About the Trainer - Kate Anthony, MSc

Briefly…

Kate Anthony, MSc, provides consultancy services and training for practitioners wishing to use the Internet. She conducts ongoing research programmes about Online Counselling and Psychotherapy, and was the author of one of the first published empirical studies to be conducted into the use of e-mail and Internet Relay Chat in Counselling and Psychotherapy as her Masters degree thesis.

As a face-to-face Counsellor based in Rochester, Kent (UK), she also has a particular interest in the study of the therapeutic relationship - both online and offline. She works as an Integrative therapist with an interest in Psychodynamic theory. She is currently completing her Doctorate in Psychotherapy (DPsych.) with Middlesex University and the Metanoia Institute.

She is the main author of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Guidelines for Online Counselling and Psychotherapy, is contributing author to several edited Counselling books, and co-editor with Dr Stephen Goss of "Technology in Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice: A Practitioners' Guide" (Palgrave 2003). She is Associate Editor for Technology for the BACPs Journal (CPJ), and presents at conferences at an international and national level on behalf of onlinecounsellors.co.uk and the BACP.

She is President-Elect of the International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO) for 2005 and will be President in 2006. As a member of the BACP she adheres to the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy and the BACP Code of Ethics and Practice for Trainers.

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