Who we are

The BGJ is produced by an editorial team who you can see and read about below.

We are very grateful for the generous work done by action editors and peer reviewers and for the support of our Editorial Advisers whose names are also listed.

Christine Stevens – Editor

Christine Stevens, Ph.D. is a gestalt therapist living and working in Nottingham, UK, where she maintains a private and National Health Service practice. She manages a clinical training unit for psychotherapy in primary care and leads a postgraduate training in gestalt pastoral counselling at St. Johns College in Nottingham. She is an academic advisor for the DPsych in psychotherapy by professional studies and in public works at Metanoia Institute, London, and is an international trainer and teacher.

She is a contributing author to What is Psychotherapeutic Research, D. Loewenthal and D. Winter, (eds.) 2006 Karnac; Handbook for Theory, Research and Practice in Gestalt Therapy P. Brownell (Ed), 2008, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and to a book on Life Focus Communities, B. O’Neil (forthcoming), and has published several articles. Her research interests include creative methodologies in psychotherapy and supervision, and she is a member of the Gestalt Research Practice Network, managing the evidence database for the GestaltCORE Project.

Website: http://www.christinestevens.co.uk/

Katy Wakelin – Assistant Editor

Katy Wakelin has a small private practice working with both adults and children. She joined the editorial team of the British Gestalt Journal in 2004 with Malcolm Parlett as editor. Katy trained in Gestalt Psychotherapy at the Sherwood Institute, graduating in 2004. Before training to be a psychotherapist Katy was a Research Fellow at the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on the subject of international trade and multinational companies.

Before moving to Nottingham in 1998 she studied and worked in England, Italy and the Netherlands, completing a MA, PhD and working as a Research Fellow. She has experience in peer reviewing papers, editing volumes, teaching and writing. She is interested in integrating her academic background with experiential and embodied learning. She is the mother to two small boys.

Belinda Harris – Assistant Editor

Belinda Harris is Associate Professor in the Centre for the Study of Human Relations in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham, where she is course leader for masters programmes in Counselling Children and Young people and Counselling Practice. Belinda has received national recognition from UKCISA for her contribution to international education and has a Lord Dearing Award for Excellence in Teaching.

In addition to her academic work, she runs a small clinical practice and has taken two cohorts of trainees through their psychotherapy training at the Sherwood Institute. She is committed to the integration of gestalt theory and practice in education through developing awareness, contact and understanding of personal process within specific interpersonal, institutional, social-economic and political field conditions. Belinda's doctoral research focused on the field conditions affecting schools in challenging circumstances and her findings have informed a number of peer-reviewed articles on the working lives of school counsellors, cultural issues in school based counselling, intercultural staff development and the personal, social, emotional aspects of educational practice and school improvement.

She has authored two books: Counselling Children and Young People: A Systematic Review of the Research Evidence (2004 with Pattison), and Supporting the Emotional Work of School Leaders (2007), reviewed by Lynda Osborne in the British Gestalt Journal in 2008 (No 2).

Caroline Hutcheon – Production Editor

Caroline Hutcheon has worked for the British Gestalt Journal since 1997, where she has two roles.

As production editor, she proofreads and prepares for publication all the journal articles and other content, liaising as necessary with Christine, authors and the editorial team. She also works closely with the typesetter and the printers during the production process.

As sales and subscriptions administrator, she makes sure the subscription list is up to date, deals with enquiries and renewals and with new subscribers. She also handles sales of back issues. When an issue is published, she arranges the distribution and despatches the journals to our direct subscribers. She works one day a week, usually Monday.

Lynne Brighouse - Editorial Assistant

Lynne Brighouse is in the final stages of training to become a gestalt psychotherapist. She is presently studying for a post-graduate Masters degree at the Sherwood Institute, in Nottingham. Lynne also has a BA Hons degree in Humanities and has worked as a journalist in the Midlands area for over 25 years. At the moment she works part-time in the features department of a regional evening newspaper, in Derby.

Lynne joined the editorial team in 2009. As editorial assistant, she works with Christine in her Nottingham office in an administrative capacity and deals with the general processing of submissions to the journal. This includes liaising with authors, peer reviewers, and the editorial team as a whole to ensure that deadlines are met and communications run smoothly.

Associate Editors

Paul Barber
Neil Harris

Editorial Advisors

Sally Denham-Vaughan
Ken Evans
Ruella Frank
Toni Gilligan
Gaie Houston
Peter Philippson
Gabriel Phillips
Arthur Roberts
Karen Rookwood
Gordon Wheeler
Gary Yontef

Board

The British Gestalt Journal is published by Gestalt Publications Limited. Directors:

Gaie Houston - Chair
Christine Stevens - Editor
Neil Harris - Secretary
Jon Blend - Friends
Sarah Fallon - Marketing
Gill Nineman - Publishing

The Gestalt Centre, London