Clinical Counselling in Further and Higher Education

About the Editor(s)

John Lees is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Leeds, counselling and psychotherapy practitioner in private practice in London and Sussex, and founder editor of a Routledge journal, Psychodynamic Counselling (now Psychodynamic Practice). He has co-edited four books and published numerous book chapters and professional articles. He designed an MSc in Therapeutic Counselling, was Programme leader of that course for twelve years and co-designed three other therapy-orientated postgraduate courses, at the University of Greenwich. He has spoken at conferences in the United States, Japan, and Australia, has been visiting scholar at colleges or universities in Japan, Australia and India and has designed a course on anthroposophic psychotherapy in Japan.

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Alison Vaspe trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the British Association of Psychotherapists (now the British Psychotherapy Foundation), before applying for membership as a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytic Association. She has extensive experience of working therapeutically with NHS staff and students, including fifteen years at the South London & Maudsley Foundation Trust. She is now in full-time private practice in Hampshire.