About me

Before training as an integrative psychotherapist in the late eighties, I was a Buddhist monk for five years. It was my experience that healing cannot take place on the level of the personality, and that therapists rarely understand there is a natural self right behind the intricacies of the personality – perhaps because it cannot be found in thought or feeling, but only through separating from the masks you took yourself to be.

After working as an integrative therapist for fourteen years , I discovered IFS and its brilliant approach to healing. IFS (internal family systems therapy) was evolved by Dr Dick Schwarz and is widely regarded as the cutting edge of healing in the USA. You can read more about it at www.selfleadership.org. I have also done extensive training in object relations and pathwork.

I work in South East London, and operate a sliding scale. The work I offer can be used for a wide range of situations, including those often covered by coaching.

I have worked with a wide variety of people and conditions,including relationship problems, depression, M.E., psychosomatic conditions like chronic headaches, teenagers in crisis, spiritual crises, sexual difficulties, etc.

I have been a psychotherapist in the integrated section of the UKCP for the last eighteen years. I have spent many years working to bring together the best of Eastern and Western understandings of the Mind - and also worked for many years as a part time home tutor dealing with very difficult teenagers excluded from school…

Bruce Stevenson. M.Sc. Dip. Psych (UKCP)