The Clearing is a website set up by Andy Metcalf and Paul Farmer, both psychotherapists in private practice, but involved with the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a critical group of therapists who are resisting state regulation of the psychotherapies (see

http://www.allianceforcandp.org

)

The Clearing (from Heidegger’s

Lichtung) –


http://www.the-clearing.net

– is a space in which they are keen to explore commonalities with other critically minded professionals. In particular they are interested in the common, human factors, between different types of therapies, and in breaking down barriers between different forms of practice in psychotherapy.