Dr Greg Madison
Greg Madison is an existential psychotherapist, chartered psychologist, clinical supervisor, and accredited mediator. For a number of years, Greg has worked on academic training faculties throughout Europe and North America, and regularly maintains a clinical practice in Brighton and London.
Greg developed and managed the first NHS general hospital psychotherapy team at Kings College Hospital in London, giving him experience of working with extreme life situations and medical issues, bereavement, and family relationships. Greg has special interests in issues of ‘home' and belonging, experiences of cross-cultural relocation, relationships, sexuality, transitional phases of life, and issues of meaning and disengagement. He works with individuals and couples and has worked therapeutically with people in a great variety of settings, from high profile and corporate clients to children living on the streets.
Greg teaches psychotherapists and psychologists internationally and has recently instituted an advanced training in Portugal and Eastern Europe. He also lectures and supervises coaches in relational and existential working with clients in business settings. Greg works flexibly in his private practice in order to accommodate his own travel commitments and those of his clients.
Greg started out by studying experimental psychology in Canada. He quickly moved from mainstream science to more philosophical questions about human experience, mortality, meaning, and anxiety. Greg's psychotherapy training is founded upon existentialism, and Focusing, a way of attending to actual experience rather than interpretation. He is professionally registered with UKCP, The Society for Existential Analysis, The British Psychological Society, European (EAP) and Worldwide Psychotherapy Associations (WCP), and the International Focusing Institute (NY).
Various psychotherapy models inform Greg's practice, however sessions emphasise a democratic dialogue where new insights emerge directly from previously unclear experience rather than theory alone. Learning to connect to and express our lived experience can bring increased self-awareness as well as fresh creativity and sensitivity to relationships, family dynamics, and group situations. Sessions take account of our cognitive, behavioural, emotional, and cultural spheres of being.
Greg has recently co-edited and contributed to a major therapy text: Existential Therapy: Legacy, Vibrancy and Dialogue (Routledge, 2012). He has also written a book on voluntary migration: The End of Belonging (Creatspeace, 2009) as well as numerous academic and a few popular articles. He continues to write, questioning the conventions of psychotherapy, while applying therapeutic insights to areas outside of the consulting room.
More information about Greg's publications and work can be found at www.gregmadison.net