ROGER ANDREW HARRISON

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Psychotherapists and Counsellors

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

I’m a gay man myself, and I have an open, non-judgemental approach to gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity. Sessions are confidential, non-judgemental, and paced around you. I won’t push you to places you’re not ready to go, and I won’t tell you what to do. What I will do is help you understand what’s going on underneath. The feelings, the patterns, the things that keep pulling you back, so you can start to make sense of it and move forward.

I bring years of professional training and lived experience to this work. I know what recovery takes, not just in theory, but from the inside. I’m an integrative therapist, which means I draw on a range of approaches (including person-centred therapy, ACT, somatic work, and mindfulness) to find what helps each person I work with.

I offer sessions online and in person in Sale and Greater Manchester. I’m accredited by the NCPS, a member of the BACP, an accredited counsellor with STOPSO (the specialist organisation for working with sexual offending), and a member of ATSAC (the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity).

If you’re considering therapy but not quite sure yet, I offer a free 15-minute introductory call. No pressure, no commitment, just a chance to talk and see whether working together feels like the right fit.

Sexual identity:

Gender identity: Male

Gender history: As assigned at birth

Non-monogamy: Yes

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: No

Personal pronouns: He/Him

Qualifications - Links to websites:

Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling (2010) University of East London, UK.

Additional specialist training in work with addictions, compulsive use disorders, trauma, and mental health

British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and NCPS.

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award
Recovery Coaching	Recovery Coach Academy (UK/CCAR)	2023
Society for the Study of Addiction	https://www.addiction-ssa.org/	2015

Experience and approach:

My approach to therapy is unique to each person, and continually evolves, in part as our scientific understanding expands. It is best considered an integrative and person-centred method, which appropriately brings in the transpersonal, unconscious and conscious connections to help people become unstuck, released from pain/trauma/ self-limiting beliefs, and positively be more of who they truly are. I also utilise somatic/body relationships, always incorporating a whole body-mind-spirit connection, or in basic terms an eastern-western perspective. How these approaches manifest themselves with an individual will be totally dependent upon what it is they are seeking, what best meets their needs and is what they are most comfortable with. I have had the privilege of guiding and supporting people for a wide-range of reasons. I have expertise in relation to alcohol/drugs (substances) or sex/chemsex/pornography/gambling (behaviours), reflecting my own recovery and now 25 years of what I define as sobriety. I use either a counselling and psychotherapeutic approach, or recovery coaching. I have contributed to the progressive development of support for Gender, Sex, Relationship Diversity (GSRD/LGBTQI+) in Greater Manchester and nationally, establishing support groups (e.g. Gay Men in Recovery), national workshops and new peer mentoring roles (LGBT Foundation UK) with regards to problem use of alcohol, drugs (street and prescribed), sex/pornography/chemsex and gambling. I only skilfully bring my own lived experience when it is of service to the other.

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