Adam Draper (Online Only)
About the Therapist
Adam Draper, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist - Rhizome Practice, Online Evidence-Based, Psychological Therapies.
The therapies I use are:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - CBT,
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing - EMDR,
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy - ACT,
- Compassion Focused Therapy - CFT,
- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy - MBCT,
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction -MBSR.
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 was brought up in London, and now live rurally in the South West of England. I bring a critical edge to my clinical work; especially the way that CBT is embedded in a number of problematic political and social systems/discourses. My aim is to help you lead a more meaningful and fulfilling life rather than adapt to toxic systems. By co-locating mental health issues in a socio-political and interpersonal context, I see therapy as an emergent strategy that creates powerful systemic changes through relatively small actions. That system could be your relationship to yourself, the body, gender(s) and spirit, your history, your thoughts, feelings and behaviours, your partner(s), chosen/family, ancestors or the wider world and Universe.
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!)
- Gay
- Kink - BDSM
- Other
- Queer
Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - Exeter University 2018 Post Graduate Certificate Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - Exeter University 2013 British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP) Accredited - No: 130767
Award | Awarding body | Year of award |
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Certificated Teacher Training in Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBSR/MBCT) - MBI-TAC assessed | Exeter University | 2016 |
Working with Long Term Health Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms - specialist post-graduate CBT training |
Exeter University | 2020 |
EMDR Training - Levels 1,2,3 | EMDR Masterclass | 2022 |
Compassion Focused Therapy - Foundation and Advanced Clinical Levels | Compassionate Mind Foundation | 2019 |
I have been a therapist for a decade. I also have experience of participation in anti-capitalist political activism, as well as previous involvement in music and performance art. I've worked as a therapist with a number of queer, trans and non-binary artists, writers and musicians in private practice, as well as a diverse range of people in my NHS practice. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is 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 therapy practice is existentially attuned, constructivist and postmodern. I am interested in what has happened to you, not what is wrong with you.
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.
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 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, and the processes of thinking and feeling in order to develop psychological flexibility towards emotions, thoughts and behaviours.
Alongside this I utilise ideas and practices connected with Emergent Strategy, existential-phenomenology, neuropsychology, post-structuralist theory, and the Power-Threat-Meaning framework.
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.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Therapy
- Compassion-focused therapy
- EMDR
- Existential
- Feminist therapy
- Integrative
- Neurodivergent
- Transpersonal
- BDSM | Kink
- Consensual non-monogamy
- Gay
- Neurodivergent
- Non-binary | Genderqueer
- Queer
- Trans
- One to one
- No adaptation
- Adults
- Seniors (60+)
- Online
£50.00 for 50 -60. minute session
£70.00 for EMDR session (90 minutes)
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