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19th March 2024 
PETER WESSON Professional Profile. Jacket, white shirt 2017, 200 pxls

Peter Wesson: Professional Profile

Psychotherapy

The Calmest Place and The Calmest Place To Sleep


My earliest experience of working with people affected by emotional or psychological problems was as a volunteer in my teens, but my formal training in psychology and psychotherapy did not begin until much later, at Wolverhampton University. In the interim, I had made a career in business and industry, where I became a graduate member of the Institute of Export. I subsequently trained in eclectic psychotherapy at the National College of Hypnosis & Psychotherapy, graduating in 1985. After qualifying, I quickly built up a busy practice in the West Midlands.

My post-graduate training included counselling for personal relationship problems (Relate Training, 1986), then Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Analytic Psychotherapy with Dr D.W. Ebrahim in 1986-87; treatments for problems ranging from anger management and resolution of unwanted behaviours to separation anxiety, traumas and post-traumatic stress (PTSD).

To these, I later added EMDR (eye-movement desensitisation and reprocessing) a well-established and widely recognised method for relieving anxiety, anger, guilt, grief and other painful emotions attached to traumatic memories or negative thinking, dreams and imaginings of past, present and future.

Over the years, I have worked to blend together these powerful but gentle therapies into a versatile combination, and to build myself a reputation for providing effective treatment for a wide range of problems, traumas and personal difficulties. My patients have included private individuals and couples, and referrals from companies, doctors, solicitors and medico-legal agencies.

In 1988, I opened a second psychotherapy practice in Bury, Lancashire, and continued with both until 1998 when I made the decision to close my West Midlands practice and move to Lancashire full-time. Since 1996 I had been working alongside practitioners of other therapies at the Complementary Health Clinic in Tenterden Street, Bury.

Until 2012, when I retired from full-time practice and moved from Tenterden Street, I was a Registered Trauma Therapist, and a Registered Psychotherapist with the UKCP and EAP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and the European Association for Psychotherapy).


THE CALMEST PLACE AND THE CALMEST PLACE TO SLEEP

During those years, I had often noticed that problems brought to me were triggered or made worse by two main factors - anxiety and stress in its various forms, and loss of sleep, which in turn were intensified by worry and tension. It was also clear that I was seeing a minority of sufferers. For most people, it seemed, psychotherapy was either unaffordable or felt like too much of an intrusion into their privacy.

There was therefore a real need for an inexpensive and discreet, safe form of help, providing relief and support, accessible to anyone anywhere, at any time.

The Calmest Place & The Calmest Place to Sleep, recorded mindfulness meditations for relieving worry, tension and stress, related problems and insomnia (sleeplessness), were based on 27 years of my own professional experience. Produced in the UK, they are available worldwide and can be downloaded for use whenever needed (but do not use while driving, please!).

Click (HERE) for thecalmestplace.com


BURY MODERN ACUPUNCTURE

Having noted from an early stage that some of my patients had medically unexplained symptoms and pain that did not seem to respond to the psychological treatments available to me, I trained in Auricular Acupuncture, qualifying in 1987. This is a well-researched style of therapy, giving proven results over a wide range, from pain and physical problems through to tension and anxiety, both with and without the use of needles. Alongside this, my training in Auriculotherapy incorporated Homotoxicology, specialised homoeopathic treatment, used alone or to support the benefits of acupuncture.

Following advanced training with the Association of Auriculotherapy and the European Federation of Modern Acupuncture, I became the first Modern Acupuncturist in the UK to be registered by the British Register of Complementary Practitioners (MBRCP). In 2012, after moving from the Complementary Health Clinic in Tenterden Street, I set up Bury Modern Acupuncture on The Rock.

In 2020, the commencement of Covid Lockdown and the inhibition of clinical proximity obliged me to cease seeing patients personally. I can, however, still be contacted through this website.


TRAUMA RESOLUTION THERAPY - A COMPACT MANUAL

Currently, I am writing a training manual for professionals working with sufferers of post-traumatic stress and related problems. It is hoped that it will be of use to experienced practitioners as well as students in the field. The manual, based on many years of clinical experience, presents an eclectic protocol that uses EMDR combined synergistically with other tried and tested elements to produce a rapid and entirely painless resolution of emotional trauma and many associated problems.