Dr. Kevin Burrows BACP Accredited PSA Registered Counsellor/Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Expressive Arts Therapist (REACE) in Southend SS0, SS9 and SS2.

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Dr. Kevin Burrows MBACP (Accred). CBT, TA, PCAT Counsellor / Therapist

Adv dip Counselling

Certificate of Advanced Graduate Skills in Expressive Arts therap, European Graduate School 

PhD. Health Education and Social Care. ' Expressive arts and Ecotherapy : a social intervention for Autism'.

M.A. Ed Art therapy.

MBACP (Accred)./ PCATA / IEATA /CAPO member PTUK Approved Supervisor, BAAT Assosciate Member of the British Assosciation of Art therapists

Contact Details

Tel: 07969924062

Email: creationcounselling@hotmail.com

Web www.creationcounselling.org

Dr. Kevin Burrows MBACP (Accred). BACP Accredited Counsellor offers Clients a confidential, sensitive and professional Counselling service in the Southend, Westcliff, Leigh, and surrounding areas of South East Essex. Working within an integrative approach with the talking and visual therapies that meet Clients needs: Stress and anxiety, Work related Stress, Bereavement, Relationships, Life changes, Self esteem, Special needs and other life decision issues.

Theoretical approaches CBT, TA, EXA, PCAT, ECOTHERAPY, EMDR.

My theoretical approach is an integrative / eclectic approach within a humanistic framework of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Transactional Analysis (TA) –incorporating aspects of Inner Child and Re-decision Therapy-  Person Centred Art Therapy (PCAT) and Ecotherapy work in both indoor and outdoor natural

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

CBT was developed by Albert Ellis and Aaron T Beck and works with the concept that our thinking feeling and behaviour are interlinked (CBT) can quickly empower clients to rationalise the activating thoughts, beliefs and consequences which affect our lives and issues. I often use CBT as a short term therapy but more often as a part of an integrative or eclectic approach to stabilise issues around a client’s perception of fears, anxieties and feelings of self worth.

Transactional Analysis (T.A.) was first developed by Eric Berne, works from the principle that we have ego states of (P) Parent (A) Adult (C) Child and that our current issues and problems might form in our early “Life Script” The events and patterns in our early childhood life. Transactional Analysis (T.A.) helps the Client to rediscover their Inner Natural or Free Child (Cf). The part of each of us that may never have been allowed to flourish because of life’s “Should and Shouldn’t” of our internal Critical (Controlling) Parents (Pc) conditional love or other injunctions and messages.

Expressive Arts Therapy (EXA)

Unlike The U.K. model of Art Therapy where the arts therapies are seperatist and practiced seperately as (Art, Music, Drama, Dance,) as HCPC separately protected titles. Expressive Arts Therapy looks at how the Arts can be therapeutically used in an Inter- Modal or Multi Modal way, by moving expressively and experientially between the arts disciplines without imediate anlysis or interpretation.  This process can help us to acces deeply felt, direct experience whilst moving therapeutically between the Art Modes of Movement, Sound, Visual, Tactile and Written or Aural Arts.

In addition to being an Accredited Member of the  British Assosciation of Counsellors and Psychtherapist (BACP) I am a member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA) and ensure good ethical practice by following both BACP and IEATA  Ethical Frameworks symultaneously in the context of my (EXA) practice . I have trained in the U.S. U.K. and in Europe with some of the leading inovators of Expressive Arts Therapy including, Natalie Rogers (Carl Rogers Daughter) Daria Halprin, Paulo Knill, Shaun McNiff, Margo Fuchs, Phil Jones, Janek Dubowski, Peter McGowan and Leisl Silverstone among others. I can incorporate (EXA) into face to face individual or group therapy work. And I run workshops for Therapists who wish to learn or experience  more about Expressive Arts Therapy.

Leisl Silverstone formulated P.C.A.T. out of her disillusionment of other analytical approaches to Art Therapy where the Clients imagery is interpreted by the analyst. In P.C.A.T. the Clients chosen objects or made imagery / drawings are reflected back to the client, discovering what colours shapes and visual representations mean for the client. Techniques of “Bridging” allow the Client to go deeper into their meaning of their imagery. The Clients discoveries are reflected as an essence of what their image has brought up for them. I use Person Centred Art Therapy (P.C.A.T.) within a counsellor / therapy framework to enable my Client’s to visualise and create their own personal art work images and reflect on what these deep personal images mean for them. These images often contain or trigger deeply felt issues that can not as easily be expressed in the talking therapies. I use (P.C.A.T.) as a practice in its own right, as individual or group-work practice, or as part of an integrative inner child work approach.

ECOTHERAPY

Ecotherapy is concerned with our connection to the natural environment as a therapeutic alliance of human and non-human worlds, where being in and being part of the natural world influences our wellbeing. My practice is within easy reach of the beach and seashore and offers the potential for therapeutic work in the landscape in experiential, creative and talking therapies in the outdoors. A more detailed outline of my ecotherapy work can be found on my News and Workshops,   Earth sand circles and Mandalas and Seaforth Road practice pages through the buttons at the top of the page.

EMDR, (Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing)

EMDR is an acronym for 'Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing'. EMDR is a powerful psychological treatment method that was developed by an American clinical psychologist, Dr Francine Shapiro, in the 1980s.Some find that the distressing memories come to mind when something reminds them of the distressing event, or sometimes the memories just seem to just pop into mind. The alternating left-right stimulation of the brain with eye movements, sounds or taps during EMDR, seems to stimulate the frozen or blocked information processing system.The effect is believed to be similar to that which occurs naturally during REM sleep (Rapid Eye Movement) when your eyes rapidly move from side to side. EMDR helps reduce the distress of all the different kinds of memories, whether it was what you saw, heard, smelt, tasted, felt or thought.

Supervision Profile

Over the years I have gained extensive experience working with Private, NHS and agency Supervision Practice, I offer individual supervision to trainees and qualified counsellors. I work in an integrative way using Person Centred, Transactional Analysis and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. I can incorporate Person Centred Art Therapies, Play Therapies and Ecotherapy Skills as a component of Supervision. My Supervision training is at AQA Level 4 Skills for Supervision and Counselling Supervision (Theory and Skills), and currently CPCAB Level 6 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling Supervision.
I am a Certified and PSA registered Play and Creative Arts  Supervisor with Play Therapy UK (PTUK); the Academy of Play and Child Psychotherapy (APAC) www.playtherapy.org.uk . I have a certificate of advanced studies in Expressive arts (Supervion and Coaching) from the European Graduate school in Saas Fee Switzerland and the University of Malta..