Specialties

• PTSD
• Occupational Stress and PTSD
• PTSD from Road Traffic Accidents

Education

• Ph.D (in Stress)
• BA Hons (Credits in Psychology)
• BA (Credits in Psychology, Biology, Management)

License and Certifications

• HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist
• HCPC Registered Health Psychologist
• Chartered Psychologist; Chartered Biologist; Chartered Scientist
• AREBT Accredited Therapist, Supervisor, Coach & Trainer
• ISCP Accredited Coaching Psychologist & Supervisor

Professional Biography

Prof. Stephen Palmer, Ph.D. is Director of the Centre for Stress Management, London, UK. He is Professor of Practice at the Wales Academy for Professional Practice and Applied Research, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and Adjunct Professor of Coaching Psychology, Coaching Psychology UNit, Aalborg UNiversity, Denmark. He was formerly Professor of Psychology at City University in the Department of Psychology and Director of their Coaching Psychology Unit and the first Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and Stress Management at the Institute of Work Based Learning, Middlesex University.

He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling, Royal Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Health. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in New York, and a certified supervisor for training in REBT. He is an AREBT Accredited Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer of REBT, and is registered with the CBT UK Register. His charterships include being a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Biologist and Chartered Scientist. He has written or edited 60 books including Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (1999) with Scott, Conquer Your Stress (2000) with Cooper, Counselling: The BACP Counselling Reader, Vol. 2 (2001) with Milner, Race Culture and Psychotherapy (2006) with Moodley, How to Deal with Stress (2007) with Cooper, Suicide: Strategies and Interventions for Reduction and Prevention, and the Handbook of Coaching Psychology (2007; 2019) with Whybrow.