Howard Delmonte

I am a Relate-qualified couples therapist with 7 years' experience, group therapist with 10 years' experience and an arts therapist with 12 years' experience who set up and developed the Family Support Service at PACE in 2000.

PACE (Project for Advice, Counselling and Education), is London's leading charity promoting the mental health and emotional well-being of the lesbian, gay and bisexual community.

I have worked within the Mental Health service in many settings for 20 years as a therapist, supervisor, group therapist and arts therapist.
I have published articles on various issues that are of particular interest to me, ranging from diverse sexuality, same-sex parenting and the role of the arts therapies in palliative care.

I presently manage the family support service at PACE, where I see a variety of couples/ parents and also provide training to Social Work adoption teams who work with same-sex couples wishing to adopt and foster children.

I have always been interested in the diverse nature of being human and the unique experience that makes up that human life. It is for this reason that I believe relationship work is both creative and challenging, as it brings together such a wealth of rich life experience. In my work with couples, I always work with the uniqueness of both the individual experience and the couple and believe a holistic and humanistic approach to relationship work is vital.

Apart from counselling, other passions are cinema, the arts and performing as an instrumentalist and singer at music, singing and drama events.

Finally, being a father to a young boy is both a passion and a life challenge and has been a constant source of love, challenge and inspiration!

London N4

Telephone: 0208 348 8402