Sally Aldridge

Sally Aldridge trained as a student counsellor at the University of Keele and then worked as a counsellor and head of Student Services at Staffordshire University. In 1999 she moved to work at BACP as Head of Accreditation, later Professional Standards. Since autumn 2006 Sally has worked as Head of Regulatory Policy and more recently Director of Regulatory Policy.

Bob Burden

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Dr Walter Busuttil

Dr Walter Busuttil MBChB, MPhil, MRCGP, FRCPsych served for 16 years in the Royal Air Force where he was instrumental in setting up mental health rehabilitation services for servicemen returning form the first Gulf War. He was also part of the clinical team that worked on the rehabilitation of the released British Beirut Hostages. He is a Consultant Psychiatrist and is the Medical Director to the national charity Combat Stress which looks after ex-servicemen and combat veterans with mental health difficulties. He has published and lectured internationally about treatment and rehabilitation of chronic and complex presentations of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and has helped to set up services for PTSD treatment nationally. He was recently appointed Chair of the UK Trauma Group and is a Board Member of the UK Psychological Trauma Society.

Michael Chaskalson

Based in Cambridge, Michael has a Masters degree in the clinical applications of mindfulness and a 30-year personal practice of mindfulness and related disciplines. He is an honorary lecturer at Bangor University, where he teaches a Masters module in the Department of Psychology. A member of the core team at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice in Bangor, Michael's teaching is both theoretical and practical. Drawing on the latest scientific research, including studies from the field of brain science, his approach combines this with the ancient art of meditative practice.
Michael runs mindfulness programmes in healthcare and corporate contexts around the UK together with a regular public course of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the London School of Economics. (see www.mbsr.co.uk)
michael@mbsr.co.uk
www.mindfulness-works.com
www.michaelchaskalson.com

Dr Christopher Clulow Phd

Christopher Clulow is a Senior Fellow of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, London, where he practises as a visiting lecturer and researcher. He has published extensively on marriage, partnerships, parenthood and couple psychotherapy, most recently from an attachment perspective. His most recent edited publication, Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, was published by Karnac Books in March 2009. He is Vice Chair of the Society of Couple Psychoanalytical Psychotherapists, an advisor to the international journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy, and a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy, Dartington. Currently he is consulting to a mental health agency on a services and workforce development project resourced by a grant from the Government's Parenting Fund, and participating in a Tavistock Clinic intervention project evaluating a new service for couples becoming parents. He maintains a private clinical and training practice from his home in St Albans, and is a Patron of Hertfordshire Central Relate. He is also a trustee of Youth Talk and the Blandford Trust.

Professor Mick Cooper

Mick Cooper is a Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde, and has undertaken extensive research into counselling in schools, with two influential reports on the Glasgow Counselling in Schools Project (download from www.strathclydecounselling.com). He is also author of Essential Research Findings in Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Facts are Friendly (Sage/BACP, 2008), and a wide range of other texts on person-centred, existential and humanistic approaches to practice.

Karen Cromarty

Karen Cromarty is BACP's Senior Lead Advisor, with special responsibility for children and young people. Karen works across the UK with policy makers, strategists, researchers, academics and members of BACP to promote high quality, accessible professional counselling services for children and young people. Karen is an accredited counsellor, and an experienced supervisor, trainer, and manager of counselling services. She is a founding member of the Counselling in Schools Research Consortium (CSRC) (see:www.bacp.co.uk/research). Contact: karen.cromarty@bacp.co.uk

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.

Kay Dowd

Kay is trained on the Humanistic-Integrative model, and has particular interest in working with addiction, adult surviviors of childhood trauma, sexuality, shame and inner-child work. She is also a qualified clincial supervisor, tutors on accredited training programmes, and designs and delivers workshops and seminars to the public and private sector.

Dr Linda Dubrow-Marshall

Dr Linda Dubrow-Marshall is a BACP accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist. She is a Counsellor at Cardiff University, where she works with both students and staff, and facilitates a Stress Management Course. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Glamorgan, and she has a part-time private practice. She is certified in Clinical Hypnosis, Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), and the Treatment of Alcohol and Other Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders.

John Eatock

John Eatock is an Anglican priest, counsellor, counselling supervisor and trainer. John has been a parish priest, area dean, ministerial education officer and human relations trainer. He studied for his Masters under Professor Ninian Smart at Lancaster has interests in doctrine, ethics and modern religious and atheistic thought, as well as counselling and psychotherapy. His counselling training was at Manchester and York. After more than 20-years in parochial ministry he worked in Primary Care, helped to found the BACP Division, the Faculty of Heathcare Counsellors and Psychotherapists, was editor of Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal (HCPJ) and lectured at the University of Salford. In 2000 he became the first BACP Lead Advisor for Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy and still retains a personal appointment with NICE. In 2007 he was appointed as BACP Lead Advisor for Counselling and Psychotherapy in Spiritual and Pastoral Care. He has authored articles in a wide variety of publications, been involved with the production of NICE guidelines and is currently working on the notion of how to develop ‘spiritual intelligence' for counsellors and psychotherapists. He is a fellow of BACP.

Dr Nuria Gené-Cos LMS, MRC Psych

Dr Nuria Gené-Cos holds a Bachelor Degree of Medicine and Surgery. She has been a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 1993. She is a psychiatrist and a trauma therapist (Sensorimotor, Lifespan Integration and EMDR therapies).
Nuria has worked as a psychiatrist for 20 years and has been a Consultant Psychiatrist since 2000. She has worked as a consultant psychiatrist at the Traumatic Stress Service since 2002. She has extensive experience in wide aspects of general psychiatry, and she specialises in neuropsychiatry. At the Traumatic Stress Service, she undertakes part-assessments, second opinions for tertiary referrals and medico-legal reports. She also undertakes individual and family therapy work for people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), with special interest in childhood developmental trauma and survivors of war and violence. Moreover, she works with victims who have severe brain injuries as well as psychological conditions.
Nuria also works part time in her private practice as a consultant psychiatrist and trauma therapist.
Nuria has completed a PhD in Psychophysiology in Anxiety Disorders, including PTSD, panic disorder and non epileptic seizures. She has published a number of articles in relation to neuropsychiatric issues, bilinguality in relation to psychiatric symptomatology and PTSD. She is a member of the EMDR association (UK branch), Lifespan Integration and sensorimotor therapy (trauma and developmental); a member of British Psychophysiology Society; British Neuropsychiatric Association, and the British Neuropharmacology Association.

Mary Godfrey

Mary Godfrey is a Senior Research Fellow whose main areas of work include older people, caregivers, and people with mental health problems. Mary has a specific interest in service user/carer experiences, outcomes in health/social care, and in processes for involving service users in research, service planning and development. She is currently engaged in evaluating a Partnership for Older People Pilot Project in Leeds, as well as a comparative study of delayed discharge in England and Scotland. Her published work includes a research study with older people on quality of life for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Building a good life for older people in local communities and a literature and policy review on depression in later life for Help the Aged, published by Policy Press. Her recently completed research includes an evaluation of Intermediate Care for the Department of Health/Medical Research Council and a research and policy review of service provision for older people with mental health problems commissioned by Age Concern and the Mental Health Foundation.

Stuart Griffiths

Stuart has worked in the Professional Standards directorate of the Department of Health since January 2007. During that time he has been the lead in taking forward the reforms of the regulatory bodies set out in the White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safety. He was also responsible for taking legislation through Parliament on the regulation of psychologists.

Michael Guthrie

Michael Guthrie is Director of Policy and Standards at the Health Professions Council. Michael has been with the Health Professions Council for over five years, undertaking a variety of roles in the Fitness to Practise and Policy and Standards Departments. Michael is supporting the work of the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Professional Liaison Group which will lead to the HPC making recommendations to Government about the regulation of psychotherapists and counsellors.

Terry Hanley

Terry Hanley is a Lecturer in Counselling at the University of Manchester. His work includes teaching on the Masters and Doctorate programmes at the university and researching the development of youth friendly counselling services.

Martin Hogg

After qualifying as a counsellor Martin quickly realised that to run a successful counselling practice he would need to draw on the skills learnt from 18 years working in operations management and marketing in major blue chip companies, his MBA from Aston University and even the time he spent at the Disney University. Martin has also researched the media that could be used to market a counselling practice, discovering the good, the bad and the ugly. Martin helps counsellors grow their practices through practice building seminars, small group trainings and one to one support.

Martin is the Managing Director of Citizen Coaching (CitizenCoaching.com) a not-for-personal-profit Social Enterprise based in Birmingham. The company works with organisations including NHS, Terrence Higgins Trust, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, CAFCASS, Mitchells & Butler and The Black Country Consortium.

Martin has worked on pioneering youth projects, including Channel 4's ‘Ballet Changed My Life: Ballet Hoo!' and appeared on BBC Radio as Anger Management specialist.

Heather Hurford

Heather has extensive experience working with social care and NHS organisations as a social worker, service manager, commissioner, external consultant and PCT board member.
Since co-founding RDMH in 2006, Heather's work has focused on the development of strategies and tools to support service providers and statutory commissioners working in the mental health field, particularly in primary care. Her approach is informed by the experience of users of mental health services, and by a commitment to supporting effective integration of high-quality mental health care across mainstream and specialist services.
As a PCT non-executive director for five years, Heather was instrumental in the establishment of a local psychological therapy service and other community mental health initiatives. Over the last two years she has worked with BACP to deliver conference and seminar presentations on commissioning within the NHS and has written for both Therapy Today and the Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal (HCPJ) on these issues. She is the author of BACP's NHS Commissioning - a toolkit for psychological therapy providers.
Heather is also a Mental Health Act Commissioner with the Care Quality Commission.

Chris Jenkins

Chris Jenkins is Chair of Association for Pastoral and Spiritual Care and Counselling (APSCC). A Catholic priest and psychotherapist, he works in a variety of contexts with groups and individuals. Chris has lived and studied in rich multicultural settings (two years living with 35 nationalities at St Anselm's Institute in Kent). He completed his Doctoral research in 2006 on the exclusion and pathologising of clients' spirituality in both private and NHS therapy settings. Chris has been editor of Thresholds, the APSCC journal, since 2007. For more information see: www.chrisjenkins.org

Peter Jenkins

Peter Jenkins is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling at Salford University, a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor Trainer and a member of the UKCP Ethics Committee. He has extensive experience of training counselling practitioners and organisations on legal aspects of therapy, such as confidentiality, and has published widely on this topic, including Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Law (Sage, 2007).

Clare Jones

Clare Jones' background in marketing and business development spans almost 20 years. She is a Chartered Marketer and has worked in marketing and sales roles globally in both large and small professional service organisations and also as a freelance consultant. She is a marketing coach and consultant to therapists and founder of www.therapymarketingtoolbox.com. She writes the monthly column on marketing in Therapy Today.

Danuta Lipinska

Danuta Lipinska, BA (Psychology), MA (Counselling), MBACP Accred. Counsellor, UKCP Registered Counsellor.
Danuta has worked with people with dementia, their families and the professionals who care for them within most care environments both in the USA and UK, initially as a nurse then as a counsellor and supervisor in private practice for over 20 years. She has transferred her many experiences into training health and social care staff in all sectors of practice. She is a dynamic and innovative trainer, project developer, author and international speaker.
Her first book Person Centred Counselling For People With Dementia: Making Sense of Self has been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, January 2009 and has sold out in the USA.

Tina Livingstone

Tina Livingstone is a person-centred counsellor, counselling supervisor, and Pink Therapy Accredited Sexual Minorities Therapist who has specialised in working with sexual and gender minorities, and their significant others, since 1999. Published in CPJ (2004), Therapy Today (2006) and PCEP Journal (2008), she is currently working toward an MSc in Counselling at Strathclyde University. Further details of her work can be found at: www.positivebeams.com and http://www.tgfact.co.uk/

Carol Martin

Carol Martin is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Academic Director of the Clinical Psychology Training Programme at the University of Leeds. She trained initially as a clinical psychologist, pursued further training in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy, and is now registered with UKCP. She has used interview methodologies, Grounded Theory strategies, focus groups and thematic analysis. Her doctoral thesis concerned psychoanalytic psychotherapists' experience of personal therapy and used Free Association Narrative Interviewing, with an emphasis on the use of the interviewer's experience as additional data for inclusion in analysis. This research has been presented at the Society for Psychotherapy Research and British Psychological Society Qualitative Methods in Psychology conferences. More recently, she has supervised the research of trainees in Clinical Psychology and others, has examined research, and has been a member of teams conducting research into the experience of casualty after an episode of self-harm and into the value of training on management of delirium within care home environments. Her interests lie with the value of qualitative methods for exploring clinical issues.

Professor John McLeod

John McLeod is Professor of Counselling at the University of Abertay Dundee. He is author of An Introduction to Counselling (4th edition, Open University Press, 2009), Counselling Skill (Open University Press, 2007) and books and articles on a wide range of topics in counselling and psychotherapy. He is interested in the role of research and inquiry in enhancing service delivery, the possibilities of pluralistic approaches to practice, and the potential contribution of counselling in addressing social and environment problems.

Dr Scott Miller

Scott D Miller, PhD is a co-founder of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, a private group of clinicians and researchers dedicated to studying ‘what works' in mental health and substance abuse treatment. He works as a therapist providing all clinical services pro bono to traditionally under-served clients. Dr Miller conducts workshops and training in the United States and abroad, and is known for his engaging and humorous presentation style. He has presented to many professional audiences including: the American Psychological Association, the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, and the National Association of Social Workers. Most recently, he served as an invited faculty member at the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference. He is the author of numerous articles and co-author of Working with the Problem Drinker: A Solution Focused Approach (with Insoo Berg [Norton, 1992]), The "Miracle" Method: A Radically New Approach to Problem Drinking (with Insoo Kim Berg [Norton, 1995]), Finding the Adult Within: A Solution-Focused Self-Help Guide (with Barbara McFarland [Brief Therapy Center Press, 1995]), Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Foundations, Applications, and Research (with Mark Hubble and Barry Duncan [Jossey-Bass, 1996]), Escape from Babel: Toward a Unifying Language for Psychotherapy Practice (with Barry Duncan and Mark Hubble [Norton, 1997]), Psychotherapy with Impossible Cases: Efficient Treatment of Therapy Veterans (with Barry Duncan and Mark Hubble [Norton, 1997]), The Heart and Soul of Change: What Works in Therapy (with Mark Hubble and Barry Duncan [APA Press, 1999]), The Heroic Client: A Revolutionary Way to Improve Effectiveness through Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Therapy (with Barry Duncan [Jossey-Bass, 2000], and Jacqueline Sparks [Revised, 2004]), and the forthcoming What Works in Drug and Alcohol Treatment (with David Mee-Lee and Bill Plum).

Greg Nolan

Greg Nolan is Professional Lead for Counselling and Teaching Fellow in Counselling at the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds and a counsellor and supervisor in private practice. He has taught in secondary schools and been Year Tutor, developed Tutorial and PSE curricula, Head of Careers and managed a Guidance and Counselling department in the FE/Tertiary sector. He has worked freelance as counsellor, supervisor and trainer in HE, MIND, NHS palliative care, EAPs and Voluntary Agencies across South and West Yorkshire. Recently completing doctoral research on supervision at the University of Manchester, he is currently involved in development groups for Skills for Health NOS (National Occupational Standards) in Psychological Therapies and development of the BACP national curriculum for supervision training.

Professor Stephen Palmer

Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is Founder Director of the Centre for Coaching and Centre for Stress Management, London, UK. He is an Honorary Professor of Psychology at City University and Founder Director of their Coaching Psychology Unit. He is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, an Association for Professional Executive Coaches & Supervisors (APECS) Accredited Executive Coach/Supervisor, a Society for Coaching Psychology Accredited Coaching Psychologist, a BABCP and AREBT Accredited Cognitive-Behavioural Therapist, and an AREBT Accredited Supervisor and Trainer.

Stephen is Hon President of the Association for Coaching and Hon Vice President of the Society for Coaching Psychology. In 1990 he became Managing Editor of the BAC(P) journal, ‘Counselling'. In 2001 he was Chair of the BACP Online Counselling Working Party. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He was on the Advisory Panel for the CIPD 2004 publication, Coaching and Buying Coaching Services: A Guide. He was an Academic Consultant for the Surrey Police Deepcut Investigation Final Report. In his 2004 BBC 1 television series, The Stress Test, he demonstrated cognitive coaching and cognitive therapy.

Also the UK Coordinating Co-Editor of the International Coaching Psychology Review, and Executive Editor of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, he is on the editorial boards of a number of journals. He has written numerous articles and authored or edited over 30 books. Some of his books include Counselling for Stress Problems (with Dryden, Sage, 1995), Stress Management and Counselling (with Dryden, Cassell, 1996), Handbook of Counselling (with McMahon, Routledge & BACP, 1997), Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2000), Counselling: The BACP Counselling Reader Vol 2 (with Milner, Sage, 2001), Multicultural Counselling (Sage, 2002), The Essential Skills for Setting up a Counselling & Psychotherapy Practice (with McMahon and Wilding, Routledge, 2005), Achieving Excellence in Your Coaching Practice: How to run a Highly Successful Coaching Business (with McMahon and Wilding, Routledge, 2005), the Handbook of Coaching Psychology (with Whybrow, Routledge, 2007) and The Practitioner's Handbook (with Bor, Sage, 2008).

Stephen received from the British Psychological Society, Division of Counselling Psychology, the Annual Counselling Psychology Award for 'Outstanding professional and scientific contribution to Counselling Psychology in Britain for 2000'. In 2004 he received an Achievement Award from the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. In 2008 the British Psychological Society, Special Group in Coaching Psychology gave him the 'Lifetime Achievement Award in Recognition of Distinguished Contribution to Coaching Psychology', awarded at the 1st European Coaching Psychology Conference, 2008. His interests include jazz, astronomy, coastal walking, writing and art.

Val Potter

Val Potter has been a counsellor for 30 years working in a variety of settings. Much of her practice has been in the voluntary sector where she has worked as a counsellor (paid and unpaid) and as a manager and Chief Executive. She has seen many changes in the position and status of voluntary counsellors and, throughout this time, she has been aware that many people who have benefited from counselling have been able to access affordable services because of the hard work and dedication of voluntary counsellors.

Val was a member of the Working Group that developed the BACP Ethical Framework. She was Chair of BACP from 2002 to 2005. She has represented BACP on several working groups related to standards and regulation of psychological therapies. Val is currently Chair of the BACP Third Sector Forum and provides consultancy to individuals and organisations in the counselling field, as well as continuing to practise as a counsellor, supervisor and trainer in Wiltshire, where she now lives.

Dr Gillian Proctor

Gillian Proctor, D Clin Psych is a Clinical Psychologist with Bradford Community Health Services mental health team and an honorary research fellow at the University of Bradford. Ethics, politics and power are her special interests and publications include: author of The Dynamics of power in counselling and psychotherapy (2002, PCCS books), co-editor of Encountering Feminism: Intersections between feminism and the person-centred approach (2004: PCCS books) (co-editor) Politicising the person-centred approach: an agenda for social change. (2006: PCCS Books). She has a particular interest in the gendered implications of the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder and has written about this issue in the following two publications:
Shaw, C. & Proctor, G. (eds.) (2004) Women at the Margins: Special Issue on women and Borderline Personality Disorder. Asylum magazine 4(3)
Proctor, G. (2007) Disordered boundaries? A critique of ‘Borderline Personality Disorder'. In Beyond Fear and Control: working with young people who self-harm. (Eds. H. Spandler & S. Warner) pp. 105-120. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.

Dr Andrew Reeves

Andrew is a counsellor and supervisor at the University of Liverpool Counselling Service. He has written a number of articles about counselling and suicide, and will be publishing a book, Counselling Suicidal Clients in 2009 (Sage). He is Editor of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research journal.

Louise Robinson

Healthcare Development Manager, BACP
Louise is responsible for seeking and creating opportunities for both BACP and the Association's membership to influence the provision of NHS funded counselling and psychotherapy.
Louise's work to help equip BACP members to better understand and meet the challenges of NHS commissioning includes: designing and assisting in the delivery of five BACP events on commissioning since 2006; speaking at both BACP and external events; writing articles for publication in Therapy Today, HCPJ, Counselling at Work and the Independent Practitioner; and commissioning RDMH to develop NHS Commissioning - a guide for psychological therapy providers (also co-author).

Matthias Schwannauer

Senior Lecturer & Consultant Clinical Psychologist, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Matthias started his clinical psychology career at Marburg University, Germany, then he worked as a clinical psychologist in the Adolescent Mental Health Services in Glasgow. This was followed by a two-year period as a clinical research fellow at the University of Edinburgh before he joined the D Clin Psychol training programme in Edinburgh, as a lecturer, and the local CAMHS service, as a clinical psychologist. Since 2000 Matthias worked as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the Early Psychosis Support Service in Edinburgh. In January 2006 he took up post as Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for the Msc in Applied Psychology. Matthias became interested and involved with IPT in 1998 and has been a trainer and supervisor as part of IPT Edinburgh since 2000.

Steve Seaton

Steve Seaton is a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist who specialises in working with adolescents and young adults. He is the Director of Youth Talk, a community counselling agency in St Albans, and is the founder of Cross-Herts Community Counselling (CHeCC), the first Third Sector consortium of providers of counselling and psychotherapy.
Steve has 40 years' experience of working with young people. A former Secondary School Deputy Headteacher, Steve had been interested for many years in the complex causes of underachievement of young people in education. This progressed to a concern about the role of psychological disturbance in undermining educability, and Steve led and supported the establishment of new school counselling services before he retrained as a counsellor.

Dr Charles Shepherd

Charles Shepherd is medical adviser to The ME Association - a national patient information and support charity where he deals with medical, media, political, research and campaigning issues. His professional interest in ME/CFS stems from personal experience of the illness - which he developed after an episode of chickenpox. Charles has been involved with a number of government initiatives which include membership of the Chief Medical Officer's Working Group on ME/CFS and a Department of Social Security Expert Group on Prognosis. He is currently a member of the Medical Research Council's expert group that is advising on a biomedical research strategy. His own research interests include the investigation of muscle energy metabolism in ME/CFS; the role of vaccinations as a trigger factor; and the development of a UK tissue bank where brain and other tissue samples can be collected, stored and used by the research community. Charles is also very interested in alternative approaches to management, including the exposure and prosecution of fraudulent and potentially harmful products. Among his publications are Living with ME (a self help paperback guide for patients) and ME/CFS/PVFS - An Exploration of the Key Clinical Issues (for health professionals).

Sue Sutcliffe

Sue has a BA in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy and teaches on University counselling courses as well as presenting workshops and seminars. She is also a qualified addictions' therapist and has special interests in families, couples and group work. Sue has a particular interest in family systemics and set up one of the first family groups in this country to work alongside primaries in the addiction recovery process. She is currently researching a book on this work. Sue also does telephone counselling and, with Kay, will travel for the purpose of intervention work.

Clare Symons

Clare Symons is a lecturer in psychodynamic counselling at the University of Leicester and a counsellor and supervisor in private practice. As part of a team of researchers she conducted an analysis of complaints made to BACP. She is currently researching the reasons why clients who have experienced poor or harmful counselling might not bring a formal complaint.

Dr David Tune Phd, C Psychol, UKCP, CABP.

David Tune is a Registered Body Psychotherapist, who trained in London and New York, and works as a lecturer, supervisor and psychotherapist in York. He has published articles and chapters on the subject of proximity and touch in psychotherapy, and is currently interested in relational ethics.

Dr Tony Ward

Dr Tony Ward is a chartered psychologist and qualified counsellor. He is Head of Psychology and Counselling at Newman University College. His background is in health and neuropsychology. He is a co-author of the Test of Everyday Attention which is a widely used assessment battery for the assessment of attention and concentration skills in clinical populations. He works mainly with clients who have neurological issues, including head injury, MS and ME. He has recently completed several research projects on ME, including a survey of clients' reactions to counselling interventions, a trial of client-centred counselling over the telephone and a study of the profile of attention difficulties in people with chronic ME. He is currently working on a project to find out if the nature and severity of cognitive deficits in ME are linked to particular immunological markers.

Joyce Wellings

Joyce Wellings has been a Psychodynamic Counsellor for 11 years working in Higher Education and Community Counselling settings. Currently she is Assistant Director of Youth Talk, working with young people aged 14 to 25 years. She has a particular responsibility for data collection and the evaluation of clinical outcomes. She began her career as a teacher of sociology and was drawn into community pre-school education in the absence of statutory provision for under fives. This began a life long interest in the role and efficacy of Third Sector agencies within society. Prior to working as a counsellor she was a Senior Lecturer in Education in a College of Further Education for 18 years. She was responsible for the management of courses in Early Years Care and Education (developing a special interest in the works of Winnicott and Bowlby), Counselling Skills and Teacher Training.

Professor Sue Wheeler

Sue Wheeler is Professor of Counselling and Psychotherapy and Director of the Counselling and Psychotherapy programme at the University of Leicester. She is a BACP Accredited counsellor and UKCP registered Psychotherapist and Fellow of BACP. Her research interests include counsellor training, supervision and the professional development of therapists and she is the author of many papers on these topics. Sue's books include Difference and Diversity in Counselling: a Psychodynamic Perspective, (Palgrave, 2006), Training Counsellors: the Assessment of Competence (Cassell, 1996), Supervising counsellors: Issues of Responsibility (with David King) (Sage, 2001) and the BACP Systematic Review of Supervision (2007) with Kaye Richards.

Ann Munro

 BA CQSW MBA advance dip couns Msc medical ethics

Ann Munro qualified as a social worker in the mid 1980s.  Then as a psychotherapist in various medical settings, she worked in the treatment and palliative care of cancer patients, setting up and managing a children's bereavement service. She has also worked extensively in the ‘not-for-profit' sector as a recruiter, coach and chair of a number of voluntary organisations. For the past seven years Ann has been the director of Time to Talk, a voluntary sector provider of counselling services for families and children. More recently she has also worked part time as a clinical ethicist at MTW NHS Trust, one of only a few paid clinical ethics posts in the country.

Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson has been the Clinical Advisor at The Place2Be for the last five and a half years. Prior to that, Peter was the Director of YoungMinds for 13 years. Peter also sat on The Place2Be's Professional Advisory panel for 10 years before taking up the position of Clinical Advisor.

In his role as Clinical Advisor, Peter is a member of the Senior Management and Leadership teams. He also sits on the Quality Committee and Management Forum and works alongside the Audit and Evaluation department, informing and shaping The Place2Be's work, enabling the organisation to develop robust quality systems and processes.

Anna Hamilton

Anna Hamilton became involved in voluntary sector counselling when she moved from Manchester to Scotland in 1994. Prior to her move she worked in education as a teacher and counsellor but had from an early age volunteered for various charities in Scotland and in England. Since 1994 she worked as senior counsellor and  counselling service coordinator for a mental health charity until her retirement in 2007. The service developed directly through the involvement of counsellors who having had a placement with the service whilst in training chose to continue to offer hours of counselling  as volunteers. Anna worked closely with other counselling charities and  now in private practice continues to supervise volunteer counsellors. She has close links with other charities who work with vulnerable people  eg Women's Aid, Rape and Sexual Abuse services and charities working with young people. She was for some years  a policy board member for COSCA  for whom the work of the voluntary sector was a large part of the remit. Anna really enjoyed the flexibility and potential for innovation that working in the voluntary sector allowed whilst also struggling with the lack of will amongst funders to provide stable and secure funding for more than a year at a time. Anna is now a governor for the BACP.