Authors

Irene Fairhurst is co-founder and past President of the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA). Born in 1941, she left her seaside home at the age of 17 to live in a community in East London where she became a volunteer youth worker and later full-time youth and community worker. It…

Alan Frankland is a psychologist who has been counselling now for over 25 years. He has a busy independent therapy and supervision practice (APSI) in Nottingham. Formerly Principal Lecturer and Head of the Division of Counselling and Psychotherapy at Nottingham Trent University where there used to be a BACP Accredited…

Em Edmondson is a body-orientated psychotherapist who has worked in private practise as a therapist since 1981. Past work has included co-facilitating trainings in Reichian growth work and Hakomi. Her current  group work approach is Authentic Movement. She is the mother of 2 adults.

Cailzie Dunn is a clinical psychologist working for South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust. She works with adults involved with the Community Mental Health Team in Shrewsbury. She co-ran Alternatives to Psychiatry courses in Shropshire and was a co-editor of This is Madness: A critical look at psychiatry…

Liam Clarke PhD is currently Reader in Mental Health at the University of Brighton. He has published widely in the field of mental health particularly in relation to ethics, ethnicity, gender and issues of disease and ‘mental illness’.

Jeffrey H.D. Cornelius-White, PsyD, LPC is Professor of Counseling and doctoral faculty for the Cooperative EdD Program in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. He is also Co-Editor of Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, a former chair of the board of the World Association for Person-Centered and…

Roger Casemore is currently Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Counselling courses at the University of Warwick and continues to run a small private counselling practice which he has maintained for over 30 years. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Fellow of the…

Peter Chadwick was born in Manchester in 1946 and originally trained as a geologist before switching careers to psychology in 1973. He has batchelors degrees and doctorates in both subjects. Originally he worked in the field of perception, studying human factors in geologists, but after a paranoid illness in 1979 he moved to…

Windy Dryden is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths University, London, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He has authored or edited more than 250 books, including the second edition of Reason to Change: A rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) workbook (Routledge, 2021) and the third edition of…

Laura Buchanan trained as an occupational therapist, subsequently specialising in mental health and psychiatry. She later trained as a person-centred therapist at the University of Strathclyde, specialising in women's issues. Laura has worked overseas in Bangladesh as a lecturer in occupational therapy and as a counsellor, and currently lives…