Authors

Matt Wotton and Graham Johnston worked for two decades at the centre of government on some of the most complex problems facing the country, shaping decisions that affected millions of people. In the last decade, they left government, retrained as psychotherapists, and set up the London Centre for Applied Psychology,…

Rachel Jane Cooke (she/they) is a queer, integrative psychotherapist, supervisor and educator from Ireland, in practice since 2009. She is based in London, runs an online therapy platform (p-therapy.com), consults to charities and social enterprises, and has a long-standing weekly radio segment on sex and relationships, where she…

Neelam Zahid is an integrative counsellor, psychotherapist and clinical supervisor accredited by the BACP. She has practised as a therapist since 2003, having previously worked in higher education for more than a decade, and currently has her own private practice. She is also the deputy course Leader for the Foundation…

Linda Aspey is a leadership coach, facilitator, psychotherapeutic counsellor, BACP Fellow, and activist. She works with people and organisations to support them in engaging and acting on climate, environmental and social crises.

Diane Parker is a coach, group facilitator and creative movement therapist with a background in dance and performance. She is also an experienced freelance writer and editor, and she has edited the BACP journal Coaching Today since its launch in January 2012.

Janet Tolan has worked in counselling since 1979, first as a volunteer, then as a full-time counsellor. She is a senior accredited counsellor/psychotherapist and a Fellow of BACP. She qualified in 1984 and completed her supervisor training with Brigid Proctor and Francesca Inskipp in 1988. Her last employed role was as head…

Sarah Worley-James is a BACP senior accredited counsellor, supervisor and trainer with 25 years’ experience in the public, private and third sectors. She is former chair of the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online (ACTO), a senior tutor with the Academy for Online Therapy and Senior Counsellor at Cardiff University,…

Benjamin Cook is an author and practising cognitive behavioural therapist with the NHS. For the past several years he has been responsible for improving how services deliver self-guided CBT to the general public. This has involved improving access to treatment, advocating for digital therapy and working with the wider community…

Richard Coaten is a dancer and registered dance movement psychotherapist (RDMP) with the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy, where he was a Director on the Governing Council 2013–2016. He has spent the past 16 years working clinically as a DMP in an NHS older people’s psychiatric ward in West…

John Barton is a UKCP and BACP accredited integrative psychotherapist in private practice in London, with a doctorate in counselling psychology, which he gained in 2019. His first career was as a magazine writer and editor in the UK and then for a decade in the US, before he returned to…