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Jim Byrne Doctorate in Counselling
Jim Byrne Quick Facts
Main Areas: Apart from emotional problems of anxiety and depression, I also help with anger management, stress management, confidence coaching, and couples therapyBest Sellers: I have written several books, some co-authored with Renata Taylor-Byrne
Career Focus: Coach, Counsellor, Therapist, Author, Trainer, Authorship Coach, Counselling Supervisor
Affiliation: I am Executive Director of the Institute for Emotive-Cognitive Embodied Narrative Therapy (E-CENT) ; and Co-owner and Principal practitioner at ABC Coaching and Counselling Services
For more than nineteen years, I have been working as a coach, counsellor, psychotherapist, in private practice, in West Yorkshire, UK, and all over the world over the telephone and computer networks. I help individuals and couples with emotional, behavioural and relationship problems. I have lots of experience of helping with problems of anger, anxiety, depression, stress, communication problems, relationship problems, including couple therapy, and self confidence coaching.
I have a Doctorate in Counselling from the University of Manchester, UK; a Diploma (With Distinction) in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy, from Rusland College, Bath; a Certificate in Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioural Theory and Techniques from the Albert Ellis Institute, New York. I am a Fellow of the International Society of Professional Counsellors.
I have written a range of books on self-development and counselling-related themes, here: https://abc-counselling.org/books-about-e-cent-counselling-and-related-subjects/
And I have produced a range of papers on personal development and counselling-related topics, here: https://ecent-institute.org/e-cent-articles-and-papers/
More information about my background can be found here: https://abc-counselling.org
Other Programs & Highlights
I offer two CPD training programs at the momwne, as follows:
CPD Certificate in Holistic Counselling and Lifestyle Coaching.***
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Jim Byrne
E-CENT Counselling focuses on the whole person – body-brain-mind-environment. We care about your diet, exercise program, relaxation, life balance, and various other factors. For example, we do not overlook your philosophy of life: “Anybody can read philosophy uncritically, and believe what they read. But we must develop the ability to critically evaluate what we read. For example, when Epictetus writes (in the Enchiridion) that people are not upset by their experiences of life, but rather by their evaluations of those experiences, it is important to know the contrary view from Epicurus, which teaches us that ’the cry of the flesh’ to be free from hunger, cold and thirst, is far louder than our weak, little mental evaluations of hunger, cold and thirst!”
Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling, Creator of Emotive-Cognitive Embodied Narrative Therapy (E-CENT) – January 2017
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We teach our counselling and coaching clients the following lesson: If you did not have a body, you would have nowhere to experience sensations, feelings, and hence, emotions. “Grumpiness, happiness, insecurity, wellbeing, and worry do not originate in isolation in the mind. We are human beings, with arms and legs, genitals, a heart, lungs, and a gut. Science’s concentration on the brain has long blinded us to the fact that our ‘self’ is made up of more than just our grey matter. Recent gut research has contributed significantly to a new, cautious questioning of the philosophical proposition (from Descartes – JWB), ‘I think, therefore I am’.” Giulia Enders, page 131.
Our brain creates an internal map (or movie) of every aspect of our felt, physical existence, (and our feelings about those sensations), which is managed from an area of the brain called the insula. “It may be time to expand René Descartes’ proposition along these lines: ‘I feel, then I think, therefore I am’.” Giulia Enders, page 133.
Giulia Enders (2014) Gut: The inside story of our body’s most under-rated organ. London, Scribe.
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Dr Jim’s comment: “Perhaps I am just this physical organism, with all of its cumulative, interpretive experiences, including internalized representations of good and bad aspects of significant others (e.g. mother, father, etc.) and all of my good and bad adaptations towards them, and all of my good and bad reactions and rebellions against them, which gave rise to my Internal Working Models of how they related to me, and how I related to them – including my attachment style(s) and my personality adaptation(s). All of which is stored in long-term memory, in the form of electro-chemical representations of schemas, scripts, stories, frames and other narrativized and non-narrativized elements; below the level of conscious awareness; and permanently beyond direct conscious inspection”. But also my history of eating, drinking, exercising, relaxing, and so on.
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Getting Started With Jim Byrne
Hello,
My name is Jim Byrne.
I have a doctoral degree in counselling (DCoun) from the University of Manchester, UK (2002-2009). A master’s degree in education (MA(Ed)) from the Open University, UK (1991-1994). And a diploma in counselling psychology and psychotherapy (DipCPPsych-Rus) from Rusland College, Bath, UK (2001-2003).
I also have two certificates in Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RE&CBT), from the Albert Ellis Institute, NYC, with the University of Birmingham (November 2005); and the old Institute for REBT, in Bristol, UK (November 1999).
I practice a system of counselling which integrates the best and most useful elements of the fifteen or so systems I have studied, including CBT, Attachment theory, Affect regulation theory, Object relations theory, Person-centred counselling, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt therapy, and many others. (My system is called Emotive-Cognitive Embodied Narrative Therapy, or E-CENT counselling for short. What is E-CENT counselling?***) E-CENT counselling also incorporates insights into the body-brain-mind link. So we deal with the whole client, and not just with their ‘mind’. For more, please go here: https://abc-counselling.org/about-dr-jim-byrne/
Contacting Jim Byrne
Telephone: 44 1422 847 882 (from outside the UK)
Telephone: 01422 847 882 (from inside the UK)
