Guy du Plessis

Guy du Plessis, BA, BA Honors, MA, PhD Candidate, holds a BA in Psychological Counselling (cum laude), BA Honors in Psychology (cum laude), and MA in Psychology (cum laude) degrees from the University of South Africa, and is PhD Candidate at Stellenbosch University. He is a registered psychological counselor with the HPCSA, and has worked in the addiction treatment milieu for over 15 years as an addictions counselor, head of treatment, program & clinical director, trainer, and researcher. He is the author of the book An Integral Guide to Recovery: Twelve Steps and Beyond, co-author of Mind-Body Workbook for Addiction: Effective Tools for Relapse Prevention and Recovery, developer of the Integrated Recovery Program, and has published numerous academic articles in the fields of addiction treatment and studies, theoretical psychology and philosophy. He is currently writing a book on the Holism Theory of Jan Smuts and co-authoring a book with Dr. Stanley Block called The Architecture of Reality. He is a Faculty Mentor in the School of Behavioral Sciences at California Southern University, Faculty member at the Wayne Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy at Bellarmine University, Researcher at Momentum Mental Healthcare SA, and Executive Director of the Mind-Body Bridging Institute. His professional memberships include the APA divisions of the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Society of Addiction Psychology, Psychopharmacology and Substance and the Society for Humanistic Psychology, International Society for Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy, Society for Phenomenology and Existential philosophy, International Society for Philosophers, and an Affiliate Member of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association.