Denise Christy MSc FAREBT Accred is the Accreditation Director/Practice Officer of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (AREBT). She has an MSc in REBT from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BACP Accredited Diploma in Counselling. She has a special interest in working with postnatal depression and with parents suffering from stress. Before moving into private practice, she worked for over 10 years in the NHS, first a as a counsellor in primary care and later as the Joint Clinical Lead of a South London IAPT service. She has experience of joint working with Children’s Centres to help increase access to cognitive behavioural therapy and counselling for parents of young children.
Edelweiss Collings MSc MAREBT Accred is one of the co-chairs of the AREBT and completed her MSc in RECBT at Goldsmiths University. Since completing her degree and dual accreditation with the BABCP and AREBT she has worked in IAPT as a CBT therapist, supervisor and Clinical Lead in a London service. She holds particular interest in Stress and Coping in Adulthood and Emotional Resilience and Positive Psychology. Currently, she is working closely with Kasia Steyn on developing new groups to support clients suffering emotional distress and uncertainty in the current pandemic using a trans-diagnostic blended approach to therapy.
Nick Edgerton MAREBT Accred MISCP is a Chartered Psychologist, an AREBT Accredited Therapist and experienced cognitive-behavioural therapist and coaching psychology practitioner. He is a full member of the International Society for Coaching Psychology. Nick developed the cognitive-behavioural SPACE model of coaching and teaches on the CBT and REBT therapy and coaching programmes at the UK Centre for REBT and the Centre for Coaching, London. He has published articles and chapters on the cognitive-behavioural approach and the SPACE model. He is on the European and International Advisory Board of the European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research and Practice. He is a former member of the AREBT Board.
Dr. Martin J. Turner FAREBT (Hon) is a Reader in Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a British Psychological Society (BPS) Chartered and Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registered Sport and Exercise Psychologist. Martin has published his research widely, in over 100 peer reviewed papers, and various book chapters, and books. He is most known for his work applying rational emotive behaviour theory (REBT) within achievement settings, and the effects of stress and adversity on human wellbeing and performance. In his work he also examines the psychophysiology of the human stress response, and its relationship to human functioning under pressure. Most of his research concerns sport, but he also investigates other performance contexts like business, military, and public services. He has received four awards for his research, including an Outstanding Achievement Award from the U.K. Association for REBT. As a practitioner, he has worked within professional sport for >10 years in a range of sports. He also works with non-sporting organisations applying performance psychology to enhance wellbeing and performance. His newest book is called “The Sport and Performance Psychologist’s Guide To Practicing Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy”.
Jo Hensel: As a musician with wide experience in Arts Education, a British Psychological Society accredited degree in psychology and an ILM Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching, Jo has been coaching professionally for a decade. She is accredited at Master Practitioner level with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and combines her love of coaching, psychology, and the Arts, to work with people to bridge the gap between potential and performance. Jo has extensive experience of 1:1 and group work in schools, universities, prisons, charities and many other community and corporate settings throughout the UK, Europe and beyond.
As a horn player, Jo was invited to become a member of the world-renowned chamber orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, in 1998. She continues to perform, tour and record with the orchestra and plays an active role in its learning and participation programme.
As an Associate of Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Coaching Faculty, Guildhall Ignite, Jo trains coaches, and works with both internal and external clients to enable them to build resilience and performance confidence. In September 2021, Jo became Guildhall’s first “Performance Confidence Associate”. Within this role, she has designed and delivers The Resilient Musician course to first year music students as they begin their conservatoire studies, and a Rational Emotive Behavioural coaching-based Performance Confidence Course to students who are on the cusp of their professional careers.
Jo is currently undertaking PhD research, looking at whether a Rational Emotive Behavioural Coaching-based intervention can reduce performance anxiety and increase psychological wellbeing in conservatoire music students.
Prof Stephen Palmer PhD FAREBT Accred is a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Coaching Psychologist, Registered Counselling and Health Psychologist. He is a BABCP and AREBT Accredited Therapist and Albert Ellis Institute REBT Certified Supervisor. Stephen’s university posts include being an Honorary Professor of Practice, PhD Director of Studies and supervisor in the Institute of Management and Health at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD). He is an Adjunct Professor of Coaching Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark. Previously he has been a Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit, City University London; Honorary Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, and BABCP London Branch Founding Co-chair.
Stephen is Co-chair and Fellow of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, President and Fellow of the International Society for Coaching Psychology, Vice President and Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Health Promotion and Education, former President and Honorary Fellow of both the the International Stress Management Association (UK) and Association for Coaching. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Royal Society of Biology. He is a member of the International Association of Applied Psychology Division of Environmental Psychology. He is former Co-Editor of International Coaching Psychology Review, former editor and now Consulting Editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion & Education. He has written/edited 60 books including Stress counselling: A rational emotive behaviour approach (with Ellis, Gordon and Neenan), Counselling for Stress Problems (with Dryden), How to Deal with Stress (with Cooper), Coaching Psychology in Practice (with Green), and Handbook of Coaching Psychology (with Whybrow).
Dr Siobhain O’Riordan PhD CSci CPsychol FISCP MAREBT (Acad) is Chartered Scientist and Chartered Coaching Psychologist. She has full divisional membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology (DARTP) and is a member of the BPS Psychobiology Section. She is Course Co-Director on the stress management and coaching programmes and a trainer at the Centre for Coaching. She is an Honorary Member of the Institute for Health Promotion and Education, Fellow of the International Society for Coaching Psychology and Accredited Coaching Psychologist and Supervisor. From 2013-2015 she was Editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion & Education. Currently, she is Founder Chair of the International Society for Coaching Psychology, Editor of the International Journal of Coaching Psychology, Consulting Editor of The Coaching Psychologist and Editor of Coaching Psychology International. Her other roles include supervising doctorate students at the Institute of Management and Health, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is also a Director of the International Academy for Professional Development Ltd. She has published research and practice papers and her latest book is Introduction to Coaching Psychology (2021, with Palmer).