Kate Anthony

Kate Anthony, MSc, (33), based in Plumstead, South-East London, provides consultancy services and training for counsellors using the Internet, including certificate level courses for online counselling and online supervision. She conducts ongoing research programmes about online counselling and psychotherapy, and is author of one of the few empirical studies published into the use of e-mail and Internet Relay Chat in counselling and psychotherapy. Published research can be downloaded here.

Kate was a main author of the recent British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) text, "Guidelines for Online Counselling and Psychotherapy", is contributing author to several edited counselling books in publication, is author of the 2003 text "Handbook of Online Counselling and Psychotherapy" and co-editor of "Technology in Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice: A Practitioners' Guide" . In addition, she contributes to the BACP Journal's I.T. pages, presenting at international conferences both on their behalf and for her company onlinecounsellors.co.uk.

As a face-to-face psychotherapist with Oxleas NHS Trust, Kate has a particular interest in the study of the therapeutic relationship - both online and offline. She works as an integrative therapist with an interest in psychodynamic theory. She is a member of the BACP and the International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO), and adheres to the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy and the BACP Code of Ethics and Practice for Trainers.

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