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
• Telephone:+441173282490
• Email:James.Costello@uwe.ac.uk

About me

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

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

My book:

Workplace Wellbeing - A Relational Approach (Routledge 2020) is put 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 watch me on ITV’s flagship documentary Tonight (Series 24 Episode 20). 

My forthcoming book in the Routledge series Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology is:

Philosophical Foundations of Psychotherapy: Radical Relationality

Here, I promote a critical understanding of the ideas, traditions, values, and principles that inform and shape – for better or for worse – what therapists do.

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

I have practised for over 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, and Kinergy).
• Public (i.e., UK Home Office, Cabinet Office, HEIs, and NHS Counselling Services).

As a lecturer, I contribute to teaching, research and learning in psychotherapy and philosophy.

As well as all that, I started working in the natural sciences doing a PhD in supramolecular chemistry which ultimately contributed to the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

I spent some time in industry (with BP Chemicals), before taking-up research fellowships at Oxford, and then the Leverhulme Trust. I maintain a strong teaching interest in medicinal chemistry (particularly chemical “cures” for psychological distress), toxicology, and the ethics of weaponizing chemical agents.

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

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