Deep Release is proud to offer some of the most innovative and creative professional development in the UK for counsellors, trainee counsellors, coaches, pastoral workers and those in ‘people professions’.
Founded in 1994 by Dr Chris and Pauline Andrew, Deep Release has a passion for making theory come alive in a way that’s easy to understand, but also to practically integrate into your existing counselling model.
Our training days are interactive, colourful and dynamic, bringing together insights from major counselling approaches including Person Centred therapy, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt and Attachment theory, alongside our own unique creative interventions and resources.
Welcoming learning environment
You are guaranteed a very warm welcome on our training days, and we hope you will feel you are learning among friends.
Training days usually include a mix of presentation, demonstrations and video, while our Zoom ‘buddy’ groups offer a supportive space to discuss the material and begin trying out interventions.
Deep Release has a basis of Christian faith and spirituality, and we warmly welcome participants of all faiths or none.
Training, resources and tools in one place
As part of bringing everything together under one roof, Deep Release is now home to both our training and our range of counselling resources and tools.
Many of these resources are used throughout our training, including Roles Played in Families, Core Needs in Families, Roles Played in Anger cards, Web Apps for working online, and more.
You can now explore and purchase resources, book training, and access your purchased videos all in one place through your Deep Release account.
We hope this makes Deep Release a real one-stop shop for training, practical resources and creative counselling tools.
We would love to welcome you to one of our training days soon. If you have any questions in the meantime, please get in touch at info@deeprelease.org.uk.
Meet the Deep Release Team
Pauline Andrew
Pauline is an accredited counsellor (MA) and supervisor (Dip) as well as a director of Deep Release. She was a Director of Barnabas Counselling Training, where she taught the Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and the Level 5 Diploma in Supervision.
Dr Chris Andrew
Director Chris trained as a medical doctor and practised in the fields of Anaesthetics, General Practice and Adult and Child Psychiatry before setting up a private practice in London in 1984. As a committed Christian he sought to combine his medical and psychological understanding with spiritual insight.
Katy Bodman
Katy is research and development director and is also a trainer and Q&A host on Deep Release training days. She has a degree in counselling and has previously worked as a journalist. Katy enjoys coffee, documentaries, plant-based cooking and is fascinated with all things 1920s!
Julie Allday
Julie is our finance administrator. She originally trained in modern languages and started out in the charities sector. She has also worked as the Administrator for Barnabas Counselling Training since 2006. She lives in West Sussex with her husband and has one grown-up daughter.
The Deep Release Trustees
The trustees of the Deep Release Bursary Fund (Registered No. 1112125), serve as a Council of Reference for Deep Release. They meet three times a year with Dr Chris and Pauline Andrew, and Katy Bodman, our research and development director, when we discuss our work and plan for the future.
Hazel Barton
Hazel has a Diploma in Integrative Counselling, a Diploma in Supervision, and is accredited with the Association of Christian Counsellors.
She has been integrating Deep Release into her practice since 2004 and is an experienced trainer with both Deep Release and Barnabas Counselling Training.
Debbie Waldron
Debbie is an ACC Accredited Counsellor, has a Diploma in Christian Counselling and is a Supervisor, as well as Deep Release Counsellor. She also has an MA in Christian Spirituality. Debbie has been practising since 2002 and also provides training. The emphasis of her work is the creative, attachment, inner-child and trauma.
Morag Barker
Morag Barker has a Diploma in Counselling & Theology and a L5 Certificate in Integrating Creative Interventions in Counselling. She is a trained Deep Release therapist and you will you will often see her pop up on our training days as a Q&A host. She has her own private practice based in Walthamstow, East London.
Julie Allday
Julie is our finance administrator as well as a Trustee. She originally trained in modern languages and started out in the charities sector. She worked as the Administrator for Barnabas Counselling Training for many years, until its closure.
Regina Riley
Regina is a qualified integrative counsellor and registered British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) member. Regina was born in Zimbabwe where she worked in the education sector for 15 years as a primary school teacher before moving to the UK over 20 years ago. She speaks siNdebele fluently.