Barbara Douglas

Barbara Douglas is a Chartered and Registered Counselling Psychologist. She is Registrar for the British Psychological Society′s Qualification in Counselling Psychology and has a private practice in Edinburgh. Barara previously taught Counselling Psychology at the University of the West of England and prior to that was Director of the North West Centre for Eating Disorders. She is co-editor of the third edition of the Sage Handbook of Counselling Psychology and has particular interest in the histories of both psychology and psychiatry. Barbara was honoured to receive the BPS Professional Practice Board’s Practitioner of the Year Award in 2011 and is a former Chair of the Division of Counselling Psychology.