Overview

Peri Mackintosh (MSc, Dip. GPTI, EAP) is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer in  Gestalt, Integrative, and Humanistic approaches.

He specialises in working with people with severe and complex mental illness who may also have an autistic condition. He is particularly experienced in working with people who may be less verbal.

He is a psychotherapist on the National Autism Unit at the Bethlem Royal Hospital .

The National Autism Unit has achieved an ‘Outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and is accredited by the National Autism Society .

Peri has over 30 years experience of working with people with severe and complex  mental illness and autistic conditions.

Peri is the creator of Freeforming Contact Meditation.

He is the co-author with Paul Barber of the Freeforming; Connecting Without Words in Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now Editors: Dan Bloom and Philip Brownell, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011.

He also authored Attentional scope and mental illness VOLUME 23, 2 (2014) British Gestalt Journal

He is an examiner and supervisor to the Metanoia Institute Gestalt Psychotherapy Masters Degree programme.

Peri pioneered the use of mindfulness-based movement and music orientated therapeutic workshops in residential mental health units in the early 1980′s. He has 40 years experience of meditation, mindfulness, martial arts and embodied awareness practices.

He began training in Judo in the 1960′s then vipassana, Zen meditation and Hatha Yoga in the early 1970′s. He studied at the Laban Centre for Movement Studies and the London Contemporary Dance School and performed, choreographed and composed for theatre and television.
A black belt, he trained and taught Aikido and Kashima Shin Ryu sword work for over 25 years in Japan, USA and Norway. He has also studied Tai Chi and Alexander Technique. He is a member of Ambient Jam.