Research and professional experience

Paul Terry trained in Clinical Psychology in Sydney, Australia. He has worked as a Clinical Psychologist in the National Health Service in various settings:

• child psychiatric services
• adult mental health
• forensic and elderly services
• private practice.

Paul Terry was involved in two SSRC research projects based at UCL and the Institute of Education studying and teaching the dynamics of small group teaching in higher education by drawing on insights from group-analytic psychotherapy. He was Head of the Counselling and Advisory Service for the University of Westminster from 1975-84. He established and was Senior Tutor for the Diploma in Adult Counselling at Birkbeck College in 1985. In 1994 with other colleagues developed the Diploma courses into the MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling which is now taught in Psychosocial Studies. Paul Terry worked again in Australia for four years from 1998-2002 as a psychotherapist in an adult mental health unit.