Authors

Clare Slaney is an established counsellor, groupworker and supervisor based in Central London. She qualified as a psychotherapist in 2007 and completed the MA in 2009. Her practice is rooted in the person-centred and existential traditions and grounded in authenticity, paradox and the continual negotiation between self and society. Alongside her clinical…

Tom Meaney is a Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Lancashire where he teaches across the counselling and psychotherapy undergraduate programme. He is a BACP accredited counsellor with his own private practice and also practices as an EMDR therapist.

Tim Brown is a body psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience. He is a Director of the Devon School for Embodied Therapy, which offers training and facilitates workshops and groups. Tim is a full member of European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP).

Helen is a BACP accredited psychotherapist and clinical supervisor with a career in the counselling and psychotherapy profession spanning more than 18 years. She is the founding director of Community Trauma UK and host of its bi-annual Community Trauma Conference, which centres on trauma and healing in Black communities. Alongside, Helen…

Stephanie Aspin is an integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor, author, coach, teacher, academic and poetry lover. She has a PhD in Counselling Studies and a PhD in American Literature. She is co-founder of A-typicats Neurodiversity Training, Coaching & Consultancy. Stephanie often runs hands-on writing and expressive arts groups and she is a…

Nicola Blunden is a therapist, trainer, and writer with special interests in creative methods, plural identity, and collaborative ethics. She was previously Director of Studies for the person-centred pluralistic training at Metanoia Institute, London, and later led the counselling and psychotherapy master's programme at UWE Bristol. She is…

Helen Gifford is a counsellor and supervisor with nearly 20 years' experience of working therapeutically with young adults. Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, she has a degree in psychology and further qualifications in counselling and supervision. Helen trained initially in cognitive behavioural therapy and has since developed her practice to incorporate…

Max Marnau is a person-centred therapist, artist and poet living in the Scottish Borders. As the autistic daughter of refugees from Hitler's Nazis, she feels a particular affinity with all the exiled, the othered and the displaced. Her special interest is Gaelic language, poetry, and music. Circumstances made it…

Susan Dale lives and works in the Scottish Highlands. Following her training as a counsellor in the early 1990s, she undertook an MSc in counselling and then went on to study narrative therapy and life story research, culminating in a Doctorate in Education at Bristol University in 2009. Since then, alongside…

Peter Barham has been working, writing and engaging critically in the mental health field for more than 50 years. His work straddles clinical research, psychoanalysis, practical initiative, historical inquiry, mental health activism and film making. He has a PhD in abnormal psychology from the University of Durham and in modern history…