Simon Confino

Simon Confino is a Communications Psychologist. He was a Board Director of the advertising agency TBWA before training as a psychologist and founding Brainchild UK Ltd a social marketing consultancy. Brainchild focuses on using in depth research with customers to improve and enrich clients' products, services and communications. The company works with commercial organisations as well as the professional bodies and government departments.

Nicky Forsythe

Nicky Forsythe's career in qualitative research spans 20 years. In recent years, she has led qualitative research projects for clients such as BA, Singapore Airlines, HMRC and the Department for Constitutional Affairs. She has a particular interest in the world of counselling and psychotherapy, which she has experienced from many different angles: as user, student, practitioner and now researcher.

Dr Aileen Alleyne

Aileen Alleyne, DPsych, is a UKCP registered psychodynamic psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and researcher. She is a full member of FiP and BACP. In addition to running a private practice in South London, she is a visiting lecturer and consultant on issues of race and diversity in education and workplace settings. Aileen is author of several book-chapters and journal papers exploring themes on black/white dynamics and black identity wounding.

Gill Tuckwell

Gill Tuckwell, PhD, is a BACP senior accredited counsellor, supervisor and trainer who now works in private practice in the West Midlands. Previously, she spent many years working in education and various therapeutic settings where she developed a special interest in racial and cultural issues. Gill has published a number of book chapters and articles and is author of Racial Identity, White Counsellors and Therapists (Open University Press, 2002).

Keith Silvester

Keith Silvester is a psychosynthesis psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer, and is currently employed as training director of the Psychosynthesis & Education Trust in London. He is a past convenor of London Friend gay counselling service, and was for many years the head of student counselling at Central School of Speech and Drama. Keith is an active associate of Pink Therapy, for whom he has written and devised training workshops.

Michael Soth

Michael Soth is an integral-relational Body Psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor (UKCP), living in Oxford, UK. Over the last 20 years he has been teaching on a variety of counselling courses and worked as Training Director at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy.
Inheriting concepts, values and ways of working from both psychoanalytic and humanistic traditions, he is interested in the therapeutic relationship as a bodymind process between two people who are both wounded and whole. In his work and teaching, he integrates a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches, including Gestalt, Process-oriented Psychology, Psychosynthesis, Family Constellations and other humanistic approaches. From the psychoanalytic spectrum, he draws especially on relational, intersubjective and object relations perspectives as well as Jungian and archetypal psychology.
He has written a chapter on ‘Embodied Countertransference' (Totton, N. (2005) "New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy", Maidenhead: OUP), and his presentation to the 2004 UKCP conference ‘What therapeutic hope for a subjective mind in an objectified body?' was published in 2006 ("About a Body", ed Corrigall, J. Payne, H., Wilkinson, H., Routledge).
He is currently setting up a new training course for group leaders and group facilitators, details of which are available at www.soth.co.uk, along with his other published writing, papers and articles.

Gladeana McMahon

Gladeana McMahon is a Fellow and Vice President of the Association for Coaching, a Fellow of BACP; the Institute of Management Specialist and the Royal Society of Arts.  A BABCP Accredited Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapist, she is UKCP registered.

Patrizia Collard

Patrizia Collard works in private practice and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London and a BABCP Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist who is UKCP Registered. Dr Collard is currently undertaking a range of Mindfulness Research projects at the University of East London. 

Julia Buckroyd

Julia Buckroyd is Professor of Counselling at the University of Hertfordshire and Director of the Obesity and Eating Disorders Research Unit. She has been working in the field of eating disorders since 1984. Her original training was as an academic historian but she re-trained first as a counsellor and then as a psychotherapist with the Guild of Psychotherapists. Her first post as a student counsellor in 1984 was at London Contemporary Dance School where she became interested in eating disorders. Her first book on eating disorders, Eating Your Heart Out, (2^nd edition, Vega, 1996) derives mostly from this experience. Since 1994 she has worked at the University of Hertfordshire while continuing her clinical work as a therapist. Her work with dancers, including work relating to eating disorders was published in The Student Dancer  (Dance Books, 2000). In the past five years she has started to apply the insights of therapeutic work with eating disorders to obesity and has been carrying out a research programme to explore whether psychotherapeutic groups for obese women are effective in creating sustained weight loss. This work is ongoing with a programme of research in this area. Her account of this research and the group programme that she developed was published in April 2007 (Julia Buckroyd and Sharon Rother, Therapeutic Groups for Obese Women; a group leader’s handbook, Wiley). She has also sought to support work on psychological aspects of all forms of disordered eating via conferences and publications. She and Sharon Rother have recently completed an edited book in this area (Psychological Aspects of Eating Disorders and Obesity, Wiley) published in February 2008. Ongoing projects include a book for Jessica Kingsley on disordered eating and a self-help book. Current projects applying her research include a pilot obesity service in a PCT and a community based obesity service in an area of social deprivation. She has also developed a programme for emotional eaters available to the general public which will be developed into a commercial project. She offers supervision, workshops and consultancy to a wide range of organisations.

From January 2004 to December 2007 she was editor of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, the research journal of BACP. In this role she continued the journal’s mission to make research accessible to practitioners and to support the development of counselling and psychotherapy research in the UK.

Phil Mollon

Phil Mollon PhD is a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and clinical psychologist. In recent years he has been immersed in the study of energy psychology, finding that this provides possibilities of therapeutic change far deeper and more rapid than can be obtained through any previous approach he has explored. Nevertheless he remains rooted in the psychoanalytic heritage and is concerned to integrate energy psychology with more traditonal knowledge. This endeavour has resulted in his latest book: Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy [Karnac]. Dr Mollon has also written extensively on trauma, dissociation, shame, and disturbances in the experience of self. He works within the NHS in Hertfordshire.

Sian Morgan

Sian Morgan BA, Dip Couns is a counsellor and psychotherapist working in private practice in Brighton and Hove. She is trained in both humanistic and psychodynamic approaches and is currently studying for an MSc in Cognitive Psychotherapy. Sian is a senior accredited member of BACP and an Accredited EMDR Consultant and EMDR Facilitator. She works with clients both short and long term, and trains and supervises mental health practitioners in EMDR. Sian is also a member of the national Executive Committee for the EMDR UK and Ireland Association.

For further information about EMDR and training go to www.emdrassociation.org

Kaye Richards

Kaye Richards is Research Facilitator at BACP and her role is to undertake research, promote research awareness and facilitate research into counselling and psychotherapy. She is passionate about bridging the gap between research and practice and her past research, amongst other things, has included the development of outdoor adventure therapy interventions for women with eating disorders and the development of research initiatives with and about young people. She is a qualified outdoor educator and has worked in a variety of outdoor training settings developing research, teaching and practice. She was launching editor of the academic Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning and currently sits on the editorial board of the journal. She has written and edited numerous publications including, ‘Therapy within adventure', ‘Eating disorders and adventure therapy: a feminist approach to research and practice', ‘Self-esteem and youth development' and she was co-author of the recently published BACP systematic review entitled ‘The impact of clinical supervision on counsellors and therapists, their practice and their clients (2007). Contact details: kaye.richards@bacp.co.uk

Jenny Peel

Dr Jenny Peel is currently teaching outdoor/adventure therapy at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), where she has taught for the past 22 years. During her time at LJMU Jenny has been involved in the setting up and development of psychotherapy training programmes from undergraduate to doctoral level. Jenny's research and publications have focussed on outdoor/adventure therapy, recovery from childhood sexual abuse, and the application of the person-centred approach. Jenny is a Trustee of the Liverpool Family Refugee Support Project where traumatised survivors of war and torture are offered psychotherapy through the medium of allotment gardening. Jenny is also in private practice in Liverpool as a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. Contact details: ruegg.peel@virgin.net

Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith is a UKCP registered and BACP accredited psychotherapist working as a Lecturer in Counselling in Liverpool. She also has a private psychotherapy practice specialising in Transactional Analysis with adults and children in individual and group therapy. She has a strong research interest in anti-oppression and cross cultural counselling. She recently spent two years in the Maldives designing and delivering counsellor training. She has worked on adventure therapy programmes with women with troubled eating and is involved in research in these areas. She works extensively with survivors and is a supervisor and trainer for counselling with children and adults. Her publications include a co-edited text ‘Anti-discriminatory Counselling Practice' (2003) Lago, C., & Smith, B., Sage Publications.

Pamela Woodford

Pamela is a fellow of the Human Givens Institute in recognition of her contribution in working with children and young people, runs a thriving international private practice as well teaching and supervising HG therapists.

Maarit Brooks

Maarit Brooks is a practicing GP and a qualified Human Givens therapist. Last year she ran a course in Rwanda on using the Human Givens approach for treating PTSD. Because of the success of that visit Maarit is going to Rwanda again this autumn to repeat the course.

Maria Gilbert

Maria C Gilbert is a UKCP registered Integrative Psychotherapist, a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and a BACP accredited supervisor, who is currently joint head of department with Vanja Orlans of the Integrative Psychotherapy, Integrative Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy, Coaching Psychology and Supervision Department at Metanoia Institute in West London. She has co-authored two books one on supervision and another on integrative psychotherapy with Ken Evans, and more recently a manual for supervisees with Michael Carroll.

Chris Purnell

Chris is a practising Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and a UKCP registered member of the Bowlby Centre. His professional background is youth and community work, which he practised for 18 years, before training as a psychotherapist.
He has previously worked as a psychotherapist in a hospice and community setting with people living with HIV & AIDS and also within a voluntary organisation with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. He currently works as an Adult Psychotherapist in the NHS where he is currently involved in developing attachment-based group therapy. In addition he also maintains a small private practice.
Chris's interest in Attachment Theory has led him to train with Dr Patricia Crittenden in the use of the Adult Attachment Interview, and he is using this as an assessment tool in working with clients who have a complexity issues that are often associated with personality disorders.
In addition he has presented papers on the clinical applications of Attachment Theory at national and international conferences, as well as publishing in various books and journals.

Kym Winter 

Kym Winter is Deputy Head of Counselling at the University of Herts . She has worked in student counselling for over 15 years, and originally trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in therapeutic communities. She has a particular interest in applying psychoanalytic concepts in ordinary language to everyday life, and in working with young adults who may not readily access or pursue therapy. In recent years she has been developing her curiosity as to how technology is both shaping and reflecting the nature, type and number of relationships and attachments that we make, and how engaging with ‘virtual ‘ .

Maggie Turp

Dr Maggie Turp is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, a chartered psychologist and a member of BACP, BPS and Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists. Prior to her retirement from teaching, she was a staff member at Birkbeck College London, contributing to the MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Adolescents and the BSc in Psychology.
Her publications, lectures and day training workshops for counsellors reflect a lively interest in the essential physicality of the self and the physical expression of psychological distress, whether in the form of self-harming behaviour, psychosomatic illness, or symptoms associated with the aftermath of trauma.
Maggie is also a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals ‘Psychodynamic Practice' and ‘Infant Observation'. Her publications include several journal papers, the books ‘Psychosomatic Health: the body and the word' (2001 Palgrave) and ‘Hidden Self-Harm: narratives from psychotherapy' (2003 Jessica Kingsley) and a chapter in ‘Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide' (2008 ed. Briggs S. et al, London: Karnac).
Correspondence is always welcome and may be addressed to maggieturp@googlemail.com

Pamela Gawler-Wright

Pamela Gawler-Wright MSc is a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist integrating many models including Neuro-Linguistics and Ericksonian Psychotherapy. She is Director of Training for BeeLeaf Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, a UKCP Member Organisation. She writes for many professional journals and presents internationally at Conferences and Trainings for psychotherapists and personal development events. Practising in the East End of London, Pam specialises in the treatment of dependency conditions and is also well-known for her open seminars "Working Successfully with Addictions", "The Art and Science of Therapeutic Storytelling" and "Wider Mind - Ericksonian Hypno-Psychotherapy in Practice".

Mick Cooper

Mick Cooper is Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde and a UKCP-registered existential psychotherapist. Mick is author of Existential Therapies (Sage, 2003), co-author with Dave Mearns of Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2005), and has written several chapters and papers.

John McLeod

John McLeod is Professor of Counselling at University of Abertay Dundee, and co-director of the Tayside Centre for Counselling. He is author of several books and articles, including An introduction to counselling (Open University Press, 3rd edn, 2003), Counselling skill (Open University Press, 2007), Doing counselling research (Sage, 2nd edn 2003), Practitioner research in counselling (Sage, 1999) and Qualitative research in counselling and psychotherapy (Sage, 2001), and was the founding editor of the Counselling and Psychotherapy Research journal.

Peter Jones

Peter Jones is a trained mental health nurse and is presently a lecturer in public and primary care at the City University in London. He has an extensive background in mental health and has undertaken training as a counsellor. He graduated with a Graduate Diploma in Counselling in 1997 and obtained an MA in Counselling in 1999.

His work with male victims of sexual violence and trauma within the custodial setting has received national recognition and he has presented at national and international conferences. He has received a number of national awards for his work.

He has also worked extensively with the resettlement and rehabilitation of offenders, chairing a successful service in Winchester.

As well as chairing the counselling in prisons' network Peter also chairs the National Advisory Group in relation to working with victims of sexual violence and trauma within the custodial setting. In 2007 Peter was asked to chair a specialist interest group in this area, within the World Health Organisation, HIPP.

He is a recognised leader in this field and has developed models of practice and pioneered work in this area of sexual violence and trauma both within and outside the custodial setting.

Annie Blackburn

Annie Blackburn is a UKCP Registered Gestalt Psychotherapist. Annie is Deputy Head of Counselling at Cardiff University.

Vicky Groves

Vicky Groves has an MA Counselling (CBT), is a BACP Registered Practitioner, and is also Deputy Head of Counselling at Cardiff University.

Karen Cromarty

Biography to follow

Norma Gould

Norma Gould is head of counselling at Bacon's College, Bermondsey, London and tutor on the MSc Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Adolescents course at Birkbeck College, University of London. Before her present position, she worked at Forest Hill Boys' School where she set up the counselling service. She has worked at Just Ask Counselling Service which specialises in providing counselling for young homeless people. Prior to training to be a counsellor, she was a secondary school teacher and head of department for 12 years. In addition to working as a counsellor with young people, she has a particular interest in Group Relations and has worked for some years as a member of staff on the Birkbeck Group Relations Conference.

Kevin Friery

Kevin Friery is Clinical Director of one of the UK's largest Employee Assistance Providers. He has published a number of articles about work-related counselling and is regularly interviewed and quoted by journalists writing about workplace wellbeing. Prior to working with EAPs he worked in the NHS, first as a Primary Care Counsellor and subsequently as a Counselling Service Manager. Once upon a time, he was a Behavioural Psychologist.

A senior accredited counsellor and trainer, he maintains a small (non-EAP) private practice.

Dave Berger

 Senior Counsellor, University of Hull,
 Chair of HUCS (Heads of University Counselling Services) - a Special Interest Group of AUCC
 Current member of AUCC Research sub-committee
 Past Chair of AUCC

After graduating with a degree in Engineering, Dave Berger started out his professional life in the youth service with eight years working in Youth & Community centres in Hertfordshire, much of which was spent on his knees, making or mending inflatable play structures. He was successful in gaining ‘promotion' to a much sought-after job as student adviser in the local FE college (then De Haviland, later to become Oaklands). At that time Youth & Community in Hertfordshire was organised as departments in each college. The big attraction was long summer holidays (this privilege was soon eroded).This post involved working closely with the students' union and managing the part-time student counsellors. This aroused his interest in getting trained as a counsellor. The postgraduate Diploma training, at what is now the University of Hertfordshire, involved a placement in their student counselling service. The proportion of time spent running student discos and finding the chalk for the pool table diminished whilst that spent counselling students in one-to-one and group situations became more significant.

Around 1992, the reorganisation of FE in Hertrfordshire, involving the merger of colleges combined with changes within Youth & Community, provided the stimulus to apply for other jobs; that of counsellor and manager of counselling at Epping Forest College in Essex consolidated his experience as a counsellor. Having spent a dozen or more years benefiting from the expertise freely shared by others working as counsellors in further and higher education settings, Dave decided it was time to put something back, and was elected onto the executive of AUCC.

In 2000, shortly after this election, Dave was successful in moving across to the Higher Education sector with the post of senior counsellor at the University of Hull. Since then Dave has served on the AUCC executive firstly as Secretary and then as Chair of AUCC, on the research sub - committee of AUCC, and now as Co-chair of HUCS (Heads of University Counselling Services - a special interest group of AUCC).

The AUCC Research sub-committee has taken an active role in the benchmarking and auditing of counselling in F&HE and has produced annual statistics over the past 13 years on the level of activity, and concerns presented by clients in these sectors. Dave has been active in getting the survey running this year as an online survey. The use of CORE as an evaluation tool within the sector has also become a central interest, and work is being done on integrating this more into the mainstream of counselling in these sectors, alongside the annual survey.

His interest in the whole field of counselling in F&HE has led to the publication of a number of articles in the AUCC journal and what has become a regular column ‘Manager's Dilemmas'. Last year Dave also collaberated in a chapter on Assessment and Evaluation in the forthcoming second edition of "Key Issues in Counselling", edited by Dr Andrew Reeves, to be published by Sage in the autumn.

Dave Richards

David Richards is Professor of Mental Health at the University of York and one of the prime movers in national and international efforts to improve access to treatment for those suffering from common emotional distress. He has been at the heart of the UK's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme (IAPT) since its inception, where he led the development of the stepped care low-intensity methods pioneered in the Doncaster demonstration site. David is a vocal advocate of improving social inclusion by educating people from within their own communities to deliver low-intensity mental health care. He works closely with Rethink and other mental health advocacy organisations, as well as running a multi-centre research team, funded by the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research, which is examining new models of delivering treatment including stepped care, guided self-help and collaborative care. The results of this research programme have been fundamental to the clinical and educational methods used in Doncaster.

Richard Curen

Richard Curen has worked as a psychotherapist, counsellor and manager in the sexual abuse field for the last 13 years. He joined Respond from Survivors UK where, amongst other things, he was responsible for managing the individual and group therapy services for adult male survivors of sexual violence and abuse. He is Chair of The Survivors Trust - an umbrella group of over 120 survivor organisations across the UK. He is a board member of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and Treasurer of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability. Richard is also a member of the National Association for the Treatment of Abusers, a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and Allied Professionals and a visiting Lecturer at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust

Sally Aldridge

Sally's involvement with BACP began as a student member, then as an accreditation assessor, becoming Chair of the Accreditation Committee, and a member of the then Management Committee (now Board of Governors). In 1999, Sally took up the post of Head of Accreditation at BACP. In November 2006 she became BACP's Head of Regulatory Policy. Sally is a member of the IAPT Workforce Reference Group education and training committee, the CSIP New Ways of Working for Psychological Therapists working group and the Skills for Health National Reference Group for the development of national occupational standards for psychological therapies. Sally is currently undertaking research for her PhD on professionalisation of counselling at University of Leicester.

Alan Cohen

Alan Cohen was a GP principal for 20 years in Mitcham, South London from 1984, to 2004. In that time the practice developed from a three partner practice with 6000 patients, to a five partner training and teaching practice working from new cost rent premises with 10,000 patients. He was the first trainer in the practice, and made links with the local medical school and with the FHSA. He was chair of the MAAG, and later chair of the East Merton and Furzedown Primary Care Group.

In April 2004, Alan left the practice as a principal to join Kensington and Chelsea PCT as Clinical Director. From 2005 he was appointed as senior primary care advisor to CSIP. CSIP is part of the Department of Health, and is responsible for service improvement and policy development for the "care services" i.e. mental health, older people and children's health, people with learning and/or physical disabilities, and social care. Currently he is spending much of his commitment to CSIP providing primary care advice to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme (IAPT). This programme has just received £170m of new money to develop accessible talking therapies for people with common mental health problems.

Alan Cohen also works as Senior Fellow at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, a national mental health charitable trust; where his work involves policy analysis and development, and as part of which, he has contributed to the mental health expert reference group of the QOF panel.

He has maintained his clinical skills by working as a GP consultant in a practice in Wimbledon. Clinical work undertaken includes routine clinical sessions, and also providing advice to other clinicians in the team on managing patients with complex mental health problems. He has been able to help the practice achieve a higher QOF score for depression and Mental Health domains, provided training and support to the nursing staff and receptionists, as well as contributing to the training undertaken by the principals.

John Hague

Biography to follow

Nikki Hale

Since qualifying as a Registered General Nurse in 1987, Nikki Hale has worked in a variety of nursing roles within the NHS from staff nurse, sister, ward manager, to outpatient department manager and clinical nurse specialist within Neurosciences. In 2000 Nikki moved to the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust to work in Practice and Professional Development.
Whilst working in the Practice and Professional Development team, Nikki undertook a wide range of responsibilities including Quality Assurance Co-ordinator, Assessor and Internal Verifier for City and Guilds awards and lead for the expansion of Health Care Assistant roles. Nikki also supported the Practice and Professional Development Agenda for the wider nursing team, supporting the planning, delivery and evaluation of continuing professional development programmes for registered nursing staff from newly qualified nurses, through to experienced ward sisters and Matrons.
From August 2004 Nikki also led the implementation of the Knowledge and Skills Framework for the nursing workforce across the Trust, and was a key member of the Trust's KSF steering group. This role involved working closely with all levels of the Nursing Workforce across the Trust and supporting staff from other disciplines and professions.
From June 2006 to June April 2008 Nikki was Senior Fellow, Competence Development, working jointly with the Royal College of Nursing and Skills for Health. This role included supporting nurses in the development of specialist competence frameworks, utilising and contextualising the application of National Occupational Standards and National Workforce Competences.
Nikki commenced her current post with Skills for Health in April 2008 and is the Programme Manager for the Psychological Therapies project.

Tony Roth

Biography to follow

Diane Waller

Diane Waller is Professor of Art Psychotherapy and Co-ordinator of programmes in Group and Intercultural Therapy at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the Arts Therapies registrant member of the Health Professions Council and former Chair of its Education and Training Committee. Diane was responsible for the negotiations to regulate the Arts Therapies between 1991 and 1997, at which point Art, Music and Dramatherapy were incorporated into the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine (the predecessor of HPC) through an Act of Parliament. Since then Diane has been involved in many areas of regulation work, especially education, approval of programmes, fitness to practise and bringing new professions into regulation. She is a member of UKCP and UPCA (as a Group Analytic Psychotherapist). Her research is in the history and development of art therapy and psychotherapy in the UK and Europe; in evidence based practice especially with older people with dementia, Parkinson's disease and drug addiction; cancer care and schizophrenia, and in working towards culturally sensitive mental health services. She is author of several books on these issues. In June 2007 Diane was awarded an OBE for services to healthcare.

Jeremy Clarke

Biography to follow

Rebecca Mann

Rebecca Mann is a psychology graduate employed by BACP as a Quality and Standards Manager. She has worked for BACP since 2001 and has been part of the Regulatory Policy department since its inception in Autumn 2006. In this role she is engaged in a variety of projects which inform the work of the Association specifically in relation to training and maintaining standards within the profession.

Christina Docchar

Christina Docchar is Project Manager for cpd and supervision at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Part of her role is to develop a clear profile for supervision in the counselling and psychotherapy field. She has a background working for professional bodies, having previously worked for The Physiological Society and the British Psychological Society.

Tim Bond

Professor Tim Bond PhD, Fellow of BACP, is Head of the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol and has researched and published

extensively about legal and ethical issues for the talking therapies.

Barbara Mitchels

Dr Barbara Mitchels is a Fellow of BACP, combining practice as a solicitor, psychotherapist and mediator. She draws from her experience in writing, creating resources and facilitating training for professionals and volunteer helpers.

Nick Houghton

Nick Houghton is Managing Director of Towergate Professional Risks, who have been insuring BACP members for over 15 years.

Helen Coles

Biography to follow

Kate Thompson

Biography to follow