Dr James Costello

• Qualifications:BSc(Hons), PGDip Counselling, MSc (Psychotherapy), Doctor of Philosophy, Registered Member MBACP (Accredited), BACP Senior Accredited Supervisor (Groups)
• Position:Senior Lecturer
• Department:College of Health, Science and Society
• Telephone:+441173282490
• Email:James.Costello@uwe.ac.uk
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About me

A psychotherapist, supervisor, consultant, author, and researcher. Registered Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, and Senior Accredited Specialist in Group Supervision.

I facilitate reflective spaces for mental health professionals across a diverse range of sectors i.e., clinical practice, training, professional development and Government Inquiries [Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, and currently the UK Covid-19 Inquiry]. If you are interested in working together then please contact me here.

Considered a “must” for anyone interested in workplace wellbeing (Therapy Today, Feb 2021):

Workplace Wellbeing - A Relational Approach (Routledge 2020).

Read my interview with BACP Workplace, check-out my podcast about gaslighting, or watch me on ITV’s flagship documentary Tonight (Series 24 Episode 20). 

Recently published in the UK and US as part of the Routledge series

Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology:

Philosophical Foundations of Psychotherapy: Radical Relationality

I am on the editorial panel of several publishing houses specialising in mental health, psychology and the philosophy of psychology. I have current research interests in sleep disturbance, and consciousness more broadly, and I am an active member of the British Society for Phenomenology.

Area of expertise

A practitioner and supervisor for over twenty years in one-to-one, and group settings in several sectors:

• Private (Co-founder of Born Human – A holistic mental health consultancy).
• Third (i.e., Bluebell Care, Dementia Care Trust, Kinergy).
• Public (i.e., UK Home Office, Cabinet Office, HEIs, and NHS Counselling Services).

I have taught on a range of programmes in psychology (BSc Psychology, Cert. Counselling Skills, Prof. Doc. & MA in Counselling/Psychotherapy. I am an established member of the University’s Graduate School and have a wealth of experience supervising postgraduate research (i.e., PhD, Prof Doc, MSc, MRes).   

Interdisciplinarity. Long before this I worked in the natural sciences doing a PhD with Sir J Fraser Stoddart, contributing – modestly - to a Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2016).

I spent time in industry (BP Chemicals), before taking-up research fellowships at Oxford, and then the Leverhulme Trust. I maintain an interest in medicinal chemistry and toxicology more generally.

My leadership experience in education spans both FE, and HE. A University Teaching Fellow and an experienced external examiner, I have been awarded Royal Society of Chemistry, and HEFC STEM Teaching Fellowships.

I am the lead author of dozens of refereed papers and patents in the chemical sciences and have attracted > £850,000 in external funding for my research. Ongoing interests include the entwined relationship between digital forensic technologies and human behaviour (criminality), and structural sciences more generally.

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