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Claire Spiller
UKCP Registered Gestalt Psychotherapist
Areas Covered
Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, 5 mins from Penarth station and Remote (Video | Phone) OfficePractice Location
Penarth UKMember Info
She / Her
- UKCP - Full Clinical Member
- WPI - Associate member
- I am a UKCP-registered and accredited gestalt psychotherapist and approved clinical supervisor by UKCP, Metanoia Institute, USW and WPI. I am also a freelance trainer and researcher, member of the International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy [IAAGT] Research Committee and current secretary of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy.
IN PERSON AND ONLINE PRACTICE: ACTO PROFESSIONAL MEMBER:
• Contemporary gestalt therapy within a phenomenological and field-emergent approach.
• Registered and approved clinical supervisor by UKCP, Metanoia Institute, USW and WPI.
• Full UKCP Clinical Membership and HIPC member.
• Additionally GPsyC accredited and EAGT accredited.
• Professional Member - Association for Counselling and Therapy Online.
• Alumnus of the Center for Somatic Studies.
GSRD-affirming | Queer | Trans | LGBTQIA+ | Non-binary | inclusive clinical practice.
Main Therapeutic Style
Contemporary gestalt therapy within a phenomenological and field-emergent approach.Other Therapeutic Styles
I am affirming of trans and queer identities and offer an LGBTQIA+ | Genderqueer | Genderfluid | Non-binary | Neurodivergent | GSRD-affirming and inclusive clinical practice in-person and online.
I am an ACTO Professional member and have undertaken dedicated clinical training in working in the remote space.
Services Offered
- Individual gestalt psychotherapy in-person and online - no current spaces, enquiries welcome.
- Clinical teaching and consultancy.
Please could you let me know if you are you a current WPI student, when you email me using the contact form.
About Approach
Contemporary gestalt therapy within a phenomenological and field-emergent approach.
I have particular interest in gestalt as a clinical phenomenology, drawing on Paul Goodman’s theory of self and the phenomenology of being, kinaesthetic movement and embodied experiencing.
I am affirming of trans and queer identities and offer an LGBTQIA+ | Genderqueer | Genderfluid | Non-binary | Neurodivergent | GSRD-affirming and inclusive clinical practice in-person and online.
I work with people from a wide range of diverse, neurodiverse, marginalized, and multi-faith communities within a phenomenological and field-emergent approach.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Communication Studies [incl. TEFL]
- Certificate of Higher Education in Counselling
- Advanced Certificate in Counselling
- Cognitive Behavioural Diploma in Counselling
- BACP Certificate of Proficiency (prior to moving to UKCP)
- Clinical Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy (Metanoia Institute, 2014)
- MSc in Gestalt Psychotherapy (Metanoia Institute, Level 7: Middlesex Uni Transcript: Jul. 2014)
- Preparing to Teach in Post Compulsory Education and Training, (Cardiff Met Uni, 2018)
- Certificate in Teaching and Learning (Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2018)
- Certified Cyber Therapist (Online Therapy Institute, 2021)
- European Certificate of Psychotherapy (European Association for Psychotherapy, 2021)
- Certificate in Clinical Supervision (Metanoia Institute, 2021)
- European Certificate of Gestalt Psychotherapy (EAGT, 2023)
- Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy (Center for Somatic Studies, NYC, 2023)
- Group supervision | One-to-one supervision | Clinical teaching | online and in-person