Patti Wallace is a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist and BACP Registered Counsellor with over 25 years experience of clinical practice, supervision and service management in the field of mental health and psychological therapy. She is an experienced trainer and educator who has designed and delivered training programmes to meet the needs of a wide range of organisations in Canada, East Africa and Britain.

She has several years experience as a senior manager in organisations which employ diverse populations and where her responsibilities included investigation of complaints and conflict resolution. She developed, trained and now supervises the mediator service within Roehampton University of Surrey.

She is currently Principal Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Therapeutic Studies for Roehampton University of Surrey where she is responsible for curriculum development, delivery and staff management of the postgraduate professional training in counselling, psychotherapy and counselling psychology. In the academic setting, she has designed and delivered programmes from certificate to doctoral level and she is external examiner to a number of UK universities.

As a trainer of health and social care professionals and as a clinician, her expertise lies in the fields of working with diversity, serious illness/mental illness and disability, suicide and self-harm, addictions and professional ethics and the law. She has provided training in these fields to psychologists and educators from Spain, Italy, Portugal and Japan and to such UK organisations as Childline.

She is co-author of a core text in the field of education on the use of peer interventions and mediation to address issues of bullying and social exclusion amongst young people and has presented at major conferences. Whist working alongside senior medical staff at the National Hospital in Kenya, she was responsible for the development of the first counselling approach suitable for work with indigenous and refugee populations in East Africa.

Patti is a lively and widely experienced trainer and her courses are always popular.