Linda Finlay

Linda Finlay, PhD, is a practising existential, relational-centred integrative psychotherapist and supervisor based in York (UK).  She is also an academic consultant and lecturer with the Open University, where she teaches and has written on various counselling and psychology courses. 

She is best known for her many publications on integrative psychotherapy, occupational therapy, and also qualitative, phenomenological research and reflexivity including Relational Integrative Psychotherapy (Wiley); The Therapeutic Use of Self in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage); Practical Ethics in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage); Phenomenology for Therapists (Wiley); and Relational Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage).

Linda’s research interests include applying existential and hermeneutic phenomenological approaches to investigate the lived experience of disability and trauma. In straddling clinical and academic fields, she helps her research and writing be grounded in practice, while her practice remains informed by research.  She trusts the therapeutic process and how the therapeutic relationship might be harnessed for healing and self-discovery—the topic of all her writings. www.lindafinlay.co.uk