September 2019
Group Supervision w/ Niki D. on Sexuality
Niki D is an existential psychotherapist with 25 years’ experience in private practice, statutory and voluntary sectors. She works with individuals, couples and groups and is a clinical associate of Pink Therapy. She holds an MA in Existential Psychotherapy, a diploma in Relationship Therapy with gender, sexual and relationship diverse clients (GSRD) and training in somatic body therapy. Niki has worked for over 15 years as a supervisor for organization’s including the Metropolitan Police counselling service, Galop (LGBT hate crime…
Find out more »October 2019
SEA Film Club – ‘WINGS OF DESIRE’ by W. Wenders (1987)
Emmy van Deurzen Emmy has been an existential therapist since 1973 and she has founded several schools and many other organizations, including the Society for Existential Analysis. She has 17 books to her name and is Principal of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling. "This movie struck a chord with me, when I first saw it around the time we were creating the Society for Existential Analysis. The story seemed to me profoundly existential and the atmosphere…
Find out more »Group Supervision w/ Karen Weixel-Dixon: on Couples Therapy
Karen is a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer, and mediator in private practice, and has been a member of visiting faculty at Regents University London since 1995. She maintains her work and private practice in both the UK and France, working with individuals, couples, families, and groups. The paradigm she favours is Existential Phenomenological, and she has a particular interest in how people experience, and engage with, temporality. Karen has published papers in journals and textbooks in the field of psychotherapy, and…
Find out more »November 2019
SEA 2019 Annual Conference – Movement, Music & Metaphor
We have a wonderful line-up of speakers, workshop presenters, panellists, poets, dancers, musicians and out-of-the-box thinkers! So this year we invite you to be lyrical and poetic, to be in motion and explore new ways of communicating, to stretch your language, your body, your ears, your knowledge, your practice. To pique your interest, a taster of the working titles currently on offer: Movement… • The dance, dancer and complexity of the human condition • Finding the courage to move…
Find out more »SEA Film Club – ‘BEAU TRAVAIL’ by C. Denis (1999)
Devang Vaidya is a person-centred existential therapist based in London. His research interests include Kierkegaard studies for tracing the existential origins of person-centred therapy, and the presence of aesthetic irony and ethical pathos in moments of therapeutic transformation. “What does brute, autocratic power find intolerable? Seeing love being shared freely and spontaneously amongst equals. Adapted from Benjamin Britten's opera, which in turn is based on Herman Melville's novella 'Billy Budd', Claire Denis' Beau Travail gives a lyrical portrait of a man who falls…
Find out more »December 2019
Group Supervision w/ Emmy Van Deurzen
Emmy van Deurzen, Principal and Founder of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the Existential Academy in London. Her application of philosophical ideas to psychology, psychotherapy, counselling and coaching has been instrumental in establishing the existential paradigm firmly in the UK and elsewhere in Europe and around the world. She lectures internationally and her sixteen books have been translated into as many languages. Her books include: Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice (3rd edition 2012), Everyday Mysteries (2nd Routledge,…
Find out more »February 2020
Where It Was, Others Shall Be: Desire, Otherness, and the Alien inside.
A one-day experiential/theoretical seminar
with Manu Bazzano