Paul Nicholson

Paul Nicholson is a BACP accredited relational psychotherapist, training supervisor, senior lecturer and  postgraduate Course Director. He has worked in mental health since 1997 and as a therapist in the NHS, voluntary sector and in private practice since 2005.

Paul has worked as a therapist and educator with children, young people and adults in educational, psychiatric and learning disability settings. Working as a lecturer from 2010, he enjoys creating and delivering courses that integrate theory with experiential work and is passionate about ensuring that the training we provide our students prepares them for life in the workplace as accurately as possible.

Paul particularly enjoys working with groups in developing their understanding of the complex and subtle application of effective therapeutic skills. His main theoretical focus is in how the actions involved in therapy may be interpreted and labelled differently by conflicting styles of practice yet often have common themes which can be enlightening, instructive and integrated into one's practice. Underlying all of his work is a keen interest in how the way we all make sense of events, our life experience and each other relates to how we understand why therapy works. As a result he has previously written about relational therapy and how life experience impacts on counselling practice.

In 2016, Paul became a Fellow with the Higher Education Academy and a senior fellow in 2019.

• DipHE Therapeutic Counselling
• PG Diploma Counselling and Psychotherapy
• MA integrative counselling
• MA integrative counselling (Top up)