{"id":15,"date":"2025-08-10T19:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gjjohnson.co.uk\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:37:59","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gjjohnson.co.uk\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a registered UKCP Psychotherapist and Supervisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Practiced as psychotherapist over 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experience includes work in the following organisations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ealing Abbey Counselling Service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eacs.org.uk\/\">www.eacs.org.uk<\/a>,&nbsp; counsellor and group supervisor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>West London Mental Health NHS Trust <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlmht.nhs.uk\/\">www.wlmht.nhs.uk<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Karuna Institute: staff member. www.<strong>karuna-institute<\/strong>.co.uk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ecological issues,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walking and swimming<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How body holds and releases anxiety and trauma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dream work<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poetry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meditation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Earlier in life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bsc(Econ) Hons London University, Social Work, CQSW, Bristol University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Development Worker National Charity working with Educational Disadvantaged young people and their families<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director New Careers Project Cambridge House University Settlement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lecturer in Community and Group Work Southwark College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social Work Team Leader Mental Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SE London Consortium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Action research on the relevance of \u2018work\u2019 to people who have problems with drink drugs and the law.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swindon Project for A.I.D.s Counselling and Education (S.P.A.C.E)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>General Practitioners Experience of H.I.V. and A.I.D.s.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a registered UKCP Psychotherapist and Supervisor. Practiced as psychotherapist over 25 years. Experience includes work in the following organisations: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Karuna Institute: staff member. www.karuna-institute.co.uk Interests Ecological issues, Walking and swimming How body holds and releases anxiety and trauma Dream work Poetry Meditation Earlier in life Bsc(Econ) Hons London University, Social Work, CQSW, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gjjohnson.co.uk\/?page_id=15\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjjohnson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjjohnson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjjohnson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjjohnson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjjohnson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gjjohnson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/gjjohnson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjjohnson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}