Dr Aaron Balick is a UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist and supervisor working in London. He is an honorary senior lecturer at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex and a founding member and Chair of The Relational School UK. Aaron has a special interest in the applications of relational theory to culture, which has resulted in his most recent book The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: connected-up instantaneous culture and the self. He is also author of a self help children’s book entitled Keep Your Cool: how to deal with life’s worries and stress.

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) and The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (Palgrave, 2013). His latest work is Integrating Counselling and Psychotherapy: Directionality, Synergy, and Social Change (Sage, 2019).

Mick’s principal areas of research have been in shared decision-making/personalizing 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.

Dr Divine Charura is a Chartered Psychologist, and Counselling Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. He is registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council in England. He is also registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy as an Adult Psychotherapist. He has worked and presented key note lectures at numerous international conferences including in USA, South East Asia, Africa, and Europe. Divine’s psychotherapeutic interests are in exploring the therapeutic relationship when working with complex psychological distress and trauma, as well as the place of love and attachment in human relationships and on mental wellbeing. Divine has co-authored and edited numerous books in counselling and psychotherapy. His two latest co-edited books are Love and Therapy: In relationship and The Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy Handbook: Origins, Developments and Current Applications. Divine is a lover of photography, art, music and outdoor pursuits.

Tree Staunton is a UKCP Honorary Fellow and emeritus member of Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling (BCPC). She has been a registered body psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer for 35 years.

Tree was director of BCPC between 2014 and 2023 and represented BCPC in UKCP in addition to serving as chair of the Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College (HIPC) between 2010 and 2015.  She is a published author of various academic papers, contributing articles and editorships including Body Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2002) and co-editing Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown (Routledge 2024).