Inspiring Choices Conference 2021

Chris is Head of the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex where he has devised two new degrees, BA Therapeutic Care and BA Childhood Studies.

Previously, he worked in therapeutic communities for traumatised adolescents, developing an assessment service, a provision for leaving care, and setting up The Junction Young Person’s service for Colchester MIND. His 2010 book, Children and Adolescents in Trauma: Creative Therapeutic Approaches, draws on these experiences.  His academic research centers on the poet Robert Graves, psychoanalysis and literature.

Chris is a Director of a charity, The Consortium of Therapeutic Communities, and developed the Core Competency Framework for Therapeutic Communities in 2014.  He has pioneered Active Education Events, a variant model of the group relations conference, and provides training, consultation and supervision to therapeutic services in and the UK, Greece and India.

Chris regularly present to school and FE pupils about managing Exam Stress and transition into University.

He enjoys running, studying Kyokushin Karate, and being walked by his two dogs.