform you and your practice.

6 Internet boost Talking therapies work best 7 Counselling wellbeing Offington Counselling survey 8 New Counsellors Support and advice from SCAP’s new group 10,11, 12 Ecotherapy

Astrid 14 Suicide Why it needs to be talked about 16 Complaints How counsellors can left feeling abandoned 18 Diary 20 Reviews

Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy (SCAP) News

Contact Us Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy Group PO Box 308, Brighton BN2 0WA Editor: Astrid Stubbs Email: newsletter@sussex-counselling.co.uk Advertising : advertising@sussex-counselling.co.uk Membership: membership@sussex-counselling.co.uk Web: www.sussex-counselling.co.uk Twitter: @SussexCAP Facebook: www.facebook.com/ SussexCounsellingAndPsychotherapy Printed in the UK

4 Top marks for ‘lad point’ research Sussex psychologist Dr Richard de Visser was labelled ‘Dr Lad Points’ in a BBC Radio 1 documentary aired in October.

Dr de Visser, whose research looks at the health behaviour of young people, is the academic expert in a programme exploring how and why young men award each other points for antics such as binge drinking and womanising.

Radio 1 DJ Chris Stark talks with Dr de Visser, a group of young farmers in Shropshire and a bunch of men on a night out in Chelmsford.

Dr de Visser describes how this has become an area of academic study. “We are looking at it because there are potential physical risks involved, whether that’s not going to the doctor because you think that’s a 'particularly girlie’ thing to do, or to drink heavily because that’s how you think you’ll get lad points.

“What we have found is that people get the most lad points for the traditional masculine behaviour – being able to hold your drink, being good at sport, not showing weakness and not showing vulnerability.”

While the programme hears from young men about how sleeping with friends’ sisters earns lad points, while at the same time moving into a flat with a girlfriend also scores highly, Dr Visser points to how changes in society have made it less clear what it is to be a man.

He also describes how lad points become man points with age, with the scoring moving away from appearance and socialising, to the state of your wine rack or what car you drive.

And while the achievement of some points may be only fleeting, others become part of your capital.

Hear the interview at http:// bbc.in/1nWOgxM

Cream tea The Beach Party is a service offered by Arun Counselling in Littlehampton and is aimed at pensioners who live alone in or around Littlehampton who might benefit from telling their story and their present concerns to a counsellor and then joining a group of others who enjoy meeting people of their own age once a week in an informal way.

The group meets at 2.30–4.30 pm. on a Thursday. Once a month the group is offered a free cream tea, open to all, including newcomers. This is a free and confidential service, based at Dove Lodge in Beach Road and open to anyone over 60.

Details at www.aruncounselling.org.uk/index.php? page=28 or Tel: 01903 714417.

From tutus to therapy The Rock Clinic counselling and psychotherapy charity recently opened a second clinic at Western Street, Brighton, in a former ballet studio. This brings a further eight consulting rooms on stream to add to the existing 10 at the clinic in Eastern Road. Both clinics offer a range of therapeutic options, including individual counselling, body and group work and couple and family work. Complementary therapy approaches, reflect a commitment to holistic practice.

Rock West also now has a small yoga studio/seminar room and is pioneering specialist yoga psychotherapy.

New this year is a CBT based low-cost 8 weeks Combating Anxiety group and the clinic is developing a specialist service for older adults now the baby boomers are coming of age.

By having a large number of practitioners, waiting lists can be kept very low and costs can be genuinely matched to what people feel they can afford.

The Rock offers training placements to those studying counselling and psychotherapy and has increased its support for practitioners with a reading group, peer supervision groups, supervision training, practitioner seminars and help with accreditation.

To apply to to join the team and other details visit www.rockclinic.org.uk

SCAP SEMINAR

When it’s too hot or too bright Jan Irwin on a SCAP workshop devoted to highly sensitive people Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy Seminar, Highly Sensitive People Barbara Allen Williams This was another very wellattended SCAP seminar, led

by Barbara Allen-Williams, who has been specialising in working with Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) for 10 years.

Barbara introduced us to the work of Elaine Aron in the USA, who began the research into the trait of Sensory Processing Sensitivity 20 years ago.

Aron’s research shows that 15-20% of the population have Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS), which is a more intense response of the nervous system to sensory stimulus through touch, taste and other senses.

Research has found this trait in others mammals and even fish. SPS is a normally inherited trait, which cannot be changed, but people can be helped in how they respond to their sensitivity.

Barbara described how individuals with SPS often feel they don’t fit in, because they experience the world differently from others, who tell them it’s not too hot, too loud, or too bright. About 30% of HSPs are extrovert, and 70% introvert.

Many clients who present for counselling may be exhausted HSP extroverts.

They may have presented at

the GP surgery and received medication.

But a sensitive nervous system reacts more strongly to medication: a normal dose can swamp them. Insisting that such client ‘express their feelings’ may similarly overwhelm them.

Barbara suggested there are four key features of people with high sensitivity: their depth of processing, overarousability, emotional intensity, and sensory sensitivity. She said that being a Highly Sensitive Person is split equally between the sexes, and can be observed on a brain scan.

Barbara invited the group to reflect on their own experience and that of others known to them and some useful discussions emerged.

She also had a ‘test’ to indicate sensitivity and this can be found on Elaine Aron’s website at www.hsperson.com.

Barbara was warmly thanked for a thoughtprovoking and stimulating presentation by Pat Smale, seminar organiser for Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Jan Irwin is a counsellor and supervisor in private practice and in the third sector.

Hypnosis and therapy SCAP’s next seminar is on SATURDAY MARCH 14, 2015 when we are delighted to introduce you to Paul Atkinson, who has worked as a therapist for over 25 years, with postgrad training in counselling/psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis, and consultant status in Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR).

Paul will talk about the use of hypnosis, looking at what constitutes it, linking hypnosis to research into therapeutic outcomes and enhancement of outcomes, and use of hypnosis with common difficulties.

VENUE: South Wing Conference Room Community Base,Queens Road Brighton.

TIME: 10 and 1pm COST: £20 for SCAP members and students and £30 non SCAP members.

Light refreshments will be available and CPD certificates will be provided.

BOOK: contact Pat Smale Seminar Coordinator.

TEL: 01273 844315.

Payment either by Paypal at www.sussexcounselling.co.uk or by cheque.

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New research on OCD A new and thorough overview of a disturbing behavioural condition that will affect 2.3 per cent of the UK population in their lifetime has been written by University of Sussex researchers.

Psychologists Professor Graham Davey, Dr Suzanne Dash and Dr Frances Meeten have authored Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

The book explains the symptoms, possible causes and potential cures for the disorder that is characterised by obsessions, which are recurrent and persistent thoughts (such as a fear of germs or contamination), and compulsions, which are repetitive behaviours (such as constant hand washing to rid oneself of germs).

Internet-based talking therapies effective Talking therapies delivered via the Internet are more effective for treating severe anxiety than other web-based psychological treatments, according to a new study.

While previous studies have shown that internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is effective for treating severe anxiety, they have not been compared to other credible psychological treatments, such as behavioural stress management (BSM). Swedish researchers set out to examine which was the most effective form of internet-delivered stress management treatment – CBT or BSM. More at www.mentalhealthtoday.co.uk/talking-therapy-via-internetmost-effective-web-based-psychological-treatment-foranxiety-study-finds.aspx

Stigma Workshop A workshop for communities and families tackling addiction has put together a set of resources offering ways to tackle stigma.

The set of web pages is designed as a follow-up to the workshop and as a continued conversation.

It will also allow those who were not able to attend to take part in the conversation.

There are links to forums which look specifically at substance misuse: www.soberrecovery.com/forums/substance-abuse/ www.nypsmtf.org.uk/email_discussion_groups.html www.smmgp.org.uk/html/forums.php

Mental health Depression, schizophrenia, suicidal feelings — too often, these experiences stay private. Now speakers in a TED talk who’ve struggled with mental illness boldly share their stories, in hopes that others don’t feel so alone.

Find the talk and others like it at www.ted.com/playlists/ 175/ the_struggle_of_menta l_health

New head An academic with an interest in human thinking and expertise has been appointed as the new Head of Psychology at the University of Sussex.

Professor Tom Ormerod comes from the University of Surrey, where he has been Associate Dean for Research within its Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences and a Professor of Cognitive Psychology since 2013.

Self care Therapist Jacqui Atkinson shares her tips for self care in this free online interview http:// therapyworkshops.co. uk/self-care-interviewwith-jacqui-atkinson/

NEWS & VIEWS

Weight loss study

Understanding humanity

A new study has found that weight loss does not have any psychological benefits.

Researchers found that weight loss over four years in initially healthy overweight/ obese older adults was associated with reduction in cardio-metabolic risk but no psychological benefit, even when changes in health and life stresses were accounted for.

These results highlight the need to investigate the emotional consequences of weight loss.

Details www.ucl.ac.uk/ news/news-articles/ 0814/070814-Losing-weightwill-not-make-you-happy

Sussex University professor Dr David Leavens says researchers studying the behaviour of chimpanzees should pay more attention to their upbringing.

Psychology lecturer Dr Leavens said comparing chimps to humans without considering their rearing is akin to comparing a child brought up in a loving family to one brought up in a Romanian orphanage.

The animal cognition expert has published a paper with Professor Kim A Bard, of Portsmouth University, calling for developmental experiences to be better considered.

Prof Bard said: “Ignoring development is a real problem because primates’ social cognition develop as a result of social experiences.”

The report in the Annual Review of Anthropology argues that studies that do not take rearing into account have major flaws. * We are all completely Beside Ourselves Review - see page 21.

Help bust stress Hove Stress Busters want to hear from practitioners who would like to be a presenter at a stress buster event.

The events offer the opportunity to explain and demonstrate how your particular technique can help to reduce stress and improve wellbeing.

Hove Stress Busters also want to hear from therapists who would like to participate in one of its drop-in clinics.

Contact the clinic at talk@hovestressbusters.co.u k. or visit www.hovestressbusters.co.uk/

Offington survey reveals counselling improves wellbeing for clients The latest survey by Offington Counselling Service (OCS) shows of clients assessed to be ‘clinically’ distressed, some 82% showed an improvement.

OCS has been monitoring the ‘wellness’ of clients by means of a self-completed questionnaire both before and after counselling.

The questionnaire, based on responses relating to the perceived physical and emotional health of the client, was researched and validated nationally, and is now part of a popular and reliable system known as CORE (Clinical Outcome in Routine Evaluation), and is used internationally.

Results for the most recent period (2013/14) indicate that, for those clients assessed to be ‘clinically’ distressed, 82% showed an improvement such that their ‘wellness’ became representative of the general population rather than the ‘clinical’ population. A clinically distressed client could be defined as one for whom medication or some other form of therapeutic intervention might have been prescribed.

OCS says the results continue to indicate that counselling therapy, short or longer-term, does lessen clients’ distress levels.

A more detailed report is available by emailing OCS at info@ocs-counselling.org.uk

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Celebrating graduation...and what comes next SCAP Committee member Lisa Martucci on transition As part of the transition to qualified counsellor there have been a number of landmarks since the last newsletter was published.

Qualification certificates have been issued and graduation attended by many.

For me it has been a time to appreciate the great support that I have had from my tutors, my family and my friends.

The graduation event was held at the Assembly Halls in Worthing. It was a day full of inspiring speeches and grand ceremony to mark the proud celebration of academic achievement and a fitting end

There are many matters to consider when moving towards private practice

for many students to years of hard work.

Receipt of the qualification has meant a move from student to individual member of the BACP. Importantly for anyone whose course was not accredited there is now the final hurdle of having your qualification recognised by the BACP.

Once accepted as an individual member you can apply to complete the Certificate of Proficiency (CoP) exam which allows a move from individual to registered member status.

At this point you become eligible to join the register, advertise and practice as a registered member MBACP, which, importantly, is ‘the recommended level (BACP 9/14) of membership that the public should be looking for when seeking a therapist.’ The next local CoP event is being held at The Holiday Inn, Brighton on 5th December 2014, and at the time of writing there are still places available to book.

On booking confirmation you will receive a Candidate Preparation Guide that extensively describes the process. For anyone interested in a preview the following link displays a video showing you what to expect on assessment day: www.bacpregister.co.uk/ prospective/CoP.php

There are many matters to consider when moving towards private practice; there is the ongoing accreditation process, the ethical and legal implications, consideration of further training opportunities but also the start of discussions about the how, what and where of your practice.

I have found that attending the SCAP workshops is a great way to continue to accrue CPD but also it is an ideal chance to talk informally and draw on the wealth of experience that counsellors with years of practice bring to the group.

The next SCAP workshop will be held in Brighton on March 14 on the subject of counselling/psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis (see details on page 5).

I will be available during the coffee break and after the event if you would like any further information or have suggestions for the new support group.

Attending SCAP workshops is a great way to accrue CPD and an ideal chance to talk informally and draw on the wealth of experience that counsellors with years of practice bring to the group. Lisa will be available at the coffee break and after the end of the next event if you would like further information or have any suggestions for the new support group.

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Join Sussex Counselling If you’re reading this and are not yet a member why not sign up to Sussex Counselling?

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You’ll also have the chance to shape the course of local counselling at the annual AGM and other events when we set out strategic plans for the year to come.

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Keep posted and have your say on all that’s happening in the world of counselling and psychotherapy throughout Sussex.

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New group supports recently qualified counsellors SCAP’s recently qualified counsellor support group has been set up with the aim of responsibly sharing support, information and resources amongst its members.

The first meeting is on Tuesday 25th November between 7.30 and 9.30pm and if you are interested in attending please email newcounsellors@sussex-counselling.co.uk for details.

“As well as being a great opportunity to meet up, the group will be looking to you for ideas as to how it and the wider association with Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy could be of benefit, we are always keen to gather ideas for future workshops from our members and so if there is anything that you would particularly like to see featured please do put this forward for discussion at the new group,” adds Lisa.

DIARY DATES The first meeting of the new counsellor support group is on Tuesday 25th November between 7.30 and 9.30pm. If you are interested in attending please email newcounsellors@sussex -counselling.co.uk for

details.

The next local Certificate of Proficiency event is being held at The Holiday Inn, Brighton on 5th December 2014.

See the link below for a video of what to expect on assessment day www.bacpregister.co. uk/prospective/ CoP.php

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ECOTHERAPY

Ecotherapy takes talking therapy outdoors Sheila Pope reports on an Ecotherapy Camp with Martin Jordan Martin Jordan’s interest in vigorous potency in the living nature-based therapy world (who hasn't had to experiences has continued and struggle with brambles trying developed since I first saw to take over their garden!). him in 2008 and he sees We each fed back to the clients in an outdoor setting group our reasons for near Brighton. choosing the materials we had The four day camp I used and the impact they had attended took place in a on us and I was moved and private, mixed broad-leaved humbled by some of my woodland near Battle and was fellow campers' stories. attended by 12 therapists (one Martin and his colleague participant flew in from Geneva for the event!).

The purpose ‘We considered how working was to explore outside might affect the client/ our personal therapist power differential; some relationships with the natural felt it would be diluted, but the loss world ‘as a of power on the part of the therapist foundation for could be unnerving.’ developing an underpinning therapeutic rationale’.

Hayley Marshall encouraged Highly experiential and us to think about the practical always with a focus on our issues involved in working own process, the camp was with a client outdoors: inspiring, stimulating and depending on the venue, there great fun! might be problems with Our first exercise was to encountering others walking construct a mandala: using in the same area, the inability items found in the woods. We to guarantee confidentiality formed them into a and issues around meaningful piece of artwork, vulnerability (being with a which illustrated our client in what may be a relationship with nature secluded place).

I used stones at the bottom We considered how working as a solid foundation, a outside might affect the section cut from a tree trunk client/therapist power representing the woods differential; some felt it around us and a bramble, would be diluted, but the loss which reminded me of the

of power on the part of the therapist could be unnerving.

How might we hold the asymetry while promoting mutuality? If you use a public space which doesn't belong to the therapist, how does this democratisation of the space affect the relationship? Martin said that when you start working in this way you may feel deskilled, clumsy.

The lack of face-to-face contact as you walk side by side with a client can be less intense and therefore more appropriate for some vulnerable clients – the outdoors providing the setting for a more benign form of intimacy. However, both trainers said that the work tends to progress faster as our bodies are more ‘switched on’ outside – this is not a conscious process, more an instinctive one.

Environmental psychology tells us that our physiology changes when we are outdoors and it is certain that many people use natural environments to regulate their emotions – going for a walk or run when stressed, going outside to play when a child in order to avoid conflict at home.

Being outdoors also alters our cognitive processes and contact with green settings helps us to regulate our

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bodies. So for a client who wants that assistance, it opens up a different internal space.

Different kinds of landscape work for different clients: many want to get up high – so you can ‘see them coming’, it's safer.

I have a summerhouse at the rear of my house which I use as a consulting room and I was looking for ways in which I can use the garden in my client work.

I am considering the possibility of using the outdoor space for creative exercises which can be performed in silence and which can then be reflected upon in the privacy of the room.

We performed an embodied exercise which encouraged us to drop down into our Child and find out what our bodies were holding, gaining access to non-verbal trauma, disruptions, ruptures or relational deficits.

These bubble up when you ‘switch on’ the body, which is what happens when being outside.

We engaged in some role play (as therapists and clients) to find out for ourselves how it felt to be in an environment different to our usual rooms.

Finally, we each dismantled our mandalas as a way of completing the weekend and leaving the woods, which had been so instrumental in our learning.

Reconnecting with the environment The body and psyche get deadened or disconnected from the natural enviroment in our modern, industrialised, capitalist world; coming into an aesthetic, vibrant, energetic environment connects us to a deeper sense of self.

A clinical rationale for moving outdoors could be understanding the natural world as Winnicott's transitional space which provides a less invasive form of intimacy.

However, we were encouraged to be aware that a client may request that you work outdoors in order to avoid the intimacy of working inside.

An appropriate and thorough clinical

assessment is needed to ensure that this form of therapy is beneficial to the client.

If their process was fragile and showed signs of psychosis they would not be not suitable for working outdoors, the more flexible frame is not able to hold them.

Working with a client indoors and then taking them outside is likely to be too disruptive; Martin prefers to work with those who have specifically requested outdoor therapy from the outset, although Hayley had known clients for whom a shift in environment had produced a shift in their work.

Martin Jordan Senior Lecturer in counselling and psychotherapy at University of Brighton) Hayley Marshall is aprivate practitioner, also working in NHS and trainer at the South Manchester Centre for Psychotherapy).

Martin's new book Nature and Therapy is available from Routledge ISBN 978-0-415-85461-0.

Also, try the Counselling and Psychotherapy Outdoors website: www.outdoortherapy.org.uk

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ECOTHERAPY

The nature of things Matt Fox is a convert to Ecotherapy and all it offers clients I've always had an affinity with nature and noticed how I felt uplifted and better about myself when I had been outdoors in the woods or by the sea. I also noticed how I had some peak experiences in nature, feeling at one with the world and this connected strongly with the training I did later as a transpersonal Psychosynthesis counsellor.

I started wondering about whether others might experience and benefit from similar feelings outdoors.

Psychosynthesis is a very broad modality. During my training I'd engaged with some of the wider issues of our interconnectedness with other beings and our planet.

It brought up a sense of both awe and despair about how we are living and what we are doing to our home. I felt it would be good to see how this being part of nature could also manifest in counselling.

There isn't a lot of Ecotherapy training in the UK but we are fortunate in Brighton to have one of the UK's leading thinkers and practitioners on our doorstep - Martin Jordan of Brighton University. He's been running in-depth training in taking therapy outdoors for some years as well as researching the topic for his PhD. I spent 12 days outdoors engaged in a deep training with Martin

and his colleague Hayley Marshall about how to work safely with clients in natural settings. I felt a deep connection with this way of working and a sense that this would be how I would like to work with some of my clients.

Ecotherapy works on many different levels. The research shows a real positive impact on stress levels and helping to restore attention and to bring stillness for busy, distracted minds. It also speaks to our biophilia – our deep connection with the earth and all that is living. At a second level, Ecotherapy also brings an additional dynamic living relationship into the counselling alongside the client and therapist. Nature, as this third relationship, can become a rich space for experiencing external symbols and metaphors which link to inner process. Nature also provides another space for projections, which allows the work to go deeper and often quicker.

Ecotherapy isn't a modality as such and it's a very broad term encompassing a wide spectrum of activities from therapeutic gardening, art therapy, wilderness experiences through to counselling outdoors. The Ecotherapy I offer is counselling outdoors, using many of the same knowledge

and skills I use in the counselling room. There are added dimensions and complexities in managing a safe outdoor space, working with transference and counter transference and contracting carefully with the client so they know what to expect.

It fits in in a number of different ways. At the simplest level, we are impacted by our environment in many ways. Ecotherapy, by being outdoors, confronts us with the world we live in.

We cannot fail to be aware of the change of seasons, extremes of weather, loss of green spaces, pollution, every time we step outside.

At a deeper level, practitioners such as Joanna Macy, recognise that the damage and depletion of the world's resources is not only about physical survival but it also has a profound psychological impact on our well-being. The pain we can feel if we get in touch with what is happening in the world can lead to a deep despair. Ecotherapy helps us connect with that sense of despair and become more alive to it and to start to engage with our part in making a difference.

Matt Fox offers counselling and Ecotherapy both indoors and outdoors

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Counselling suicidal clients Val Simanowitz on a workshop with Dr Andrew Reeves The subject of suicide has been occupying the media throughout the summer following the death of comedian Robin Williams.

But what it is like to work with a suicidal client and how does a counsellor address the subject, whether it be with a young person or an older client?

Dr Andrew Reeves spoke on this timely subject at a seminar in Brighton and Val Simanowitz reports on the event and how Dr Reeves recommends working with this issue.

Most counsellors' hearts sink when they believe that one of their clients is potentially suicidal.

Most of us dread the thought that one of our clients will commit suicide and most experienced counsellors have lived with this fear.

Andrew Reeves has worked in this area for over 20 years, mainly dealing with suicidal clients and their therapists but he too is still not immune from the fear nor from the resulting counsellor trauma on the few occasion when it has actually happened.

Andrew’s willingness to reveal these personal feelings was an engaging aspect of the humane approach with which he presented this fascinating workshop.

Andrew packed a great deal of information into the day

and he illustrated it with an excellent PowerPoint presentation.

But he also managed to make the sessions participatory and even humorous at times. He looked at all perspectives of working with potentially suicidal clients.

He considers it essential that counsellors are able to understand their own attitudes, biases and responses to suicide before being available for other people, who may be teetering on the brink of this action.

Our clients can often sense whether a practitioner is comfortable with the subject and may not be ready to reveal their intentions if they believe their counsellors cannot cope.

Andrew analysed 30 taped therapist responses to a client’s mention of possible suicide when clients used expressions such as ‘it’s too heavy to manage...’ or ‘I don’t belong in the life I live in’.

He found most therapists avoided dealing with the issue of suicide. They answered with reflections or vague paraphrases.

Andrew advocates that it is important to deal with the subject head on, that the question needs to be asked: ‘Are you thinking of ending your life?’ followed by ‘.....and how do you intend to do it?’

Some therapists rationalise their avoidance, particularly with young people, by claiming that voicing it could put the idea into such people’s heads.

However, Andrew considers that avoidance shows that the therapist is not robust enough to face the topic and so the clients will not disclose.

Andrew considers that the two most important ways of responding to potential suicide are Exploration and Evaluation He quotes Schneidman (1998), who says; “the most important question to a potentially suicidal person is not an enquiry about family

Our clients can often sense whether a practitioner is comfortable with the subject and may not be ready to reveal their intentions if they believe their counsellors cannot cope history or laboratory tests of blood or spinal fluid but; ‘where does it hurt?’ and ‘How can I help you?’ The work is about the ‘possibility of exploring meaning in the context of the client’s experience and distress.’

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We also need to be able to identify both risk factors eg psychiatric illness, alcoholism, drug misuse etc and the protective factors that make suicide less likely eg.attending counselling, the counselling relationship, informal and formal support networks, established coping strategies.

Capacity (the individual’s understanding of the implications of their action) is another important factor.

We then need to balance

The question needs to be asked: ‘Are you thinking of ending your life?’ followed by ‘and how do you intend to do it?’ these factors to inform any interventions. He gave full details of what constitutes risk and protective factors.

He looked at the thorny issue of confidentiality and when it might be necessary to break it (against the client’s wishes), revealing that he had only had to do this six times in his career – in one case when a young man had revealed a wish to kill himself by walking onto a motorway (he had made previous attempts). His mental health was so poor and he was so incoherent and chaotic that he seemed totally unable to engage in a therapeutic relationship. His suicide seemed imminent.

Andrew then felt compelled

to break confidentiality and ensure that he went into the ‘safe containing environment’ of a mental hospital. However, a few days later he managed to walk out onto the motorway and kill himself.

Andrew stressed that, as many of us work within the aegis of a variety of projects, whether NHS or charitable, it is important that we adhere to their procedures even though we may still question them and seek change if we disagree.

Andrew described a certain level of vicarious counsellor trauma if we work too exhaustively in this field. He considers counsellors need a heightened awareness of this and that they should ensure that they care for themselves both physically and psychologically.

We cannot anticipate or dispel the sorrow, pain or shock if a client does commit suicide but armed with Andrew’s wisdom and experience, at least we shall have more strategies both for identifying and dealing with potential suicides.

Val Simanowitz is a practitioner, supervisor and BACP ex trainer Dr Andrew Reeves is a freelance trainer, author, editor, supervisor and counsellor/ psychotherapist, with over 25 years

Grassroots help Grassroots Suicide Prevention has launched a Stay Alive app: a suicide prevention pocket resource for the UK. Stay Alive offers help and support both to people with thoughts of suicide, and to people concerned about someone else.

The app can be personalised to tailor it to the user.

This is the first version of Stay Alive. The app will be updated following an academic review and Grassroots is seeking next stage funding to help it develop the app further, including a GPS-enabled function to show the user support services in their vicinity.

Key features include quick access to national crisis support helplines; a minisafety plan that can be filled out by a person considering suicide; a LifeBox to which the user can upload photos from their phone reminding them of their reasons to stay alive; strategies for staying safe from suicide; how to help a person thinking about suicide; suicide mythbusting; research-based reasons for living; online support services and other helpful apps and suicide bereavement resources.

Download the app at www.preventsuicide.org.uk

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Who to turn to when a client complains Anne Rogers and Val Simanowitz on why therapists can feel let down ‘Complaint’ is a word which too often strikes fear into the heart of practising therapists while many of those who have been involved in a complaint as either practitioner or complainant have been critical of and saddened by the process.

When researching the issue of complaints for a doctoral thesis I could find little research on the actual personal experiences of anyone so involved.

I set out to do just that, interviewing therapists, complainants, members of ethics committees and panel members as to their experience of the complaints process. It was a piece of qualitative research based on the use of narrative.

Interviewees replied to my appeal. In this article we trace the experiences of six therapists who received complaints.

Mary, Jane and John’s

supervision, and feared a complaint.

Neither Peter nor Anna was expecting a complaint. Peter had completed work with his client, later a colleague, some 20 years previously.

Anna received a complaint from a third party, not her client, [who had known nothing about the complaint]. The complaint process against Jack was instigated by his employer after a self disclosure.

No one was familiar with the complaints process.

Therapists appealed to their registering bodies expecting guidance and support but were deeply disappointed to find there was none. Mary thought an offer of a peer support line was inappropriate. She was told not to get a lawyer, even though the document she received was obviously from a legal firm. All felt shocked and abandoned. I heard comments such as ‘I had

All felt shocked and abandoned. I heard comments such as ‘I had been a member for a long time; I expected I would get help’ clients had all walked out of their therapy sessions and had not returned. The interviewees had been struggling in their work; all had felt unsupported in their

been a member for a long time; I expected I would get help’.

It was difficult to think straight. What to do, where to go for help?

Gradually the therapists began to get their responses together.

Mary’s family of lawyers rallied round, as did her peer supervision group. She had decided it was important to talk about the complaint, otherwise, she said, she feared that ‘it could turn into a nasty little secret, an illicit affair.’ She said she tried hard not to be attacking, but it was her career at stake.

John confided in no one but eventually had support from his insurance company – a representative accompanied him to the hearing and offered to help write his defence.

Jack wanted to show his remorse, to find resolution, but could find no place for this. Anna struggled because she was still seeing her client. Whatever she wrote she cleared with her. All were faced with the dilemma of writing a defence while protecting their clients.

Jane found encouragement from her registering body to go for mediation. It was not available for the others. They compared unfavourably their lack of access to mediation to that available to divorcing couples.

The Hearing Jack’s comment about the hearing [called by his employing body] was that he felt he might not have been there, ‘...they were not interested in anything I or

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my supervisor might say. It was terrible, he was made peripheral, he was my one main witness’. Jack was still in a state of shock; it was only two weeks since his self disclosure. He was dismissed.

He appealed but the decision was upheld. He contacted his registering body. ‘Surely’, he

making the complaint ‘to talk together..it felt so wrong.’

After a long day her appeal was upheld. She commented that all parties lost out; the public were not protected; the work with the client never recovered, and complainants and client were left to try to rebuild their relationship.

‘There was no humanity, it felt that I was having to prove I didn’t do things rather than ... there being a question or ... tell us what really happened’ thought, ‘they would handle it all in a more humane way’.

His membership was automatically terminated. He did not attend an appeal – he said he was exhausted and had given up. Jack is now a broken man.

Anna found her appeal an ordeal. She felt her supervisor’s letter was dismissed. The client was not allowed to attend; the instigators of the complaint attended the hearing; this in itself was difficult because issues of client confidentially were paramount. She commented; “there was no humanity, it felt that I was having to prove I didn’t do things rather than there being a question or tell us what really happened.” She felt the panel did not understand what she was saying. She would have liked the third party to have complained to her before

Sometime after our interview Anna re-read the letter she received from the panel. In it they acknowledged the complexities of the complaint and said she was not guilty of the allegations of unprofessional behaviour.

She commented: “I guess the panel did understand all along.” It had been 10 years since the hearing!

Peter took no one with him to the hearing; he later regretted that. He was told to wind down his practice.

Jane commented that the mediation session ‘was the most exhausting thing I have done in my life. I had to work on my feet but we both wanted resolution.’ At the conclusion she considered her client was left in a ‘good enough place.’

All therapists came away from the process saddened, angered and with feelings of loss.

These experiences show how important it is to be aware of one’s organisation’s complaints’ process and to have a support system in place. Importantly there needs to be many more opportunities for some form of mediation.

Registering bodies are primarily concerned with public accountability, not with member support. That has to come from elsewhere, but all complaints need to be treated in a humane manner.

In UKCP and BPC training organisations are in a position to support their members – in BACP, when will it come?

Some insurance companies offer quite extensive support – it is important to check.

Interviewees wanted their stories heard, some of these events had happened over 10 years previously but the feelings were still so strong I could hear the pain as they spoke.

(All names have been changed.)

Dr. Anne Rogers is a retired member of UKCP, a former supervisor, trainer and therapist.

Val Simanowitz is a BACP ex trainer, supervisor and therapist.

The complete thesis is available at eprints.mdx.ac.uk/ 13062/1/ ARogers_thesis.pdf

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Building resilience

Answering the call of the wild

Building Resilience in Families Under Stress – Emma Sawyer and Sheryl Burton

Have you ever considered how strange it is that we find it unacceptable to take wild animals to be kept in captivity, yet older people in residential care homes can stay indoors for years with no access to the stimulation of the outside world?

Meanwhile we spend millions to create ideal conditions for our garden plants yet we allow our children to grow up in a hostile urban wilderness with concrete walkways, heavy traffic and no contact with nature.

EO Wilson, who proposes the Biophilia hypothesis, says that ‘beauty is in the eye of the gene’; a deep genetic sequence may be hard to erase despite our efforts to be technically independent from nature and the natural environment.

In his paper Natural Thinking Dr William Bird of the RSPB argues that humans are a species with as much need for the natural environment as any other and neither technology nor cities can replace our need for the natural environment. We have to keep a balance. By disconnecting from our natural environment, we have become strangers to the natural world: our own world. This has challenged our sense of identity and in some more subtle ways has had a significant affect on our mental health. Download a full copy of the report at www.rspb.org.uk/Images/naturalthinking_tcm9-161856.pdf

Parental mental health problems and substance misuse affect a significant number of British families.

Many of these families are living in poverty or on low incomes. In economically and socially challenging times, additional stresses are placed on these already vulnerable families.

There is an urgent need for services to ensure that children and families receive support that is based on a full understanding of their day-today experience and the potential impacts on children's development and life chances.

Featuring pointers, models and practice examples, this handbook considers the concept of resilience and effective family support.

Assessing the policy context and possible barriers to support, it looks at assessment of need, safeguarding children, minimising negative impact, and, most importantly, keeping families together where possible.

Drawing on key research on the risks and impacts, Building Resilience demonstrates the need for a joined-up approach from a range of adult and children's services.

The lives of others

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Pavilion Contemporary returns to the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, with Peepers, a new installation on a contemporary theme in the Music Room by artist Maisie Broadhead.

Visitors are invited to experience the palace in a new way, as the Music Room becomes a decadent doll’s house, dwarfed by giant figures peering curiously in through the windows.

The installation is inspired by the scrutiny George IV experienced from a society which became obsessed, fascinated, intrigued, even disgusted by his life in the extravagant Royal Pavilion and detached from the reality of the outside world.

The work also plays with our voyeuristic fascination with peering in at other people’s lives and homes – especially those of celebrities and royals.

Maisie Broadhead graduated from Brighton University and the Royal College of Art. She works increasingly with photography and film, creating atmospheric contemporary narratives inspired by historical reference points.

Peepers runs until 1 March 2015, at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton.

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Sisterland

Perspectives on relationship therapy

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler

Existential Perspectives on Relationship Therapy – edited by Emmy Van Deurzen and Susan Iacovou

As a child, Rosemary used to talk all the time. So much so that her parents began to encourage her to start in the middle if she wanted to tell a story.

Now Rosemary has just started college and she barely talks at all. And she definitely doesn’t talk about her family so it takes time for the plot to unfold and allow us to find out what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other.

Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone. But there's something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. So now she's telling her story; a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back to the beginning.

Twice.

A beautiful, lyrical, funny book which had a deserved place on the Booker shortlist, which explores what it is to be human.

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This book reinforces, clarifies and expands my understanding of its dominant theme: a belief in the centrality of relationships to human existence. It consists of a comprehensive and up- todate collection of short contributions demonstrating how existential therapists from all over the world work with diverse couple relationships.

Each chapter is informed by some aspects of existential philosophy but all are concerned with enabling clients to become more aware of their own meanings and thus hopefully to live more authentically. The writers illustrate their ideas by one or more in-depth case study – many of which are vivid and engaging and clarify the use of the theory.

Emmy van Deurzen and Iacovou have pulled together many strands from this collection to form a developing model. It is not prescriptive but a loose guiding framework.

In the first part of the book 14 writers address the challenges of existential relationships therapy. They are

influenced by concepts from existential philosophers such as Heidegger, Sartre, Buber, Levinas, which point out that we are primarily beings interdependent with others and usually our lives are embedded in a social and cultural sphere where we are both making demands and also giving sustenance. Dmitri Leontiev focuses on the importance of dialogue and claims fear often stifles attempts at being open as the deeper we penetrate relationships, the less controllable they are. In a chapter on Sexuality, Barker and Langridge are influenced by the ideas of Merleau Ponty, who thinks diagnosis dehumanises meaning.

Part Two focuses on the skills, knowledge and methods, which enable couple therapists to work existentially with partners who have specific issues.

The book is suitable for students and practitioners of relationship therapy but has wisdom for all “who attempt to learn from insurmountable conflict. This is not just a worthy goal for couples in relationship, it is a necessity for the future of humankind,” says Van Deurzen.

Val Simanowitz. is a practitioner, supervisor and exBACP trainer

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