Claire has a background in counselling and many years of teaching Qualitative Research to Counselling and Psychology students. She has developed a passion for the value of practitioner research towards maintaining and developing ongoing learning. Claire’s skills are in the design and creation of processes that develop the ability for critical self-reflection thereby building on and enhancing the practitioner’s capacities. In keeping with modern adult education ideas, she uses the generative qualities of respect and the validation of experience to develop a greater sense of engagement, professionalism and leadership within one’s practice. Claire teaches research in the Professional Diploma in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy at the Metavision Institute.