Annie Spencer

Annie Spencer MA Oxon, PGCE London, Dip IDHP, is a ceremonialist and workshop leader.  Annie has been running groups and trainings for 30 years and with a background in humanistic psychology and earth-based spiritual traditions, she is skilled at moving between spiritual teachings and the disciplines of psychology. She works here and in the US and writes regularly.

Annie has always been an innovator.  In the 1980’s and ‘90’s she ran a series of two-year trainings in humanistic psychology through Bath University and has a chapter on Self and Peer Assessment in Implausible Professions: Arguments for Pluralism and Autonomy in Psychotherapy and Counselling (1997).  In the 1980’s she co-founded Openings, a centre for psychotherapy and groupwork that today is an integral part of the Bath psychotherapy landscape. In the 1990’s she was a founder member of the Independent Practitioners Network (IPN). From the 1980’s to the present day, Annie has had a private psychotherapy practice and supervises both individual and groupwork practitioners.