I am married with two teenage children. I have been in full time professional practice as a transpersonal psychotherapist and supervisor since the mid 1980's. Prior to that I was a part time counsellor and also a potter and smallholder. In the 1960's and early 1970's I qualified both as a chartered accountant and as a psychologist.

In 1989 I first brought Transpersonal Psychology to Oxford in the form of three workshops as originally developed by Barbara Somers and Ian Gordon-Brown of London. Between 1989 and 1994, 175 people attended these Oxford workshops until I had to stop running them here as my time was taken up teaching, supervising and helping to run the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology (CTP) in London. In 2000 I resigned as the Director of Professional Preparation of CTP having helped take the Centre, beyond the death of one founder and the retirement of the other, into full participation in the UK Council for Psychotherapy.

It is the transpersonal/spiritual perspective in all life and all professional relationships that moves me (not just in the field of psychotherapy). I have studied and contemplated Indian Vedanta and Tibetan Buddhism philosophies, and also 24 years in a western mystery tradition. My family life is one of aiming to constantly remain aware of the deeper, transpersonal and soul levels in our daily round. It is this personal goal, coupled with the experience of the search of so many of my clients, supervisees and friends for this awareness, which most informs my life and what I teach. For me it is about bridging heart and head. I look forward to a future of this marriage of head and heart founded on more and more simplicity and humour.