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Dr Stirling Moorey
Stirling has been a BABCP member since 1986 and became an Honorary Fellow in 2023. He recently retired as a Consultant Psychiatrist specialising in CBT at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust where he was professional head of psychotherapy. He continues to be actively involved with supervision and teaching and has many years experience teaching mental health professionals from different backgrounds through the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience CBT course. Stirling’s main interests have been in the application of CBT to cancer, coping with adversity, and the therapeutic relationship in CBT.
Dr Saiqa Naz
Saiqa joined the Board as President-elect in 2021, having previously chaired the BABCP Equality and Culture Special Interest Group between 2017 and 2021. Saiqa is on the board of editors for the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies journals. She is also one of the co-authors of the IAPT BAME Positive Practice Guide and has been leading on work to adapt therapy for diverse communities. Saiqa's experience has primarily been with adults in socially deprived areas, but her interest is in community outreach work to bridge the gap between CBT and diverse groups including men.
Pete Elliott
Pete joined the Board in 2020, and has been a member of BABCP for 50 years. He is a retired Chartered Clinical and Health Psychologist whose last post was as Director of the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton. In his honorary NHS post he provided services to men with traumatised childhoods. Since retiring Pete has become involved as a Trustee with three charities on the Isle of Wight where he lives. One provides clinical, wellbeing and support services for children and young people (part funded by the NHS), the other two providing school and post-19 support for children with speech, language and communication difficulties. He has actively supported these charities over the last seven years, so has gained charity governance and Board experience through these roles.
Colin Blowers
Colin is a Consultant CBT Psychotherapist. He is first and foremost a clinician and has been a BABCP member BABCP since 1980. He has previously served as a Board member from 2016 to 2022, and was Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee, and therefore he brings a wealth of experience to the Board. His first role in the NHS was in 1972 when he worked as a porter, then graduating as a Psychiatric Nurse in 1976, a General Nurse in 1979 and a Nurse Therapist in 1981. He has been working full-time in the Private sector since 1988.
Harjinder Kaur-Aujla
Harj is a BABCP-accredited psychotherapist, specialising in grief and complex trauma, having worked in various mental health services for over 25 years. She has worked in many strategic roles and has good relationships with South Asian communities throughout the UK. She chaired/co-chaired the BABCP Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee between 2022-2024 and presented a workshop at the 2024 BABCP Annual Conference on “Speaking Truth to Power” with BABCP colleagues, which was well received. She has led a large trade union branch within Higher Education (HE) and has lectured for 13 years. She is now completing research to understand the mental health of survivors of DVA from Sikh heritage. She has made several media appearances and was awarded Sikh Woman of Substance 2024 by a grassroots Sikh women’s organisation (Sikh Women’s Alliance based in London). She was previously awarded a Keele Excellence Award for Equalities work in 2018 within HE. Harj has been part of a grant award in India and co-investigator of Gender Based violence in slum-dwelling in 2022-2023.
Dr Fiona Kennedy
Fiona is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with 25 years’ experience in working in NHS settings as a clinician and service developer and leader, and since 2008 established and run GreenWood Mentors Ltd, providing therapy for the public, training and supervision for therapists and organisational interventions for businesses. GreenWood has nine Associate Therapists providing these services, including a private DBT service. Fiona has developed a CBT model for dissociation, and written on this topic as well as integrating CBT and Third Wave therapies, and volunteers in India each year working to develop NGO services for children in adversity.
Beth Owen
Beth gained a wealth of knowledge working as qualified healthcare professional in the NHS in Scotland, initially as a General Nurse then in District Nursing, before moving to work in the field of mental health for the last 16 years, qualifying as a CBT Therapist in 2015, gaining full BABCP accreditation in 2016, and has been an active member of the BABCP, with an organisational role as treasurer of the Scotland branch. Beth gained extensive experience working as a therapist in both low intensity and high intensity posts, and has recently left the NHS to concentrate on work in the private sector. Beth's commitment to CBT is reinforced through wide professional experience and aspiring to contribute towards highlighting and promoting the future of BABCP.
Elizabeth Ruth
Liz was elected to the Board in 2022. She is a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner by background, having worked in the IAPT programme for eleven years as a Qualified, Senior and Lead PWP with a special interest in Long Term Health Conditions. She is currently Assistant Professor and course leader for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner training at the University of Bradford. Liz is the Chair of the BABCP Low Intensity CBT Special Interest Group and co-author of an upcoming book on the experience and practice of Low Intensity psychological interventions.
Jacqui Porritt
Jacqui joined the Board as a Lay Director in July 2023. Jacqui works for the Royal College of Surgeons of England as their Executive Director of Resources and also sits as a family court Magistrate in North and West Yorkshire. Jacqui’s special interest lies in children’s mental health and how domestic abuse affects long term behaviour and health. Jacqui is also a mental health first aider and menopause champion. Jacqui came from the corporate world of financial services originally, but saw the light in 2008 and has worked in not for profit organisations ever since.
Niul Dillon Hatcher
Niul is a lawyer with a long career as in-house counsel in contexts including financial institutions, providers of financial and commercial infrastructure, regulatory authorities, Eurostar and Help the Aged. He is an experienced company secretary. Niul chaired - or was a member of - numerous risk, regulatory and legal committees. He speaks a handful of languages including Arabic. Now retired, he works pro bono as a lawyer and as trustee assisting refugees, homeless people and street-connected children.
Tommy McIlravey
Tommy joined BABCP as CEO in June 2023. He has extensive experience as a charity CEO, with five years at Lancashire Mind, and previously at Sahir House, an award-winning charity providing services around HIV and sexual health across Merseyside and North Cheshire. He was Founder of the Liverpool Pride festival and has nearly 25 years' experience as a charity trustee and non-executive director. This included several years serving as a Lay Trustee on the board of the Royal College of Pathologists.
Michelle Harwood
Michelle joined BABCP in January 2020 as Finance and IT Manager. Michelle started her career twenty years ago in Accountancy working in private practice and studied Association of Chartered Certified Accountants training at BPP before moving into more commercial accounting roles. In the last 8 years Michelle has worked in the not-for-profit sector combining Finance and IT projects-based work. Michelle has completed MSP (Managing Successful Programmes), PRINCEII and PROSCI Business change management.
Michelle Livesey
Michelle joined BABCP in 2017 as Head of Membership Services. She has an extensive experience in Charity and Higher Education management; working at a senior leadership level in a membership organisation for over 15 years, in addition to also managing commercial enterprises. She values the opportunity to work for organisations which make a difference to enhance the lives of others and is keen to ensure that those in her team feel valued in their role.
Helen Macdonald
Helen joined the senior management team in February 2020, after 11 years as Course Accreditation Registrar. After graduating in Psychology and qualifying as a Mental Health Nurse, she trained in CBT in 1991 at the Institute of Psychiatry and later gained a Masters Degree in CBT. She has developed CBT services in secondary care settings and in pain management, as well as teaching and supervising in CBT since the mid-1990s. She is a Senate Award Fellow of the University of Sheffield and a Fellow of BABCP. She has been elected to the Board of the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.
Rebecca Light
Rebecca joined BABCP as an Accreditation Liaison Officer in 2021, and then took on the role of Accreditation Liaison Manager in 2022 before joining the senior management team in September 2023. Rebecca graduated in Psychology in 2002 and later gained a Masters Degree in Clinical Effectiveness in Child & Adolescent Mental Health at Cambridge University and a further Post Graduate Diploma in CBT in 2011. Rebecca has worked in a range of voluntary services, and child and youth mental health services within the NHS for the past 20 years and continues to work in private practice offering CBT for Children and Young People, as well as providing supervision. Rebecca is passionate about developing CBT career pathways to promote high quality services for all.