Conference Theme
The theme of the day is ‘The Cost of Living Crisis: The Price of NOT Dying! Why All Therapists must get Comfortable Talking about Money!
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Presenter
Clare Slaney is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and writer based in West London, with more than 20 years’ experience working with individuals and groups. Rooted in Person-Centred and Existential traditions, her practice is grounded in authenticity, paradox, and the continual negotiation between self and society. Alongside her clinical practice, she speaks and writes on the structural challenges facing the counselling profession, particularly the exploitation of unpaid labour and the impact of poverty on both clients and therapists. Exploring themes of marginalisation, power, and ethics in the counselling professions, she advocates for more honest and equitable practice. She is an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Dr Elizabeth Cotton is a writer and educator in the field of industrial relations and mental health. She is an Associate Professor of Responsible Business at the University of Leicester and the founder of Surviving Work. Her current research is around the digitalization of the therapy and she convenes The Digital Therapy Project which includes the CTUK. Her book UberTherapy: The new business of mental health will be published in 2024 by Bristol University Press.
Surviving Work | http://www.survivingwork.org/
Surviving Work in Healthcare | https://survivingworkinhealth.org/
The Digital Therapy Project | https://www.thedigitaltherapyproject.org/
Erin (she/they) is an integrative therapist and supervisor working in private practice in West Yorkshire. Her practice is focussed on working with clients who have previous experience of harmful therapy, in short and long term work. She is increasingly working with therapists who work with harmed clients, as well as therapists who are concerned about, or otherwise interested in harm in therapy, both in open-ended supervision, and short term consultancy.
As well as therapy and supervision, Erin is a writer, trainer and activist, with a focus on harm in therapy, neurodivergence and social justice.
Head of Policy & Public Affairs
Meg is the Head of Policy & Public Affairs for the NCPS. Having worked for the Society for over 8 years, she has a wealth of knowledge about the issues facing counselling & psychotherapy, as well as a passion for the profession and advocating for practitioners. With two young children herself, a role as Safeguarding Governor in her local primary school, and experience of the systems that are currently in place, Meg is both personally and professionally driven to campaign for change.
