Jan Alcoe BSSc(Hons), DHypPsych(UK) is a registered hypnotherapist who uses a solution-focused approach to work with people who have chronic illness, depression and anxiety problems. She speaks and runs workshops on well-being, and has written many health care publications, including two recent books, based on her work and personal experience of cancer, Lifting Your Spirits: Seven tools for coping with illness (2008) and The Heart of Wellbeing: Seven tools for surviving and thriving (2010), both published by the Janki Foundation.
Emily Gajewski, BSc OT, HG Dip is a state registered Occupational Therapist and Human Givens therapist and has worked in a wide range of mental health settings within the NHS and in private practice for over 14 years as a therapist, trainer and supervisor. Emily lectures nationally on the subject of self-harm, psychosis and counselling skills and has contributed to various publications, including An Idea in practice: Using the Human Givens approach (Human Givens Publishing, 2007), that was shortlisted for The MIND Book of the Year Award 2008.