Claudia Businaro, MA MBACP UKCP registered

Training, qualifications & experience

I am a UKCP and BACP registered psychotherapist. I hold a Masters in Psychotherapy and I trained in Cognitive Analytic Therapy at the Munro Centre in London, NHS, where I worked for several years as a honorary therapist. I completed a supervision training and studied group facilitation at the Gestalt Centre in London.

I am currently the clinical supervisor in a residential addiction rehabilitation centre in Wiltshire, where I also work as group therapist. I am a study tutor in a counselling and psychotherapy training centre in London and I taught Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Group Facilitation in a counselling diploma course accredited by Bath University. My private practice is in London and in Wiltshire.
My first passion, however, was philosophy, which I studied at the University of Rome many years ago. As the Western approach did not completely satisfy me, I started studying Yoga and Sanskrit and eventually completed a Masters in Indian philosophy in London.
I am interested in the area of shame and shame-based dynamics such as compulsive behaviours.

I have given a workshop for parents in recovery in London, Tower Hamlet, which was mostly focused on shame, its neurophysiology and the strategies which can help to overcome its paralysing effects.
In my work I often make use of guided imageries and dreams as tools to access the less conscious aspects of the psyche, but I am also interested in CBT and CAT as ways to understand and modify unhelpful behaviours.
I trained in group facilitation and in clinical supervision.

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Individual and group supervision.

Further information

I offer low-cost supervision sessions to counsellors and psychotherapists.