John Towler is a BACP accredited Counsellor and Supervisor, and is an Associate member of the Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners. He is a Senior Consultant in Roehampton University of Surrey’s Consulting & Training Unit and a Consultant to Humanitas, a Human Relations Consultancy. As a Trainer he has extensive experience of organisational settings. John has been a warden of a Residential Centre in the voluntary sector, director of a counselling service and a senior lecturer at a tertiary college. His publications are practice based in the field of employee development and training.

His strengths are in the design and delivery of programmes in coaching, counselling, mentoring and supervision and in the delivery of these processes. He has extensive organisational experience working with over fifty organisations including, British Rail, British Telecom, Metropolitan Police, Citibank, Hampshire County Council, Home Office, National Federation of Housing Associations, Nat West Bank, London Fire Brigade, Schroeders PLC, Royal College of Nursing and the Thomas Cook Group.

John has a particular interest in Supervision in organisations which is expressed in his publications in this field. As part of his own ongoing professional development and training he is engaged in both personal therapy and personal supervision. He is a member of the British Association for Supervision Practice and Research and has both general and Gestalt training in Supervision. For the past ten years he has acted as an organisational supervisor and consultant for the Department of Occupational Health of the Metropolitan Police.

He taught on the first EAP Diploma Course for the EAP Professional and is interested in the development of training in this field. As a result he offers unique perspectives on developments in the UK.