Sheldon Reed
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About me
You and I are the same; and as an empath, I can feel what you feel. The only things which really separate us are the roles that we play, and the experiences we are here to live. My role is that of a guide, who has walked the path, suffered the pain, died the deaths, and somehow emerged with a knowingness of ‘all that is’ bestowed upon me.
This knowingness has led me to become a Transpersonal Psychologist and Psychosynthesis Therapist with over 30-years’ of industry experience in high-value commerce and trade; a skillset which enables me to help working people, heal, evolve, and navigate change; reconciling personal development with the practical demands of life at work and home; using the challenges of both as tools for exponential growth and spiritual realisation.
Through bornpsychology, I offer to you what worked for me – in the form of Insight Meditation Therapy (‘IMT’); a modality that combines the complementary endeavours of seeking knowledge (‘Insight’), with introspection (‘Meditation’), and healing (‘Therapy’); to cultivate true sovereignty of mind, and turn suffering into serenity – irrespective of circumstance.
Primarily, the work I do is defined by the practical manner in which it brings the seemingly esoteric into the sharp focus of the ‘real-world’; and its ability to dovetail psychological, existential, and ‘spiritual’ work, with the life circumstances around us – whatever they may be.
Overall though, my work with IMT may be regarded as a quest for supreme ultimate knowledge, which emphasises the importance of understanding such phenomena as identity, attachment, scarcity, and desire; and the relationship which exists between consciousness, thought, emotion, belief, and ‘reality’; to help humanity evolve collectively as we heal individually; and in doing so, create a world more abundantly defined by Truth and Love – rather than illusion and fear.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MBACP Qualified Psychosynthesis Counsellor
- MA in Psychosynthesis Psychology
- PgDip in Psychosynthesis Counselling
- Foundation in Psychosynthesis Psychology
- MRICS Chartered Surveyor
I have been working in Private Practice for just over three years now, both through www.bornpsychology.com ('The Psychology of Awakening, and the home of Insight Meditation Therapy'), and www.pathsofone.com ('Paths of Wisdom, & Psychology of Soul').
I possess deep direct knowledge, and clinical expertise, on psychospiritual function, conscious expansion, the fundamental nature of ‘reality’, and the primary motivation behind everything that we think, feel, and do; and I use this to guide people towards realising these things for themselves – by helping them to better understand the absolute root cause of suffering, and deal with the myriad issues which precede, are caused by, and which follow, experiences of ‘Awakening’ – both positive and negative.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
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Fees
Free initial telephone or online session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Sessions are typically held between 1 and 4 times a month (2 or 4 times mostly), either online or in person, in blocks of 50 minutes. Session fees are on a sliding scale depending on their monthly frequency as follows:
4+ sessions per month: £80 per session
2+ sessions per month: £90 per session
1+ session per month: £100 per session
For engaged clients, there is also the opportunity to join the monthly Opengroup sessions for no additional cost. These sessions are multipurposed, and are there to help us learn from each other, using one another as ‘mirrors’, whilst also providing opportunities to share, introspect and meditate.
Further information
What is Psychosynthesis?
The human psyche is the most complex and mystical of phenomena imaginable. However, it is motivated by one simple truth; and absolutely everything we think, feel, say, and do, is motivated by that truth; and that truth… is Love – irrespective of whether we realise it or not.
Furthermore, our relationship with Love defines our relationship with absolutely everything else in life; and our personalities form around how we perceive, experience, and come to believe what Love is.
Psychosynthesis is the psychology of that journey, and the struggles of the personality which result from the conditions of Love – or lack of Love – experienced along the way. It is also therefore a psychology of attachment, identity, and belief, as well as truth, soul, and perceived reality.
But we are far more than the personalities which materially define us – personalities formed largely by the fear-driven ego mind; and Psychosynthesis, which is a Transpersonal (or ‘Beyond Ego’) psychology, is a means with which the psyche as a whole can be better understood, and synthesised (or brought into harmony).
From its elevated vantagepoint, it is better able to illuminate the root cause of suffering, before which, we mostly suffer from suffering itself; and it serves as a psychological bridge between conscious realms, using ‘higher’ knowledge to heal the wounds of ‘lower’ thinking – rewarding us immeasurably as we brave the unknown, and realise ever greater truths about our fundamental relationship with Love.
Overall, Psychosynthesis may be regarded as the ‘clinical pinnacle’ of our human understanding; and as a field of study, it is very much of our time, as it brings together the worlds of psychology, spirituality, mysticism, and science; to better contextualise what the ‘journey’ is, and what we are ultimately ‘solving for’; cutting through the perceived reality of who we think we are, and what we think we want; to reveal who we truly are, and what we actually need – mentally, physically, and of course beyond.
