Chris Jude, UKAHPP and UKCP accredited and registered.

About me

About psychotherapy

The desire to experience healing and to bring about change in our lives can lead us to psychotherapy. We may know what we want to talk about or not or find ourselves puzzled by how we behave and feel tired of struggling with it on our own. Such experiences can be painful and lonely.

Psychotherapy is the process through which we can be professionally supported to engage with our desire for change and through which we can learn to accomplish it. The impulse to bring something to an end and to create something different which brings hope and purpose to our lives is the beginning of change.

About me

My personal experience of psychotherapy and of the difference it makes to my own life led me to train as a psychotherapist. Initially a teacher in adult and further education, I progressed over time to senior leadership roles in education, including the NHS. 

Working with people of diverse backgrounds and life experiences, I remain deeply inspired and moved by how people learn and develop, often in spite of hard life experiences and disadvantages.

IMy approach


I am a humanistic psychotherapist and counsellor. This means I work with the individual's desire for change and their wish to live their life in a more fulfilling and satisfying way. I regard each person as unique and as having the capacity to learn and grow. 

I approach the therapy relationship as a partnership and draw on a wide range of therapeutic models and techniques to support people to explore their experience and deepen their understanding of themselves A key aspect of the way I work is to enable each person to develop new options and solutions for themselves, to integrate what they learn and give it practical expression in their everyday lives..

I bring warmth, intelligence and integrity to my therapeutic role and practice and, in addition to my  professional training and personal therapy, I draw deeply on my life, family and work experiences as on-going sources of self-knowing and growth.

For my personal experiencess of psychotherapy, i am indebted to the NHS and to Spectrum, the internationally recognised centre for humanistic psychology in North London (spectrum-therapy.co.uk).