NSPC

Who Are NSPC?

NSPC Ltd. was founded by Emmy van Deurzen and Digby Tantam but the teaching has involved a large and dedicated team of existential therapists, theoreticians, and administrative staff.

Photo of Emmy van DeurzenEmmy van Deurzen, PhD, CPsychol, FBPsS, FBACP, UKCPfellow.

Emmy is the founder and director of the New School, which she set up in 1996, initially at Royal Waterloo House. She is a chartered counselling psychologist and registered existential psychotherapist. She was the first chair of the UKCP and of the Society for Existential Analysis, which she founded. She created Regent's College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling of which she was the founding Dean and where she was given a chair in Psychotherapy and Counselling. She has also been an honorary professor in psychotherapy with Schiller International University and with the University of Sheffield. She is visiting Professor with Middlesex University, with whom she created the joint doctoral programmes offered by NSPC.  She has published widely on existential psychotherapy and counselling, including her recent books Everyday Mysteries (Routledge, second edition 2010) and Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness, (Sage, 2009). Her book Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy in Practice (Sage) saw its second Edition in 2002. Emmy’s work has been translated into a dozen languages. Emmy was External Relations Officer to the European Association for Psychotherapy for many years, and is past Chair of the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association (UPCA) and of the Psychotherapy section of the British Psychological Society (BPS).

Digby Tantam BA MA BM BCh MPH PhD FRPsych FBPsS FBACP FHEA FUKCP

Digby is a psychotherapist, counsellor, psychologist, and psychiatrist.  He has worked in the NHS for over thirty years, and as a University Professor for nearly twenty.  He is currently Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Sheffield, where he is Director of the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Reconciliation, and an Honorary Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and the Higher Education Academy, and an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Amongst his books are Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice published by Cambridge University Press in 2002, Understanding repeated self-injury (with Nick Huband) published by Palgrave. 2009 and Can the world afford autistic spectrum disorder? published by Jessica Kingsley, also in 2009

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