MA Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy (2011), UKCP (reg), MBACP (Accred)

Allan is author of ‘Waking Dreams: Imagination in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life’ (2021, Transpersonal Press) – which presents critical developments of image-based therapeutic approaches. Originally from the countryside near Edinburgh he has long since lived in London, where he works as a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice.

Since 2011 he has taught at the Psychosynthesis Trust, on the Foundation and Counselling Diploma courses. He began teaching with Turning Points in 2022 and now enjoys delivering the psychosynthesis modules in Year1 and Year4. He continues to write, make videos and present CPD events related to his research interests in imagination, transpersonal psychotherapy and ecopsychology – his current work-in-progress is a book on psychosynthesis, provisionally titled ‘Living Between Stories: Imagination in a Time of Crisis’.

Teaching Subjects: Psychosynthesis, Imagination.