Notes on Contributors

Joanna Holroyd trained as a teacher and has twenty years of experience teaching in a variety of settings and locations. Whilst working in a London school, she took over responsibility for the teaching and learning of PSHCE (personal, social, health, and citizenship education) across the school. This provided the impetus for her to undertake a degree in psychology at the Open University and a foundation course in psychotherapy and counselling at Regent's University London. Joanna went on to complete her training at Regent's, including a three-year clinical placement at an addictions service which inspired her to carry out qualitative research in this area for her dissertation. Joanna is now a UKCP-accredited psychotherapist working in IAPT for the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. During the last academic year, she was a visiting lecturer on the therapeutic counselling MSc at Greenwich University, and she is currently an associate lecturer at the Open University.

Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health profession for over forty years. He is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and, also, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London. A Consultant Psychotherapist at The Balint Consultancy, and a Consultant in Psychology to The Bowlby Centre, he also serves as a Trustee of the Freud Museum London and of Freud Museum Publications and, also, of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Author of twelve books and series editor of more than fifty-five additional titles, his most recent publication is entitled How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist (Phoenix Publishing House). His upcoming books include Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel and, also, Celebrity Mad: Why Otherwise Intelligent People Worship Fame.

Dr Ryan Kemp, PhD, is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Director of Therapies in Central & North West Lon