Dr Diane Hammersley

Dr Diane Hammersley B.Sc., M.Ed., Ph.D., C.Psychol., C.Sci., AFBPsS., MBACP is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist practicing independently as a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer and expert witness. Having worked in a clinical and research team concerned with dependence on prescribed medication, she ran workshops around the UK. Later her doctoral research explored therapists’ experience of clients who had been taking medication, how that impacted on the therapeutic process and how medication might be viewed more realistically and metaphorically. She is the author of the book Counselling People on Prescribed Drugs (Sage, 1995) and several chapters on this subject.