Billy Desmond

Billy is a psychotherapist, supervisor, OD practitioner, and dialogical educator.  His practice includes working one to one, with couples and with groups.  He is a committed embodied practitioner-researcher with a particular interest in expressive form and early developmental movement.  Billy is guest faculty at different Gestalt training institutes and a certified trainer of Ruella Frank’s Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy. He regularly presents at conferences and has published several peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters on subjects such as; group work, experiential ways of knowing, sustainability, spirituality, homophobia and working with gay men.  He has co-authored a book, Introduction to Gestalt (Sage, 2013). He is a board member of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT) and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Gestalt Review.  As a committed social change activist he is currently setting up a charity Bronntanas for LGBTQIA people in non-urban communities. Billy teaches across all modules of the MA/Postgraduate Diploma and leads the Gestalt Approaches to Psychotherapy programme.