Dr Paul Ricketts

I am an Associate Lecturer teaching on the MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy programme and three modules on the Creative Expressive Therapies programme. 

• DMP and partnered dance
• DMP and Gestalt Psychotherapy
• DMP and DSP.

• Registered Member of the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK (ADMP-UK)
• Private Practice Register of ADMP-UK
• Registered Member of BACP
• Triple Fellow of IDTA
• Friend Member of GPTI
• Member of AHP-GB
• Fellow of HEA.

• PhD, Dance and Cultural Studies, 2012
• MA Media and Culture, 1998
• BA Hons Communication Studies, 1996
• Diploma in Humanistic Counselling, BACP Accredited, 2003
• Four Year Training in Gestalt Psychotherapy, 2008-12
• Two Year Training in Developmental and Somatic Psychotherapy, 2009-11
• CPD in Relational Living Body Psychotherapy, 2014-15.

• GPTI, One Day Conference, October 2015
• Finland, Teaching and Learning Workshop on Creativity, June 2015.

Travelling, dance, photography.

• Private practice as a counsellor since 2003
• Counsellor in the NHS, 2003-2010
• Psychotherapeutic Counsellor in the NHS, 2010-14
• Private Practice as psychotherapeutic counsellor, 2010-present
• Registered DMP since 2005
• Private Practice DMP since 2014.

Finland (as above).