Dr Deborah Lee

Programme Director Bsc Counselling

Programme Director

Counselling, psychotherapy and social justice

Department of Professional Psychology , School Of Psychology

Dr Deborah A. Lee is Programme Director for the BSc Counselling, leading the degree course, and line managing BSc Counselling staff.

Dr Lee is a UKCP-Registered person-centred psychotherapist, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), with current research interests in teaching, learning and assessing in counselling and psychotherapy. With Pete Sanders, she co-authored the new 4th edition of Step in to Study Counselling and Psychotherapy: A student's guide to tackling training and course assignments, PCCS Books, 2022 .

Areas Of Interest

Person-centred counselling and psychotherapy
Socio-political psychotherapy and counselling
Psychotherapy and counselling education and training, teaching, learning and assessment
'Survivors' of sexual violence training as psychotherapists and counsellors
#MeToo
Arts-based approaches to person-centred client and therapist case studies (poetry, plays, collage, fiction)
The politics of writing the self, auto/biography, auto-ethnography, memoir, creative non-fiction, heuristic research
Ethical collaborative contracting with clients taking part in case studies

OVERVIEW

Dr Deborah A. Lee is Programme Director for the BSc Counselling, leading the degree course, and line managing BSc (Hons) Counselling staff.

Dr Lee is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and has previously led undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses at the University of Salford, Nottingham Trent University, and the University of Derby.

Deborah is a UKCP-Registered person-centred psychotherapist, a member of the BACP, and an accredited member of NCS. She has a small private practice, primarily via the Free Psychotherapy Network.

Dr Lee's current area of interest is teaching, learning and assessing in counselling and psychotherapy. With Pete Sanders, she co-authored the new 4th edition of Step in to Study Counselling and Psychotherapy: A student's guide to tackling training and course assignments, PCCS Books, 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

Co-authored book:

1) Lee, DA. and Sanders, P. (2022) Step in to Study Counselling and Psychotherapy: A student's guide to tackling training and course assignments. PCCS Books

Co-edited book:

1) Lee, DA. and Palmer, E. (eds) #MeToo: Psychotherapists and counsellors speak about sexual violence and abuse. PCCS Books

Guest edited journal issue:

1) Lee, DA (ed) (2020) Special Issue of Psychotherapy and Politics International on Therapists' Lived Experiences

Journal articles:

1) Lee, DA (2019). "@emmyzen liked your Tweet!" (And other stories): The antidote to case studies. Self & Society 47:2, 11-22

2) Lee, DA (2017) Enter centre stage the case study. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling 46:3, 304-314. Reprinted in Bazzano, M. (ed) (2018) Revisioning Person-Centred Therapy: The Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm. London: Routledge

3) Lee, DA (2017) A person-centred political critique of current post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth discourses. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 15:2. Reprinted in Bazzano, M. (ed) (2018) Revisioning Person-Centred Therapy: The Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm. London: Routledge

EXTERNAL ROLES

External Examiner, BSc Reflective Therapeutic Practice, Metanoia Institute
Editorial Boards - Psychotherapy and Politics International, European Journal of Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy
Member of the UKCP Ethics Committee for two terms to 2021

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