Professor Stephen Palmer is the Founder Director of the Centre for Stress Management and a Course Co-Director on the stress management, cognitive-behavioural therapy and coaching programmes. He is a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist, Chartered Biologist, Accredited CBT and REBT Therapist, psychotherapist, and International Society for Coaching Psychology Accredited Coaching Psychologist and Supervisor. He is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, Board Certified in Emergency Crisis Response and Board Certified in Stress Management. He is a member of the British Neuroscience Association.

 

He is former President and Honorary Fellow of the International Stress Management Association (UK), President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology, former President and Honorary Fellow of the Association for Coaching and former Co-Editor of International Coaching Psychology Review. He is Co-Editor of the International Journal of Stress Prevention and Wellbeing, the  European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research and Practice, and the European Journal of Applied Positive Psychology. He has written/edited over 60 books including Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Handbook of Counselling, Handbook of Coaching Psychology, Cognitive Behavioural Coaching in Practice, Developmental Coaching, The Coaching Relationship and Solution Focused Coaching in Practice. (Books are listed on his Amazon webpage.)

 

Stephen's academic posts include being Professor of Practice, at the Institute of Management and Health, University of Wales Trinity St David; Adjunct Professor of Coaching Psychology at the Coaching Psychology Research Unit, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark. He was former BABCP London Branch Co-chair; former BABCP Compassion SIG Co-chair; and a Vice President, Fellow and Founder Director of the Society for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. He is currently Co-Chair of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy.