Thelma Dabor BSc (Hons) MSc CPsychol UKCP Reg
Thelma Dabor is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Vice Chair of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, which is a Member Organisation of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). She is qualified in hypnosis and NLP and is UKCP Registered (CBT & REBT). After completing her Bachelors and Masters degree in Psychology in 1988, Thelma went on further to complete another Masters degree in Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy with Professor Windy Dryden at Goldsmiths University of London and a post graduate Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy with the National College of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, giving her full membership. In 2003 she completed a training course in Life Coaching with the Coaching Academy and is a coaching psychologist. 

Thelma is an accredited member of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies and Association of Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy. Over the past 16 years, Thelma has worked in the NHS, Private and Voluntary sectors dealing with a variety of adult mental and physical problems with a diverse client group. She also provides consultancy work and supervision to other Therapists and student trainees. Her therapeutic approach is holistic and multimodal using a wide variety of models/techniques to aid clients' progression.

 
Professor Stephen Palmer CPsychol PhD MBSECH NBCCH UKCP Reg SQHP
The Director of the Centres is Professor Stephen Palmer PhD, a Chartered Psychologist and UKCP Registered Psychotherapist. He is an Honorary Professor of Psychology at City University in the Department of Psychology, the first Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and Stress Management at the National Centre for Work Based Learning Partnerships, Middlesex University, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, accredited REBT and cognitive-behavioural therapist, and a UKCP registered psychotherapist. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling, Royal Society of Arts 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, and a certified supervisor for training in REBT. He is a Diplomate in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy with the National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists (USA) and is an Associate on the NACBT Advisory Board. He is a  National Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (NBCCH).

He has practised therapeutic hypnosis since 1988. For over ten years he has been a member of the British Society of Experimental & Clinical Hypnosis. He is also a Member of the American Psychotherapy and Medical Hypnosis Association. He practises Cognitive Hypnotherapy and uses hypnosis as an adjunct to multimodal, cognitive-behavioural and rational emotive behaviour psychotherapy. He has published work on its use within these three clinical therapeutic approaches. His REBT hypnosis publications included co-authoring work with Dr Albert Ellis, the originator of REBT. His interest is in the use of hypnosis techniques to manage stress and anxiety. He holds the General Hypnotherapy Register, Senior Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice.

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), 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 & Psychotherapy. He is Founder Editor The Online Journal of Multimodal and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and The Coaching Psychologist. In 2001 he chaired the BACP Online Therapy Working Group which produced a report, Guidelines for Online Counselling & Psychotherapy. 

He has authored many articles on stress management, psychotherapy, counselling, hypnosis and has authored or edited 25 books and training manuals, including Multimodal Techniques: Relaxation & Hypnosis (1993), Dealing with People Problems at Work (1996) with Burton, Stress Management and Counselling (1996) with Dryden, Counselling: The BAC Counselling Reader (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 (1999) with Scott, Conquer Your Stress (2000) with Cooper, and Counselling: The BACP Counselling Reader, Vol. 2 (2001) with Milner. He has lectured in Europe, Japan, New Zealand and China on a range of subjects and regularly appears on radio and television programmes. He has recently launched the Centre for Coaching. 

In May, 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 was awarded an Achievement Award by AREBT 'in recognition of his outstanding professional contribution to the development of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in the UK, of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in New Zealand and for his published works'. (For additional information, click here.) 

His recent book; The essential skills for setting up a counselling and psychotherapy practice, by McMahon, G. Palmer, S. & Wilding, C. (2005) is now available. Published by Brunner-Routledge.

Kasia Szymanska CPsychol UKCP Reg 
Kasia Szymanska is Co-Director of the Problem Focused Psychotherapy Programme at the Centre for Stress Management and Director of Distance Learning at the Centre for Coaching. She is a Chartered Psychologist, a BABCP Accredited cognitive behavioural therapist, a UKCP registered cognitive-behaviour therapist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She is former Editor of Counselling Psychology Review.

COURSE ADMINISTRATION DIRECTOR

Kate Thomas BA (HONS), MRSH, MIHPE
Kate Thomas graduated with a BA (Hons) in Psychology from University of North Wales, Bangor in 1994. Since that time she has worked extensively in internal communications. She has worked in two large companies, BT and the Post Office. More recently she was a consultant in an agency called Abingdon, an internal communications consultancy of The Ogilvy Group. Here she worked with a number of blue-chip companies including London Underground, Scottish Power, Ernst & Young, Abbey National and O2. Kate is the Course Administration Director for the Centre.

She is a Coaching Psychologist and health educator. She is a member of the Royal Society of Health (MRSH) and the Institute of Health Promotion and Education (MIHPE). She has had training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She is also a Consultant Director at The Centre for Stress Management, London, and Director at the Stephen Palmer Partnership Ltd.

She has published a number of articles on stress management and a book on multimodal coaching, Creating A Balance: Managing Stress (with Palmer & Cooper, British Library). Her special interest is in the value of effective internal communications in reducing and preventing stress in organisations going through change, for which she has also published work.