Dr Manu Bazzano

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Email: manubazzano3@gmail.com     

Telephone: ​07817 382910


Psychotherapy and Counselling with Manu                 

My work is an extension of my way of being in the world. More a vocation than a job: an aspiration to be a host, to allow space and time for exploration and healing; a deep trust in the autonomy, uniqueness, and inner resources of each individual. 
I am a wayward pilgrim, and draw inspiration from the Zen tradition and from ancient Greek thought as well as contemporary philosophy – e.g. affect theory, post-structuralism and critical theory. My root training was humanistic/existential; my research interests included  meditation and therapy (outside the simplistic constraints of ‘mindfulness’) and more recently identity and emancipation, with an emphasis on transformation rather than genteel positive change. I have since branched out to learn from other orientations and developments that I perceive as alert to the nuances and challenges of a fast-changing world: other-centered psychoanalysis, the work of Jean Laplanche, Judith Butler. I was born in Italy and lived Germany, the US and India before settling in London. I am an Anglo-Italian bilingual. A citizen of the world, or as some politician has said, a citizen of ‘nowhere’ of ‘now-here’ and of a transient space of transformative healing.
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Areas of interest and expertise include:
  • Addictions
  • Anxiety
  • Bereavement
  • Depression
  • Couples Counselling
  • Eating Disorders
  • Life Transitions
  • Low Self-Esteem
  • Relationship Issues
  • Sexuality
  • Stress
  • Work Related Issues

​Qualifications and training
  • PhD by Published Works in Psychology, University of Roehampton
  • BA in Philosophy University of Cosenza (Italy)
  • Diploma in Counselling, Metanoia Institute
  • MSc in Psychotherapy and applications, Metanoia Institute
  • After studying and practicing eastern meditation for several decades, in 2004 I was ordained as a Zen Buddhist Monk in the Soto and Rinzai Traditions.
  • I have been a meditation and group facilitator since 1990.
 
Affiliations and Memberships

UKCP, Independent Practitioners Network, Society of Existential Analysis, WAPCEP, PSCR, PCU
 
Books Published (selection)
Re-visioning Existential Therapy: Counter-traditional Perspectives, Routledge 2020
Nietzsche and Psychotherapy, Routledge 2019
Re-Visioning Person-centred Therapy: the Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm, Routledge 2018
Zen and Therapy: Heretical Perspectives, Routledge 2017
Therapy and the Counter-tradition: the Edge of Philosophy, Routledge, 2016.
After Mindfulness: New Perspective on Psychology and Meditation, Palgrave McMillan, 2014.
Buddha is dead: Nietzsche and the Dawn of European Zen, Sussex 2006
Spectre of the Stranger: towards a Phenomenology of Hospitality, Sussex 2012.
 
I am a regular contributor to journals and magazines including Existential Analysis, Therapy Today, PCEP, Hermeneutic Circular, European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Self and Society. For a selection of articles and papers, please visit: http://www.manubazzano.com/articles.php
 
Rates: from £50 to £100 according to income

Contact:
Website: www.manubazzano.com
Email: manubazzano3@gmail.com            
Telephone: ​07817 382910