Holistic & Therapy Links to Useful Websites
For further information on counselling, psychotherapy or other alternative and holistic approaches to health and healing, I recommend the sites below.
Please note that although many links take you directly to my entry in the directories named below, it is possible to search the rest of the directories as well.
Professional Counselling and Psychotherapy - Training Standards, Accrediting & Registering Organisations:
British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
EMDR Association UK ( Eye Movement, Desensitisation & Reprocessing Therapy )
National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society
Society of Psychotherapy and Healing (My Training Organisation).
Directories of Counsellors & Psychotherapists Providing Useful Information for the Public but they do not have a Training, Accrediting or Registering function:
Counselling & Psychotherapy Services for Specific Issues: Information & Helplines:
Age UK
Anxiety – NHS Self Help Guide
Bullying, National Helpline
Childline – Information for children, teens and parents
Drug Addiction, Advice & Treatment – (NHS)
Drug & Alcohol Advice & Services Rehab
Depression Information
Eating Disorders
Mental Health List of Charities
OCD
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder); Help for Military Personnel
Rape & Sexual Abuse Support Centre, Guildford; RASASC, South London; Rape Crisis, National
Seen & Heard : Supporting the emotional wellbeing of past pupils of boarding & independent day schools, and their families
Stress Management Help from the NHS
Stress Management Information from MIND
Colleagues' Websites in Other Parts of the UK:
Mind-Body-Spirit Approaches to Wellbeing:
I have found the following very helpful for my advancing my own inner work over the years:
Alternative workshops and talks to introduce ideas about cutting edge thinking from spirituality to quantum physics in St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London
The Work by Byron Katie
The Journey by Brandon Bays
William Bloom
Consciousness Research & Healing
Living the Field by Lynn McTaggert
The Institute of Noetic Sciences : Bridging Science & Spirituality
Dr Carl Jung and The Collective Unconscious
Alternative Philosophy in Childrearing:
For optimal development babies and children need to experience that which our species has adapted to over a long period of evolution. Modern child-rearing methods make this difficult. Jean Liedloff’s important and fascinating book called The Continuum Concept which reported her observations whilst living with a South American tribe in the jungle has contribted to modern ideas about attachment parenting.
See The Continuum Concept
John Bowlby, a British Psychoanalyst, researched and wrote prolifically through the middle of the last century, about the importance of attachment to one main carer in the first 2 years of a baby’s life. Distress in later years and throughout adulthood, particularly in relationships, has its origins in poor attachment in these crucial early years. There is valuable information on this website about his ideas.
Healthy Alternative and Holistic Lifestyle:
www.highernature.co.uk
www.healthysoul.co.uk
Websites for Alternative, Holistic & Complementary Medicine:
What Doctors Don’t Tell You
British Complementary Medicine Association
