Dr. Elizabeth Cotton
Dr Elizabeth Cotton is a researcher and educator in the fields of employment relations and mental health at work based at Cardiff School of Management. Elizabeth is currently writing her book UberTherapy: The weaponisation of Wellbeing to be published in 2023.
Clare Slaney
Clare is a counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor, and on the Steering Group of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility.
Dr. Dwight Turner
Dr Dwight Turner is Course Leader on the Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Course at the University of Brighton, a PhD Supervisor at their Doctoral College, a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. His latest book Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy was released in February 2021 and is published by Routledge. An activist, writer and public speaker on issues of race, difference and intersectionality in counselling and psychotherapy.
Website | www.dwightturnercounselling.co.uk
Twitter | @dturner300
Chloe Foster
Chloe Foster is an accredited Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversities Therapist with Pink Therapy. Her passion for working in this area was kindled before her counselling career began through her work with several LGBTQ+ organisations as a youth worker and in mental health. Today Chloe runs her private practice, Sussex Rainbow Counselling, where she specialises primarily in gender and sexual diversity.
Chloe works 100% online offering video, phone, and text-based therapy to clients. She also offers CPD workshops/talks for counsellors which have seen bookings from The National Counselling Society, Cruse, The Open University, Counselling Tutor, The University of Wolverhampton, The University of Lincoln and Onlinevents.
Website | www.sussexrainbowcounselling.com
Twitter | @ChloeCounsellor
Paul Atkinson
Paul Atkinson has been swimming in the intersection of psychotherapy and political activism since the mid 70s – admittedly with many spells of apathy, despair and watching telly. He has five grandchildren and helped set up the Free Psychotherapy Network. Most recently, he is helping organise the campaign for Universal Access to Counselling and Psychotherapy (uACT)
Website | https://uaccess2ct.co.uk
Dr. Emma Radway-Bright
Dr. Emma Radway-Bright is a counsellor/psychotherapist with a thriving Private Practice based in South East London. During the pandemic, she started working online via Zoom; expanding the geographical locations of clients across the UK, Europe and beyond. She works with people who are experiencing depression, stress, anxiety, and the general pressures of modern-day living. She specialises in trauma – big and small – and works with people to resolve the emotional, physical and behavioural effects of any trauma they have experienced in the past, or more recently. She also specialises in working with parents who have not had their baby delivered to term; as well as new mothers who need support during their transition into parenting.
Website | www.INeedTherapy.co.uk
Juliet Lyons
Having trained as an Integrative Child Psychotherapist, Juliet’s particular interest is in children and families and how we care for each other as a society as well as the use and potential of the expressive arts and healing potential of creativity. Juliet would like to see politics and decision-makers in our sector being much more representative of gender, ethnic, cultural and class diversity and would like to see this widening of diversity in our profession as well. Juliet has been the General Secretary of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union for the past two years and has come to see PCU as an important protective, critiquing and challenging voice for our complex profession. In this context, Juliet’s particular concerns are in the direction economically driven policies are taking us, impeding the quality of in-depth relationships in the work we do.
Website | www.nationalcounsellorsday.co.uk
Erin Stevens
Erin is a neurodivergent (autistic and ADHD) counsellor and psychotherapist based in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, working chiefly with neurodivergent clients, and clients who have had previous experiences of harmful therapy. She is one of the founding members of the Association of Neurodivergent Therapists steering committee and co-organises meet-ups and events for and by neurodivergent therapists. Erin is interested in social justice, anti-oppressive psychotherapeutic practice, and honouring the political foundations of the therapy profession.