Amanda McGarry
Senior Lecturer, Counselling and Psychotherapy
Amanda is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Social and Political Science teaching on the Counselling Skills undergraduate programme and the masters in Clinical Counselling.
Amanda is the module leader for three undergraduate modules, ethics in the helping relationship, embedded counselling skills in context, and developing multicultural competence. She supports students in their personal development whilst completing their counselling training at postgraduate level and is a research supervisor.
Amanda's research interests are focused around the issues of social justice in the therapeutic relationship with a particular focus on gender and feminism, and suicide within the context of the person-centred approach.
Journal Articles
McGarry, A., & Reeves, A. (2020). Managing risk online. Therapy Today, 31(10), 33-35.
McGarry, A. (2020). The Development of Additional Propositions of the Actualising Tendency: Person-Centred Theory and Practice. The Person Centered Journal, 25(1-2), 68-82.
McGarry, A. (2019). A person-centred perspective on suicide. Healthcare counselling and psychotherapy, 19(4), 24-27.
Conference Presentations
July 2021 – An exploration of gendered power dynamics within the therapeutic relationship, PGR Conference, University of Chester, delivered online.
May 2021 – Exploring suicide potential through the lens of pluralism, International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy, delivered online.
May 2020 - Exploring suicide potential and the actualising tendency: A qualitative study of suicide notes, BACP Research Conference, delivered online.
- BACP (MBACP) Accred
- Certificate in Online Counselling Skills - ACTO Professional Membership
- MA Clinical Counselling University of Chester
- BA (Hons) Business Studies with Psychology University of Chester