Authors

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…

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,…

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.