Being an Older Psychotherapist

Trained first as a psychodynamic counsellor, and later, at Metanoia, as an integrative psychotherapist. He is registered with the UKCP. He was for many years a student counsellor, and now has a small psychotherapy practice. He also works as a supervisor. He started adult life as a teacher in comprehensive and then in special schools and later carried out research which led to two books: Invisible Children (Oxford University Press, 1989) and Second Chances (Oxford University Press, 1991). Pye participated in a UKCP research project into “moments of meeting” and facilitated a group of therapists to explore this subject. He is also the author of a chapter on the same subject in The Change Process in Psychotherapy During Troubling Times (Routledge, 2022).