Jolyon Williams
Member Status: Senior Accredited
Member No: NCS18-07017
Location: Cardigan
My career began in 1979 in London, specialising in supporting individuals and families within a therapeutic milieu after reading A S Neil’s book on Summerhill school, before training as a social worker and counsellor.
Since 1991, I have been facilitating growth and development with teams of social workers and counsellors, offering individual and group clinical supervision.
Having travelled far and wide within social work to evoke change, I entered personal therapy when I discovered my internal world did not match my external experience of the universe. Rather than pursue a traditional route, my learning has been of an experiential nature. I have been a student on this path of self discovery and feel privileged to have met other seekers on my journey, each of us striving towards a new authentic reality. My travels have usually taken me down an alternative route and encouraged an attraction for left-field interests eg complimentary therapies and world music. Some of the stops I have made on my journey have led to places of growth such as The Open Centre where I spent 2 years in a body psychotherapy bioenergetics group under the direction of master alchemist Guy Gladstone, 2 years under the spell of Grace Goodman, a pioneering family counsellor and activist, and several years in personal humanistic psychotherapy. In 2012 I attended The Adlerian Society of Wales to study individual psychology and psychotherapy, but have also undertaken training in systemic family counselling, brief solution therapy, Human Givens and studied various philosophies. I spent a year as a member of a psychodynamic group at Reading university and underwent further training in Group Work with GCT (Group work, consultation & training). In 2024 I completed an MRes in Religious Experience, researching Altered States of Consciousness, Transpersonal Psychology, the phenomenon of Acid House and the benefits of using psychedelics within mental health. The transient nature of my journey has led me to search for greater meaning and purpose in life, to help bridge the gap between birth and death, the conscious and unconscious, and unravel the complexities we presently face in this era of transitional cosmic change. If we are willing to embrace change and use a little bit of imagination, a new paradigm shift is within our grasp and awaiting our attention.
