Hayley Marshall MSc (TA Psych), CTA, Ecological Practitioner (P), Diploma in Creative Approaches to Supervision
I began training as a TA psychotherapist in 1994. Before that I trained as a classical musician and worked freelance internationally as a performer and teacher. I have been in full time clinical practice in both the private and public sectors for nearly 30 years, having been a trainer and supervisor of psychotherapists for over half that time.
Over the past 18 years I have developed an outdoor psychotherapy, supervision, and training practice, although more latterly I have ended my clinical work to focus on supervision, training, and writing.
Profoundly rooted in the broader network of the living world, my work is focussed on awakening human relations practitioners’ spiritual-ecological development in alliance with the earth. As well as providing core ecological development and consultancy for TA ecological training programmes; this led me (in collaboration with Giles Barrow) to launching a new sensibility in TA practice - Eco-TA - in the UK in 2020.
I am also a conference speaker and writer about ecological practice. I co-authored (with Martin Jordan), a groundbreaking article on the outdoor therapeutic frame in the European Journal of Psychotherapy in 2010 and has written several book chapters and journal articles on clinical outdoor practice. These include a column on TA outdoor therapy - The View from Here - for The Transactional Analyst in 2013-14; a chapter on working with trauma outdoors (in Trauma in the creative and embodied therapies: When words are not enough, Routledge 2021); and a poetic response chapter in Ecotherapy – A Field Guide (Key & Tudor 2023). I was co-editor for the Transactional Analysis Journal special issue on Eco-TA in January 2023 and am currently co-editing a new edition of Ecotherapy -Theory, Research, and Practice. (Bloomsbury, in press).
As a result of my work outdoors I have a keen interest in embodied and creative approaches to psychotherapy, supervision, and particularly in the training of therapists. Consequently, I have undertaken a wide variety of additional training in trauma body work, ecological movement, and contemporary shamanic practices, incorporating these into my training practice. I am also deeply influenced by the work of philosophers, artists and writers (such as David Abram, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and David Hinton); and key activists (including Dougald Hine, and Tyson Yunkaporta) at the cutting edge of contemporary thinking about the spiritual ecological crisis we find ourselves in
Currently, I work exclusively outside in my private practice in Buxton in the High Peak, as well as co-facilitating (with Giles Barrow) training groups for ecological practitioners from all fields of human relations work. https://becomingecological.co.uk/
Alongside this, I offer a variety of training courses and professional development groups for psychotherapists wishing to develop eco-psychotherapy practices at my own training centre - The Centre for Natural Reflection - based in the Peak District in the UK
https://www.centrefornaturalreflection.co.uk/