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Collaborations:
Research staff:
- Radical Relationality
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Psychology
- Relational Approaches to Workplace Wellbeing
- Masculine identity and depression
Teaching staff:
- Qualifications:BSc(Hons), PGDip Counselling, MSc (Counselling & Psychotherapy), Doctor of Philosophy, Registered Member MBACP (Accredited), BACP Senior Accredited Supervisor (Groups)
- Position:Senior Lecturer
- Telephone:+4411732 82490
- Email:James.Costello@uwe.ac.uk
About me
Dr James Costello is a psychotherapy practitioner, clinical supervisor, author, researcher, and consultant.
A Registered Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, and a BACP Senior Accredited Supervisor.
Previously, consultant to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, and currently the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
My monograph:
Workplace Wellbeing - A Relational Approach (Routledge 2020) is simply:
"a must for anyone interested in workplace wellbeing" (Therapy Today, Feb 2021).
Read my interview with BACP Workplace, check-out my podcast with Dr Rachel Morris about gaslighting, or see me on ITV's flagship documentary Tonight (Series 24 Episode 20).
Coming soon in: Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Routledge):
Radical Relationality ~ The Philosophical Foundations of Psychotherapy
Area of expertise
I have practised for over twenty years in one-to-one, and group contexts in the following settings:
- Private (Co-founder of Born Human – A holistic mental health consultancy).
- Third (i.e., Bluebell Care, Dementia Care Trust, and Kinergy).
- Public (i.e., UK Home Office, Cabinet Office, HEIs, and NHS Counselling Services).
As a university teacher, I contribute to all levels of teaching, research and learning in psychotherapy. 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 started-out in the natural sciences doing a PhD in supramolecular chemistry which ultimately contributed to the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. I spent time in industry (with BP Chemicals), before taking-up research fellowships at Oxford, and then the Leverhulme Trust.
I am the lead author on dozens of refereed papers, patents, and have attracted £850,000 in external funding for my research.
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