Stephen Goss

With over 30 years’ experience in the helping professions, Stephen Goss, PhD, is an Independent Consultant in counselling and support service development, supervision and research worldwide and is Co-Editor (Counselling) for the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.

He joined the Metanoia Institute as Principal Lecturer for the Post Qualification Doctorates Department in 2009 where he enthuses about research and what it can offer with Doctoral candidates from all kinds of psychological services backgrounds. He has lived and worked in Africa and has published 2 symposia on Counselling and Guidance in Africa with Dr Olusegun Adebowale. His current specialist interests include pluralism, online service provision and the development needs of counselling and psychotherapy practitioners and services.

Previously Chair of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Committee he founded the BACP Research Department, becoming its first Research Development Officer. Among his more than 100 publications are Evidence Based Counselling and Psychological Therapies, Research and Applications (Routledge, 2000), Technology in Counselling and Psychotherapy, A Practitioner's Guide (Palgrave, 2003) and The Use of Technology in Mental Health (CC Thomas, 2010). He is Associate Editor for Research for the quarterly journal Therapeutic Innovations in Light of Technology and a member of Faculty at the Online Therapy Institute.