Back in 2003, someone suggested that I put a list of ‘fun facts’ about myself here on the site, and it’s taken me more than 6 years to get around to doing it. So here are a few semi-random things about my life either that I’ve found particularly interesting, or that other people have sometimes found interesting or just plain silly. There are dozens more where these came from, but I’ve tried to keep this short enough to be readable. And I’ve mainly kept to solo events and activities to avoid implicating anyone else in my occasionally questionable escapades!

Within the mental health profession in the UK, there seems to be a widespread perception that practitioners are exempt from registering under the Data Protection Act 1998. To my mind, this seems like collective professional self-deception.

Every domain legally registered with ICANN for use on the internet has a WHOIS database entry; by checking the WHOIS database, you can learn about the ownership and related details of other sites.

These pages will hopefully be useful to you however you choose to access them, because we have invested significantly to ensure the site is accessible via assistive technologies such as screen readers, as well as via devices besides personal computers. It is now our policy that all content produced for the site must maintain this same high level of accessibility.

This mixed list includes just a few of the myriad counselling and psychotherapy resources available online which may be useful to clients, practitioners or researchers. Unlike some large directories that use automated systems to enable webmasters to submit their sites — which we’re then told will be ‘professionally reviewed’ (uh huh) — every site in our list has been personally visited and evaluated. What you read about a site is not what the site owner submitted on a form or a reciprocal link request: it’s my own personal assessment of the site.

Whole Practice Mentoring can help with all aspects of growing and building your already established practice. If you’re looking for something broader than clinical supervision, and you want to work with an experienced online therapist who actually makes a living online, Whole Practice Mentoring may fit the bill.