Academic Credit

The Focusing Institute (TFI) and Lesley University, Boston, USA

If you are interested in applying Focusing in your professional area you can design and pursue your project through a collaboration between The Focusing Institute (TFI) and Lesley University. The Focusing training you receive from TFI will count as part of your work at Lesley towards an MA degree through their Independent Study Program. Some of the Tuition paid to Lesley will be made available to pay for part of your TFI Training. Your project might involve a thorough review of the literature, a placement of your project in an intellectual context in a thesis OR a pilot study. You would receive support from your Lesley core faculty and two team members, one of whom would be your primary Focusing Certifying Coordinator or Focusing Trainer. Your plan would be a creative work on your part, as there is not a standard curriculum. You have the freedom to design your own project in the world. Former students have done things like write a book, or introduce a process to elementary schools. One recent independent master’s thesis was entitled The Dialogue of Touch: The Amalgamation of Metaphor, Massage and Focusing.

The site address is http://www.lesley.edu/gsass/inds_ma.html

Additionally, Lesley University offers three graduate courses in Focusing through the Counseling Psychology and the Expressive Therapies Masters programs.

http://www.lesley.edu/gsass/30cpp.html

http://www.lesley.edu/gsass/56etp.html

Seattle University Masters of Arts in Psychology, Seattle, Washington, USA

Seattle University (http://www.seattleu.edu) offers a Masters of Psychology degree in Existential-Phenomenological Therapeutic Psychology. Deeply concerned with exploring and understanding the lived-experience of both therapist and client as it is manifest in the psychotherapeutic relationship, the program trains learners to appreciate their own experiencing and that of the clients and how they intertwine. Our graduate students come from a variety of countrys, backgrounds and professions.

Seattle University currently offers one graduate course specific to Focusing-Oriented Therapy, “Experiential Theory & Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy.”

They also offer “Focusing Oriented Supervision” as part of their year long practicum placement in the second year of the program. Learning Listening Through Focusing Partnerships are available to all graduate students during their education.

The webpage for the Masters of Arts in Psychology is http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/gradpsy/

The University of East Anglia, Norwich, England

The University of East Anglia offers a number of focusing options, from introductory to doctorate level.

Programmes of study

Postgraduate Diploma/MA in counselling (accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy)
Postgraduate Diploma/MA in Focusing and Experiential Psychotherapy (certified by the Focusing Institute)
MA by Research, MPhil, PhD or EdD

UEA is the leading academic centre for Focusing Studies in the UK. Their programme includes courses at all levels from introductory to doctoral level studies.

The site address is http://www.uea.ac.uk/edu/centreforcounsellingstudiess

Jansen Newman Institute of Counselling and Applied Psychotherapy, St. Leonards, NSW Australia

The Jansen Newman Institute offers a short course in "Focusing: Enhancing the Body mind Connection in Therapy." This course is offered as an elective for both the Bachelor of Counselling and Human Change and the Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

The site address is http://www.jni.edu.au/courses/short-courses

This page was last modified on 17 October 2008