About Jon Blend

I am a UKCP-registered adult, child and adolescent psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, a Senior Approved Practitioner and Approved Psychotherapy Trainer with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS).

I offer a LGBTQIA+ inclusive clinical practice.

I hold:

• a Masters Degree in Group and Individual Gestalt Psychotherapy
• the European Certificate of Psychotherapy
• a Diploma in Counselling

I have 45 years’ experience of working with emotionally distressed people including 15 years’ clinical experience of working with children and adolescents in an NHS Family Consultation Service and 15 years of hospital and community-based mental health care.

I work in private practice in West London, offering psychotherapy to adults, children and adolescents. I also see families and offer parenting support.

As a trainer I work face-to-face and online and I offer clinical supervision in the UK and internationally.

I am a faculty member with the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE) (Wellbeing Diploma). I hold a Certificate in Community Music Workshop Skills and am a qualified Lifemusic practitioner, incorporating spontaneous music and voicework into a broad range of therapeutic work and arts-based training.

I am also resident musician performing with London Playback Theatre Company.

Professional registration and affiliation

UKCP

The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is the UK’s leading professional body for the education, training and accreditation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors.

I subscribe to the UKCP code of ethics.

For safeguarding, I carry enhanced DBS, renewed annually.

UKAGP

The United Kingdom Association for Gestalt Practitioners (UKAGP) is the umbrella association for Gestalt therapists in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. UKAGP represents interests of British therapists in the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT).

IAAGT

The International Association for Advancement in Gestalt Therapy (IAAGT) is a community of Gestalt therapists working together to develop Gestalt research, theory and practice. I have been an active member of this organisation since 1999.

NYIGT

The New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy is the original Gestalt therapy institute, established by Fritz And Laura Perls In 1952.

Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation

I am an Approved Trainer with the Violet Soloman Oaklander Foundation and an advisor to the VSOF Board. For details of my courses in the UK and abroad, see my events page and the VSOF website.