Greg Roberts

Background

About Greg Roberts

I'm a social worker providing counselling, supervision and education, focusing on grief, bereavement and trauma. Interest in holistic approaches to the many and varied challenges in life. View death and grief as a part of life - as important as living and happiness. Consider reality and truth to be subjective experiences and because of this, we need to take time to connect with others, be curious and have a willingness to understand what life is like for someone else. I incorporate existential and phenomenological approaches into my counselling practice and research activities. I undertook the study of philosophy within my undergraduate degree and in recent years have continued the development of my practice in applying philosophical ideas to counselling and psychotherapy through ongoing education activities and in developing my PhD research project. In my education and training activities I adopt an inductive and experiential approach, where I aim for a learning dialogue between myself and participants. My social work education was steeped within a critical reflective attitude that encourages the ongoing development of 'praxis'- the interweaving of personal experience, professional experience/knowledge and theoretical ideas and concepts.