Research Supervision: My bio / statement is as follows –

Simon currently works for Health New Zealand, Te Whatu Ora | Te Toka Tumai Auckland. He also provides supervision for students on doctoral training progammes for Counselling Psychologists and Psychotherapists. He completed his PhD with the Open University and his DCPsych with the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling. He is retired from a career in NHS Community Mental Health Service. He worked in these services for thirty years, managing community teams for twenty years. He worked as a counsellor at diploma level for several years and took on roles in the voluntary sector. Research interests have ranged from ‘social inclusion,’ to ‘decision-making in mental healthcare’ and more recently ‘resilience’ and ‘cross-cultural’ studies. He has published articles and book chapters on; psychological growth after trauma, on the design and implementation of secondary mental health services; managing mental health conditions such as bi-polar and psychosis. He has also published on homelessness, the use of a hermeneutic phenomenological research methodologies, and the application of different philosophies in therapeutic practice.

I am providing supervision to students through the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling. However, take on supervision for students in other universities, where there is a shared interest.