Family systems / Parent-Child therapy / Addiction / Looked after Children
- Paul Harris, (MA UKCP) has more than 20 years of experience working with children and young people in a variety of different contexts including Education, CAMHS, the Community Arts as well as in private practice.
- He is a senior faculty member on the MA in Integrative Child Psychotherapy at The Institute for Arts in Therapy & Education; a qualified supervisor (Minster Centre); and Group work Practitioner (Institute for Group Analysis). He is also a senior training consultant for The Centre for Child Mental Health as well as Trauma Informed Schools.
- He specialises in somatic arts-based and trauma -informed practices as well as eco-psychotherapy in his work with children and families. His work has focused amongst other areas on addiction and trauma; attachment difficulties with Looked After Children; and children with alternate and non-standard forms of communication including ASD and other nuerodiverse expressions.
- Paul is a qualified Yoga-therapist (Minded Institute); Cranio-sacral Therapist; and Continuum Movement Practitioner and is director of Ahimsa Associates Ltd: A Creative Wellbeing Consultancy.
- He works in 4 different community languages, including English, French, Spanish and British Sign Language."
“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.” ― Kahlil Gibran
