Authors

Robert Rees is an accredited psychotherapist, trauma specialist and supervisor. He is Clinic Director and Senior Faculty Member at The Grove, where he teaches and supervises practitioners in trauma-informed and embodied approaches to therapy.

Sarah Briggs is a founder and director of The Grove. Her role encompasses oversight of their professional development courses and teaching on them. Accredited as a trauma therapist, she brings her trauma therapy expertise to this book.

Elliot Davis is a Director at The Grove and a UKCP and BACP accredited psychotherapist specialising in complex trauma. A Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP-II), he has worked extensively with survivors of abuse, developmental trauma, and PTSD, drawing on EMDR, CPT and integrative trauma approaches.

Dr Emma Swales is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist and supervisor with over 25 years' experience of supporting people through trauma recovery. She worked in the domestic violence sector for many years, and later for a Leeds-based mental health charity before qualifying as a psychotherapist in 2011. Her speciality and research interests are the…

Linda Finlay, PhD, is a practising existential, relational-centred integrative psychotherapist and supervisor based in York (UK).  She is also an academic consultant and lecturer with the Open University, where she teaches and has written on various counselling and psychology courses.  She is best known for her many…

Helen P. George is an intersectional psychotherapist and clinical supervisor with a career spanning 20 years in the counselling and psychotherapy profession. She is a co-editor of Black Men, Trauma and Therapy: Revolutionising therapeutic thought and practice (PCCS Books, 2026) and the founding director of Community Trauma UK,…

Dr Dwight Turner is course leader on the humanistic psychotherapy course at the University of Brighton, and an intersectional psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. He is the author of A Phenomenology of Racism in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2025), Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Depoliticised pathways towards intersectional practice (2025),…

Charlotte O'Brien is Editor-in-Chief for Psychology at Wiley. She is an HCPC registered Counselling Psychologist, BACP registered psychotherapist and Associate Fellow of the BPS. She is a passionate and creative clinician, supervisor, author, educator and researcher, having worked as Programme Director for the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology programme at…

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.