Msc (Supervision & Counselling); BA Hons; Dip Counselling
Psychotherapist Zita Cox is an experienced international facilitator of Environmental Constellations for individuals and organizations who has pioneered the application of the constellation technique to issues relating to the environment. Her work includes ecotherapy; EMDR; family systems constellations; and me
diation.
Zita believes: Environmental Constellations are a wonderfully versatile and creative tool. “They allow us to explore our place in nature and our systemic relationship to other living beings. They assist us in new ways of thinking about and finding resolutions to the problems we have created. These may include climate change, pollution, alienation and accelerating species extinction.”
Following two years’ intensive training in Systemic Constellations in the 1990s with Dr Albrecht Mahr (who worked for many years with Bert Hellinger in Germany), Zita has facilitated environmental constellations in Britain, California and New Zealand.
Zita has worked for 21 years as an integrative counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice and the NHS. She has worked as a managerial coach and consultant in the corporate and voluntary sectors. She has a Person-Centred Counselling Diploma from Metanoia, additional training in Gestalt,EMDR and Mediation and a Masters Degree in Counselling Supervision and Training from Bristol University.
Zita’s first degree is in Philosophy; she sees environmental constellations as contributing towards a necessary shift in our thinking, which ‘Earth Scholar’ Thomas Berry refers to as ‘the great turning’.
Her article on Environmental Constellations ‘A Different Kind of Field Trip’ was published in ‘The Knowing Field’ (Jan 2007). She contributed a chapter on Trauma in ‘Balancing Acts: Studies in Counselling Training‘ edited by Hazel Johns (Routledge (1998)). She completed a research paper into Bystanding and Intervention in extreme situations.