Philip Carr-Gomm is a psychologist, psychotherapist and sophrologist, and the author of over a dozen books, including Empower Your Life with Sophrology. He trained with Dorna Revie at the Sophrology Center, and holds a practitioner diploma in sophrology. He is the founder of The Sophrology Institute and a non-executive director of the Institute of Psychosynthesis, and has given sophrology workshops for the Lush cosmetics company, The Flour Pot Bakery group, the Body Holiday St.Lucia, the British Psychological Society, and the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership at George Washington University. His particular interests include working with sophrology as a way of deepening meditation and mindfulness practice, and working with ways to integrate sophrology into coaching and psychotherapeutic practice.
Barry Winbolt
Barry is a psychologist, brief therapist, and writer. Originally trained in Integrative family therapy and Ericksonian hypnotherapy, he first became interested in Sophrology while living and working in France early in his career. His strapline, “Life doesn’t have to be like that”, reflects the deeply held belief that we are generally far more resourceful than we realise, and with the right information, we can do much ourselves to tackle and cope with life’s inevitable trials and challenges. Alongside his therapy practice he has made it his mission, through his writing and professional training workshops, to present practical information as widely as possible to help others ‘get a better handle on life’.
Dr Andrew Sikorski
Andrew was intrigued by acupuncture early in his medical training and completed a GP traineeship at Glastonbury where his trainer, a trustee of Chalice Well, introduced him to Homeopathy. He subsequently completed posts at the Royal London, Glasgow, and Tunbridge Wells NHS Homeoapthic Hospitals, tested out what he had learnt at the Marylebone NHS GP Medical Centre under the watchful eye of Professor David Peters and subsequently joined a GP practice at Wadhurst in East Sussex as a full time NHS GP providing integrative medicine to the surgery’s patients as appropriate for over 13 years. His therapeutic measures have broadened over time with Nutrition, Medical Hypnosis, Anthroposophic Medicine, and most recently Sophrology.
Anne-Geneviève Dutertre
Anne-Geneviève was trained by Bernard Santerre, a pioneer of Sophrology in Brittany, and the founder of the Institute of Sophrology in Rennes. She trained in the first three levels from 1990-93 before heading for Ireland. In 1999 she completed her training as pratitioner in Sociological Sophrology, and then ran the Sophrology Centre in Waterford for ten years. She gave evening classes at the Waterford Institute of Technology, other adult education centres, and at the Creative Centre in Dublin. Today she is back in France, near Bordeaux, and offers individual sessions and regular workshops in French and English. Being particularly interested in the creative process and our relationship with nature, and being a qualified visual artist in textiles and Land art, Anne-Geneviève began including art therapy in her practice in 2003, and ecopsychology in 2013.