About me | Scott Biagi

I trained at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, an organisational member of the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College (CPJA) of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). I am a member of UKCP and abide by the UKCP’s code of ethics and professional standards. As well as working as a psychotherapist in private practice, I have worked on a voluntary basis as a counsellor and psychotherapist on Islington Mind’s reablement service.

I have a PhD in philosophy and taught philosophy in further and higher eduction before training to be a psychotherapist. I have taught courses on the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis and on various topics that inform my practice, including existential phenomenology and the philosophy of language, mind and action. I have also facilitated philosophy discussion groups at the Single Homeless Project in collaboration with the City Lit, and at an assisted housing centre, working with individuals with a history of homelessness, addiction and mental illness.

It seems to me that the sorts of problems that bring us to therapy are often deeply philosophical, but I would also insist that therapy is least effective as an intellectual exercise. In my experience, though it can sometimes to helpful apply the tools of philosophy in thinking about a problem that brings us to therapy, the most important thing is to be open to the possibility of being together in different ways, trusting one another enough to be able to notice and acknowledge feelings without having to justify them or explain them away.