Gordon is a BACP Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist with over twenty years clinical experience. His core training was in Gerard Egan’s ‘Skilled Helper’ model and he retains a strong interest in this as an integrating framework for humanistic and cognitive–behavioural approaches. His clinical experience has been varied, in generic counselling services, the mental health field, and student counselling.

Gordon has been involved in professional training for counsellors since the early 1990s, initially at York St. John and for the last five years at UEL, and has co-ordinated the development of two innovative undergraduate programmes. He also has wide experience in training other professional groups such as teachers, nurses, physiotherapists, managers and police officers in the core transferable skills that can be drawn from counselling, and has worked as a consultant on a number of organisational change projects focusing on organisational culture and the development of change agents/leaders at all levels.

• Programme Leader for PGDip/MA Counselling and Psychotherapy.
• Academic Link for collaborative programmes with Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, Psychosynthesis and Education Trust, East London NHS Foundation Trust and Hackney Community College.
• Member of School of Psychology Quality Committee, Collaborative Provision Committee, University Collaborations Monitoring Sub-Committee Programme Leader for PGDip/MA Counselling and Psychotherapy.
• Academic Link for collaborative programmes with Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, Psychosynthesis and Education Trust, East London NHS Foundation Trust and Hackney Community College.
• Member of School of Psychology Quality Committee, Collaborative Provision Committee, University Collaborations Monitoring Sub-committee.

• Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy, specifically transtheoretical integrative process models, humanistic and cognitive–behavioural therapies.
• The client’s experience of therapy and the transfer of learning in therapy to new situations.

• PGDip/MA Counselling and Psychotherapy
• BSc Counselling
• BSc Counselling and Mentoring

• GCM201: Counselling and Psychotherapy: Self, Skills and Theory
• GCM202: Counselling and Psychotherapy: Integration and Application
• GCM203: Counselling and Psychotherapy: Research
• GC1001: Core Skills and Processes 1
• GC1003: Core Skills and Processes 2

Books

1. Bayne, R., & Jinks, G. (2010). How to survive counsellor training. London: Palgrave.
2. Bayne, R., Jinks, G., Collard, P., & Horton, I. (2008). The counsellor’s handbook (3rd ed.). London: Nelson Thornes.

Journal Articles

1. Jinks, G. (1999). Intentionality and awareness: a qualitative study of clients’ perceptions of change during longer term counselling. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 12(1), 57–71. doi:10.1080/09515079908254078

Book Chapters

1. Jinks, G. (2006). Specific strategies and techniques. In C. Feltham & I. Horton (Eds.), The Sage handbook of counselling and psychotherapy. London: Sage.

• Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
• United Kingdom Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registered Independent Counsellor/Psychotherapist