International Advisory Board
Windy Dryden
Windy Dryden is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths University of London, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He has authored or edited more than 265 books, including the second edition of Reason to Change: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) Workbook (Routledge, 2022) and ONEplus Therapy: Help at the Point of Need (Onlinevents Publications, 2023). In addition, he edits 21 book series in the area of counselling, psychotherapy and coaching, including the CBT Distinctive Features series (Routledge). His major interests are in rational emotive behavior therapy and CBT; single session interventions; the interface between counselling and coaching; pluralism in counselling and psychotherapy; writing short, accessible self-help books for the general public and demonstrating therapy live in front of an audience.
Charlie Duncan
Charlie Duncan is Senior Research Fellow at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and a part-time PhD student at the University of Roehampton. Her research interests are broadly in the areas of routine outcome monitoring and counselling and psychotherapy for children and young people, particularly within educational settings. Her PhD research in on the goals that young people set in school-based counselling.
Dr Marcella Finnerty
Dr Marcella Finnerty is College President and Director of Programmes at IICP College. Marcella holds a Doctorate in Psychotherapy from the Metanoia Institute and Middlesex University. She is a founding member of both IICP College and The Village Counselling Service (VCS). Marcella sits on the Higher Education and Colleges Association (HECA) Board. Marcella has been appointed to both the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board and Governing Council of CORU, Ireland’s multi-profession health regulator.
Marcella also holds an M.Sc. in Educational Guidance and Counselling, a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Supervision (Psychology), a Teaching and Learning Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Studies (Higher Ed), and a B.A. (Hons) Psychology. She is an IACP accredited therapist and supervisor and holds the European Certificate of Psychotherapy. She is an Advanced Instructor with the William Glasser Institute. She was Joint Deputy Director of the M.Ed. and M.Sc. Degree programmes in Educational Guidance and Counselling in Trinity College Dublin. She is a member of IACP, IAHIP, WGII, IGC, ICP, EART.
She was Chair of the Local Hosting Committee for the International Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) Conference which was held in Trinity College Dublin June, 2016. Marcella currently sits on the Local Hosting Committee for the 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), Dublin 2023.
Special areas of interest are programme research and academic development, pluralism, integration, choice theory/reality therapy/lead management, multicultural counselling and therapy, skills training and personal development. She has presented at national and international conferences on a variety of topics and has also written book chapters and several articles for peer reviewed journals.
Lisa Goodman
Lisa A. Goodman is a clinical-community psychologist and Professor in the Department of Counseling and Applied Developmental Psychology at Boston College. She uses a community-based participatory research approach to explore intimate partner violence, aiming to illuminate how survivors use their social networks for healing and safety, and how to improve systemic responses. Her research highlights the strengths and needs of marginalized survivors, including communities of color, and people who are unhoused. She has written over 120 articles and chapters on these topics and has received grants from the National Institute of Justice and the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Goodman consults to national and local domestic violence organizations, and she is co-founder of the Domestic Violence Program Evaluation and Research Collaborative. Dr. Goodman is also interested in social justice pedagogy and healing practices that extend beyond the 50-minute hour in counseling psychology. She has received national awards for teaching and mentoring excellence, including the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award.
Catherine Jackson
Catherine Jackson is Commissioning Editor with PCCS Books. She was formerly editor of Therapy Today magazine, founding editor of Mental Health Today magazine and managing editor of Bereavement Care journal. She has also co-edited several books, including The Industrialisation of Care (PCCS Books, 2019) and Holding the Hope (PCCS Books, 2022).
Hanne Weie Oddli
Hanne Weie Oddli is a psychologist, PhD, and professor at the Department of psychology, University of Oslo. Her research topics cover psychotherapy processes, training, and clinical expertise, mostly by use of qualitative methodology and mixed methods. An overarching interest running through her research, writings, lecturing, and supervision, is the relationship between knowledge and practice, which is also reflected in an affection for philosophy of science. She favors integration of various perspectives and finds herself at home with a pluralistic approach to therapy as well as to research. She is interested in the dissemination of knowledge and has experience from editorial work as member of the editorial board of Psychotherapy Research.
Rolf Sundet
Rolf Sundet, born 1954, in Norway, graduated as a psychologist in 1983. He was accepted as a specialist in clinical psychology in 1991, finished his PhD in 2009 and got a professorship in 2015. From 2021 he has had the title of professor emeritus at the University of South-Eastern Norway. From 1984 to 2016 he has worked in different parts within the Norwegian Mental Health Services with both children, adolescents, adult and families. He stopped working with patients in 2016 and has since then been a freelance supervisor within diverse clinical services.
He has published in both national and international journals and anthologies with a special interest in collaboration, service user participation, the use of Routine Outcome Monitoring as conversational tools in processes of making specific fitted treatments for especially patients and families that are not helped by standard accepted treatments.
Clare Symons
Clare Symons is Head of Research with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), having formerly worked as a trainer of counsellors and psychotherapists at the University of Leicester, as Editor of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research journal and as a counsellor in a variety of settings including higher education and the voluntary sector. Clare's research interests include raising and supporting professional standards and facilitating counsellors' use of routine outcomes measures in practice.
Dr. Mhairi Thurston
Dr. Mhairi Thurston is an accredited and registered pluralistic counsellor, as well as a senior lecturer in counselling at Abertay University in Dundee. She served on the BACP Board of Governors from 2011 to 2020 and chaired the BACP Research Committee from 2018 to 2020. Her primary research interest focuses on the social and emotional impact of acquired sight loss. Additionally, she is interested in broader issues surrounding disability, equality, and inclusion. She developed a pluralistic practice model for counselling individuals with vision impairment. She won the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy New Researcher Prize in 2009. Describing herself as an 'academic activist,' she employs research and collaboration to effect real-world change for people with vision impairment. She has worked collaboratively with RNIB to produce an award-winning training course for counsellors working with individuals who have vision impairment. She has also collaborated with Retina UK to create a free online resource that supports mental well-being in the visually impaired community. Furthermore, she founded the Sight Loss Research Network (SLRN) in collaboration with Dr. Hazel McFarlane of Alliance Scotland, aiming to bring academics and charities together to foster opportunities for collaboration. She has previously been an associate editor for the International Journal of Disability, Development, and Education, and she is a member of the editorial board of Disability and Society. She also serves as a Lay Advisor for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Mhairi is severely sight-impaired and is accompanied by her guide dog, Meadow.
