Adam James Draper

Name: Adam James Draper
Address: Europa, Winkleigh, Devon, EX19 8NS, United Kingdom
Telephone: 07946204323

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Online Therapy

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

I listen and help people to understand, manage and change their problems.
I work mainly with depression, anxiety, anger, shame, stress and trauma.
I am a queer, non-binary, able-bodied, Pagan/Zen Buddhist, racialised as white. I am from a working class background and have lived experience of educational marginalisation, trauma/PTSD, dyscalculia and other related issues.
I have extensive experience of working with neurodiversity and the intersections of gender, race, disability and class.
I am also playful, friendly, serious, grounded, vulnerable, collaborative, empathetic, humorous, intelligent and approachable. I am not a “blank-screen”, silent therapist; I do therapy with you not to you and we work together in partnership.
I will do my best to welcome you into the work by offering a warm, supportive, honest, thoughtful experience of therapy. I look forward to co-creating and holding space with you (including the awkward bits!)

Sexual identity:

Gay
Kink - BDSM
Other
Queer

Gender identity: Non-binary

Gender history: Not as assigned at birth

Non-monogamy: Yes

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: Unsure

Personal pronouns: they/them

Qualifications - Links to websites:

Post Graduate Diploma - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - Exeter University, 2018 British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Registration/Accreditation - Adam Draper: 130767

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award
EMDR Level 1,2,3	EMDR Masterclass	2022
Certificated Teacher Training in Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBSR/MBCT) - MBI-TAC assessed	Exeter University	2017
Working with Long Term Health Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms - specialist post-graduate CBT training	Exeter University	2020
MA/DipSW - Social Work	Goldsmiths	1998

Experience and approach:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is quite a structured, problem focused, action-oriented approach. It is also goal focused and requires you to do work between sessions. CBT focuses on thoughts and behaviours whereas other approaches may focus on emotions or the body first.

I have a burgeoning interest in Somatic approaches to therapy and CBT is starting to consider body and emotions more and more in its approach. I also believe that the therapeutic alliance and creating a felt sense of safety are the main change agents in therapy and everything else flows from this.

My practice is existentially attuned, constructivist and postmodern. I draw from the interpersonal-process and emotional schema traditions of CBT. This emphasises the centrality of the therapeutic relationship, emotional immediacy and paying attention to what’s going on in the (virtual or actual) room as we interact with each other, along with the many useful tools and techniques that come from the Cognitive-Behavioural approach.

I use “third wave” approaches too, which focus on exploring meaning, uncertainty and developing psychological flexibility towards emotions, thoughts and behaviours. I also offer EMDR which is an integrative therapy that works directly with trauma memory and emotion.

Currently my interests are in working with anger, stress, shame, trauma, depression, and anxiety in all its forms. My CBT approach is evidence-based, trauma-informed and attachment aware, influenced by Buddhist psychology, Mindfulness, Somatic Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy. Alongside this I utilise ideas and practices connected with Emergent Strategy, existential-phenomenology, neuropsychology, post-structuralist theory, and the Power-Threat-Meaning framework.

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