Welcome

You will find information about supervision, training, publications below. Please contact me by email: therapy@hereandnowely.co.uk

I am no longer seeing people for psychotherapy. I will continue to work on some Tuesdays and Thursdays,10.00-4.00. My supervision places are currently full. Please contact me for enquiries about consultation or training.

Forthcoming workshops

  • The seventh Relational Change programme ‘Contemporary Trauma Practice’ begins in September 2024. This will be partly in person in Oxford and partly online. Places are filling fast. Contact Martin Capps martin@relationalchange.org for further details or to join the waiting list.
  • The Spaces Between Us ; a trauma Masterclass with me and ED Fellows, guest trainer on the diploma programme, on 12 th and 13 th April 2024, in Oxford. Contact Martin Capps, as above.
  • The Well Grounded Therapist with me and Vienna Duff, returns on 11 th – 13th October, this time to Lindisfarne. Contact me miriamt@relationalchange.org for details and booking.

NEW! The second edition of Trauma Therapy and Clinical Practice

Neuroscience, Gestalt and the Body, expected early autumn 2024. My second book ‘Deepening Trauma Practice: A Gestalt Approach to Ecology and Ethics’ was published in summer 2021. ‘A superb book, with original and ground-breaking thinking’ (Private communication).

About me

I am a Gestalt psychotherapist (non-clinical)registered with UKCP. I was in private practice from 1995 to 2022, specialising in trauma. I worked for an independent trauma service for over six years, and previously as clinical lead of a young peoples' service.

Many people have concerns about who they are in the world, where they fit and how they are received. These questions become more urgent when we face difficult circumstances. Nothing is more pressing now than the escalating situation of climate, which has been described as a trauma we can anticipate. Associated social justice issues sit alongside this. A new approach is demanded by these interlocking concerns – a paradigm shift in thinking and being in the world. My work with individuals is coming to an end, and ongoing work will refocus on these collective traumas, anxieties and discomforts and how we can support our capacity to be present to them.

I resource myself through my strong connection to nature, which took me to a Wilderness Experience in the US in 2014, and supports my capacity to listen deeply. I have a regular personal meditation practice, I do tai-chi, walk, read widely, draw, and play the cello.

Supervision and Consultation

I am a supervisor of qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, individually and in groups. I also offer specialist consultation for practitioners working with trauma.

Training and Talks

I have been teaching adults for over thirty years , firstly in personal development, and later in counselling and psychotherapy. I have been a Primary Tutor, Academic Consultant and examiner at Metanoia Institute, and present workshops in the private, voluntary and statutory sectors, as well as for psychotherapy conferences in the UK and internationally. I teach in English, and am used to working with a translator. I offer a range of workshops, and enjoy being able to pass on some of my specialist interests in trauma, the body, neuroscience and relational connection.

Examples of my workshops include:

I have presented at national and international conferences, including as an invited keynote speaker at the PACFA conference in Sydney in 2019 and did a plenary presentation at the AAGT conference in Toronto in 2018. I present workshops and seminars regularly for nscience in London, Dublin and online.

Workshop testimonials

Television and interviews

Relational Change

I am a member of the Leadership Team for Relational Change (www.relationalchange.org). We seek to promote growth by working to improve relationships with individuals, groups and communities.

Publications

I am author of several works on trauma:

'On Safe Ground: Using Sensorimotor Methods in Trauma Work', 2013, British Gestalt Journal, 22:2 (5-13)

Chapter: Undoing the Splits: A Relational Field Perspective on Trauma in 'The Aesthetic of Otherness: Meeting at the boundary in a desensitsed world' 2018, Bloom, D.; Djoric, D.;.Roubal, J.; Cannavo, M.; La FRosa, R.; Tosi, S.; Pinna, V.; (eds).

Co-Authored article with Vienna Duff: 2018, Reorganising the Traumatised Relational Field: The Well Grounded Therapist; British Gestalt Journal, Vol. 28, No2

In the Face of Trauma: Ethics, Relationship and the Possibility of Presence, 2019, Gestalt Review, Vol. 23, No.3, 261-276

Collective Trauma and the Relational Field, 2020, The Humanistic Psychologist, 8(4): 382–388, American Psychological Association

My article about research 'On Being Essentially Nosey' was published in French translation in La lettre de recherche en Gestalt-therapy by the Commission Mixte Recherche in April 2015.

Article 'Reconnecting after Trauma: From the personal to the political' translated into Norwegian for : Gestalt, the magazine of the Norsk Gestalttherapeut Forening Vol 1:1 2017

Article: 'Developing a Trauma Mindset' translated into French in Journal de Psychologues, No 359, July 2018

Chapter: Undoing the Splits: A Relational Field Perspective on Trauma in 'The Aesthetic of Otherness: Meeting at the boundary in a desensitsed world' 2018, Bloom, D.; Djoric, D.;.Roubal, J.; Cannavo, M.; La FRosa, R.; Tosi, S.; Pinna, V.; (eds).

Co-Authored article with Vienna Duff: Reorganising the Traumatised Relational Field: The Well Grounded Therapist; British Gestalt Journal, 22:1, 2018

The Ecological Self: Narratives for Changing Times, British Gestalt Journal, Vol 32.1, 39-48, 2023

Trauma Therapy and Clinical Practice: Neuroscience, Gestalt and the Body

My first book: ‘Trauma Therapy and Clinical Practice: Neuroscience, Gestalt and the Body’, Open University Press. (www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335263097.html) was published in March 2014.

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Review of my book:

'Miriam Taylor's [book] is a major contribution to Gestalt therapy's growing catalogue of clinical literature...A clinically sound, theoretically grounded, and highly practical guide to working with victims of trauma ..[the]presentation of the Window of Tolerance and the Integrative Model of Change are clinical gems' Peter Cole, Gestalt Review, Vol 20, No 1, 2016

Both French and Italian translations of my book are now available.

Qualifications

I have an MSc in Gestalt Psychotherapy from Middlesex University, and a Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy from Metanoia Institute. I also have an Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling, my original qualification being in Education.

Updated February 2024.