About the book:
A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking and practical textbook that offers a comprehensive entry into self-development, theory, skills, practice, and advocacy.
This first-of-its-kind resource integrates, as required by SCoPEd competencies, dimensions often overlooked in mainstream teaching and practice, including social and personal context, culture, identity, diversity, neurodiversity, embodiment, worldviews and beliefs, power dynamics, intersectionality, and trauma- and harm-informed approaches. By embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI/DEI) into the very foundations of therapy, it strengthens the profession from the ground up rather than treating these aspects as add-ons.
The book provides a robust framework for a complete counselling and psychotherapy curriculum, supporting students, tutors, course planners, and qualified professionals alike.
This event invites you to witness a reimagining of training and practice—one that is fairer, more expansive, and more representative by design.
Join Mamood Ahmad, alongside several contributing authors, for an engaging panel discussion exploring the rationale, positioning, and hopes behind this work. Together, they will examine its core themes and vision for a therapeutic body of knowledge and practice that is beautifully grounded and inclusive.
Contributors include:
Stella Duffy, Beverley Costa, J.C. Czyzselska, Lohani Noor, Jude Boyles, Liz Smith, Katy Evans, Mel Halacre, Ellis J. Johnson, Mel Ciavucco, Cemil Egeli, John Wilson, Zena Nicholas, Linda Aspey, Helen Bennett, Jo Watson, Ankita Banerjee.
With thanks to reviewers:
Eugene Ellis, Liz Smith (Prime), Andrew Reeves, Jeanine Conner, Shahajra Jamal (Prime), Helen Morgan, Jude Boyles, Liz Smith, Jenny Bell, Shrav Shankar, Corrin Mclaughlin, Natasha Grigorov, Jocelyne Quennell, Corrine S. McLaughlin, Sylwia Korsak, Natasha Anderson-Foster, Andrea Summers-Green, Jo Daley, Shravanti Shankar, Briony Martin.
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Presenter
Mamood Ahmad (He/Him) is a therapist, author, trainer, and founder of The Anti-Discrimination focus (TADF). He has extensive experience in client mental health advocacy work, including the book ‘client perspectives of therapy’ and more recently in supporting counselling and psychotherapy training providers to embed difference and diversity as standard. He specialises in diversity studies, trauma, and antidiscrimination practice. He holds a private practice in Binfield, Berkshire since 2014.
