Find A Psychotherapist - Mr Huw Richards

Huw Richards RMN, DPSN, LP, BSc (Hons), MSc Couns/Psychotherapy, Fd Dth, Dip Psychodrama, MBACP, UKCP. Registered Psychodrama Psychotherapist with the British Psychodrama Association and Psychodrama Psychotherapy Practitioner registrant with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Number 05157795.

Senior academic, clinical practitioner, researcher and supervisor within the public and private sector. Practitioner in private practice, offering counselling and psychotherapeutic intervention to individuals and groups. Details can be obtained through the dedicated Focus Health Counselling and Psychotherapy Services website or by contacting Huw Richards on email huwjohnrichards@mac.com or Mobile 07939 061 822.

Senior Lecturer, supervisor, tutor. link tutor, pathway leader on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules and courses, which include, Certificate and Intermediate Certificate in Substance Misuse, Intermediate and Advanced Certificate in Dramatherapy, MSc in Advanced Health and Social Care, Dip HE/BSc (Hons) Nursing.

Project funding

2002 An exploration and evaluation of the use of Forum Theatre as a participant centred/driven learning strategy within a Dip HE Foundation Studies programme. University of Worcester.

2006 Utilising digital multi media in Web CT to support PBL in a Masters level programme. University of Worcester.

2007 Enhancing dialogue in interdisciplinary collaboration: A shared e-learning approach to Masters level Research Methods University of Worcester.

2009 Research towards the development of a Post-Graduate Certificate in Creative Therapies. Lifelong Learning Network. University of Worcester.

2012 Lead practitioner with Focus Health Counselling and Psychotherapy Services Worcester.

Research activity

Class barriers to psychotherapeutic provision. Exploration of the personal constructs of therapists in relation to interpretations of class and potential influence on therapeutic provision.

The reflective practitioner. Identification of the skills of reflection and implication for Mental Health practitioners.

Exploring the awareness of Equal Opportunities within acute Psychiatric provision.
An exploration of the utilisation of Forum Theatre as a research methodology to investigate the lived experience of psychotherapeutic services.

'BPA registered Supervisor'

Richards, H, (1994) ‘Vacuous Models’ Nursing Standard Vol 8, No 17, p. 44

Richards, H and Symonds, E. (2009) ‘Telling it as it is’ OpenMind January/February, 155, p 9

Richards, H. (2009) A Class Act. Barriers to Psychotherapy and considerations for Psychodrama. Journal of Psychodrama and Sociodrama. (accepted for publication October 2009)