Authors

Matthew Elton is a psychotherapist based in Edinburgh. He works with a wide range of clients and has a special interest in writers and artists. His formative training was in transactional analysis and he has since developed a strong interest in narrative therapy. Matthew regularly delivers talks and workshops in…

Liz Rothschild is a writer, actor, playwright and founding director of Westmill woodland burial ground in Wiltshire. She has been a funeral celebrant for more than 25 years and has run numerous death cafes and a course on preparing for end of life. In 2012 she launched, and continues to curate, the…

Mary Boyle has worked mainly in clinical psychology education and training and in clinical posts in adult mental health and women’s health. She is a long-time critic of the medical/diagnostic approach and of individualistic approaches more generally in the health field. She is the author of Schizophrenia:…

Dr Beverley Costa grew up in East London in a family with three languages and two religions and cultural practices. After training as a counsellor, psychotherapist and group psychodramatist, she set up Mothertongue, a multi-ethnic counselling service, to meet a gap she observed in services for multilingual clients. In 2009 she…

This guidance was facilitated by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence by bringing together the main professional bodies representing psychological therapists in the UK with key academics and professionals. The aim of the guidance is to support therapists in deepening their knowledge and reflection on working with…

Emma Palmer is a BACP-accredited counsellor, relational body psychotherapist, facilitator, supervisor and ecopsychologist, and a Buddhist since 1995. She was previously a steering group member of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility (PCSR) and editor of its Transformations journal. She has worked extensively as an educator, including teaching postgraduate international development…

Deborah A Lee is a senior lecturer in sociology at Nottingham Trent University and a person-centred psychotherapist. Her current research interests include arts-based approaches to psychotherapy case studies, critical psychopathology, psychotherapy training, therapists and creativity, public psychotherapy, and auto/biographical explorations of sexual violence and its aftermath. She was previously…

Rachel Freeth has worked as a general adult psychiatrist in the NHS for almost 25 years and also trained as a person-centred counsellor in the late 1990s. For many years she has been drawing on her two professional backgrounds to deliver training on psychiatry and mental health and has written many…

Joan Shohet has been supervising since 1972 and co-founded the Centre for Supervision and Team Development (www.cstdlondon.co.uk) in 1979. She now works as a trainer, supervisor, psychotherapist and mediator.  Her passion is in enabling people to find the work they love and love the work they do.  …

Robin Shohet has been supervising and training supervisors since 1976 and has published widely in the field, including co-authoring Supervision in the Helping Professions and editing Passionate Supervision and Supervision as Transformation. In addition to teaching supervision, he works with Appreciative Inquiry as part of a commitment to wanting to see…