About Johnny
In the 1990s, Johnny worked as a counsellor with children. He saw how their issues originated within their family or community, inaccessible to the therapeutic relationship.
In 2001 he first experienced the powerful Family Constellations methodology, which had just arrived in the UK, and which showed how to bring the family/community physically into the therapeutic process, based on pre-existing gestalt practices.
He has continued to attend workshops run by, and learn from, over 20 facilitators from the UK and abroad, joined a Practice and Experimentation group in 2006, and trained as a facilitator with Barbara Morgan in 2008, when he also started to offer his own workshops, both on his own and with a co-facilitator.
During the Covid lockdown, he ran a weekly ‘Resources and Resilience’ on-line workshop in support of his existing clients.
Therapeutic Approach
Developing what he has learnt over 25 years engagement with Family Constellations, and counselling before that, Johnny has refined his particular approach to this work. He also brings in his other trainings in ‘focusing’ and working with trauma, as well as his experience of Internal Family Systems and IOPT (an offshoot of Family Constellations).
The diversity of facilitation across Family Constellations was very much encouraged by its founder Bert Hellinger. This work is now used in organisational, nature, health and other disciplines.
Johnny is open to, and has brought in to this work, other realms beyond the human everyday.
Teaching & Training
Johnny teaches working with family systems to Level 4 Counselling students at the Sweet Track Centre in Glastonbury, the only Counselling course in the UK to incorporate the Constellations approach.
Personal Journey
Much of Johnny’s therapeutic journey can (of course) be seen as a search for healing for himself and his family system, including parental trauma, African colonialism, and Victorian/religious patriarchy.
He has worked as an architect for 25 years, was a house-husband for 10 years, and has taught paragliding. He has practised Buddhism on and off for most of his life.
