Psychotherapy
The person, not the performance of a diagnosis.
Ian’s work is built around honest enquiry, reliable conclusions and restoring human authority. His clinical experience includes more than thirteen years working with EMDR.
About Ian
Authority
without theatre.
Psychotherapist. Author. Musician. Different expressions of the same lifelong enquiry into what it means to be human.
One life. One body of work.
The musician and the psychotherapist were never separate.
For more than twenty years, Ian Best has helped people confront what gets in the way. For more than forty, he has lived inside music.
His work is direct, deeply human and grounded in experience rather than performance. Patients often describe appointments as being like talking to an old friend. That ease is not the absence of rigour; it is what allows honest work to begin.
Music
Forty years of listening for what sounds true.
A multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and producer, Ian has performed internationally, charted in the United States and shared an unforgettable improvisation with Chick Corea. He also spent more than a decade teaching piano, working with pupils through ABRSM syllabuses and examination standards.
Writing
Ideas with some life left in them.
Ian’s books question inherited assumptions without handing the reader a new rule book. The aim is movement, independence and a stronger relationship with one’s own judgement.
Professional standing
Accountable in practice.
Embedded in music.
BABCP
Fully accredited since 2012
EMDR Association UK
Professional member
Musicians’ Union
Member
Independent Society of Musicians
Member
Total Therapeutics
Twenty years of work does not disappear. It becomes foundation.
Total Therapeutics remains the clinical home during a careful transition into the wider Ian Best identity. Existing arrangements continue while the new body of work develops.
Patient perspectivesBegin a conversation
Something serious in mind?
For psychotherapy, performance support, media, speaking and creative enquiries.
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