Links

Befrienders Worldwide work worldwide to provide emotional support, and reduce suicide. They listen to people who are in distress. They don't judge them or tell them what to do - they listen

Samaritans in the UK, Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide

BACP British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. I'm a registered accredited member of this major national organisation for counsellors and psychotherapists

Counselling Directory a web site where you can find a counsellor who lives near you, and where you'll find me

Mootu Online counselling via Skype. I'm registered with them, and you'll find my details on the web site

Orchard Foundation courses and training in using creative writing for wellbeing. I'm one of the organisers and tutors

EMDR UK and Ireland the national association for EMDR therapists. EMDR is a powerful psychological treatment method used in treating psychological trauma, phobias, addictions, abuse and many other areas

The Focusing Institute Its mission is to make Focusing available to the academic and scholarly communities and to the public at large. Focusing is to enter into a special kind of awareness, different from every day awareness. It is open, turned inward, centered on the present and on the body’s inner sensations

Mental Health Foundation the UK’s leading mental health research, policy and service improvement charity.

Committed to reducing the suffering caused by mental ill health and to help everyone lead mentally healthier lives. Aiming to help people to survive, recover from and prevent mental health problems

Gillie Bolton "Expressive and explorative writing has the power to show its writer what they feel, think, know, understand, remember, observe, intuit, desire, believe." Gillie Bolton is a leading practitioner in the writing field, and is a mentor for me with my writing work

EMDR training this is the organisation I've completed my training with, and the web site gives an explanation of EMDR.

Lapidus is committed to the idea that words used creatively can be a powerful tool for health and personal and community development – through the writing, reading and performing of poetry, prose, fiction, drama and story

NAWE The National Association of Writers in Education is the one organization supporting the development of creative writing of all genres and in all educational and community settings throughout the UK

Cruse Bereavement Care exists to promote the well-being of bereaved people and to enable anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss. Services are free to bereaved people

Network Counselling and Training is a large voluntary counselling agency and training organisation based in Henbury, North Bristol

Charter for Compassion A call to bring the world together

The Greater Good Science Centre is an interdisciplinary research center devoted to the scientific understanding of happy and compassionate individuals, strong social bonds, and altruistic behavior

On Fiction is an online magazine with the aim of developing the psychology of fiction. Using theoretical and empirical perspectives, we endeavour to understand how fiction is created, and how readers and audience members engage in it

The Writing Edge a collaborative enterprise which brings a number of writing friends and myself together to work with organisations, businesses and individuals