Our People
Michael Stewart and Peter Hodgkinson, the Senior Partners, forged The Centre for Crisis Psychology from their work with the UK's major disasters of the 1980s. Michael directed aftercare work with the survivors of the Bradford fire (1985), and Peter led a team working with the passenger survivors and bereaved of the Herald of Free Enterprise sinking (1987). Their joint consultancy established a unique method of working with traumatised individuals.
Both went on to work as consultants to teams after the Hungerford Massacre, the British Midland Crash, the Clapham Rail Crash, Piper Alpha and Lockerbie. The Centre played a key role in the Hillsborough disaster. Their textbook, ‘Coping with Catastrophe’, has been reviewed as a world leader in its field. They have been instrumental in the development of clinical systems for the management of workplace trauma for 17 years.
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| Michael Stewart |
Peter Hodgkinson |
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| Alan Pike |
Anna Stewart |
Anna Stewart is the Centre's Managing Partner. Anna joined CCP in 2003 and was made a Partner in December 2005. Over the past 4 years Anna has played an integral role in developing the services offered by the Centre and continues to work with her team to ensure the service provided to customers is unrivalled in terms of clinical and organisational quality and consistency.
Alan Pike is one of the Clinical Partners at the Centre. Since joining CCP in 2004 he has been involved in consulting and supporting staff and customers for companies following incidents including coach crashes (Gran Canaria ‘04, Cuba ‘06, South Africa ‘07), personal attacks, child abduction (Madeleine McCann ‘07), terrorist bombings (Sharm el Sheikh ‘05), shootings, robberies, hurricanes (Emily, Wilma 05, Dean ‘07), drowning and staff bereavement. Alan was made a Clinical Partner in December 2005 and as well as consulting he also delivers training to CCP customers. Before joining CCP Alan worked as a social worker in Manchester from 1990 to 2004 in child protection with children from 0-16 years old and their families. His experience in trauma aftercare includes cases of domestic violence, child abuse, child death, and loss and bereavement following adoption.
Kevin Tasker and Martin Alderton became Partners in May 2003 after a number of years as senior consultants at CCP.
During the past thirteen years Kevin has carried out numerous interventions both in the UK and worldwide following incidents and was part of CCP’s clinical team which responded to the 1999 South Africa coach crash in which 28 holidaymakers were killed, and the 1999 Girona plane crash. As Clinical Director, Kevin is responsible for the supervision and support of the clinical team. Before joining CCP he worked in local authority settings within social services and education departments from 1975 until 1996, when he moved to Germany to work as a Senior Social Worker in the MOD. He has had a longstanding interest in trauma, his first formal training in the area being undertaken in the late 1980s, at which time Kevin worked in Liverpool on the Hillsborough tragedy.
Since joining CCP in 2000 Martin has been one of CCP's main trainers and has delivered courses to a wide range of organisation across the UK and Europe. As an experienced member of the travelling team of trauma consultants Martin has responded to hundreds of incidents on behalf of CCP, many of them overseas. Recent incidents have included the Virgin Train crash in Cumbria and incidents in Portugal, Singapore, Cuba and Morocco amongst others. Before joining CCP Martin managed a Community Mental Health Team and coordinated a Local Authority's Crisis Response Service. As well as providing clinical services Martin is a member of CCP's management team and is responsible for Product Development.
All of the Partners share in the clinical work at CCP as well as providing leadership and supervision for the team.
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| Kevin Tasker |
Martin Alderton |
Mark Bradley Prior to joining CCP in October 2006 Mark worked for the NHS in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. He has worked both in the UK and the USA with children and families dealing with a range of mental and emotional health issues involving violence, abuse, substance misuse and anger. He also spent six months in Indonesia following the Tsunami establishing and practising in a number of trauma clinics for Medicines Sans frontiers
Joy Waddington joined the clinical team at CCP in September 2005 and leads the Centre’s team of telephone counsellors, which includes a dedicated Out-of-Hours team. She previously worked as the in-house staff counsellor at HSBC. Joy is responsible for responding to callers of the CCP Direct service, and to those staff or customers who have been involved in a traumatic incident – ranging from stress and depression to RTAs, attacks, raids and robberies.
Helen Lynch joined CCP in 2006 and is responsible for administering the accounts. She has a background as a Management Accountant in the manufacturing industry and provides an efficient and smooth running of CCP that enhances the service provided to our customers.
CCP is very proud to provide a 24-hour telephone service to its customers. Out of office hours, our dedicated team of qualified consultants manage the helplines. The team is coordinated by John Wainwright, who is joined by Sue Wainwright, Pauline Thompson, Liz Jaymal and Sue Fisher. All have been a crucial part of CCP’s response to the crises that we’ve responded to, including the Sharm el Sheikh bombings in Egypt (summer 2005) and the Asian tsunami disaster (Boxing Day 2004), as well as providing support to individuals experiencing a range of personal difficulties (e.g. bereavement, relationship problems, stress and anxiety).
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| John Wainwright |
Sue Wainwright |
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