PERSON-CENTERED COUNSELING ASSOCIATION
Argelès-sur-Mer 66700


Laura Hodkinson, Peter-Danton Rouffignac and Nicole Alessandri

Director – Peter-Danton de ROUFFIGNAC

PERSON-CENTERED COUNSELING ASSOCIATION was created in August 2007 as a not-for-profit charity under the French association loi 1901 statutes. It is registered at the sub-prefecture at Céret (Pyrénées-Orientales), number W661000701. The association has six founder members (three English and three French) and its director is Peter-Danton de Rouffignac, an Englishman of French descent and a trained counsellor.

At present the Association is offering both group and individual counselling in the following areas:

• ‘Retirement – paradise or hell?’ – a series of five 2 – 3 hour group sessions involving between 12 – 18 participants over five to ten weeks.
• This series is also offered as a ‘training the trainers’ series addressed to human resource managers, medical auxiliaries and anyone whose role involves dealing with people approaching or undergoing retirement.

• ‘Life after sport?’ – a series of information sessions and individual counselling addressed to high level sportsmen facing retirement from sport. Also offered as a ‘training the trainers’ session addressed to managers, coaches, youth workers etc.

• Other group and individual sessions are offered including survival after job loss, handling life transitions, mid-life crisis; and addressing problems faced by students and young people (stress, sexual orientation, unemployment, racism etc).

All sessions are offered at low-cost or no cost according to the means of the user, and are in English or French; and held at a location convenient to participants. Advice and help are also offered by phone.

The director of the Association Peter-Danton de ROUFFIGNAC MA LLM is an Englishman of French descent, now semi-retired and living in Argelès-sur-mer, about half an hour from Perpignan. He has a degree in human resource management from Coventry University and a degree in law by research from the University of Warwick. He has also undergone some 600+ hours of counselling training at Westminster Adult Education, Morley College and the Pre-Retirement Association. A consultant and author, he was a visiting lecturer and student counsellor at an American multinational university in London for nearly ten years before coming to France in 2002. One of his current areas of research is into retirement from professional sport, in association with INSEP, the French national training centre in Paris.

He is a member of AFP-ACP (Association Française de Psychothérapie dans l’Approche Centrée sur la Personne) and abides by their code of conduct as well as that of BAC in Britain. His counselling approach is person-centered and modelled on Carl Rogers and Gerard Egan. Brochures and more information on request and on his website.

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Telephone 0033 468 81 16 07

Email me at peter-danton@orange.fr