Born in 1947 to a wartime nurse and school canteen cook and a tool setter in the south of Birmingham UK.
Joined a fundamentalist Christian denomination called the Christadelphians in 1963.
o Left education at the age of 15
o Tool maker in mechanical engineering, and worked in presstool industries till 1977
o Went to Teacher Training College at 30 and became a religious education, PE and science teacher from 1977 to 2011.
Midway through teaching, I obtained a degree in counselling and psychotherapy and became a full-time school
counsellor in a secondary school in Birmingham UK, where I began to write and give lectures and seminars for INSET
courses on applicable models in school counselling.
o wrote Brief Counselling in School: working with Young People 11-18 (2016) (3 rd Ed). SAGE Publications: London/New
York: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/brief-counselling-in-schools/book235585#reviews
I have fostered 8 teenagers from broken homes, run youth clubs, managed camps of young people with over 70 children
and teenagers, and once managed a children’s home.
After a fall downstairs in 1986, I broke my neck and am now tetraplegic.
Interests: Critical New Testament Theology (wrote: You Say That I Am: the Historical Jesus become the Messiah, and
Consider Paul: An Enquiry Concerning Suffering, Disbelief and Divine Justice
