Psychotherapist and author. In person, and online.
I am a psychotherapist, and most of what I know I learned in the room. Decades of it. People arriving with something they have carried a long way, and the slow work of putting it down.
I trained in cognitive behavioural therapy and in EMDR, and I work integratively. A good deal of my work is with trauma: what happened, and what it left behind.
I am a Black African therapist practising in Britain, and my heritage is not incidental to any of it. It shapes what I notice, what people bring me, and what goes unsaid in a room.
I write because some of this belongs to more than one person at a time. I see clients because the writing is not the point.
Gean Viriri is a trading name of Steps To Rational Living Ltd, through which Gean provides her professional work, resources and digital services.
Out now
How Culture Shapes Power, Identity and the Global Hunt for Africa
Why do some civilisations rise, endure, and shape the world, while others remain trapped in cycles of dependency, instability, and decline? Part history, part psychological inquiry, and part civilisational roadmap, this is an invitation to see the world differently, and to rethink the future before it is written by someone else.
Coming soon
Race, silence, and the Black therapist's body in psychotherapy
Parts in the Room is a reflective work exploring race, identity, and silence within professional therapy spaces. Written from lived experience, it examines race and power in psychotherapy, the Black therapist's body in practice, and how history and trans generational memory surface in clinical settings. The book invites race-conscious therapeutic practice through witnessing, presence, and honest reflection, rather than theory, technique, or instruction.
Coming soon
Decoding Workplace Emotions looks closely at what really drives emotional life at work. Rather than focusing on surface level emotional intelligence, it explores emotional awareness in the workplace, self-leadership at work, and the often-unnoticed patterns shaping workplace behaviour and emotions. Grounded in therapeutic practice, the book helps readers recognise emotional triggers in the workplace and find steadier, more conscious ways of leading themselves through everyday professional challenges.
