His professional interests include:

Stress, stress management, occupational & organisational stress, stress counselling, stress management coaching;

Coaching psychology, psychological coaching and coaching

Performance and health coaching; 

Brief Therapy;

Multimodal therapy and coaching;

Cognitive-behaviour therapy and coaching;

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and coaching;

Problem-focused therapy, training and coaching;

Counselling and coaching in multicultural settings;

Counselling & Psychotherapy in China;

Eclectic and Integrative therapies and coaching;

The relationship in therapy and coaching;

Client abuse in therapy, coaching and boundaries;

Suicide;

Health education and health promotion.

Although he is happy to consider either supervising students in these areas of work or being an external examiner, his current particular interest is in stress, performance and coaching psychology. He has written/edited books and articles in the topics concerned. He has been an external reader/examiner for MA, MSc, D.Psych. and PhDs. at City University, Regent's College, University of Sydney, (Australia) and the University of Madras (India).

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General Information about posts & qualifications:


He obtained his BA and BA(Hons) at the Open University, and his PhD at South Bank University. The title of his PhD thesis was: Stress: theoretical and applied perspectives. His PhD considered work in counselling and occupational settings and included individual and group work. He holds a number of British and American qualifications in counselling and psychotherapy and is one of a few certified REBT supervisors practising in the UK. He is considered the UKs leading expert in Multimodal Therapy by his peers (see Which Psychotherapy (1997, Feltham) and is in the top ten of coaches according to The Independent and The Observer.

He is Director of a number of centres including the Centre for Stress Management, London, which is an international training centre and consultancy. He is Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and Stress Management at the National Centre for Work Based Learning Partnerships, Middlesex University and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, accredited REBT and cognitive-behavioural therapist, and a UKCP registered psychotherapist. He is a Chartered Psychologist (Health & Counselling).

He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, Royal Society of Arts, The Association of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapists, and the Royal Society of Health. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in New York. 

Currently, he is Honorary President of the Association for Coaching, Honorary Vice-President of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education, Honorary Vice-President of the International Stress Management Association (UK), Past Chair of the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology and Consultant Director of the New Zealand Centre for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. He was Chair of the Scientific Awards Committee of the British Psychological Society Division of Counselling Psychology from 1997 to 1999.

He is Co-editor of the Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapist, Editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education and is Co-Editor of the Counselling Psychology Section of Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. He is Founder Editor of the new publication, The Online Journal of Multimodal and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. He has authored numerous articles on stress management and counselling, and has authored or edited over 25 books and training manuals, including Dealing with People Problems at Work (1996) with Burton, Stress Management and Counselling (1996) with Dryden, Counselling: The BAC Counselling Reader, Vol. 1 (1996) with Dainow and Milner, Stress Counselling: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Approach (1997) with Ellis, Gordon and Neenan, the Handbook of Counselling (1997) with McMahon, Integrative Stress Counselling (1998) with Milner, Counselling in a Multicultural Society (1999) with Laungani, Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (2000) with Scott, Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Essential Guide (2000), Integrative and Eclectic Counselling and Psychotherapy (2000) with Woolfe, Counselling: The BACP Counselling Reader, Vol. 2 (2001) with Milner, Multicultural Counselling (2002), Creating a Balance: Managing Stress (2003) with Cooper and Thomas, Handbook of Solution-Focused Therapy (2003) with O'Connell, Achieving Excellence in your Coaching Practice (2006) with McMahon and Wilding, and the Handbook of Coaching Psychology (2007) with Whybrow.

He has lectured in Europe, Japan, New Zealand and China on a range of subjects and regularly appears on radio and television programmes. In 2000 he received the Annual Counselling Psychology Award from the British Psychological Society, Division of Counselling Psychology, for his 'Outstanding professional and scientific contribution to counselling psychology in Britain'. In 2004 he received the Achievement Award from the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy 'in recognition of his outstanding professional contribution to the development of the Association for REBT in the UK, of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in New Zealand and for his published works'.