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valerie.thomas@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• Postgraduate Certificate in Education
• Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling
• MA in Counselling & Psychotherapy
• DPsych
• Senior Accredited Member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Courses

• MA in Counselling Studies
• MSc in Counselling
• Therapeutic Imagery in Counselling
• Transpersonal Imagery in Psychotherapy

Outline of career

I design and deliver professional counselling training programmes both in the NHS and Higher Education that draw on many years' experience of working both as a counsellor in a wide range of voluntary and statutory agencies and also as a psychotherapist in private practice.

Research Interest

Val's research interests focus on the use of mental imagery in counselling and psychotherapy

Selected Publications

Thomas, V. (in press) The therapeutic functions of mental imagery in psychotherapy: Constructing a theoretical model. In: S. Goss & C. Stevens (Eds.) Making Research Matter. London: Routledge

Thomas, V. (2010) Interior Spectating: Viewing Representations of the Self in Therapy In Oddey, A. & Wright, C. (Eds.) Modes of Spectating Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Thomas, V. (2009) Using Visualisation Techniques with Cancer Patients (Abstract only) for Online Cancer Education Forum, European Journal of Cancer Care 18(2)

Thomas, V. (2007) Using Imagery with Substance Misusers. In Self & Society 34(5)

Thomas, V. (2006) Therapeutic Imagery with Substance Misusers: A Practitioner's Guide. Pub. on www.lulu.com

Thomas V. (2002) 'Best Foot Forward: Accredited Training for Complementary Healthcare with Drug Users' Drugscope 18(1)