Dr Judy Moore
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Director |
Judith dot Moore at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: 3442/3011 |
EDU/SYS 1.38 |
Biography
Dr Judy Moore is Director of the University Counselling Service as well as Director of the Centre for Counselling Studies in the School of Education.
Dr Moore trained as a counsellor in the mid-1980s and has worked at the UEA Counselling Service since 1985, becoming Director in 1998. During the 1990s she taught on the UEA Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling and in more recent years on the Diploma in Focusing and Experiential Psychotherapy (currently replaced by the Certificate in Focusing). At present she supervises PhD students in counselling and inputs on the research methods module of the MA in Counselling and the Certificate in Focusing.
She is a BACP Senior Accredited Practitioner and a Certifying Coordinator of the Focusing Institute, New York.
Dr Moore was Chair of the Organising Committee for PCE2008, the 8th World Conference of the World Association for Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling which took place at UEA from July 6-10 2008. She was also a co-organiser of a conference on the Philosophy of Therapy, which will took place at UEA from July 8-11 2011.
I have trained and worked in the person-centred approach for twenty-five years and am deeply committed to its development at UEA. As a practitioner, I know at first hand that person-centred and experiential psychotherapies work and, as an academic and a teacher, I am always striving to deepen my understanding of therapeutic processes. In recent years focusing training- and particularly training in wholebody focusing- has enabled me to develop my appreciation of mindfulness and presence in the therapeutic relationship. At UEA, with the close relationship that exists between the University Counselling Service and the Centre for Counselling Studies, we have an ideal opportunity to develop practice-based research to further understanding of how and why counselling works for some clients and not for others and to feed this understanding back into our teaching programmes as well as into our work with clients.
Key Research Interests
Research
2009-12: Ongoing research at the University Counselling Service based on CORE (Clinical Outcome Routine Evaluation), other qualitative and quantitative measures and the recording of client sessions. The current phase of this research is being funded by a UEA Teaching Fellowship, held with Kathleen Lane. Findings have so far been disseminated internally through the Counselling Service Student Annual Report and externally at the BACP Research Conference (Edinburgh, May 2012) and at the Conference for the World Association of Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling (Antwerp, July 2012).
Judy Moore’s own research project aims to examine issues around client motivation and ‘readiness’ for counselling and the resonance of client / counsellor experiential response.
Doctoral students
Dr. Judy Moore currently supervises a number of doctoral students, whose topics include: the impact of Person-Centred Counselling in Syria; a qualitative exploration of a sense of the sense of ‘belonging’; Person-Centred Expressive Therapy in Japan; an investigation through their own narrative of the experience of trainees as they progress through counsellor training; self and ‘no-self’ in the counselling relationship.
Publications
'Non-Directive Counselling in Islamic Culture in the Middle East explored through the Work of one Muslim Person-Centred Counselor in the State of Qatar' (with Aisha Al-Thani), in Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies (forthcoming)
‘Mindfulness and the Person-Centred Approach’ (with Alison Shoemark) in Leonardi, J. (ed.) (2010) The Human Being Fully Alive. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books
Counselling and Psychotherapy in Organisational Settings (2010) co-edited with Ruth Roberts. Exeter: Learning Matters
'Introduction' (with Ruth Roberts) in Moore, J. and Roberts, R. (eds.) (2010) Counselling and Psychotherapy in Organisational Settings. Exeter: Learning Matters
'Counselling in Higher Education' (with Ruth Roberts) in Moore, J. and Roberts, R. (eds.) (2010) Counselling and Psychotherapy in Organisational Settings. Exeter: Learning Matters
'Working with Trainees on Placement’, AUCC Journal (September 2009), pp. 22-24
‘Spirituality and Counselling: Experiential and Theoretical Perspectives’ (2006) co-edited with Campbell Purton. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books
‘Letting Go of Who I think I am: Listening to the Unconditioned Self’ in Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy, vol. 3 no. 2 (summer 2004), pp. 117-128
‘Dialogue between Mary Hendricks Gendlin and Marge Witty’ (presented at the BAPCA Conference 21 September 2002) edited for Person-Centred Practice vol. 11, No. 2 (Autumn 2003), pp. 61-69
‘Listening Within: Counselling Women in Awareness of the Body’ in Boswell, G. and Poland, F. (eds.) (2003) Women’s Minds/ Women’s Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. London: PalgraveMacmillan, pp. 89-100.
‘Should Trainees have Personal Therapy?’ in the Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal (2002) vol. 13, No. 8, pp.28-30
‘Acceptance of the Truth of the Present Moment as a Trustworthy Foundation for Unconditional Positive Regard’ in Bozarth, J.D. and Wilkins, P. (eds.) (2001) UPR: Unconditional Positive Regard (vol. 3 of Rogers’ Therapeutic Conditions: Evolution, Theory and Practice, series editor Jill Wyatt). Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books, pp. 198-209
‘Trans-cultural influence on a significant move in self-acceptance in Marques-Teixera’, J. and Antunes, S. (eds.) (2000) Client-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy. Linda a Velha, Portugal: Vale and Vale, pp.279-290
‘Just Another Story: Some Social Constructionist Perspectives on a Person- Centred Training Community’ in Person-Centred Practice, vol.8, no.2 (Autumn 2000), pp. 95-101
‘Who is the “person” in the person-centred approach?’ in Merry, T. (ed.) (2000) The BAPCA Reader. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books, pp. 182-187
‘Empowerment or Collusion?: The Social Context of Person-Centred Therapy’ (with Sarah Hawtin) in Thorne, B. and Lambers, E. (eds.) (1998) The Person-Centred Approach: A European Perspective. London: Sage, pp.91-105
‘Who is the “Person” in the Person-Centred Approach?’, Person-Centred Practice, vol.5, no.2, Winter 1997, pp.182-187
‘The Person-Centred Approach’ in Walker, M. (ed.) (1995) Peta : A Feminist's Problem with Men Milton Keynes: Open University Press, pp.43-58
‘English Literature’ in Thorne, B. and Dryden, W. (eds.) (1993) Counselling: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, pp. 23-43
‘On Being a Supervisee’ in Dryden, W. and Thorne, B. (eds.) (1991) Training and Supervision for Counselling in Action. London: Sage, pp.129-142
‘Closing the Distance : Counselling at Open University Residential Schools’ (with Diane Bailey) British Journal of Guidance and Counselling Vol.17, no.3, September 1989, pp.317-330
