Paul Kellett van Leer

Over nearly a quarter-century of practice, training, and teaching, I’ve developed a broad depth of experience that allows me to accompany clients on the kind of therapeutic detour that makes possible an ongoing journey freer from the past.

My past, like all of us, has been quite a journey. I grew up in Manchester in the North of England, moving to London as student at the Royal Academy of Music when I was 22 having graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music.
After finishing my studies with the then Piatigorsky Chair, Lyn Harrell, at USC as a Fulbright Scholar,

I enjoyed (and perhaps endured) a whirlwind career that afforded me an engagement with several differing cultures across Europe, the US, and a spell with Icelandic Symphony, Chamber and Opera Orchestras, experiences that have been (in)formative of my multi-cultural approach to the diverse nature of individuality and the various ways in which we walk our paths.

My own analysis during these hectic years inspired me to begin to train in, and eventually teach Transactional Analysis, something into which my passion transferred over the course of the following decade. Another decade later, after taking my Pass at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in London, I moved to Washington DC in the mid-2010s … and here I remain, for the time being.