Raphael Jay Adjani PhD 

I work with you as a “Life Transformation Strategist”: supporting you toward living the richest, most satisfying and creative life possible.

My Life Transformation Strategy involves a collaborative approach that helps you, in the long term, to become your own best teacher and your own best friend. 

Here, alongside my own experiences of straddling some huge challenges of Life, I utilize my qualifications and experience, spanning 30 years of being:

• Holistic Integrative Psychotherapist - incorporating art, dance and play therapies, water therapy, talk therapy, mindfulness and compassion focused therapies

• Stress Management Consultant

• Life Development Coach: Clarification of goals and strategic action to achieve them

• Teacher-Trainer of Meditation

• Certified Teacher of MSC Mindful Self-Compassion and other Mindfulness and Compassion-based programs

• Teacher-Trainer of Yoga, including Yoga Nidra

• Supervisor of Psychotherapists and Psychotherapists-in Training

• Mentor for Creatives, Meditation Teachers, Therapeutic Practitioners, Educationists

• Diversity, Equity. Inclusion and Belong (DEIB) consultant

• Designer and Facilitator of Creative Therapeutic, Wellbeing and Meditation Programmes

• Researcher of and Lecturer in Art and Philosophy of Being in Higher Education

• Pastoral (therapeutic) and Mentorial Support Provider in Higher Education

• Teacher of Art and Creative Practices

  For me this is not “work” but a life passion. Borrowing from the great text of Indian Philosophy, The Bhagavad Gita, it is my Dharma; my “sacred vocation”.

This involves/has involved being:

• Member of the BACP: British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy

• Certified Teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion; as well as a teacher of a range of mindfulness and compassion-based wellbeing programs including LOMSC for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion in the USA

• Member of the LGBTQ+ focused mental health organization Rainbow Mind: supporting people who live as LGBTQ+ and its intersection with living as a person who is “Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color,” (BIPOC). Here I:

  • Provide one-to-one therapy

  • Am involved as a teacher-trainer in the conceptual development and delivery of the pioneering Radical Self-Care therapeutic program, which is scientifically evidenced to particularly support the wellness of those who may identify in some way associate as LGBTQ+

  • Co-host monthly support groups and exploratory activities such as The Gatherings and Connect groups

• Resident Life Development Coach at Amaravati Wellness Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand

• Lecturer/Researcher in Art and Philosophy at Goldsmiths, University of London

• Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA)

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

• Peer Review Panel Member of academic journal ADCHE: Art Design and Communication in Higher Education

• Consultant and Developer of therapeutic programs for organizations

• Consultant and Co-Developer of programs cultivating organizational Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB), including the pioneering program: They’re Not Like Us

• Embrace your Self - Empower Your World - creation of this pioneering life transformation program. It integrates mindfulness, compassion, gratitude and savoring, practices with art, dance, play therapy and ecological processes.

• Formerly Honorary Program Director of wellbeing and recovery center New Life Foundation, in Thailand.

• Co-Facitlatoor of crisis support groups for the British National Health Service

Current Projects/Activities include:

ECSTATIC MEDITATION 5-day meditation retreat

BEYOND ECSTATIC 6-day playshop

MIND FLOW meditation-based vinyasa practice

TANTRA and BREATHWORK TEACHER TRAINING COURSES Trainer for Samma Karuna (Thailand and Greece)

LIVE ONLINE COURSE IN MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION (LOMSC) Teacher for Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, CMSC, (USA)