Dr. Holt J.S. Hauser (DPsychotherapy)

Teaching Fellow in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences

  • Hope Park Counselling Centre
  • Holt Hauser Therapy

Contact details

Address

Street

Doorway 6, Old Medical School
Teviot Place

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AG
Street

Room 2.08,
24 Buccleuch Place
South Side

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9LN

Availability

  • 9.00am - 12.30pm Monday
    9.00am - 5.00pm Tuesday
    9.00am -5.00pm Wednesday
    9.00am - 12.30pm Thursday

Biography

Background

Dr. Holt J. S. Hauser is a private practitioner and teaching fellow based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He received his Doctorate in Psychotherapy and Counselling from The University of Edinburgh in 2020, and received his Post-graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2017 from the same institution. He operates private practice Holt Hauser Therapy, and holds a teaching fellowship at the University of Edinburgh's Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Science subject area, and acts as a placement manager at University of Edinburgh’s' Hope Park Counselling Centre. He has multiple publications on person-centred theories of practice and research philosophy, as well as relational aspects of qualitative inquiry, in journals such as Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies, The Person Centered Journal, Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, The British Journal of Psychotherapy, and Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. He has a particular research interest in the intersection of game-play and psychotherapy, on which he wrote his doctoral thesis.

Qualifications

Doctorate in Psychotherapy and Counselling (DPsychotherapy)/ University of Edinburgh (09/2015 – 05/2020)

Awarded my Doctorate after completing minor revisions. My research was an ethnographic case study entitled Cardstock and Containment: Exploring Therapeutic Affect for Adults in Magic: The Gathering

 

Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy/ University of Edinburgh (09/2015 – 07/2017)

Completed a PgDip in Counselling and Psychotherapy based in dialogue between Person-centred and Psychodynamic approaches. 

 

Masters of Arts with Honours in English Literature / University of Edinburgh (09/2009 - 06/2013)

Awarded 2nd class honours, upper division (2:1).

Postgraduate teaching

I teach on professional programmes, provide clinical management to trainees on placement, as well as offer research supervision to masters and doctoral students.

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Research summary

I conduct research into person-centred theory, practice, research and pedagogy as it relates to the field of counselling and psychotherapy. I also have a keen interest in the intersection between gaming and therapeutic affect as it relates to adults. 

Knowledge exchange

You can find my peer reviewed publications below:

 

Hauser, Holt J.S. (2024). Person-centred Research Supervision: Facilitating Encounter with Researchers and Inquiry. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 00, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12791

Hauser, H.J.S. (2024). A Devil’s Bargain: Meeting Psychiatric Diagnosis in Person-Centred Therapy. The Person Centered Journal, 26 (1), 2-12. https://adpca.org/article/pcj-volume-26-2021-2023-full-edition/

Hauser, H.J.S. (2023) More than My Experience: an Argument for Critical Realism in Person-centred Psychotherapy. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14779757.2023.2295528

Hauser, H.J.S. (2022). ‘Pulling the Bandage off’: Using Margaret Warner’s ‘Fragile Process’ in the Psychodynamic Approach. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 38(4), 693-708. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12745

Bittinger, R., Clarke, D. A. G., Erb, J., Hauser, H., & Wyatt, J. (2021). Intimacy as Inquiry: Collaborative Reading and Writing With Deleuze and Guattari. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 21(6), 480– 490. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086211037761.

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