Bede Draper is a New Zealander who has a MSc and has been formally trained in Western methods of psychotherapy and Western philosophy. He spent 14 months studying under Swami Dayananda in India. He has an avid interest in Vedic psychology as unfolded by Swami Dayananda and now uses this psychology as a foundation for his psychotherapy and life coaching practice. As a young man he was in a Roman Catholic religious order studying to be a priest.
