Professor Stephen Palmer

Professor Stephen Palmer is is Founder Editor of The Online Journal of Multimodal and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. He is Director of the Centre for Multimodal Therapy and the Centre for REBT, London. He is an Honorary Professor of Psychology at City University in the Centre for Health and Counselling Psychology, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, accredited REBT and cognitive-behavioural therapist, and a UKCP registered psychotherapist. He became an Honorary Visiting Professor at the School of Lifelong Learning and Education at Middlesex University on 1st July, 2000. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling, Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Health. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in New York, and a certified supervisor for training in REBT. Currently, he is immediate Past President of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education, Honorary Vice-President of the International Stress Management Association (UK), and Consultant Director of the New Zealand Centre for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. He was Chair of the Scientific Awards Committee of the British Psychological Society Division of Counselling Psychology from 1997 to 1999. He is Co-editor of the Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapist, Editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education and is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Medical Psychology. He has authored numerous articles on stress management and counselling, and has authored or edited 20 books and training manuals, the most recent being Dealing with People Problems at Work (1996) with Burton, Stress Management and Counselling (1996) with Dryden, Counselling: The BAC Counselling Reader (1996) with Dainow and Milner, Stress Counselling: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Approach (1997) with Ellis, Gordon and Neenan, the Handbook of Counselling (1997) with McMahon, Integrative Stress Counselling (1998) with Milner, Counselling in a Multicultural Society (1999) with Laungani, Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (1999) with Scott, and Conquer Your Stress (2000) with Cooper. He has lectured in Europe, Japan, New Zealand and China on a range of subjects and regularly appears on radio and television programmes. In May, 2000, he jointly received the Annual Counselling Psychology Award from the British Psychological Society, Division of Counselling Psychology, for his 'Outstanding professional and scientific contribution to counselling psychology in Britain'. (For additional information, click here.)

Patty Collard

Dr Patty Collard PhD is a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist and a BABCP Accredited Therapist.

Gladeana McMahon

Gladeana McMahon is Co-director of the Counselling Skills and Problem Focused Psychotherapy programmes at the Centre for Stress Management, London. She is a BAC accredited counsellor and supervisor, a BABCP accredited psychotherapist and a UKCP registered cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist. She is also an experienced industrial trainer. She is News Editor of Counselling, the Journal of the British Association for Counselling, and Editor of the Journal of The International Stress Management Association (UK Branch). She is a Consultant Editor of the Online Journal of Multimodal and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy.She has published articles on counselling and an interactive handbook Setting Up Your Own Practice. Her recent books include Client Assessment (1997) and the Handbook of Counselling (1997), both co-edited with Stephen Palmer, and Understanding Trauma (1997) with Doggart.

Michael Neenan

Michael Neenan is Co-director of the Cognitive-Behavioural Counselling and Psychotherapy programme at the Centre for REBT, London. He is an AREBT accredited REBT counsellor, a BABCP accredited therapist and a UKCP registered cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist. He is also an experienced industrial trainer. He has published articles and books on REBT including the Dictionary of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (1994) with Dryden, and Counselling Individuals: A Rational Emotive Handbook (1999) with Dryden and Yankura. He is former Co-chair of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapists and Co-editor with Stephen Palmer of their journal.

Elizabeth Doggart

Elizabeth Doggart is Co-Director of the Trauma Programme at the Centre for Stress Management. She is a UKCP registered cognitive-behavioural therapist and an AREBT accredited counsellor. She was Chair of the Association for REBT. She co-authored Understanding Trauma (1997) with McMahon.

Wayne Froggatt

Wayne Froggatt is a Certified REBT Supervisor and Director of the New Zealand Centre for REBT.

Kasia Szymanska

Kasia Szymanska is Co-Director of the Problem Focused Psychotherapy Programme. She is a Chartered Psychologist, a UKCP registered cognitive-behaviour therapist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She is Editor of Counselling Psychology Review.