Arwen Bennett

I am a counsellor, therapist, teacher and mentor, a poet and a maker.

For as long as I can remember I have been interested in people; in being with people and in the existential positions we find ourselves in. In more than twenty-five years of working with children, adolescents and adults in schools, colleges, and in a variety of counselling services, I have come to value the ways in which being alongside others allows us to feel more able to meet the challenges that life brings us.

We live in times of great upheaval, and many of us are feeling ever more disconnected from our lives, from one another, and from the world around us. I offer a space to reconnect through the practice of attentive listening, and through the process of working things through, be that with talking, or with movement in the environment, or through writing and the process of making by hand.

I am a qualified psychotherapist and teacher, and apprentice wilderness rites of passage guide. I hold an MA in Psychotherapy & Counselling (Existential) and a PGCE. I have a personal expressive arts practice and teach practical hand craft skills. I am a registered member of BACP and a member of the Society for Existential Analysis.