Debbie Johnson: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Couples therapist, Group facilitator, Mindfulness trainer, Karuna Contemplative Counsellor, Psychodynamic Counsellor, Psychedelic informed psychotherapist.
Training, qualifications, and experience
I am a psychoanalyst with the Philadelphia Association founded in 1965 with R.D.Laing. As a psychotherapist and Mindfulness trainer, I have over 20 years’ experience working within the caring profession.
I provide a non-judgemental safe space where difficulties can be explored and given the time and space to be thought through. Together we discover the language and meanings to describe and understand our suffering, with complete confidentiality.
I have worked in the NHS, MIND, Maggie’s Cancer Centre, Ease Well Being and in private practice. I have worked with groups and individuals with anxiety and depression or just not feeling right in the world, through to Psychosis, Cancer, PTSD and severe mental illness.
At Kings College, NHS, I worked as a psychotherapist in the PsiDer Psychedelic trials for treatment resistant depression. I teach psychologists, doctors and consultants, Mindfulness Based Cognitive therapy via the Practitioner Health Service, a service that provides health care for NHS staff in England.
Prior to working as a counsellor and psychotherapist, I worked as a mindfulness trainer and meditation instructor teaching and facilitating groups and one to one mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) since 2012.
I started working in the caring profession as an Acupuncturist in 2003.
I am registered and licensed with the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and The British Association of Mindfulness- Based Approaches (BAMBA) whose code of ethics I abide by.
Primary qualifications
- Trainee in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy @ Philadelphia Association 2020-2026
- Diploma in Counselling City Lit 2019-2020
- Certificate for Karuna Contemplative Psychology @ Karuna Training 2018-2020
- Introductory Course Philosophy and Psychotherapy @ Philadelphia Association 2008-2009
- M.A. Teaching Mindfulness Based Approaches @ The Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University (MBCT /MBSR) 2018
- Teaching Mindfulness in Schools @ The Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University 2012
- Mindfulness in Medicine and Psychology with Jon Kabat Zinn @ University of Oxford Mindfulness Research Centre 2010