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Nick Luxmoore
1 March 1956 - 9 November 2019
Our friend and colleague Nick Luxmoore, who died unexpectedly in November 2019, at the age of 63, was a school counsellor and psychotherapist. His career spanned four decades and included teaching English and Drama in schools and prisons, teaching counselling at Oxford Brookes University, running a youth centre and youth theatre, setting up and managing a young people's counselling and information service, working as a school counsellor and as a counsellor with young refugees and asylum seekers.
From September 2015, Nick focused on training, counselling supervision and writing. He published eleven books aimed at professionals working with young people and wrote regularly for Psychology Today, a quarterly column for BACP's Children, Young People & Families magazine. When Nick died, he had almost completed what will be his final book, entitled Chaos.
Nick was a highly respected colleague and friend of many people in schools and organisations in Oxfordshire and beyond, and a constant source of therapeutic support for the staff and pupils with whom he worked. His work was entirely dedicated to helping young people and the professionals who support them.
Obituaries
The Guardian, Steph Fryer - January 2020
BACP CYPF, Jeanine Connor - March 2020
Blogs, Articles & Columns
| Counsellor's Corner |
For 10 years, Nick wrote a monthly column for the parents of young people. These columns aim to shed light on what might be going on in the minds of young people and on what might be going on between young people, their parents and teachers. 86 of these columns have been consolidated in alphabetical order here. |
| Psychology Today |
Apocalypse (Not) Now? (Nov 2019) Why Lying is a Developmental Achievement (and Problem) (Oct 2019) Bad Mothers? (Sept 2019) First Love: Will it ever be the same? (Sept 2019) Why making friends can be so hard (July 2019) Better than Radiohead (June 2019) |
| Press Articles |
Miss, Mum, what's the difference? (TES) Helping Teenagers (Oxford Times) Why we must listen to our angry teenagers (Times Online) |
| Occasional Articles |
Books
Nick published twelve books aimed at professionals working with young people, with some eye-catching titles including Horny and Hormonal, and Feeling Like Crap. All his books are published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Videos
Nick Luxmoore reading a short extract from his book Young People in Love and in Hate (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
An interview with Nick Luxmoore, author of Young People and the Curse of Ordinariness (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
Nick Luxmoore reads an excerpt from Young People, Death and the Unfairness of Everything (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
