Authors

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…

The Midlands Psychology Group website is www.midpsy.uk. Its members are: John Cromby is Professor of Psychology at Leicester University UK. His research explores the way in which bodies and social influences interact, focusing particularly on mental health, emotion and feeling. He has published more than 70 academic…

Jeanine Connor is a psychodynamic psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and training facilitator in private practice, as well as Editor of BACP Children, Young People & Families and Reviews Editor for BACP Therapy Today. She is the author of one book about the human body and You&rsquo…

Dr Dina Glouberman, psychotherapist, coach, facilitator and world-renowned expert in transformational imagery, is the visionary co-founder and co-director of Skyros Holistic Holidays, which has pioneered community-oriented holistic health holidays since 1979. She is the author of the classic books Life Choices, Life Changes; The Joy…

Tim Thornton is Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health in the School of Nursing, University of Central Lancashire. As well as contemporary philosophy of thought and language, his research mainly concerns conceptual issues in mental healthcare, and he has published papers on clinical judgement, idiographic and narrative understanding, the interpretation…