Bill’s Qualifications

A comprehensive professional training in clinical psychology that included in-depth instruction in counselling and psychotherapy. My Master’s thesis was on an understanding of wilderness experience from a Jungian point of view. 

A two-year post-graduate part-time training in a form of psychotherapy that integrates a spiritual perspective with more traditional psychotherapy.

An intensive year-long part-time training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – a practical form of psychotherapy that is particularly useful in dealing with anxiety issues and depression. 

A year-long part-time training in psychotherapy supervision.

This is the two-part practitioner training in a form of psychotherapy (EMDR) that is extremely effective in putting any traumatic memory to rest. Most types of psychological difficulty are caused or precipitated by a trauma of some sort. Both of these trainings were with the originator of EMDR – Francine Shapiro.

Both EFT and Matrix Reimprinting use a combination of eastern medicine and western psychology to treat traumatic memories. Matrix Reimprinting is an extremely effective development of EFT.  I was fortunate to train in both methods with the originator of Matrix Reimprinting – Karl Dawson.

A vision quest is psychological and spiritual process during which people fast in a natural environment after careful preparation and under proper supervision. The vision quest is a very powerful ritual that is frequently life-transforming. I was very lucky to be trained in the USA by the late Steven Foster and Meredith Little, exceptional teachers in this tradition. Since then, I have run many vision quests both in Africa and in the UK.

This arduous training as a traditional healer took more than five years to complete. Although I no longer practice as an African healer, I have integrated very valuable elements from this training into my work.

This was my first graduate qualification and was followed by employment in Microbiology, Medical Biochemistry and Industrial Chemistry laboratories. I later returned to university to study psychology. I am very grateful for this training because it affords me a deep understanding of the scientific perspective - its great value and its limitations.