John Waterston
I began my working life in property development; training and working in central London as a Chartered Surveyor and being an Associate of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. I found this to be invaluable experience in my own development, in gaining an appreciation of systems and analytical discipline though, perhaps paradoxically it led me to a desire to work more closely with people.
The next stage was my training and working as an Occupational Therapist within the NHS, in the fields of addiction and mental health. A growing fascination with philosophy and my own intrapsychic life was further kindled during this time, leading me to engage in a personal psychotherapeutic journey and eventually to psychotherapy training. My psychotherapy training was undertaken with the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy between 1988 and 1993 and I have since worked in private practice. Throughout, I have maintained a deep attachment to the creative arts and have run small businesses designing and making stained glass windows, silver jewellery and other artifacts. I am also involved in music making in many ways in my spare time.
In addition to my original psychotherapy training with the Chiron Centre I have subsequently attained a Masters Degree in Psychoanalytic Studies from Sheffield University. Therefore I consider myself to be well grounded in both Humanistic/Existential and Analytic disciplines and work from an integrated position.
I am a UKCP registered Psychotherapist and a full member of the Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners in the category of Psychotherapist and am signatory to their Code of Ethical Principles, Code of Practice and Complaints Procedure. Copies of these documents can be obtained direct, and downloaded, from the AHPP at www.ahpp.org
Currently, my workload in this country is divided between individual and couples psychotherapy, coaching and supervision. I also lead a regular long-term psychotherapy group, and a number of training groups in Croatia, part of the former Yugoslavia.
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