Kate Thompson is a BACP senior accredited counsellor and supervisor and a journal therapist. After gaining a degree in English Literature from Cambridge University and therapeutic training, she developed a method of combining the two. She is a faculty member of the Center for Journal Therapy and Institute for Therapeutic Writing and lives in Colorado, USA.

External links

Therapeutic Journal Writing Blog

JKP publications by Kate Thompson

Therapeutic Journal Writing

An Introduction for Professionals

Kate Thompson
Foreword by Kathleen Adams

2010, Paperback: £17.99/ $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-690-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp

Keywords: arts therapies, counselling, creative therapies, creative writing as therapy, creativity, emotions, expressive therapies, families, grief, group psychotherapy, health care, interdisciplinary arts therapies, mental health, occupational therapy, offenders, poetry, psychoanalysis, psychology, relationships, self esteem, self harm, sexual abuse, social care, social work, supervision, trauma

Writing Routes

A Resource Handbook of Therapeutic Writing

Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson
Foreword by Gwyneth Lewis

2010, Paperback: £18.99/ $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-84905-107-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp

Keywords: arts therapies, creative writing as therapy, psychotherapy

Writing Works

A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and Activities

Edited by Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson
Foreword by Blake Morrison

2006, Paperback: £16.99/ $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-468-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp

Keywords: arts therapies, creative writing as therapy, health care, social care, social work, therapeutic communities