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Fleur Farish-Edwards is a registered counsellor (MBACP Reg) and a counselling supervisor, managing a private practice of clients and supervisees. She is a Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at Edge Hill University, where she leads a number of modules on both the BSc Critical Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy and BA Counselling and Psychotherapy programmes. Fleur also supervisees MRes students and co-ordinates the Fastrack programme for the department of Social Work and Wellbeing
Fleur is currently undertaking a Professional Doctorate, exploring the experiences of adult adoptees through narrative inquiry and arts-based methods. Other research activity includes involvement with the ongoing development of Arts for the Blues (A4B), an evidence-based creative group psychotherapy (Farish-Edwards et al. 2022) and with a systematic review on digital psychotherapeutic interventions
Education/Academic qualification
Counselling, MSc, Advanced Counselling and Psychotherapy (Dissertation: A systematised review of the lived experience of adult adoptees), University of Salford
Award Date: 30 Nov 2019
Education, PGCert, Postgraduate Certificate in Education, University of Central Lancashire
Award Date: 30 Jul 2018
Counselling , BA, BA (Hons) Counselling with Brief Interventions, Lancaster University
Award Date: 30 Jul 2015
Psychotherapy Studies, PhD, An exploration of experiences of adults adopted in the UK before their first birthday, University of Central Lancashire
15 Sept 2020 → …
Other positions
External Examiner, Bishop Grosseteste University
1 Sept 2024 → …
External Examiner, University of East London
1 Sept 2022 → …
Research Centres
- Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing
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‘Do existential touchstones really cool?’ An exploration of therapists’ experiencing of significant personal loss and how this informs their ‘way of being’ with a client
McNulty, D. & Farish-Edwards, F., 30 Jan 2026, In: Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies. p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review
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Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Omylinska-Thurston, J., Aithal, S., Liverpool, S., Clark, R., Moula, Z., Wood, J., Viliardos, L., Rodríguez-Dorans, E., Farish-Edwards, F., Parsons, A., Eisenstadt, M., Bull, M., Dubrow-Marshall, L., Thurston, S. & Karkou, V., 21 Oct 2024, In: JMIR Mental Health. 11, p. 1-34 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (journal) › peer-review
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Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Preprint): Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Thurston, J. O., Aithal, S., Liverpool, S., Clark, R., Moula, Z., Wood, J., Viliardos, L., Rodríguez-Dorans, E., Farish-Edwards, F., Parsons, A., Eisenstadt, M., Bull, M., Dubrow-Marshall, L., Thurston, S. & Karkou, V., 14 Dec 2023, JMIR Mental Health, (JMIR Mental Health).Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Digitising Creative Psychological Therapy: Arts for the Blues (A4B)
Farish-Edwards, F., Parsons, A., STARKEY, J., Dubrow-Marshall, L., Thurston, S., Omylinska-Thurston, J. & Karkou, V., 30 Nov 2021, Digital Innovations for Mental Health Support. Prescott, J. (ed.). IGI Global, p. 1-17 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review