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Dr John Rowan is a founder member of the Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners. John is a counsellor and psychotherapist, working with both individuals and couples, in private practice in north-east London. He also offers supervision, both face-to-face and by telephone. His coaching practice enables him to work with individuals, groups and organizations.

John presents a number of workshops on aspects of therapy and psychospiritual development. Contact him for more information - details can be found in the list of headings above.

John is a past member of the Governing Board of the UK Council for Psychotherapy, representing the Humanistic and Integrative Section. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (member of the Psychotherapy Section and the Counselling Psychology Division, the Counselling Psychology Division, the Transpersonal Psychology Section and the Special Group on Coaching Psychology), a qualified individual and group psychotherapist (UKAHPP and UKCP), a chartered counselling psychologist (BPS) and an accredited counsellor (BACP). He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and is a Member of the Association for Coaching

The Honorary Fellowship of the UK Council for Psychotherapy was awarded to John for distinguished services to psychotherapy in March 2006.

He has been leading groups since 1969, and now practises Primal Integration which is a holistic approach to therapy. He has served on the Examination Board of the BPS Counselling Psychology Division. His particular workshop interests are creativity, research, I-positions, the transpersonal and the AQAL integral approach .

John has been involved since 1950 in the work of the Walsby Association on systematic ideology. George Walford was a leading light in this and since his death all the material has been held by Trevor Blake.

John Rowan is the author of a number of books. He also helped to produce the radical men's magazine Achilles Heel. He has had five books of poetry published. He and his wife live in North Chingford, London: he has four children and four grandchildren from a previous marriage.

He is on the Editorial Board of:
Self & Society
The Transpersonal Psychology Review
Counselling Psychology Review
Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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