Jim Robinson Personal Background Biography & Gestalt Training History

I was born in Bromley in 1953 and have lived in the Sevenoaks area most of my life. I’m married with two older children. I started my working life as a craftsman, which over time developed into running businesses. After some eighteen years in my last business I closed it in 2006. This was after some seven years of combining running the business with my training, at this point my interest was in my new life as a counsellor and psychotherapist.

I have been interested in understanding life since being a troubled teenager and I’ve looked at many approaches over the years. Raising a family kept me working hard in the business which I enjoyed developing. In 1986, after some particularly difficult personal and family times, I started my own psychotherapy journey, which I soon found facinating. It was a wonderful relief to at last understand what had been driving me to be the way I was.

Over the years it became clear to me that this was an area of life I wanted to work in. My interest, excitement and sense of meaning were here, so in 1999 I embarked on the daunting journey of becoming a counsellor and psychotherapist.

I hope soon to complete my UKCP accredited psychotherapy training in the form of an MA in Gestalt Psychotherapy with UKCP registration.
I am a BACP Accredited counsellor and psychotherapist.