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This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.
PRESENTERS:
Prof Lynne Gabriel
Lynne Gabriel is an award-winning Professor of Counselling & Mental Health, based at York St John University, where she is founder-director of the University’s Communities Centre. Lynne is passionate about ethics and has written two textbooks on ethics in counselling and psychotherapy. Lynne also works as an ethics consultant. Lynne is active in the mental health feld and has a lead partnership role in the City of York’s community mental health transformation. In 2023, Lynne was appointed as BACP President.
Dr Roman Raczka
President-elect of the British Psychological Society due to take up Presidency in July 2024. Has been leading on the BPS campaign urging the government to restore investment in mental health support for NHS and Social care staff. Currently working on Psychology matters asking all political parties develop and deliver policies using a psychological approach. Previously Chair of the BPS Division of Clinical Psychology.Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist and Head of Clinical Psychology in Central London Community (CLCH) NHS Trust. Clinical expertise working in services for adults with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorders and forensic services.
Jyles Robillard-Day
EVENT CHAIRS:
Mick Cooper
Mick Cooper is an internationally recognised author, trainer, and consultant in the field of humanistic, existential, and pluralistic therapies. He is a Chartered Psychologist, and Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton.
Mick has facilitated workshops and lectures around the world, including New Zealand, Lithuania, and Florida.
Mick’s books include Existential Therapies (Sage, 2017), Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2018), The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (Palgrave, 2013), and Integrating Counselling and Psychotherapy: Directionality, Synergy, and Social Change (Sage, 2019).
His latest work is Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Developing a Progressive Vision of Society (Policy Press, 2023)
Mick Cooper is also the editor of The Tribes of the Person-Centred Nation (PCCS, 2024) and co-editor of The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (3rd ed, 2024).
Mick’s principal areas of research have been in shared decision-making/personalising therapy, and counselling for young people in schools.
In 2014, Mick received the Carmi Harari Mid-Career Award from Division 32 of the American Psychological Association. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the Academy of Social Sciences.
Claudia Turbet-Delof
Claudia has passionately led campaigns for mental health to be our human right, most recently in her role as elected Councillor and former Mental Health Champion for the London Borough of Hackney she achieved the adoption of the Mental Health a Human Right for All motion making it the very first local authority in the country and probably the world to adopt a UN High Commissioner’s recommendation on mental health and human rights. In her role as former youth worker in East London, she worked with young people at risk of school exclusion. Claudia has seen first hand the life long impact inhumane school behaviour policies including school exclusions have on children and young people’s mental health and their future prospects.
Cassandra Geisel
Cassandra Geisel is an MBACP therapist working within a pluralistic approach. Passionate about fostering inclusive and culturally informed spaces in the mental health landscape, she works as the Mental Health Alliance Lead in Tower Hamlets, bringing together organisations to lift their collective voice and promote impactful change within the sector. Alongside this, she is a member of the Therapy and Social Change Network and enjoys organising conversations and creating space to talk about issues around the intersection of social justice and mental health.
