OTS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Client Services Director & Placement Coordinator
I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist in full time private practice in Oxford.
I completed my training at the Chiron Centre for Integrative Body Psychotherapy in 1998. Amongst many others, I have also undertaken trainings in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from a body-oriented perspective and also Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with Soul and incorporate these into my general work.
I worked at the Psychosynthesis & Education Trust in London Bridge for several years until recently and ran their Counselling Service for 6 years, which included assessing and referring clients to my team of trained and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, along with setting up and running a low cost placement scheme for students training at the Trust and clients on lower incomes.
The idea for OTS has been something we had been thinking about and working on for a number of years, and has grown from many experiences and endeavours over the past 35 years.
I was a psychotherapist for over 25 years in full time private practice at the Witney Therapy Centre, which I have managed since 2004. Now my time is focussed on running OTS, and helping clients find the right approach/person for their needs, and in supporting the development of new practitioners.
I started running self-development workshops in the late 1980's, and working with groups and as an individual psychotherapist from the mid 1990's. Now my time is focussed on the development of community self-development groups, and personal and professional development groups for counsellors, psychotherapists and the helping professions together with running OTS.
I set up a Counselling and Psychotherapy Assessment / Referral Service in 2001, and have been supervising psychotherapists, counsellors and other professionals since then. I also run development groups for counsellors and psychotherapists.
Michael Soth is a senior psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor (UKCP), living in Oxford. He has been teaching on a wide variety of counselling and therapy training courses since 1986, and for 20 years held a position as Training Director at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy in London until its closure in 2010.
He has been involved with groups and group facilitation since the early 1980's, and spent much of his formative years as a facilitator in a variety of self-led groups as well as training courses.
He is known for incorporating in his work a uniquely wide range of therapeutic approaches, inheriting concepts, values and ways of working from both psychoanalytic and humanistic traditions.
He has been at the forefront of developing an integrative, embodied and relational form of psychotherapy in the UK, that considers the therapeutic relationship as a bodymind process between two people who are both wounded and whole. He has written numerous articles and papers and is a frequent presenter at professional conferences. He has a reputation for his engaged, experiential way of working and teaching, and his attention to the many complex dimensions of experience coming together in a unique meeting between people.
He is the Director of INTEGRA CPD, offering a programme of next-generation continuing professional development events for psychotherapists and counsellors.