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Ms Jyoti Nanda

Visiting Lecturer

Contact at: nandaj@regents.ac.uk

Department

School of Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology

Faculty

HASS (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences)

Professional affiliation(s):

• HPC
• BPS  Division of Counselling Psychology
• BPS Founding member Coaching Psychology
• BPS Transpersonal Psychology
• UKCP Member
• BACP (Senior Accredited Practitioner and Supervisor)
• UKRC
• BSCH (Life member of  the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis) 
• SEA (Member Society for Existential Analysis)
• SoP  (Member Society of Psychotherapy)

Qualifications

• Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy, Regent’s College, London
• MA /Post MA Diploma Existential Counselling Psychology, Regent’s College, (Course validated by City University), London
• Diploma in Psychology (Conversion for Post-Graduates), Open University, UK
• Certificate in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s College, London
• Diploma in Hypnotherapy,  London College of Clinical Hypnosis/British Medical Hypnotherapy Examinations Board
• MSc in Child Development and Family Relationships, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India
• BSc in Home Science, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India
• 2008- Interpersonal Mindfulness, Centre for Mindfulness, UMASS Medical School, Worcester, USA
• 2006/2007 - Advanced teacher training in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Centre for Mindfulness, UMASS Medical School, Worcester, USA

Biography

Jyoti is a practicing Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Existential Psychotherapist, and teaches on the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology Programme at SPCP.    She has received education in India, the UK, and the USA, and brings a wide cross-cultural perspective and openness of world-view to her work. She has trained at Master’s level in Counselling Psychology and in Child Development and Family Relationships, and at the Advanced level in Existential Counselling Psychology, and Existential Psychotherapy.  She is a member of the Reader Panel of the Existential Analysis.  Her published work focuses on the area of an embodied integration of Mindfulness and Existential Therapy.  A long term practitioner of meditation in more than one tradition, Jyoti’s dissertation was on ‘The Effect of Meditation on Existential Therapeutic Practice’.   She has wide clinical experience which includes working with out-patients in an NHS hospital and with clients in Private Practice.  She offers Mindfulness workshops and courses with the aim of exploring the ‘Domain of Being’ and its implications for therapeutic practice.  

PhD and Doctoral Research Supervision and Examining

Examined one PhD Thesis.

Research Interests

• Phenomenological research, Existential-Phenomenology, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, especially Mindfulness and Existential Therapy, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Therapeutic relationship, Martin Buber, the spiritual in everyday life,   attachment styles, depression, anxiety, death, dying, bereavement, the experience of immigration, cross-cultural counselling. 

Completed Past Research 

• The Effect Of Meditation on Existential Therapeutic Practice  (Phenomenological research)
• Parental Perception of Selected Behaviours in Pre-Adolescent children of Two Socio-Economic Groups
• (Quantitative research – Randomised control trial (N = 80 ) utilising bi-serial correlation for primary and secondary analyses, and the corresponding ‘t’ values computed for statistical significance) Study conducted for MSc in Child Development.

Current Research Activity

• Ongoing continuous research on what facilitates learning within student/teacher relationship, supervisee/supervisor relationship, and what facilitates change in clients within the client/therapist relationship
• Introduction of Mindfulness in therapy and coaching sessions and the evolution of Mindfulness Based Existential Therapy (MBET) and Mindfulness Based Existential Coaching (MBEC)
• Mindful Relationships.

List of Publications

Published Papers:

• Why Mindfulness Based Existential Coaching? Chapter to be published in book on ‘Existential Coaching’ in 2011.  Ed. van Deurzen, E. and Hanaway, M.
• ‘Embodied Integration:  Reflections on Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) And a Case For Mindfulness Based Existential Therapy (MBET) - A Single Case Illustration’ To be published In Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis 21.2, January 2010
• ‘Mindfulness, nothing special, yet special!’  In Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis 21.1, January 2010
• Audio recording in Mindfulness for Open University Course D240 Counselling: exploring fear and sadness in September 2009
• ‘Mindfulness – A lived Experience of Existential-Phenomenological Themes.’  In Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis 20.1, January 2009
• ‘Knowing It In The Body –‘I Thou’ In Therapeutic Encounter.’ In Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis 17.2, July 2006
• ‘A Phenomenological Enquiry Into The Effect Of Meditation on Therapeutic Practice’.  Re-published with permission In Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis 16.2, July 2005
• ‘A Phenomenological Enquiry Into The Effect Of Meditation on Therapeutic Practice’. In Counselling Psychology Review, February 2005 Volume 20 Number 1. 2011 Review of the S.E.A. conference published in the Hermeneutic  Circular.