About the Managing Editor

A Note About Counsellor Self Disclosure

Counsellors are ordinarily very circumspect about revealing information about themselves in a therapeutic setting. However, those who provide information online or even actual online counselling services will (hopefully!) have spent a number of years in the online world and will have left something of an electronic trail of their activities in the form of websites, articles, etc. With such information scattered about, I feel it is appropriate to provide a quick summary of some of my background here, all in one place, for anybody who might be interested. More information specifically on my counselling background appears in the section on my Counselling Services.

Professional Background Before Counselling: Consciousness, Complexity Theory, Business and Real People

Originally from the United States, I was born in Montana and studied in Oregon as an undergraduate with a double major in Philosophy and Mathematics. I briefly considered staying an extra year to complete a third major in Computer Science and a minor in Psychology, but instead I accepted a British Marshall Scholarship and moved to the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom for a PhD. Although housed in the Philosophy department, my work in Philosophy of Mind and consciousness drew heavily on cognitive neuroscience, information theory, complexity theory and even quantum physics. Following the PhD, I spent some time as a Gifford Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and then left academia for several years in the business world.

Originally employed as a research scientist in cognition and biologically inspired computation, I also spent time on artificial life, quantum decoherence and both real and artificial evolution. Later I took on a number of different roles in business strategy and ran a business partnering programme for the research and technology subsidiary of British Telecommunications (a subsidiary then called BTexact Technologies). Leaving the strategic partnering job in 2002, I founded an independent consulting firm and began a new adventure: training in person-centred counselling. I completed this full-time, BACP-accredited Postgraduate Diploma in 2003.

(Details on my consulting work appear on the Consulting pages of Mulhauser.net, while some aging research work appears on the Research pages of that same site.)

Throughout my career, I have retained a keen interest in the subjective experience of human beings, their relationships with the surrounding world and their search for meaning. With the most recent move into counselling, this interest comes once again to the fore. CounsellingResource.com represents one byproduct of my continuing efforts to understand individual human beings, their lives and their struggles -- and to contribute to their betterment. This site shares some of the resources encountered along the way.

Spare time I enjoy spending with my wife, who is a veterinary surgeon; physical fitness, travel, kite flying, trampolining, photography and other activities keep me occupied. I have travelled in around three dozen countries on five continents and have given lectures or seminars to audiences in about a third as many. I've practiced around a dozen martial arts at various times but have achieved higher grades (shodan/black belt) only in Ryukyu Kobudo.

I am a Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) and am bound by its Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy and its Ethical Guidelines for Researching Counselling and Psychotherapy, and am subject to the organization's Professional Conduct Procedure. I am conscientiously not a member of the International Society for Mental Health Online. I hold Enhanced Disclosure from the UK's Criminal Records Bureau, a clearance level "reserved for positions involving the greatest degree of trust". (See the Disclosure Service or the main CRB site.)

What the Acronyms Mean

Dr Greg Mulhauser, BA, PhD, DipCouns, MBACP, FRSA:

Greg spent an additional year of post-doctoral research as Gifford Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow.

* Note: The 'MBACP' designation, in my opinion, reflects little more than the BACP's ongoing attempts to market itself to the general public and the government as an authoritative body. The 'MBACP' moniker provides free advertising for the BACP and exerts indirect pressure on those of us who are qualified to use it to do so, since it would otherwise be conspicuous by its absence.