Gillie Bolton

Gillie Bolton is an experienced consultant available to be commissioned to run courses.

Counsellors, therapists, clinical psychologists, nurses, doctors, teachers, and other professionals can use therapeutic, or expressive and explorative writing with their clients, patients or students. It can be a valuable addition to other helping strategies.

Expressive and explorative writing:

• is almost completely free
• can be undertaken at any time of day or night
• can take as much or as little time as desired by writer
• can be undertaken almost anywhere
• can be used effectively by almost anyone
• does not require high levels of literacy
• does not require any writing experience, knowledge or skills
• can be dictated to a scribe or a dictaphone when necessary

Courses have been run with

• Therapists and counsellors (University, cancer, primary care services)
• Therapists and counsellors in training
• Clinical psychology teams
• General Practitioners
• Primary care healthcare staff