Dr Rosalind Pearmain
Senior Lecturer
Contact at pearmainr@regents.ac.uk
Department
School of Psychotherapy & Counselling
Psychology
Faculty
HASS (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences)
Professional affiliation(s)
- Professional Member of the Guild of Psychotherapists
- UKCP Member
- BPS Graduate Member
- Scientific and Medical Network
Qualifications
- BA (hons), Dip.Ed. M.A. PhD
- BA Hons. Social Science: Sociology/Politics York University
Dip. Ed. University of Edinburgh
- MA Humanistic Psychology, Antioch University Ohio PhD.
Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Professional Member Guild of Psychotherapists
- Graduate member BPS
Biography
Rosalind teaches on the MA/PGDip and ADIP Courses and is also
involved in the Ph.D. programme. She has been involved as an
External Examiner to Roehampton, the Minster Centre and Bath Centre
for Psychotherapy and Counselling. She has special interests in the
challenge of integrative approaches, embodiment and spirituality
and qualitative research methodology and reflexivity as a generic
process in practice, learning and research. She practises and
supervises privately. A long standing practitioner of Sahaj Marg
meditation, her doctoral thesis was focused on changes in empathy
and perception with meditation. Her current research is focused on
transformative interventions for mental health and well being in
young people, particularly through a new summer camp LIfebeat
programme. Publications include: (2001) Book: The Heart of
Listening: Attentional Qualities in Psychotherapy; Continuum Sage
(2007) Young People, Spirituality and Mental Health, BPS
Transpersonal Psychology Review. (2000)
Course Development
None
PhD and Doctoral Research Supervision and examining
Currently 7 DCounsPsy students
I PhD student
Research Interests
- Body/mind in learning and in therapy
- Transformative interventions for adolescent well being and
resilience
- Meditation, consciousness and psychotherapy
Accreditation with professional bodies
List of Publications
Publications include:
- (2001) Book: The Heart of Listening: Attentional Qualities in
Psychotherapy; Continuum Sage (2007) Young People, Spirituality and
Mental Health, BPS Transpersonal Psychology Review. (2000)
and Mental Health, BPS Transpersonal Psychology Review. (2000)
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