Rory Singer UKCP

Rory Singer is Managing Director and Clinical Director of New Road Psychotherapy Centre in central Brighton. NRPC is dedicated to counselling, psychotherapy and training and was established fifteen years ago.

Psychotherapy

He is a practising group and individual psychotherapist with over thirty-five years experience. and clinical supervisor He is a Registered Psychotherapist with the 'United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy' (UKCP) and works with individuals, couples and groups.  

He teaches and supervises both trainee and graduates of counselling and psychotherapy. He works as a consultant for individuals and organisations.

In his mid 20's to early 30's he trained as a group and individual psychotherapist at the Gestalt Centre, London.

His main influences are Gestalt, Psychoanalytic, and Buddhist theory.

Teaching

Rory was Course Director, and Lecturer on the Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling at Crawley College for 10 years prior to setting up New Road Psychotherapy.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

Rory started teaching MBCT courses in 2005 and has run many courses since then. He hosted a one-day conference with Professor Mark Williams and has attended a number of teacher-trainer conferences and workshops.

Buddhism, Meditation and Yoga Nidra

In his early 20's, before training as a psychotherapist Rory ordained as a Buddhist monk in the Thai Forest Tradition in the lineage of Ajahn Cha and Ajahn Sumedho. He lived in the monasteries for five years both in England and in Thailand.

For fifteen years Rory has facilitated ‘Dharma, Dialogue and Meditation’ a group focussing on Vipassana meditation and Buddhist Theory from the Pali Cannon with an integration of Psychotherapeutic Theory.

Rory is a qualified Yoga Nidra Teacher through Yoga Campus. He was taught by Nirlipta Tuli and Uma Dinsmore-Tuli

Reproductive Medicine and Infertility

Rory worked at the Hammersmith Hospital London for nine years, as a psychotherapist in the IVF unit under Lord Professor Robert Winston. The client group was childless couples and individuals. He also taught on the MSc in Reproductive Medicine, lecturing on the psychological impact of involuntary childlessness.

Rory currently sees patients from the Brighton Fertility Associates - www.brightonfertility.co.uk

Male Survivors and Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse

Prior to working at the Hammersmith Hospital he worked full time for two years at Kings College Hospital London working as a psychotherapist with male survivors and perpetrators of sexual abuse. He worked alongside police, probation, social services, and forensic psychiatrists. His work also involved seeing prisoners at Wandsworth prison.