John McLeod
John McLeod is currently Visiting Professor of Counselling at Abertay University, Dundee, and the Institute for Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy, Dublin, and has held professorial positions in Norway, New Zealand, and Italy. He has published widely on a range of issues in counselling and psychotherapy research and practice, with an emphasis on an interdisciplinary research-informed social justice perspective. Key texts include: An introduction to counselling and psychotherapy: Theory practice and research (6th ed.,Open University, 2019), Doing research in counselling and psychotherapy (4th ed., Sage, 2022) and Counselling skills: theory, research and practice (with Julia McLeod, Open, 2022).
He is committed to the development of a flexible and responsive forms of collaborative pluralistic practice that enable clients to access their personal and cultural strengths and resources and enable them to fulfil their personal therapeutic and life goals. A central focus of his work in recent years has been around finding ways that psychotherapy might contribute to a more constructive and sustainable relationship between human beings and the planet.
Christine Kupfer
Christine Kupfer is a lecturer in Counselling & Psychotherapy at the University of Abertay, Scotland, and works as a pluralistic therapist (MBACP). Her background and degrees (Masters, PhD) are in counselling, social and medical anthropology, education sciences, and psychology. Her research projects include a study on children’s mental health in India, a citizen science project on depression, ethnographic work with Ayurveda patients to understand their conceptualisations of health and healing, research on Rabindranath Tagore, and an ongoing project on the “Dark Side of Meditation”. She has published a monograph and many articles and is currently coauthoring a book titled Pluralistic Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques.