QuotemarsbarI find it extremely disconcerting that someone who holds a medical qualification can be prescribing to people who aren't their registered patients I hadn't noticed this before. Can you give any more info please, its v important. PM if you need to.
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LM - thanks for the warning and the info, much appreciated. Good luck if you do make contact, let us know how it goes. BPMom. I suspect the offshoots exist because simply undertaking the courses also leads to accrediation as some kind of teacher, and this process of 'franchising' directs people to create their own similar businesses afterwards. Its akin to pyramid selling: thos
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Again, this man claims to practice psychotherapy but is actually a fraud. He cant call himself a psychotherapist in the near future.
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I'd be wary of referring to this as 'psychotherapy' (particularly the Gale stuff). Its certainly not the type of psychotherapy one would use within the NHS.
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He won't be able to practice as a Psychotherapist in the near future. The term will be nationally registered, and Gale would find it impossible to gain registration. This is exactly why (as a psychotherapist myself) I'm pro-registration. To be honest though, he can probably call himself whatever he wants, as he'll still be able to find a handful of confused people who are ab
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LM, Sorry about your friend. That "in the moment" stuff tallies with my experience as well. Though it is fair to say they're not entangled with the cult yet, and live perfectly normal lives. Its just reading this stuff, I'd hate it to develop into something more complex. Making that commitment (name change, 6 months away, etc) kinda forces one to search even harder f
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Byzantium2 I'm very sorry to hear about your brother in law. Thank you for the information. Is there any chance you can expand on the "very strange circumstances linked to his being an Ishaya monk" you could mention more about? Similarly, any info on the "manipulating and controlling" things you alluded to? If you want to contact me via PM feel free. They so
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Hello I'm interested to know more for very similar reasons, so if you do find anything please do post it up here - it'd be helpful. In the meantime, here's a couple of threads with some info on... This starts off similar to this thread and then quickly decends into a mumbo-jumbo slagging match between a follower of the practices and those who are questioning them. The rep
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