Dr Paul Galbally
Senior Lecturer
Mental Health and Social Change Research Group, Pluralistic Practice Network Steering Group
Department of Professional Psychology , School Of Psychology
Dr. Paul Galbally is an applied psychologist and psychotherapist based in London/Essex UK. Paul currently works for the University of East London in the School of Psychology as a senior lecturer where he has previously been a course leader and now teaches and delivers clinical training on several undergraduate and postgraduate counselling and psychology courses and was the winner of the School of Psychology Student Experience Award in 2022.
With over a decade of clinical expertise, he has provided therapy to families, couples and individuals whilst working with an array of high-profile agencies including the NHS, Relate Ltd, The Family Justice System, Essex County Council and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Psychology - University of Essex (2011)
- Masters (MA) in Relationship Therapy - University of Hull (2014)
- Doctor of Applied Psychology (DAppPsy) - University of Essex (2021)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (fHEA) - Advance HE (2021)
Areas Of Interest
- Family Organisation
- Psychotherapy
- The Sociology of Family
- Interpersonal Conflict
- Family Separation/Divorce
- Interdisciplinary Research Relationships
- Discourse Analysis
OVERVIEW
Dr Paul Galbally specialises in family systems, intimate relationships, divorce/separation and the psycho-social relationships between people.
He is a fellow of the higher education academy and a research active academic whose work has been published in international peer-reviewed academic journals and books.
Clinically, Paul takes a pluralistic approach by incorporating, contemporary psychology, attachment theory, systemic therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy into my practice by drawing upon the contributions of Carl Jung (Analytical Psychology), Patricia Crittenden (Dynamic Maturational Model), Jonathan Haidt (Social Psychology), Michael White (Narrative Therapy), Terrence Real (Relational Life Therapy), Esther Perel (Intimacy and Affairs) and Rudi Dallos (Family Therapy).
Paul is passionate about further understanding the complex and intimate relationships between people and how family dynamics and organisation are affected by separation, conflict, identity components and social context.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Paul’s doctoral thesis was an interdisciplinary approach to understanding contemporary family configurations and the effects of parental separation on family forms. This research was used to inform and construct a psychological model that can help engage and work therapeutically with high conflict separated families.
Paul has also contributed to a better understanding of ‘messiness’ within qualitative research by contributing to a growing critical and reflexive awareness of the implications of gendered assumptions about ontology, epistemology, and ethics in academic research governance and practice.
Finally, Paul has taken a pluralistic perspective to demonstrate how academics at the University of East London—working with a diverse cohort of counselling students in a collaborative, reflexive, and dynamic way—has led to a vibrant pedagogical culture that has resulted in better than average outcomes and an embedded reflective teaching style. We have highlighted how personalised pedagogies strengthen the relational quality of interaction between lecturers and learners alongside diversifying learning activities to meet more ‘personalised’ needs, fostering a learning environment that promotes student satisfaction, advances inclusivity, reduces the award gap and improves course completion.
Most recent research
‘It’s a Family Affair’ - From intimate to business arrangements: Working clinically with the journey of acrimoniously separated parents
Family Process (In Submission June 2023)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15455300
Research centres and groups
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapter
- Galbally P, Hales S & Tyler M (2023) ‘Messing up research: Gender, reflexivity and governance in auto-ethnography’ in Ryan-Flood, R., Crowhurst, I. & James-Hawkins, L. (Eds.) (2023) Difficult Conversations: A Feminist Dialogue. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003088417-18
Journal Articles
- Hales, S, and Galbally, P. (2023). “Messing up Research: A Dialogical Account of Gender, Reflexivity, and Governance in Auto-ethnography.” Gender, Work & Organization: 1– 22. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12972
- Galbally, P & Christodoulidi, F (2023) Personalised learning pedagogies and the impact on student progression and retention: the case of counselling training within a university setting, Teaching in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2023.2211933
Doctoral Thesis
- Galbally, P. (2021) Connected Disconnections Negotiating family separation, membership and conflict: A discourse analysis
TEACHING
BSc (Hons) Counselling
We’re offering you an exciting and inclusive British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accredited professional and academic training and education in counselling.
Read more about this courseMODULES
- GC4801 Core Skills and Processes - Level 4
- PY4004Psychology in Applied Contexts – Level 4
- PY4005 Researching with Smaller Samples - Level 4
- PY4006 Researching with Larger Samples - Level 4
- GC5805 Research Methods - Level 5
- GC5806 Life Span Development (Children and Young People) - Level 5
- GC6801 Becoming a Competent Practitioner
- (Clinical Supervisor) – Level 6
- GC6804 Research Dissertation (Research supervisor) - Level 6