Graham Westwell
@pcetherapy.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ person centred experiential therapist, supervisor, educator, creative, wellbeing consultant, researcher, group process facilitator, vegan, they/them 💛 non0101 🙏
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Graham Westwell
@pcetherapy.bsky.social
· Nov 17
"Soften often"
What does ‘soften often’ mean? Over the last few years, I’ve been encouraging the counselling students I’ve worked closely with, to ‘soften often’ in their own practice. I’ve also encouraged clients a...
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Over the last few years, I’ve been encouraging the counselling students I’ve worked closely with, to ‘soften often’ in their own practice.
I’ve also encouraged clients and supervisees to try and do the same in their process.
What does ‘soften often’ mean?
www.grahamwestwell.com/post/soften-...
I’ve also encouraged clients and supervisees to try and do the same in their process.
What does ‘soften often’ mean?
www.grahamwestwell.com/post/soften-...
Looking for deeply collaborative and process focused supervision?
Check out my 🔗 for further details:
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Check out my 🔗 for further details:
www.grahamwestwell.com/individual-s...
Individual Supervision | Graham Westwell Therapy
My intention is to work with supervisees in a way that is warm, sensitive, validating and deeply collaborative.
www.grahamwestwell.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Looking for deeply collaborative and process focused supervision?
Check out my 🔗 for further details:
www.grahamwestwell.com/individual-s...
Check out my 🔗 for further details:
www.grahamwestwell.com/individual-s...
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The transformation is intense😅
February 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The transformation is intense😅
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One for the academics out there.
January 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
One for the academics out there.
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Academic Lecturer post for the Dip/MSc in Person Centred Practice currently being advertised at Metanoia Institute:
www.metanoia.ac.uk/about/career...
www.metanoia.ac.uk/about/career...
Academic Lecturer (Dip/Msc Person-Centred)
Role Purpose:
To be a key member of a team of academic and administrative colleagues facilitating the highest quality learning and teaching within the Institute. To support students through teaching,...
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January 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Academic Lecturer post for the Dip/MSc in Person Centred Practice currently being advertised at Metanoia Institute:
www.metanoia.ac.uk/about/career...
www.metanoia.ac.uk/about/career...
A new article in PCEP emphasising a process focus towards listening and being with:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Speaking in order to listen’: teaching person-centered psychotherapy to non-person-centered therapists
This paper is a modified version of a keynote address presented at the conference of the World Association For Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling, Athens, Greece, 10 Sept...
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January 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A new article in PCEP emphasising a process focus towards listening and being with:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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In today's 'Research that makes you want to make a nice mug of tea to get over reading it', this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Now, for sure, we need teams to focus on improving the quality of life of autistic people in mental health settings.
But...
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Now, for sure, we need teams to focus on improving the quality of life of autistic people in mental health settings.
But...
/thread...
Secondary effects of dialectical behaviour therapy on social functioning, quality of life, and autism traits in autistic adults with suicidality - Anne Huntjens, LMC (Wies) van den Bosch, Bram Sizoo, ...
The effect of psychological treatment on social functioning, quality of life and autism traits in autistic people with suicidal behaviour remains largely unknow...
journals.sagepub.com
December 16, 2024 at 4:42 PM
In today's 'Research that makes you want to make a nice mug of tea to get over reading it', this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Now, for sure, we need teams to focus on improving the quality of life of autistic people in mental health settings.
But...
/thread...
Now, for sure, we need teams to focus on improving the quality of life of autistic people in mental health settings.
But...
/thread...
“The worst thing about the system is the system …”
- Roy Harper, Circle, 1967.
Resilience sucks. Soften often.
💛🙏
- Roy Harper, Circle, 1967.
Resilience sucks. Soften often.
💛🙏
December 9, 2024 at 10:02 PM
“The worst thing about the system is the system …”
- Roy Harper, Circle, 1967.
Resilience sucks. Soften often.
💛🙏
- Roy Harper, Circle, 1967.
Resilience sucks. Soften often.
💛🙏
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1/ #TherapistsConnect Well…it’s most unlike me to miss a ‘posing with a book’ deadline! & it’s not just any old book I’m talking about,but my book!! Happy 1 week birthday to this little one 💕😍
‘Relational Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counselling Private Practice’ is out now!
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‘Relational Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counselling Private Practice’ is out now!
amzn.eu/d/1ogrI7O
December 3, 2024 at 2:59 PM
1/ #TherapistsConnect Well…it’s most unlike me to miss a ‘posing with a book’ deadline! & it’s not just any old book I’m talking about,but my book!! Happy 1 week birthday to this little one 💕😍
‘Relational Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counselling Private Practice’ is out now!
amzn.eu/d/1ogrI7O
‘Relational Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counselling Private Practice’ is out now!
amzn.eu/d/1ogrI7O
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This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.
November 21, 2024 at 12:47 PM
This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.
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Hi! We are ‘therapists against conversion therapy and transphobia’- a group of ppl (mostly therapists) who think that trans/queer identities are valid & all clients should have space to explore that if they wish to in therapy #TherapistsConnect #LGBTQ #therapy
November 14, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Hi! We are ‘therapists against conversion therapy and transphobia’- a group of ppl (mostly therapists) who think that trans/queer identities are valid & all clients should have space to explore that if they wish to in therapy #TherapistsConnect #LGBTQ #therapy
I’ve been reflecting that the practice and theory of experiencing unconditional positive regard (as an integral attitude of PCE therapy, wider modalities of therapy and simply being human) needs to be offered more unconditional positive regard within the profession and between humans in general 💛🙏
November 19, 2024 at 9:51 PM
I’ve been reflecting that the practice and theory of experiencing unconditional positive regard (as an integral attitude of PCE therapy, wider modalities of therapy and simply being human) needs to be offered more unconditional positive regard within the profession and between humans in general 💛🙏
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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1/ Here’s a keynote that I’m doing at the end of the month for the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union - please do come along if you’re interested. Full description of the keynote is in this thread.
‘SCoPEd in the spotlight - an exploration of professional ethics’
#TherapistsConnect #Therapistsky
‘SCoPEd in the spotlight - an exploration of professional ethics’
#TherapistsConnect #Therapistsky
November 17, 2024 at 10:31 AM
1/ Here’s a keynote that I’m doing at the end of the month for the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union - please do come along if you’re interested. Full description of the keynote is in this thread.
‘SCoPEd in the spotlight - an exploration of professional ethics’
#TherapistsConnect #Therapistsky
‘SCoPEd in the spotlight - an exploration of professional ethics’
#TherapistsConnect #Therapistsky
Over the last few years, I’ve been encouraging the counselling students I’ve worked closely with, to ‘soften often’ in their own practice.
I’ve also encouraged clients and supervisees to try and do the same in their process.
What does ‘soften often’ mean?
www.grahamwestwell.com/post/soften-...
I’ve also encouraged clients and supervisees to try and do the same in their process.
What does ‘soften often’ mean?
www.grahamwestwell.com/post/soften-...
"Soften often"
What does ‘soften often’ mean? Over the last few years, I’ve been encouraging the counselling students I’ve worked closely with, to ‘soften often’ in their own practice. I’ve also encouraged clients a...
www.grahamwestwell.com
November 17, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Over the last few years, I’ve been encouraging the counselling students I’ve worked closely with, to ‘soften often’ in their own practice.
I’ve also encouraged clients and supervisees to try and do the same in their process.
What does ‘soften often’ mean?
www.grahamwestwell.com/post/soften-...
I’ve also encouraged clients and supervisees to try and do the same in their process.
What does ‘soften often’ mean?
www.grahamwestwell.com/post/soften-...