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 was through her work with young people that she became aware of counselling and the person-centred approach as a way of being. Her further involvement in the work includes co-founding the Institute for Person-Centred Learning (IPCL) and working with Carl Rogers in Europe and the UK.
