About Me

Alex Crowe: core process psychotherapist and counsellor in Totnes, Exeter and online

My own exploration of wellbeing and fulfilment started some thirty years ago. As it led me through varying contexts, from government to social care, to artistic practice and teaching, I gradually discovered for myself how trauma affects the body and mind, and how psychotherapy helps to heal it. Therapy hasn't taken away all life's difficulties; but it has led me to richer relationships and a fuller, more creative engagement with life.

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Over time, offering healing and creative spaces for others has become a central part of my own exploration. Core Process Psychotherapy is now my main way of doing this, and I am nearing completion of the professional training at the Karuna Institute and am registered with the UKCP and ACPP.  

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My approach to it draws on aspects of all my previous experience, including facilitating somatic awareness, movement and creative process (Skinner Releasing Technique), psychotherapeutic bodywork (Rosen Method), and teaching mindfulness. It is also informed by my ongoing study of the Diamond Approach to psychospiritual work.  

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For me, offering psychotherapy provides the challenge and continual learning of just being authentically myself, while being there for someone else in the way that they need, as fully as I can.  I find it deeply rewarding, and a great privilege to work with others in this way.