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About Russell...

I'd like to share with you that I have been working within the area of psychology and people's emotional health ever since my first job, which was in 1968 as an administrator in a Child Guidance Clinic in Brighton, Sussex.

Although I was very successful in my career I had a lot of personal problems. Since puberty I had suffered from night terrors, and in my early twenties I developed an eating disorder - bulimia nervosa. I attempted suicide when aged 26. When I became depressed again a year later I had a choice to make - either to really kill myself or to do whatever it would take to heal myself.

Fortunately I made the decision to live my life and in 1977 went into therapy. My life took another turn in 1979 when I accidentally fractured my sacrum (the area of the spine above the tailbone). This experience took me into the field of complementary therapies, including spiritual healing. I was very excited to learn that I could myself sense subtle energies on and off the body. I finished a social sciences degree I had begun in 1978 and retrained in healing, holistic massage, and later psychotherapy.

Since 1983 I have run my own private practice. During the 1980s I taught in several central London Adult Education Institutes, and ran the first ever healing course in public adult education in England. Throughout the 1990s I ran a private healer training school - The Rowan School - with a colleague for ten years.

I continue to see individuals, couples, and run therapy and personal development groups in North London and North West of England. I am registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and receive regular professional supervision for all areas of my work.

I have always enjoyed painting and drawing as a hobby but this became a more serious venture of mine during the late 1990s when I began to sell work from my therapy room in London. (See gallery for more detail about my artwork CV)