Author Information

Julie Burchill holds the MA Psychotherapy & Counselling from Regent's University London. She has worked in the charity sector in individual and group work in the mental health field, in university mentoring services and is currently working as psychotherapist in private practice. Julie draws on existential and psychoanalytic thinking as influences for her work.

Chris Burford completed his training at Regent's University London in December 2016 with an ADIP and joined UKCP in April 2017. He volunteers at a counselling charity in Yorkshire that has a wide variety of clients and where he is approved by the police to work on their supporting victims programme. He has recently starting working with a counselling service for clergy and religious and after reading John Rowan's book, The Reality Game, has named his startup practice Temenos (Greek for sacred space).

Ralph Goldstein, PhD, pursued academic research into emotional learning theories and hormonal influences on animal brain and behaviour, before accepting a lecturing post at University College of Worcester. But the motivation for all this study was to do clinical work with a Jungian orientation. He has also been chair of the British Psychological Society's Division of Counselling Psychology and a member of the group, which devised the Society's post-qualifying register of psychologists specialising in psychotherapy.

Adam Knowles is a psychotherapist (MBACP) working in private practice in London. With an extensive previous career in technology teams and start-ups, he switched into training in psychotherapy at Regent's University London and is proceeding toward UKCP registration. While identifying as an existential therapist, he maintains an active interest in transpersonal and transcultural approaches as well as issues of diversity (particularly gender) and the socio-cultural context of psychotherapy.

Professor Desa Markovic is Head of Psychotherapy & Counselling programmes at Regent's University London, a UKCP regist