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Contact: Richard Lawton Phone: 0845 094 4505 Mobile: 07502 136692 Email: mail@richardlawton.net Skype: richard_lawton
"Helping you find answers"
Richard Lawton offers Postural Integration, Pulsing holistic bodywork and psychotherapeutic bodywork in Southwest London & North Surrey.
| About me 
I was led to body psychotherapy as a result of training as a massage therapist. During my training at Morley College, where I gained the ITEC diploma in anatomy, physiology and holistic massage, I noticed the emotional effects of massage, and it became clear that I was not just touching people's bodies as I worked, but their hearts and minds too.
Fascinated, I investigated this further and was led to psychotherapeutic bodywork. I trained in Pulsing with Guy Gladstone, then entered a long training in creative Deep Bodywork with Silke Ziehl at The Open Centre, one of the longest-established centres for bodymind development in the UK. I am a qualified psychotherapeutic Deep Bodywork practitioner (Entelia Institute for Creative Bodywork) and a certified Postural Integrator (ICRI/ICPIT). I had earlier qualified in various other bodywork and subtle-energy modalities. I have also undertaken training in Gestalt and Psychodrama groupwork with Ari Badaines, whose work at the Skyros centre has been reported in Top Sante magazine. I am currently doing further training in groupwork at the Gestalt Centre. I am proud to have trained with some of the best teachers in the world, people such as Silke Ziehl, Guy Gladstone and Ari Badaines who have demonstrated lifelong commitment to the humanistic approach and the human potential. In the past I was heavily involved in voluntary work with children in playschemes and PHAB clubs, both as an activity playleader and as a member of the management committee of York Playspace Group. During a career in the Civil Service I became Chairman of the Cabinet Office Playscheme Committee. I feel that playfulness is a quality that we should appreciate more as adults - it should not be confined to children. My own journey of personal development and healing has taken me on many paths and has involved many different approaches. Over a period of several years I worked with Dr Michael Seear, the respected therapist and healer. (His work has been featured in The Times "Body & Soul" magazine 20 March 2004, and reported on the BBC). I hold an Honours degree in Philosophy from York University. I am an associate member of the UK Association for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners (UKAHPP) and working towards full accreditation. I am registered and insured through the CThA, and am fully committed to continuous professional development. This includes deepening and extending my professional skills and understanding, as well as continuing my own journey of self-awareness and personal development. |