Qualifications: BSc(Econ), MEd, MSc, Cert Couns Supervision, HCPC Reg
I am now fully retired from my work as a Registered Counselling Psychologist under my ‘official’ name:
Arthur Robert Trewartha
My prior background included:
….. registration with the Health Care Professionals Council with qualifications and accreditation in Counselling Psychology, as well as British Psychological Society (BPS) membership.
… I had training in professional supervision, psychological debriefing, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Brief and Strategic Therapy, Eye Movement De-sensitisation and Reprogramming (EMDR) and Clinical Hypnosis. Once I had membership of the Institute for Transactional Analysis (ITA) and Meridian Therapy.
I retain an interest in Systemic therapy (‘couples’ counselling) as I have had additional training in this area.
In 2020, after many decades of membership, I retired as a Senior Accredited Practitioner with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
During my career, I had a special interest in the management of aggression and violence as well as critical incident debriefing (that is, managing post-incident support programmes).
Work Experience
In short, I have:
- fifteen years experience as a qualified social worker, in the probation service and child & family work,
- over ten years experience as a teacher in Higher and Further Education, including teaching experience in the Medical School of the University of East Anglia (UEA).
- around twenty years working as a counsellor before retraining as a psychologist. I specialised in work with Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP).
- nearly twenty-five years practice as a registered Counselling Psychologist. I retired from office-based practice in London in 2012.
Other areas of professional interest include stress and trauma management, bereavement and loss & change. I spent time working with St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney, London, as well as time with CRUSE Bereavement Care in Scotland operating as a trainer/supervisor.
Robin as an author
My specialist area of staff training was in the management of Aggression and Violence in the Workplace (1995). There is a manual relating to the topic written by me, alongside Dave Leadbetter. Many moons ago, we offered in-house training to local authorities and residential care establishments!
I worked alongside Christina Mason, my wife and partner. We work in different ways, giving our clients a lot of choice!!
Do contact me if you have any questions about my material, or the work I do. You can leave your thoughts about the site below, or feel free to leave comments relevant to a particular post or articles on those pages too.
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January 2023 UPDATE
I have been semi-retired for over ten years now. During that time, this website has expanded a great deal. I trust it remains useful to readers and the detail is not confusing or discouraging. I rely on you telling me if that is the case. The contact form below may assist with that!
The website, and what it offers, will remain available for the foreseeable future.
I will continue to add more and more small, safe experiments as long as you, the reader, keeps me informed.
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I was initially drawn to Robin due to his extensive website content, which indicated to me that this is a calling not just a profession for him.
I cannot recommend Robin highly enough! He immediately put me at ease and has such a lovely character. He has a vast wealth of knowledgable and experience to draw from and a wonderfully real and personable approach.
Thank you Robin, it was an absolute pleasure.
Hi Robin! Found your blog very interesting and useful. My first experiment was not rushing in to post a comment after the first time I looked at it, just because I felt I wanted to do the right thing and get it out of the way! Did have a sense of slight guilt for some time afterwards but also felt good about it because it was something new for me and it was ok to put it off for some time. I am going to send your link to some family and friends who I think would like to see it. Of course for me a lot of it was familiar after my various counselling courses; reading and CPD training for Cruse. I liked how the reading of the Blog could have different effects at different times, as you pointed out in the beginning. So will continue to dip into it every so often. Busy as ever, like yourselves, but I think we agreed that was a good thing!
Love Maria