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

Psychotherapist, supervisor, author, and researcher. Registered Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, and a Senior Accredited specialist in group supervision.

I consult, and facilitate reflective spaces for mental health professionals across a diverse range of sectors – including Government Inquiries [Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, and currently the UK Covid-19 Inquiry].

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). 

Coming soon 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 a regular review editor for Routledge book publications. I have 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 for more than twenty years in one-to-one, and group contexts in a variety of settings:

• 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).

A lecturer contributing to teaching, research and learning in both psychotherapy and philosophy.

Interdisciplinarity. 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 fellowships at Oxford, and the Leverhulme Trust. I maintain an interest in teaching medicinal chemistry (particularly chemical “cures” for psychological distress), toxicology, and the ethics of weaponizing chemicals.

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

Publications

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